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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Zaym Zarif
Zaym Zarif was born in 1997 in Malaysia, and is a visual artist and photographer based in Glasgow. Working primarily with self-portraiture, their practice explores identity, vulnerability, memory, and the fluid boundaries between truth and performance. Through staged portraits, role-play, and collaborative projects, Zaym investigates the intimate complexities of human relationships while challenging conventions of…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Isobel MacRae
We’re delighted to welcome Isobel MacRae to Six Foot Gallery for an exhibition of painting, sculptural work, and jewellery. Isobel is a Scottish artist and maker, originally from the Highlands and now based in Glasgow. She studied Sculpture at Glasgow School of Art, and her work is deeply influenced by Hebridean landscapes and seascapes. In…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Malachy McCrimmon
Malachy McCrimmon is many things: a writer, a painter, a collage artist, a doomscroller, a professional sandwich champion, a virgo, a cyborg in disguise, an anime supervillain, a mermaid warrior somewhere in the Atlantic, a warlock, and on occasion, an artist based in Dundee. Their exhibition at Six Foot Gallery, A Glitch Ecology of the…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Gemma Campbell
Gemma Campbell creates drawings, prints, and installations that explore strength and vulnerability. Her work brings together images of birds, bodies, and handwriting as motifs, giving the artist a language to describe things that are hard to put into words alone: memories, feelings, and experiences. Her methods fluctuate from expressive mark making to the quiet solitude…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ciorstaidh Rhiannon
Ciorstaidh is a visual artist from the Highlands of Scotland primarily working within the disciplines of analogue photography, printmaking, and video. Drawing inspiration from surrealist cinema and Scottish folklore, her auto-fictional approach utilises the expansive nature of the medium of film; from an investigatory tool to its ability to fabricate narratives, piecing together scenes from…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Dean Jones
Dean Jones is a Masters student of Contemporary Art Practice at the Glasgow School of Art. His practice explores queer intimacy through painting and textile processes, working with domestic materials such as tablecloths, doileys and bedsheets. His interest focuses on forms of expressions of queer eroticism through feeling, materiality and gesture. By painting and stitching onto vintage domestic…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: GK Garramone
GK Garramone is an early career artist who recently graduated from a MA degree in Contemporary Art Theory from the University of Edinburgh, her practice works with the photographic image to create narrative expressionistic pieces which centre around an individual sense of suffering and realisation. She is interested in the cycles of nature and in exploring human intimacy in landscapes beyond…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Dawn Martin
Dawn Martin is a fourth-year student at the Glasgow School of Art and is a multimedia artist specialising in ceramics. Her sculptures adapt elements of Scottish history and folklore to explore themes of personal identity. Dawn is particularly interested in the local landscape and the mysteries of the Picts, one of Scotland’s earliest settlers, and…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Alison Toft Davies
Time gazing at a westerly, expansive view in southwest France provides Alison Toft Davies with an endless source of different atmospheric effects at twilight and dawn. Her practice shows a fascination with evening light, reflections on broad expanses of wet estuary, sand, and the sea. The idea of ‘traces’ impacted on her technique; building subtle…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Sasha Shalmina
Representational art, like music with lyrics, carries a finite range of meaning. Abstract art, however, resembles music without words, and its interpretation can change over time, evolving with the viewer’s state of mind. Sasha Shalmina’s work centres on painting the unseen: the shifting landscapes of emotions, memories, moods, thoughts, and atmospheres. Her practice prioritises feeling…
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