Business Art joins forces with Gladedale PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 15 July 2009 00:00
Join us for the launch of one of our most exciting projects yet!

Business Art has joined forces with property developer Gladedale Capital at its renowned Quartermile development in Edinburgh: at the end of July we are staging an exhibition especially timed to coincide with the Edinburgh Festival, featuring five outstanding young Scottish artists. And you are invited!

The Quartermile Gallery is a temporary exhibition space being set up in a stunning Triplex apartment in the heart of the Foster + Partners designed Quartermile area, between Friday 31 July and Sunday 9 August. Opening hours are 11 – 6 daily, including Saturdays and Sundays.

Lorraine Paterson, Sales and Marketing Director for Gladedale Capital, said: “We look forward to welcoming visitors to the exhibition, and we are very pleased to lend our support to these very talented young artists. The exhibition will add a further dimension to the triplex penthouse, which offers such a fantastic space in which to showcase this exciting artwork.”

We selected five artists for the exhibition: all live and work in Scotland. They work in a variety of media and we believe they exemplify the high standards being achieved in Scottish Art Colleges. Some are undergraduates and some paint full time: what they have in common is extraordinary creativity and – we believe – collectability.

Each artist is contributing three or four pieces, including stunning pieces of modern sculpture which will be displayed on the terrace of the apartment. All of the work is for sale at accessible prices.

About the Artists

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David Cass: an extremely talented and exciting young artist, currently studying painting at Art College in Edinburgh. He works in oils and mixed media often on a very large scale. His current paintings are based on landscape.

'Scrape' by David Cass.

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Tom Fuggle: through a process of masking and dissolving strong and subtle colour layers, Tom creates paintings that have both dynamic violence and featherlike delicacy. The images suggest references to nature: floating marine flora, aerial maps of delta plains or instances of fire.

'VB 11' by Tom Fuggle.

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Emma Waine: Emma says of her work “Painting is a journey. Every time I go to a new environment I record shape, form, pattern and emotions experienced. I can then produce a ‘visual map’ of my encounters. As the piece develops a cast of characters, objects and settings evolve. I build these up into deeply layered and complex scenes. I often use collage, layering a variety of different papers (many found on my journeys) with media such as acrylic, gouache, ink, oil pastel and oil paint. Scraping into the picture surface reveals hints of what went before.”

'Antibodies Fighting Delhi Belly' by Emma Waine.

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Lucyanna McLaughlin (sculptor): A recent graduate of Fine Art from the University of Dundee, Lucyanna is interested in exploring the human form through sculpture. She says of her recent work “I began carving whole body sculptures from plaster and later progressed on to stone carving and completed a small stone sculpture ‘hide away’. I became interested in ancient Greek and Roman sculptures where limbs have been destroyed, removed or lost over time, such as the “Aphrodite of Milos” also known as the “Venus de Milo”. I then began to create sculptures depicting parts of the female body which is the continuing direction of my current practice.”

'Torso' by Lucyanna McLaughlin.

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Ainslie Roddick: Ainslie says of her work: “My work explores everyday visual experience. I paint generic domestic objects and scenes in an attempt to delve in to the significance of the painted image, manipulation, arrangement and disorder. I’m interested in the various connotations of banal objects and the intimacy and power of banality; how a common object or scene, when painted, can become laced with ambiguities and narrative. Immersing my practice in domesticity and the everyday allows me to explore the absurdity of human nature.”

'Shoes, Bed' by Ainslie Roddick.

 

Quartermile Gallery

Flat 34, 24 Simpson Loan

Edinburgh

EH3 9GE

 

For a map of the gallery's location click below

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