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OFFICE CAKES
Here is why we are excited about October at Six Foot Gallery. October is the month of PLATFORM, which has already seen the birth of our new logo, courtesy of Laura Hopkinson. Still to come are OFFICE SPACE, which will see a number of installs by our selected artists throughout the month – ending with…
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Hannah Laycock: Artist in Residence
“’How do you feel?’ ‘How do I feel?’ He repeated, and scratched his head. ‘I cannot say I feel ill. But I cannot say I feel well. I cannot say I feel anything at all.’” * Photographer Hannah Laycock spent ten years living in London and Brighton. Since returning to Scotland, she has taken up…
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Best of Degree Show: Melanie Wiksell
Melanie Wiksell finds in death, an imagery that she wants to exploit and explore to its limits. She aims to distort life with surreal and uncanny elements and draws inspiration from the occult, rituals, the sublime, and mythologies. One of her central interest within these themes, is how people decorate pain. After three years at The…
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Best of Degree Show: Alana Stewart
Studying Contemporary Art Practice, Alana Stewart has spent the past four years exploring the various disciplines within fine art. The freedom to explore has allowed Stewart to develop her knowledge and skills, particularly printmaking. She is inspired by Scottish tradition, culture and stereotypical motifs and these themes have become more apparent throughout her four years.…
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Best of Degree Show: Daniel Donelly
Daniel Donelly has spent the last year of his four year Contemporary Art Practice degree specialising in painting. He wanted to explore conceptual ideas in his coursework. Daniel created digital experiments in Photoshop as a starting point, painting the results of this process. He primarily uses Artisan water based oil paints on paper treated with linseed oil. Daniel has had…
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Best of Degree Show: Lesley Conlan
As Lesley Conlan has progressed through art school it has allowed her to realise her potential and what she wants to pursue in the future. It took her till the start of the last semester of her final year to realise she loved using CAD to create her work. Her inspiration has always stemmed from her family and the sense of heritage and…
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Best of Degree Show: Kaela Hogg
Kaela explores a sense of belonging in her identity culture where she creates movement within her jewellery to represent the transitioning of her cultures; Scottish and Thai. Kaela combines traditional techniques alongside modern technologies to help aid her design process in which she uses silver, acrylic and aluminium as the main materials in her work.…
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Best of Degree Show: Mauri Ann Beardshaw
Mauri Ann Beardshaw is a recent BA graduate of Jewellery Design and Related Products from the Birmingham School of Jewellery. She was encouraged to take an experimental approach to designing and making contemporary jewellery and objects. Beardshaw has always been interested in science and the natural world. Her current collection is inspired by diatoms that…
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Best of Degree Show: Kim Simpson
Graduating from the City of Glasgow College with a BA (Hons) Photography, Kim Simpson’s dissertation presented a visual exploration of the visual norm and highlighted the inequality present in the west. These ideas form part of her ongoing personal project entitled Exottish. Exottish deals with themes of exoticism, identity and visual stereotypes faced by non caucasian individuals…
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Best of Degree Show: Elena Mary Harris
Elena May Harris gets to know the places she lives in by situating her art practice in relation to the history of the city. She makes objects that reminisce to the familiar: the domestic. Harris works with communities and social groups as a way to build relationships through skill transfer and conversation and uses materials and…
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