Our Annual Winter Show
6th December – 9th January
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ALAN RUTHERFORD | ALASDAIR WATSON | ANASTASIA KALINOVSKAYA | BEL PYE | CATHERINE MCCLURE | CLYDE WILLIAMSON | CONOR MCCONVILLE | EMMA SCARLETT | FIONA GREER | GILL HOULSBY | GRACE REN | HOPE REYNOLDS | IRIS DORRIAN | KAREN MCQUEENIE | LOU GRAVES | LOU PALMER | MANNIE ROSIE | MIMI BHOGAL | NICOLE POERSCH | RACHEL MILLAR | RICHARD MCKEAN | RICHIE CAMERON | ROSIE BOYCE | SANDOR NAGY | VANDANA MUKHEJA CHUGH | VANESSA REYNOLDS
We are delighted to present our annual winter show, featuring twenty-six artists working in a diverse range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, textiles, ceramics, photography, astrophotography, painting, printing, and illustration.
Original works available to buy from £40
Read interviews with Chiaroscuro exhibitors on our blog
Bel Pye, Fiona Greer, Sandor Nagy, Catherine McClure, Anastasia Kalinovskaya, Alasdair Watson, Grace Ren, Nicole Poersch, Emma Scarlett, Richard Montag, Vandana Mukheja Chugh, and Clyde Williamson.
Intern Alice has a soapbox moment to discuss one of her favourite topics: Fascist architecture. Read our latest Spotlight here.
Participating Artists
Alan Rutherford
Alan Rutherford is based in Glasgow. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a BA (hons) in Sculpture and was awarded an MA in Fine Art from the University of the Creative Arts, London, in 2019. His practice is primarily based in sculpture and seeks to explore and question the phenomenon of loss, disappearance and change. Working within a ‘hauntological’ framework, where the past environment, locations and objects become ‘sites of memory’, he creates pastiche re-creations of places, objects and scenes through corollary sculptural props and film. These sculptural works are often site specific installations with a transient and ephemeral quality.
@alanrfinert | alanrutherford.co.uk
Alasdair Watson
Alasdair Watson is a photographer and artist, working with families, community groups, cultural organisations, and other creators. He uses his photography to connect people, tell their stories, and help create joyful memories. His artistic projects are passionately rooted in the landscapes and languages of Glasgow and Scotland, and through the ritual of travel, connection, and creation, Alasdair seeks to tell stories of how we belong to each other and our surroundings.
@Alasdair_Watson | Alasdair.Photography
Anastasia Kalinovskaya
Anastasia Kalinovskaya began her creative career in 2001 as a theatre actress. She is a theatre director and teaches acting, stage speech, stage movement, and plasticity in acting. She also creates theatrical and video performances. Since 2010 Anastasia has created a series of artistic works in experimental genres such as abstract expressionism and symbolism, and photography. She has been working in cinematography since 2019, and her debut short film has been travelling to international film festivals since 2022.
@kalinovskaya_art | kalinovskaya.life
Bel Pye
Bel moved to Scotland in 2011 to study Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Since then they have worked as a writer, performer and workshop facilitator in Glasgow. Bel is a long term attendee of the Project Ability studios in Trongate – Project Ability is a visual arts charity and gallery supporting people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health to create art.The Project Studio gallery recently hosted Bel’s first solo show A Soft Place To Land. Bel’s art practice explores the everyday art we make to survive hostile times, often trying to find small acts of accessible protest. This practice is fatigue informed and grounded in the queer, mad, and chronically ill communities Bel lives in.
Catherine McClure
Catherine McClure is an abstract expressionist 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. Catherine’s work has been exhibited across Scotland including at The Barony Centre, West Kilbride; The Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine; The Art Department, Paisley; and Souter Johnnies Cottage, Kirkoswald. She was longlisted for the 2024 Women in Art Prize. Annually, Catherine opens her studio to the public as part of Ayrshire’s Open Studios Weekend. She is also a member of the Scottish Society of Artists.
@catherine.mcclure.art | facebook.com/catherinemcclureart
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 and urban. His projects explore a necessity for public spaces through drawings, performances, and events. Having grown up in rural North-East Scotland, he draws mixed comparisons between city, rural and remote settings, and the core principle to his practice is creating a genuine engagement with publics. By designing works such as drawings for the sides of buildings, artworks to be viewed on pavements, or works to be participated in or watched in the street, there is an intentional and hospitable inclusivity to what he does, creating a shared public exploration of ideas and conceptuality.
Conor McConville
Conor McConville is a Dundee-based artist. He draws inspiration from William Hogarth’s prints, David Lynch’s films, and Giallo’s vibrant colours. He creates intricate backstories for his characters while maintaining ambiguity through surrealism, using dream logic and visual metaphors to encourage viewer engagement. Working in a wide range of mediums, including oil painting, watercolour, drawing, sculpture, photography and filmmaking, he will create his work based on the intuition of what he feels suits the idea. He has a first-class honours degree in Contemporary Art & Contextualised Practice and has had works exhibited throughout Scotland. Working in the charity sector for over five years, he believes art is for everyone and can be a tool to understand the world around us.
