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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Omar Alonso Naranjo
Omar is a printmaker, illustrator, and facilitator from the Canary Islands, creating and sharing artwork as Imidak Art. With his work he tries to celebrate the beauty in the mundane, and to explore his emotions when words don’t do them justice. If you see him taking photos of a bird on top of a lamppost,
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Kayla Howie
Kayla is a queer South African artist, currently residing in Glasgow and studying at the Glasgow School of Art. She explores ideas of womanhood, mortality, and connection through oil paintings of herself, the women in her family, and the bathroom as a space of both discomfort and refuge. Kayla hopes to draw attention to the
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Amy Iona
Amy Iona is a lens-based artist, researcher and creative facilitator. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2020 and was latterly awarded the inaugural Creativity, Inclusivity & theVirtual award to support a year of research at the University of Glasgow, developing frameworks for access and inclusion in thecreative industries. She is interested in facilitating
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Connor McLennaghan
Connors work focuses on aspects of identity based on his own lived experience, primarily focusing on queerness, transness and Scottishness, to open up these ideas and reveal them as welcoming, rather than as divisive. Drawing inspiration from both current events and archival media, his work acts as undeniable and tangible proof of trans existence during
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Gill McBrier
Gill graduated in 1989 with a BA (Hons) from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. She worked teaching art and design in Fife, Lanarkshire, and Argyll and Bute before settling in Glasgow. Having swapped the countryside for the city, Gill’s appreciation of rural life and natures landscape have become a growing focus in
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Varvara Yu
Varvara is a Ukrainian multimedia artist, currently based in Scotland. Varvara is interested in building her own worlds, but also explores being one with the real world. She plays with the feelings of her audience, exploring whether they can blur the lines that are separating these worlds: the one created by her, the one created
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ipshita Debnath Wittenkamp Meyer
Ipshita is an award-winning Indian fine artist from Glasgow. She is passionate about making work that explore social issues, influenced by her culture and heritage and filled with symbolism and colours. Ipshita’s objective is to create something unconventional, generating curiosity, dialogue, and conversation. Within the space of the frame, she endeavours to narrate a subject
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Yoanna Walden
Yoanna Walden is a UK-based photographer (b. 2003) who, employing found objects, diy props, and her own body, stages images exploring themes of confinement, constraint and connection. Rooted in personal experience and shaped by an autodidactic approach, her practice interrogates systems of control and the social construction of madness. She engages with texts concerned with
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Shivangi Dwivedi
Shivangi is a mixed media and textile artist whose practice explores women’s livelihoods, emotional landscapes, and lived experiences. All fabrics and textile elements in her artworks are created by her own hands, making each piece deeply personal and unique. Her work combines contemporary art with textile-based techniques, using fabric, texture, and layered materials to create
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Clare Archibald
Six Foot Gallery is delighted to be hosting ‘corpus tenebras lux/sic : body map for vibrato’, a multimedia installation by Clare Archibald, exploring chronic illness, creative acts and connection, time, and archive. The work incorporates a short film, a text, mixed media scanography, photography, prints, and objects. It is a somatic invitation to participate that
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