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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Davardo
Six Foot Gallery is delighted to present a broad retrospective of recent and previous works by David Martin, aka Davardo. Curses, Swears & Maledictions incorporates figurative painting, abstract constructions and modelmaking with influences derived from Davardo’s life experiences and connections with social care, offending, domestic violence, addiction and education. The thematic profiles of the works…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ralph Overill (Print Unleashed)
Dr Ralph Overill is an artist, researcher and educator based between Glasgow and Essex, UK. His art seeks to construct and explore an alternative sci-fi reality that exists in parallel to contemporary society, critiquing the governing systems and powers that appear, in his eyes, unjust and incompetent. Drawing on the concept of hauntology, Ralph creates…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Mary Harker (Print Unleashed)
Mary Harker is a Glasgow-based artist studying painting and printmaking at the M.Litt Fine Art practice at The Glasgow School of Art. She explores research themes of ageing, identity, memory, and loss. Her work spans drawing, painting, and various experimental mediums, exploring communication beyond traditional boundaries such as frames and surfaces. Art serves as her…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Karla Healy (Print Unleashed)
Karla is undertaking a Masters in Fine Art Practice after graduating in Painting and Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art in 2023. Her work considers the impact of humans sleepwalking into their own demise through a process of wilful ignorance and the neoliberal push for individualism. Karla is an unashamed disabled artist who juggles her…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Lu Chen (Print Unleashed)
Lu Chen was born in China, and currently resides in Glasgow, focusing on sound storytelling art, performance art, and conceptual art. Lu Chen’s work can be seen as part of Print Unleashed, which runs at Six Foot Gallery until July 18th 2024. Hi Lu! What emotions or reactions do you hope viewers experience when they…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: David Bridgeman (Print Unleashed)
David Bridgeman (b.1959) was born in Oxford, England. His artworks tell stories, evoke memories and instil a sense of place. He uses a variety of media: painting, drawing, construction, sculpture, printmaking and video. The stories are fictional and formed from an event, an object or experience. They are influenced by various elements from early childhood and…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Yihao Li (Print Unleashed)
Yihao Li is a Chinese-born visual artist, researcher, and educator based in Glasgow. His creative practice spans drawing, sculpture, and installation art, focusing on East Asian art, Orientalism, and fascination with the interplay between form and material. Start with a question on the physicality and three-dimensionality of sculpture, which necessarily invoke bodily relations – even…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Madeleine Daly (Noughts & Crosses)
Maddy is a painter working from her studio in Elgin in the North East of Scotland. She takes inspiration from natural elements such as the land and seascapes, and explores stories from within these influences, considering the journeys people experience, both physically and emotionally. She enjoys playing with ambiguity and misdirection through a series of…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Olga Dean Hart (Noughts & Crosses)
Olga is an expressive painter based in a small village in the Cairngorms National Park, in the Scottish Highlands. Her colourful work centres on the exploration of the human soul. She describes her paintings as visual metaphors, prompting viewers to contemplate the possibility of creativity and individual expression existing within structured systems. Olga’s primary objective…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ballari Conner ‘Candid’
Ballari Conner is a multi-media artist living in Glasgow and her passion lies in painting and photography. Conner enjoys pushing the boundaries and often, with work depicting raw moments. In paintings, frequently portrays her internal world which at times can be quite dark. In photography, she enjoys capturing candid images the most. It took Conner…
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