- Venue
- Scot Art, Edinburgh Palette
- Starts
- Saturday, March 29, 2025
- Ends
- Saturday, April 5, 2025
- Address
- St Margarets House, 151 London road, Edinburgh EH7 6AE www.scot-art.co.uk/contact/find-us/
- Location
- Scotland
- Organiser
- Space Artworks Studio
Scottish based artists are mapping and reading the landscape through this joint exhibition of paintings.
Emma Duncan
Arial Landscapes and other works
I studied painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, where I produced configurations of paintings, each looking at a different part, perspective or detail of a landscape. I was trying to escape the traditional one perspective approach to landscape painting and to capture a sense of the ‘whole’. This involved looking down at the earth and naturally led me on to painting aerial landscapes. I had always been astounded by the painterly and ‘abstract’ looking shapes and patterns seen from airplane windows and as a subject it was a fresh way to look at landscape, which unified my love of landscape and ‘abstraction’ within painting.
I have worked from old black and white aerial photography, satellite imagery and my own ‘mappings’ of land.
Implicit in my work are issues of land ownership, usage and energy production. I am especially interested in the relationship between natural and man-made landscape, borders and boundaries and the ‘traces’ left behind in landscape that show its’ ever-changing nature.
My work explores a diverse range of landscapes including forestry, coastal areas, golf courses and moorland across the UK, but focuses largely on Scottish landscapes.
To find out more about my work or to get in touch please visit my website:
www.emmaduncanart.com
Sarah Kay-Wren
I am a multimedia artist based in Edinburgh. I have worked in the community as both art practitioner and art tutor for over 20 years working with individuals and groups of all ages and abilities from a shared studio in Edinburgh Palette.
Please visit the website: www.spaceartworks.co.uk
I have an honors degree in Knitted textiles and an MSc in contemporary art theory. To allow me to focus on painting and drawing I attended a two year painting and drawing course Leith School of art in 2018.
Cromarty and the glens
The artworks on display in this exhibition depict much loved locations in Scotland including the Cromarty studies created during two art residencies between 2022 and 2024.
The Cromarty firth is still dominated by the decommissioned oil rigs. “A rig graveyard” Some paintings include these old structures as strong but fading monuments at the same time celebrating the glory of nature and evening light of the area.
