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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Jennifer Caine
Jennifer is an art student currently finishing her third year of study at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. Her work centres her experience of queer femininity and Femme identity, drawing influence from Drag. Her interdisciplinary practice examines the relationships between paint, transparency, and textile as they interconnect through mixed media pieces…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ruaridh Law
Ruaridh Law is a sound artist and musician based in Ayrshire, Scotland. Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. Latterly his interests have been in sound and installation art. These works have ranged…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Lou Graves
Lou is a lifelong Glaswegian, illustrator, and artist, with a body of work encompassing two decades. He utilises his finely honed skills in drawing and painting to portray his remarkably vivid dreams; insights into a vaster, richer, truer world than our own. Incredible landscapes where vast spiralling towers and staircases organically mingle with and grow…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Katie McGroarty
Katie is a visual artist originally from West Dunbartonshire, now living in Dundee. She looks at themes of religion, sectarianism, gender, class, devotion and the domestic space. She graduated from the Edinburgh College of art in 2020 with a BA(hons) in Intermedia, before graduating from DJCAD in 2022 which an MFA in Arts and Humanities.…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Emma McLaughlin
Emma McLaughlin is a former primary teacher turned piñata artist, who specialises in realistic face piñatas. After a childhood spent creating ‘things’ out of cardboard boxes, scissors and tape, Emma explores her nostalgia for that time by using piñatas as the basis of her creative practice, and she is drawn to the transient nature of…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Catherine McClure
Catherine is an abstract expressionist painter who works from her home studio in Prestwick, Ayrshire. She works across a variety of media including acrylic, oil and watercolour paintings, botanical plaster-castings and pebble mosaics. Her work is influenced and inspired by the forms and colours of the natural world and ranges from figurative to abstract. See Catherine’s…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Daniel Donnelly
We’re delighted to welcome local artist and fellow Pentagon Centre resident Daniel Donnelly back to Six Foot Gallery for an inspiring retrospective of his work. This lively collection of oil paintings and etchings covers a broad range of subjects including portraiture, landscapes, and striking geometric works. Though seemingly disparate in subject matter, the deep pool…
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Six Foot Book Club: February Reads
Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook by Derek JarmanGenre: Poetry/Autobiography/Nature WritingRating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Catriona’s thoughts: Pharmacopoeia is a profound reflection on Derek Jarman’s deep connection with nature as he navigates grief and mortality. It combines diary entries, poetry, and longer meditative passages about his time at Prospect Cottage, where gardening became a form of solace, ritual, and remembrance.…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Sue Steele
Sue Steele’s work has changed dramatically over the years, from her beginnings at GSA, rooted in a traditional painting practice, to working in a myriad of constantly evolving mediums, Sue has established herself as a mainstay of the Glaswegian art scene. In this new exhibition of work, Start Where You Are, Sue presents a series…
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Six Foot Book Club: January Reads
Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene by Sarah LowndesGenre: Non-fiction/Art History Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Catriona’s thoughts: Social Sculpture is one of only a handful of works dedicated solely to the history of Glasgow’s art scene. Lowndes highlights the alternative, artist-run spaces that form this infrastructure highlighting the individuals from the seventies who laid these…
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