inchmore gallery
" ...the most progressive and stimulating art gallery in the Highlands..."

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archive events

 

The Digital Divide
This exciting exhibition showcases three artists working in indifferent mediums and using modern technology to push the boundaries of what we see as art an exhibition bound to spark off discussion and debate.
Artist Printmaker, Michael Stuart Green, has developed a singular style by creating digital imagery and overlaying this with traditional wood cut and collograph printmaking. The final pieces having a distinct hand rendered surface.
Nigel Sandeman works in the opposite way by firstly creating work with paint and pastel and then using digital techniques to leave the final finished pieces with only the digitally printed surface.
Fiona Cameron brings us quirky and enjoyable stop frame animation in DVD format.

michael stuart green............................nigel sandeman

fiona cameron

Also showing in the gallery is the long awaited body of new work by artist and sculptor James Newton Adams. James, from the Isle of Skye, is well known for his naive style in painting from his familiarity with island living. This new body of work, both in painting and sculpture, is themed around his childhood experience of stag hunting……….beasts, rather than boats.

stalking party......................................in mist

Another Skye artist Featured in the gallery this month is Rupert Copping who's work has an abstract expressionist quality to it, with good use of bright colour and varying surfaces texture.

Along with these three distinct exhibitions the gallery will also be showing a mixed selection of contemporary painting, printmaking, ceramics, jewellery and sculpture from both established and emerging artists.

 

land, loch and seascapes
from the palette of the increasingly popular inverness artist fiona matheson
Red Cuilins ........Fiona Matheson..........East Coast Breaker

Fiona Matheson BA Hons "my relationship with the Scottish landscape is deep- rooted. Generations of farmers in Aberdeenshire and crofters in the Highlands have been instrumental in my responses to it. Having a father as a gamekeeper in Sutherland during college years helped me access a vastness of subject matter that can never be exhausted. The focus of inspiration for this exhibition is derived from a trip to Skye and the North Coast of the Highlands. There seemed to be a surprise and a source of new material around every corner. The immense mountain forms, the intensity of the water and the changing weather are elements to which the work evokes. Some larger scale pieces have formed a new and exciting part of the development process.

(fiona has been grateful for the support of HIARTS, the Scottish Arts Council and Highlands and Islands Enterprise)

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iain carby

As many others have done before him, Iain's ambition to become a full time artist had to wait until the right time in life. This graduate of Grays School of Art in 2002 has already made his mark as a leading contemporary painter in Scotland.
Inspired by Catalonian Surrealist Miro, Iain's distinctive style reflects his lust for life and passion for warmer climates. Although Surrealist in its foundation, his work remains rooted in the landscape where brilliant azure skies and bright patchwork fields are suffused with brushstrokes of pure liquid sunshine.
Enjoyable and uplifting, his instantly recognised style portrays - with equal flair - a Catalonian hill scene or Crail harbour.
Iain Carby's work is widely collected and can be found in Public and Corporate collections.

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VEER NORTH - CROSSING WAATER

Crossing Waater is an autonomous project that will research and develop new markets, audiences and professional partnerships between Shetland and Denmark, Iceland and mainland Scotland. The project is underpinned by the aim to develop quality and innovative approaches art produced in Shetland, alongside the promotion of Shetland art and culture in Scandinavia and the UK. Through this project Veer North aims to foster the development of new opportunities outwith Shetland. Within the project we are creating and developing experimental workshops and residencies, which we are calling Art Labs, in conjunction with four exhibitions and public networking events. Outwith Shetland the main elements - Art Labs and exhibitions - will be complemented by events, including film shows, music performances, exhibition opening receptions and networking events
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archive event

PORTFOLIO COURSE EXHIBITION
after an intensive, professionally tutored development course
the studio was pleased to show works by
dorothy francis jean maclean tricia mcriner sheena mitchell chris mullen gill noble tim peat marion rattray

archive event

LANDSCAPE AND OTHER MARKS

by ingrid fraser

award winning landscape artist presented an exhibition of her paintings
to debate "beauty or blight?",
as our landscape and horizons are transformed for the progress of mankind

hi-arts review

 

ingi at loch loyneINGRID FRASER ...flutter ...pylon turbine

Ingrid Fraser
Landscape and Other Marks

(How Deep's the Water - What Colour's the Wind)

An exhibition evolved from over a year of research into the marks made on the landscape by man in his pursuit of survival and development - and what better subject than the great legacies of Highland hydro power engineering feats from the late 1940's - and as can be imagined, much of the present day "marks" which are being made by Wind Turbine developments.

We first met Ingrid (who lives in Longmorn near Elgin) shortly after she had received her Award from the Jolomo Scottish Landscape Painting Prize (the award was an early and welcome endorsement of her painting ability). Our conversation soon turned to the life style a young artist had to look forward to - the conflict between "working for a living or living to work" and how close can todays artist get to a position of being truly vocational - without the safety net of a comfortable financial and/or social backing? Time will tell.
Ingrid described a project she had in mind - to explore the links between the land being used and "marked" by people throughout the ages. We were both delighted to agree on the culminating exhibition - her first solo show - being here at Inchmore.
She has amassed an amazing amount of field and historic research, gathering source material which will offer years of detail to explore and develop further into her painting.
"I set out to do the project for this show back in August 2007 with great idealist aims of creating a body of work which would act as a strong stand alone statement, a presentation of my perception of the Scottish Landscape connected to and distinguished by the people who inhabit it, using a visual language of mark-making and familiar forms abstracted.
The work is also a continuation of visual themes that have been developing in my studio over the past 2-3 years since leaving Grays, and are tying in lots of different threads of thought - how to effectively marry descriptive representational drawing- atmospheric abstraction- emotional reaction to place - emotional reaction to the people connected to place - history, traces, remnants, transience and permanence. Light, negative space, negative light.

What transpired was a year of research into the Hydro industry, which included the range of people involved and the huge social/historical context. I spent some intense smirr and midge filled days travelling from Glen Garry, up to Loch Quoich, then past Loch Loyne, Loch Cluanie back down Invermoriston, up Glen Affric, Glen Cannich and finally Glen Strathfarrer. I'm an East-coaster, and was quite blown away be each glen in turn and how different they each were.
Ultimately the paintings I have produced are a direct visual reaction/ investigation of my time as (my mum puts it) a Hydro-Glen explorer!"