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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Yiyang Chen
Yiyang Chen is a Glasgow-based Chinese artist and researcher. Working across painting, moving image, performance, ceramics and writing, her practice explores themes such as the monstrous, the archive, touch, and the gaze. Yiyang’s work engages with the liveness of bodies, (contact) surfaces, queerness, gesture, and self-reflexive configuration. Over the past three years, Yiyang has gained…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Codie Anne
Codie Anne is a contemporary artist working between Moray and the Highlands of Scotland. Their disciplines include observational drawings, crochet tapestries, and performance. Codie Anne graduated from UHI Inverness with a BA First Class Honours in Art and Contemporary Practices. During their studies they were awarded the SSA New Graduate Award in 2025 and the…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Malachy McCrimmon
Malachy McCrimmon is a post-digital, new-age, anime-girl, hybrid-creative, ecologist-warrior, meme-queen navigating the e-jungle in a state of observation. The digital screen is their muse, transporting them into electric fields of information, connections and mayhem that materialise as multilayer canvases; explorations of Glitch Ecology that immortalise the displacement of the natural world amongst our surrealist, Anthropocentric…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Polly Thelwall
Polly Thelwall is a sculptor who also sketches, draws, and paints. She grew up in Northern Ireland and graduated from Edinburgh College of art in 1993 with a degree in Sculpture. The study of the natural world underpins all her work. She gathers sketches, research, thoughts and feelings into a sculpture or drawing. This coalesces…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Jenna Maclean
Jenna Maclean’s practice is rooted in abstract painting, where she explores themes of nostalgia and memory. The focus is primarily on procedural memory, through gesture and the process of intuitive mark-making. Her process focuses on immediacy and embraces repetition. Jenna’s paintings allow for the viewer to enter a space of reminiscence. A place that’s not…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ingrid Evans
Ingrid Evans is a Melbourne-born, Glasgow-based artist working in oil painting and collage. Her practice explores fragility, identity, and the tension between vulnerability and concealment. Beginning with staged photographs, she digitally edits and layers them to create soft, dreamlike compositions. These form the foundation of her paintings, where she uses translucent oil layers, softened edges,…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ziqi Chen
Ziqi Chen is an artist based in Glasgow, currently a Master’s student at the Glasgow School of Art. Her artistic practice centres around juxtaposition, examining the visual convergence of organic forms and digital constructs. She explores the possibility of harmony between the natural and the synthetic, which reflects a broader inquiry into the evolving role…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Abby Quinn
Abby is an illustrator and printmaker from Glasgow. She creates personal, connection-based work inspired by nature, relationships, and pop culture. Everything Abby makes is a form of self-expression in some way, whether that be her love for the outdoors, a current binge watch, or her permanent state of nostalgia. Abby’s latest artistic obsession has been…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Cerys Scorey
Cerys Scorey is an artist and illustrator from Cardiff, currently based in Edinburgh. Since graduating from Kingston School of Art with a BA in Illustration Animation in 2020, she has continued to use drawing as a tool to engage directly with her surroundings and to evoke a sense of place. Her practice stems from sketchbooks…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Rachel Hutchison
Rachel Hutchison is a Scottish visual artist working primarily in painting and drawing. Her practice explores the emotional experience of change, grief, and longing through expressive, figurative imagery and theatrical motifs. Often drawing from personal life, particularly moments of rupture, her work transforms inner chaos into visual metaphor, giving physicality to the unseen. With a…
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