Fragments, Fragmentation, & Fractures is an invited group exhibition featuring a range of contemporary painters. Each artist’s distinct style demonstrates the extensive breadth of painting today, spanning from figuration to abstraction through the means of fragments, fragmentation and fractured imagery and colour.
The participating artists have all worked in Glasgow across their career progression, as students, professional practicing artists, and tutors.
Image: ‘Untitled 233’, oil on canvas, 180cm x 140cm, by Jacob Littlejohn, 2021.
About the Artists:
Angus Fernie (b.1996) is a Glasgow based artist having graduated from Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of art in 2018 with the James Nicol McBroom award and has since exhibited across Glasgow and London. Based on the belief that there is a great deal of silliness in our surrounding mundanity, much of Fernie’s work involves somewhat odd and out of context still lifes and figure compositions offering the viewer a sillier, stiller life within the painting.
Image: ‘A plaice in the sun’ by Angus Fernie. Oil on board, 25cm x 25cm.
Flora Lawrence is a painter based between Glasgow and London. She works with large scale abstract oil and varnish on canvas and co-founded Dornoch Street Studios in Bridgeton.
The painting included in The Royal Glasgow Institute is one of a series nine large works she produced throughout the pandemic – all of them using a fixed set of materials, most notably a vibrant orange spray paint.
With many opportunities to exhibit the work cancelled, or postponed, this series of nine developed into an online project. Her paintings appear literally and digitally, in public spaces around Glasgow. Flora curates and pairs her work in outside environments which have an unlikely resonance to her paintings.
Image: ‘Untitled 6’ by Flora Lawrence. Oil Paint on Canvas, 120 x 95 x 5cm.
Gordy Livingstone lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. He has a BA in Visual Art from Leeds Metropolitan University and a MA in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. Primarily a painter, Gordy’s work straddles imagined and real life scenarios. The paintings play out like a set design or backdrop from film or stage. Elements are layered with Oils and what is to habd immediately. His work also does not form to one style or idea. He leaves this door open intentionally to allow him the freedom to explore and have fun with ideas and paint. Gordy creates painterly expressive abstractions that use colour and composition playfully.
‘Leftovers’ by Gordy Livingstone. Oil, spray paint and collage on canvas, 100x88cm
Christiana Spens is based in London, living previously in Glasgow and Dundee, and having grown up in Fife. Her work explores sociality, memory, relationships and and nostalgia through figurative painting, drawing and printmaking. She also works as an illustrator and writer, with books forthcoming from Repeater Books in 2022 and 2023.
Image: ‘Self-portrait’ by Christiana Spens. Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 4cm.
Richard Walker is a Scottish artist from Cumbernauld, now based near Ballantrae. He has shown widely in the UK and abroad, including solo shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, New York and London, and been the recipient of a number of awards, including grants from Creative Scotland, The Hope Scott Trust and the Pollock Krasner Award. He has taken part in residencies at the Albers Foundation in Connecticut, Haining House in Selkirk (RSA)and in Berwick upon Tweed.
He worked for many years as a scene painter for Scottish Opera, and up until recently was a Lecturer in the painting department at Glasgow School of Art.
Image: ‘Depot’ by Richard Walker. Oil on Board, 48 x 79cm.
Fragments, Fragmentation, & Fractures
Friday 8 April - Saturday 30 April 2022
Preview: 7th April 2022 5-7pm
Fragments, Fragmentation, & Fractures is an invited group exhibition featuring a range of contemporary painters. Each artist’s distinct style demonstrates the extensive breadth of painting today, spanning from figuration to abstraction through the means of fragments, fragmentation and fractured imagery and colour.
The participating artists have all worked in Glasgow across their career progression, as students, professional practicing artists, and tutors.
Image: ‘Untitled 233’, oil on canvas, 180cm x 140cm, by Jacob Littlejohn, 2021.
About the Artists:
Angus Fernie (b.1996) is a Glasgow based artist having graduated from Painting and Printmaking
Image: ‘A plaice in the sun’ by Angus Fernie. Oil on board, 25cm x 25cm.
Flora Lawrence is a painter based between Glasgow and London. She works with large scale abstract oil and varnish on canvas and co-founded Dornoch Street Studios in Bridgeton.
The painting included in The Royal Glasgow Institute is one of a series nine large works she produced throughout the pandemic – all of them using a fixed set of materials, most notably a vibrant orange spray paint.
With many opportunities to exhibit the work cancelled, or postponed, this series of nine developed into an online project. Her paintings appear literally and digitally, in public spaces around Glasgow. Flora curates and pairs her work in outside environments which have an unlikely resonance to her paintings.
Image: ‘Untitled 6’ by Flora Lawrence. Oil Paint on Canvas, 120 x 95 x 5cm.
Gordy Livingstone lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. He has a BA in Visual Art from Leeds Metropolitan University and a MA in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. Primarily a painter, Gordy’s work straddles imagined and real life scenarios. The paintings play out like a set design or backdrop from film or stage. Elements are layered with Oils and what is to habd immediately. His work also does not form to one style or idea. He leaves this door open intentionally to allow him the freedom to explore and have fun with ideas and paint. Gordy creates painterly expressive abstractions that use colour and composition playfully.
‘Leftovers’ by Gordy Livingstone. Oil, spray paint and collage on canvas, 100x88cm
Christiana Spens is based in London, living previously in Glasgow and Dundee, and having grown up in Fife. Her work explores sociality, memory, relationships and and nostalgia through figurative painting, drawing and printmaking. She also works as an illustrator and writer, with books forthcoming from Repeater Books in 2022 and 2023.
Image: ‘Self-portrait’ by Christiana Spens. Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 x 4cm.
Richard Walker is a Scottish artist from Cumbernauld, now based near Ballantrae. He has shown widely in the UK and abroad, including solo shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, New York and London, and been the recipient of a number of awards, including grants from Creative Scotland, The Hope Scott Trust and the Pollock Krasner Award. He has taken part in residencies at the Albers Foundation in Connecticut, Haining House in Selkirk (RSA)and in Berwick upon Tweed.
He worked for many years as a scene painter for Scottish Opera, and up until recently was a Lecturer in the painting department at Glasgow School of Art.
Image: ‘Depot’ by Richard Walker. Oil on Board, 48 x 79cm.
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