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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Omar Alonso Naranjo
Omar is a Glasgow-based illustrator and printmaker from the Canary Islands. Under the pen name Imidak Art, he creates and shares work that celebrates the simple pleasures in life, like the appreciation of nature’s little creatures, whimsical playfulness, and carefree peace and relaxation. His art practice is multidisciplinary, with a focus on linoprint and digital…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Stina Alden
Stina Aldén is a Swedish artist based in Glasgow working primarily with analogue photography. Through the act of performance, Stina raises themes of otherness, climate, gender, body-image, heritage and traditions in order to highlight their upbringing within a hyper-masculine, and labour intensive environment. Their practice focuses mostly on the photographic analogue process, but is no…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Qianyi Zhu
Qianyi Zhu is an abstract artist working primarily with painting and etching, alongside pastel and mixed works on paper. Currently based in Glasgow, she is soon to graduate from the Glasgow School of Art. Her practice is grounded in a quiet exploration of inner landscapes, where remembered fragments of nature – trees, grasses, rivers, lakes,…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Rachel Brown
Rachel is an artist from Glasgow. With a background in creative animation and digital art, she is interested in combining traditional and digital methods of art making. She uses this approach to explore horror and other dark-themes, whilst remaining grounded and influenced by her historical interests. Her exhibited zine, The Mark of the Witch, is…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Katie Muir
Katie Muir is a Dundee Based artist going into her fourth year of Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. She is a multi media artist with a focus on ceramics. Muir’s interest in Contemporary sculpture pushes her to sculpt in a modern, textured style. She embraces the evidence of the…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Carla Smith
Inspired by the vast complexity of being alive, Carla believes play is vital and should extend beyond childhood. Her practice explores the social narratives and connections found in everyday moments, celebrating the tender joy of gathering and being present together. Carla creates multisensory, interactive experiences that invite audiences to consume, touch, and physically engage with…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Orla Henaghen
Orla’s creative practice is rooted in exploring and honouring the process of grief. Her work transforms personal loss into something quietly powerful, an act of love and remembrance. She believes grief is a privilege and to mourn deeply is to have loved deeply. Her current body of work centres on five core memories shared with…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Alina Litvinova
Alina Litvinova is a curator and visual artist who works with a variety of mediums from photography and drawing to ceramics and glass. In 2025 she won a grant from Edinburgh Council and organized a glass art residency at Scot-ART during which she held workshops and taught 20+ artists who had never worked with glass…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Anna Charlotta Gardiner
For Anna, making art is ritual play, an improvised dance, and her materials are equal partners in this dance. Interwoven with this is her value and logic-driven science-geek curiosity. She uses reclaimed materials, a primary medium being the hair of her dog, Shadow, which she hand-spins and felts using ancient techniques. She creates costumes that…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Yiyang Chen
Yiyang Chen is a Glasgow-based Chinese artist and researcher. Working across painting, moving image, performance, ceramics and writing, her practice explores themes such as the monstrous, the archive, touch, and the gaze. Yiyang’s work engages with the liveness of bodies, (contact) surfaces, queerness, gesture, and self-reflexive configuration. Over the past three years, Yiyang has gained…
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