Emma Scarlett
Emma Scarlett is a Scottish multimedia artist, currently studying at The Glasgow School of Art. Through printmaking, painting and sculpture Emma explores themes of connection to the natural world, community, and feminism. Creating abstract forms, layering imagery and playing with the effects of shadow, Emma’s work aims to be reminiscent of the familiar whilst maintaining a sense of ambiguity. ‘I love the connection that my artistic practice has to the past. Humankind has been painting, drawing, and making for as long as we have existed. By carrying on this ancient tradition, I feel a sense of belonging. Connection to the present is also very important. Through making and appreciating art, conversations can begin, friendships can form, and minds can expand and be nourished.’
Fiona Greer
Fiona Greer is a visual artist based in Scotland. Fiona graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2011 with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art specialising in Sculpture. Her work has been displayed in various exhibitions and publications, and mainly deals with the paranormal and haunted locations within Scotland. She explores these areas gathering research photos and sketches, which then develop into her finished pieces. She uses her own experience with the paranormal and channels the energy she feels in these spaces into her dark and expressive works
Gill Houlsby
Gill describes herself as an all-weather artist, embracing outdoor work despite challenging conditions. Over time, she shifted from feeling restricted by the weather to seeing it as an inspiring co-creator in her artistic process. For Gill, the elements are no longer obstacles but an integral part of her creative journey, adding to the integrity of her images. Gill views her work as a series of slow, persistent actions, encouraging reflection and curiosity about social and environmental issues.
Grace Ren
Grace Ren is a multidisciplinary artist who earned her BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently working towards her MFA from The Glasgow School of Art. Throughout Grace’s time (so far) here on Earth, she has called many places home. She can’t help but feel that she’s not only lived in many places, but has lived many lives as well. One thing that has always remained as a constant is her interest in the intricate workings of human behaviour, and the understanding of which through creative expression. With the help of this thread she weaves her stories.
Hope Reynolds
Hope is a Fine Art graduate from Manchester, now based in Glasgow, where she has lived for the past year. Her practice focuses on elevating natural and feminine subjects to a place of reverence, weaving in narratives of mythology and folklore. She aims to inspire viewers to consider their relationships with their surrounding environments and hopefully encourage a deeper care for the natural world. Hope is a valued member of the team here at Six Foot Gallery.
@hopepaintz | hopereynolds.portfoliobox.net
Iris Dorrian
Iris Dorrian is inspired by a strong interest in the social environment, the landscape, its corruption and modification by human activity, memory, and the poetics of space. Iris tries to express a sensory feeling of immersion when she records and captures this, giving consideration to the historical, social, and political meaning of space; that how people experience it impacts their view of it, and place in it.
Karen McQueenie
Karen McQueenie’s art focuses on mental health and her interpretations and perceptions of it in her life. She holds a deep connection with nature and is happiest when gremlining around the forest floor searching for sticks with character and flower seed heads for her compositions. She has tried numerous different mediums, and has finally found her voice within her nature art. She tries to upcycle things like lightbulbs and mirrors and incorporate them into her art. Karen is also a stained glass artist, and she creates jewellery with all of her glass remnants to reduce her creative waste. In her spare time Karen dedicates herself to improving her own mental health and running the nonprofit lego club she founded in 2021. She is currently looking for new ways to give back to the creative community to help reduce creative isolation.
@mcqueenie_art | outsidein.org.uk/galleries/karen-mcqueenie/
Lou Graves
Lou Graves is a lifelong Glasgwegian, illustrator, and artist, with a body of work encompassing two decades. He utilises his finely honed skills in drawing and painting to portray his remarkably vivid dreams – insights in a vaster, richer, truer world than our own. Incredible landscapes where vast spiralling towers and staircases organically mingle with and grow into endless expanses of land, sea and plant life that together almost seem to wake from dreaming and distantly regard you from the frame as you pass. You are invited to step inside his work. Perhaps this will be your first insight into the real world – or perhaps you have seen it before?
Lou Palmer
Lou Palmer is a Painting and Printmaking student at the Glasgow School of Art whose practice revolves around the complexity of relationships between humans and nature with a specific focus on ocean life and aquatic animals. Extinction, hauntology, and the tension between feelings of awe and loss are recurring themes in her work. She uses a range of media including block printing, wood engraving, pencil drawing and book binding. Images of water, underwater organisms and human figures are layered to reflect coexistence and the impact of human action on other living things and vice versa.
Mannie Rosie
Mannie is a graduate from The Glasgow School of Art, working in a fashion collective, and designing with the intention of avoiding subconscious aesthetics. Knit is Mannie’s medium of choice, with a particular interest in the ‘ugly’ and the subversion of taste and trend.
