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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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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Imre Sofalvi
Imre Sofalvi is a Hungarian artist living in Pécs, where he studied art at the University of Janus Pannonius. He creates drawings, paintings, and collages that tell stories, supplementing the familiar image of the classroom illustration with the fantastical in a unique collection of risograph, serigraph, and mixed media prints embracing the bizarre. These creatures…
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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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