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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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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Codie Anne
Codie Anne is a contemporary artist working between Moray and the Highlands of Scotland. Their disciplines include observational drawings, crochet tapestries, and performance. Codie Anne graduated from UHI Inverness with a BA First Class Honours in Art and Contemporary Practices. During their studies they were awarded the SSA New Graduate Award in 2025 and the…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Malachy McCrimmon
Malachy McCrimmon is a post-digital, new-age, anime-girl, hybrid-creative, ecologist-warrior, meme-queen navigating the e-jungle in a state of observation. The digital screen is their muse, transporting them into electric fields of information, connections and mayhem that materialise as multilayer canvases; explorations of Glitch Ecology that immortalise the displacement of the natural world amongst our surrealist, Anthropocentric…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Polly Thelwall
Polly Thelwall is a sculptor who also sketches, draws, and paints. She grew up in Northern Ireland and graduated from Edinburgh College of art in 1993 with a degree in Sculpture. The study of the natural world underpins all her work. She gathers sketches, research, thoughts and feelings into a sculpture or drawing. This coalesces…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Jenna Maclean
Jenna Maclean’s practice is rooted in abstract painting, where she explores themes of nostalgia and memory. The focus is primarily on procedural memory, through gesture and the process of intuitive mark-making. Her process focuses on immediacy and embraces repetition. Jenna’s paintings allow for the viewer to enter a space of reminiscence. A place that’s not…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ingrid Evans
Ingrid Evans is a Melbourne-born, Glasgow-based artist working in oil painting and collage. Her practice explores fragility, identity, and the tension between vulnerability and concealment. Beginning with staged photographs, she digitally edits and layers them to create soft, dreamlike compositions. These form the foundation of her paintings, where she uses translucent oil layers, softened edges,…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Ziqi Chen
Ziqi Chen is an artist based in Glasgow, currently a Master’s student at the Glasgow School of Art. Her artistic practice centres around juxtaposition, examining the visual convergence of organic forms and digital constructs. She explores the possibility of harmony between the natural and the synthetic, which reflects a broader inquiry into the evolving role…
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THE SIX FOOT GALLERY INTERVIEW: Abby Quinn
Abby is an illustrator and printmaker from Glasgow. She creates personal, connection-based work inspired by nature, relationships, and pop culture. Everything Abby makes is a form of self-expression in some way, whether that be her love for the outdoors, a current binge watch, or her permanent state of nostalgia. Abby’s latest artistic obsession has been…
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