Mimi Bhogal
Mimi Bhogal is a multi-disciplinary artist, currently in her final year of studying Sculpture and Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art. Her practice is heavily research-led, exploring themes including identity, connection/disconnection to place, as well as histories which may have become hidden or forgotten over time. She aims to invoke feelings of nostalgia and perhaps melancholy, encouraging a sense of intrigue from the viewer. The work is a stepping stone from which the viewer is invited to ask questions and overlay their own stories, developing unique interpretations and reflections. Through the use of a range of media including photography, sound, moving image, textiles, and archival ephemera, Mimi aims to bring these stories to the surface and give them the recognition they deserve. She attempts to let the ordinary person’s voice be heard and make the intangible feelings associated with memories into a physical representation.
Nicole Poersch
Nicole was born in Germany and moved to Scotland in 2019. She has always had a passion for astronomy but it wasn’t until 2021 that she decided to buy her first telescope and realised that she could take pictures of the night sky from her very own back garden. That’s when her journey began and it’s certainly been a steep learning curve for her. Astrophotography can be incredibly frustrating but also extremely rewarding when everything goes to plan. Nicole became part of an amazing community of like-minded and extremely passionate and helpful people. Two of her Deep Sky images were featured in the BBC Sky at Night magazine in 2024, where her image of the Christmas Tree Cluster was chosen as their Photo Of The Month for July. It was also published in the Astronomy Now magazine in November 2024. Nicole intends to bring the universe closer to people who are curious about our night sky.
Rachel Millar
Rachel E Millar is a signwriter (or sign painter), glass gilder and lettering artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. She specialises in designing and painting traditional lettering by hand – large or small, interior or exterior, on shop fronts, on walls and almost any other surface. She works somewhere between design, art, and craft, combining traditional techniques with contemporary design. Alongside her day to day commercial work she creates her own artwork such as one-off paintings and typographic prints, experimenting with colour and perspective. She has been exhibited in multiple group shows in the UK and USA.
@rachelemillar | rachelemillar.com
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 film.
Richie Cameron
Richie Cameron’s studios are in Prestwick, where he works mostly in ceramics using handbuilding techniques. He also works in stone where he carves in limestone.
His main influences are from the Cubists and Modernists, though, like most artists, he seeks inspiration and ideas of form and image from many of the great eras. He has a long time interest in the study of ancient civilisations, particularly the Egyptians, and strives to see how he can find a way to incorporate that interest into a piece of work.
@CameronCeramicsStudio | cameronceramicsstudio.com
Rosie Boyce
Rosie Boyce, b.2005, is a Glaswegian artist, currently in her third year of study at The Glasgow School of Art. Primarily a painter and photographer, her work is rooted in experience and emotion, there’s no intellectual theory. The people she encounters – close friends, strangers, and everyone in between – are her endless source of inspiration. She finds humans endlessly fascinating. Currently she’s exploring portraiture through personal objects, asking her subjects to bring something meaningful to them. These items can carry deep significance and memory, yet to an outsider, their stories remain unknown. Intrigued by the mysteries of human experience, she hopes to gain a glimpse into how others perceive and navigate the world and to try and preserve a moment of a person’s life, knowing its impossible to capture someone fully in a single frame.
Sándor Nagy
Born and raised in Transylvania, Sándor Nagy is a trilingual, transdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. A graduate of the School of Art Brașov and West College Scotland, he is currently a mature student at The Glasgow School of Art, specialising in Fine Art Photography. Nagy’s practice spans multiple mediums, including happenings, performance art, nature, and land art, often exploring themes of interconnectedness and the human experience. His work has been recognised internationally through awards, publications, and exhibitions. Nature, performance, and ritual are key elements in his practice, where he views art as an energy conduit connecting humanity, the planet, and the cosmos across space and time. Through his diverse artistic journey, Nagy continues to push boundaries and create art that resonates with the viewer’s sense of existence.
@nagysandorart | nagysandorart.com
Vandana Mukheja Chugh
Vandana started painting at the beginning of 2024 after a long period of ill health. Recovering taught her that there is nothing that could 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 and she loves to paint the iconic buildings and castles around Scotland. She also loves to paint florals in watercolours and is currently exploring mixed media painting. She loves to experiment with all forms of art. She has joined the Barrhead artist community recently and also exhibited her art at St Andrew’s Church, Barrhead, in October 2024. Vandana was born and brought up in India. She moved to the UK in 2017 and works as an IT professional. She is now settled in Glasgow.
Vanessa Reynolds
Vanessa originates from Hampshire in the South of England and now resides in Ayrshire. She was an art teacher for over twenty years, teaching Fine Art and Textiles to sixteen to eighteen year olds. She paints in acrylic, mainly portraits and trees.
@VRArtt | vreynoldsart.com