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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Clyde Williamson
Clyde is a landscape artist based in Glasgow. Since graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2023 with a First Class Honours, he has worked in education in Orkney, and community initiatives in Dundee. His work captures a social contemporary relationship between the people and the land of Scotland, both rural…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Vandana Mukheja Chugh
Vandana Mukheja Chugh started painting at the beginning of 2024 after a long period of ill health. Recovering taught her that there is nothing that can make you as happy as doing what you love. She had always loved watercolours as a child and has now started exploring acrylics. Her favourite subject is Scottish architecture…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Richard Montag
Richard Montag is a mental health nurse and therapist who learned how to shoot and process film at the age of 9 years old out of boredom from hanging around Glasgow School of Art while his dad was a student there. Now he loves the instant magic of digital but still misses the grit of…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Emma Scarlett
Emma Scarlett is a Scottish multimedia artist, currently studying at The Glasgow School of Art. Through printmaking, painting and sculpture Emma explores themes of connection to the natural world, community, and feminism. Creating abstract forms, layering imagery and playing with the effects of shadow, Emma’s work aims to be reminiscent of the familiar whilst maintaining…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Nicole Poersch
Nicole was born in Germany and moved to Scotland in 2019. She has always had a passion for astronomy but it wasn’t until 2021 that she decided to buy her first telescope and realised that she could take pictures of the night sky from her very own back garden. That’s when her journey began and…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Grace Ren
Grace Ren is a multidisciplinary artist who earned her BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently working towards her MFA from The Glasgow School of Art. Throughout Grace’s time (so far) here on Earth, she has called many places home. She can’t help but feel that she’s not only lived…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Alasdair Watson
Alasdair Watson is a photographer and artist, working with families, community groups, cultural organisations, and other creators. He uses his photography to connect people, tell their stories, and help create joyful memories. His artistic projects are passionately rooted in the landscapes and languages of Glasgow and Scotland, and through the ritual of travel, connection, and…
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SIX FOOT SPOTLIGHTS: Chiaroscuro: On Fascist Architecture
Written & researched by Alice Martin Chiaroscuro, an artistic technique characterised by extreme tonal contrast, has beenused throughout the artistic canon to evoke drama, and convey a sense of intensity bothstylistically and in regards to the work’s subject. Usually associated with the technique arepainters of the Italian Renaissance such as Caravaggio, as well as Dutch…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Anastasia Kalinovskaya
Anastasia Kalinovskaya began her creative career in 2001 as a theatre actress. She is a theatre director and teaches acting, stage speech, stage movement, and plasticity in acting. She also creates theatrical and video performances. Since 2010 Anastasia has created a series of artistic works in experimental genres such as abstract expressionism and symbolism, and…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Catherine McClure
Catherine McClure is an abstract expressionist 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. Catherine’s…
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