Axolotl Gallery (Venue 209) is soon to present its debut Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, ‘Young Northern British Artists’.
The event is sure to be a vibrant exhibition of figurative and narrative art from emerging graduates from the four Scottish Art Schools and featuring new work by international artists and jewellers.
The gallery is bringing together the very best of the 2010 Graduate Degree Shows emerging from the four major Scottish Art Schools; Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grays School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone. Many of the artists are as yet unknown but have already been chosen for the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries Scotland Exhibition in Spring 2011.
Also featured is a collection of unique jewellery by Jared Sanders exploring themes of love, loss and memory. Taking inspiration from traditional talismanic imagery using eclectic symbolism to illustrate the duality of love.
The exhibition runs 6 – 30 August daily 10-6pm Sunday 12-5pm / Free (non ticketed).
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To coincide with this week’s documentary release ‘The Doors’, Idea Generation’s dramatic photographic exhibition follows the equally dramatic life of this revolutionary and controversial band, through the lenses of four photographers: Henry Diltz, Joel Brodsky, Bobby Klein and Ken Regan.
The Doors were created in 1965 by lead singer Jim Morrison and fellow band member Ray Manzerak. Their first LP ‘The Doors’ shot to the top of the charts, yet concern over their ‘corruption of youth’ made promoters nervous and soon their reputation as bad boys overshadowed their chart success. In fact the Los Angeles quartet continued to relentlessly challenge, confront yet inspire their fans, leaping headfirst into the heart of darkness as opposed to what were the more current popular topics of peace and love.
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James Short a.k.a. Argyle Plaids is an artist/designer from Seattle who has spent the last decade developing a method of presenting Photoshop-based artwork in the form of tangible, mixed media art pieces that have the organic look and feel of more traditionally created work.
Derived from his photography, paintings and encaustic work. Finished pieces are constructed from acid-free watercolor paper, archival varnish, lacquer and acrylic on hand-built, finished wood box frames, lifting them out of their humble, pixel-based origins. All images are set as limited editions, yet all retain one-of-a-kind characteristics as they are custom made individually in varying sizes and dimensions.
His work found it’s way to us via our ever growing and popular pool of images found on Flickr.
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David Jon Kassan’s paintings flicker in a liminal space between the real and the hyper real, narration and transformation. He also just crafted this unbelievable portrait by utilising an iPad.
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Square Beard are a growing muldisciplinary arts collective who have chosen not go their separate ways, but to stay true to their skool, to make something happen and commit to the city they all grew up in.
Edinburgh, a city no stranger to dualism, wrestles with its old demon of parochial conservatism and its new ambitions of becoming a major European political and economic capital. Yet at the beginning of the 21st century Edinburgh was still erecting nineteenth century monuments.
Against this backdrop of civic cowardice ‘Square Beard’ are exhibiting in a former ambulance depot in the spring of 2010. We would like to invite you to attend the event which is taking place at 7pm on Thursday, 22 April 2010.
The artists are Alex Allan, Ross Colquhoun, Matt Barnes, Liam Crichton, Connor Dupre, Kevin Harman, Mark Purves and Liam Richardson.
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Published on
April 5, 2010, in
Fine Art.
We are delighted to announce that Human Resources™ are now working in partnership with Scotland’s fresh Axolotl Gallery. This means that over the next few months we will be revealing the latest competitions, exhibitions and general happenings that will be taking place at their beautiful space on Dundas Street, set in the heart of Edinburgh’s vibrant art scene.
An exciting new gallery, Axolotl focuses on figurative and narrative work in various media including painting, drawing, limited edition prints, sculpture and photography. Axolotl aims to showcase the work of emerging artists working in these genres, providing them with a suitable platform to establish themselves with a wider audience and promote their work. Although based in Scotland, Axolotl is not a ‘Scottish gallery’ in the sense of showing work of predominantly Scottish themes. While they work with many Scottish artists, the themes explored are universal in nature. The gallery will also be showing work from other emerging artists from Europe and beyond. If you would like to submit your artwork to the gallery for possible inclusion in future exhibitions, please get in touch with gallery owner Derek Butter by visiting their website.
They are about to hold their Spring Exhibition from April 3 – April 24 2010, featuring groups of work from five main artists including; Michael Wildman, Steven Hendry, Sarah Wilson, Philomena Pretsell and Jill Farquhar. As a Human Resources™ reader, we would like to invite you to attend the private view of their Spring Exhibition, which is taking place this coming Friday 2nd April. To attend, all you have to do is RSVP or accept their Facebook event invitation.
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March 11, 2010, in
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Bad dream or a wonderful nightmare? I love the work of Fred Tomaselli. See more at the James Cohan Gallery feature.
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This month’s Pop magazine brings us the magical pairing of Allen Jones and Devon Aoki, shot by Sean and Seng. Sean and Seng have a great portfolio under their belt – make note! Doll-faced Devon is encased in Jones’ wearable art to both seedy and seductive effect.
The shoot comes as a handy booklet inside Pop, with an interview with Allen Jones himself. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m really enjoying the paper stock too… sorry.
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Published on
February 5, 2010, in
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