19th June – 9th July 2026
While days grow long and shorts shorten, Six Foot Gallery is delighted to host twenty nine artists exploring art as an alchemical process; the heat of summer as an artistic catalyst; think gold, silver, chrome and mercury, heat, shine, glisten and goop. Chemistry or magic. Created or augmented matter. Artist-made change.
“I love the otherworldliness of painting, and I often talk about the alchemy of art itself. Colours are alchemic… it’s making shit into gold, isn’t it? Something out of nothing.” – Tracey Emin.
David Martin | Rebecca Rae | Ruaridh Law | Shivangi Dwivedi | Saul Auty | Kit Martin | Natalia Clim | Rab Wilson | Francesca Marcuccilli | Hannah Burdess | Claudine O’Sullivan | Shea Preston | Tilly Johnson | Lou Graves | Dougie Marshall | Sara Jane McIntosh | Campbell Barclay | John Tinneny | Elizabeth Riddell | Megan Adams | Pearl Kinnear | Lauren Evans | Beau Best | Jane McInally | Gill Miller | Lesia Davidson | Melanie Errey | Sasha Shalmina | Jingjing Tong
Works available to buy from £90
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Participating Artists
Rebecca Rae
Based in Glasgow, Rebecca is an emerging multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the comedic, vulnerable and repetitive absurdness of everyday ordinary life. She is currently working on exploring ideas of an ‘elsewhere’, a place where everything has a strange familiarity. Through sculpture, text, drawing, and performance, she replicates copies of original objects and distort them until they resemble an object you faintly recall from some long-forgotten dream.
@rrae.art | rebecca-s-rae.wixsite.com/artist
Ruaridh Law
Ruaridh is an artist, writer, film-maker and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland. His works have ranged from intimate audio performance and gallery installations to large-scale outdoor works, music releases and books. These have manifested themselves in, amongst other things, a tarot deck that generates music; sequential stories told over film and radio; simultaneous spiral soundwalks across countries; a portal into the Atlantic Ocean via slow moving text and film; and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night. This year his first solo gallery show, Triadic Paths, opened at Gray Area gallery, San Francisco. He runs No Roof Only Sky, an imprint/label releasing audio and small books.
@ruaridhlaw | ruaridhlaw.com
Shivangi Dwivedi
Shivangi is a mixed-media and textile artist whose practice explores women’s livelihoods, emotional landscapes, and lived experiences. All fabrics and textile elements in her artworks are created by her own hands, making each piece deeply personal and unique. Her work combines contemporary art with textile-based techniques, using fabric, texture, and layered materials to create expressive and tactile surfaces that reflect both personal emotions and collective stories of resilience, identity, and strength. Textile plays a central role in her creative process, carrying cultural memory, labour, and history. By integrating traditional craft practices with mixed media, Shivangi creates original artworks that bridge the space between fine art and textile traditions.
David Martin
The logic of the visible at the service of the invisible -Odilon Redon. This quote resonates with David’s considerations of artistic expression because it reframes realism not as an end, but as a disciplined means to evoke what lies beyond direct perception. In his discourse, David has sought to emphasise that art is not mere replication of appearances. Redon’s phrase supports that by insisting on a logic (structure, craft, observed form) that serves the invisible (emotion, memory, the subconscious, the spiritual). Without that logic, the invisible risks becoming formless or unintelligible; without the invisible, the visible remains merely descriptive. Thus, the quote validates David’s position that technique and observation are necessary, but only as instruments – not as the final aim. It also aligns with the idea that artistic expression creates a bridge: the viewer moves from recognisable form toward an inner, less tangible truth.
Saul Auty
A current student at Glasgow School of Art, born in ’99, Saul is a Lancastrian from the north west with maternal roots in La Courtine, France. Pulled from left to right, divided by the sea, his paintings show inner worlds that are familiar but strange. Each painting expands on a personal visual language, such as bodies of water, the sun and the like. Everything is connected, and in life too don’t you know. His paintings are made with careful consideration to the emotional power and weight of composition, colour, texture etc etc. Like parting two clouds to find the sun. And hopefully you’ll find them moving, like a song. And if painting were a song, colour would surely be melody. His paintings tell a narrative, between past and future, and always travelling, like a boat or a bird, guided by some here light.
Kit Martin
Led by curiosity, Kit is an award-winning photographic artist working across analogue, cameraless, and digital processes. Prior to focusing fully on her artistic practice, she worked as both a medical and police photographer, experiences that shaped a strong attention to detail and observation. Rooted in an appreciation for the physical tangibility of photography, Kit’s work draws inspiration from the natural world, celebrating often overlooked elements vital to ecosystems. Her practice sits at the intersection of art and science, expanding through an MFA in Art, Science & Visual Thinking into printmaking, moving image, glass, and field recording. Current research explores mosses, ponds and microorganisms, alongside sustainable photographic methods. Experimentation and site-responsive processes are central to Kit’s approach, including phytograms and cyanotypes created on discarded materials. Teaching, participation, and collaboration remain integral to her practice. She was recently awarded the RSA Residency for Scotland at Stills Gallery, beginning in June.
@kitmartinphoto | kitmartinphoto.co.uk
Natalia Clim
Natalia is a visual artist from Romania who currently lives in Scotland. She studied Visual Arts and now works mainly in painting. Her work explores relationships between people and emotional experiences that can stay with us when connections become difficult, distant, silent, or broken. Natalia often uses fragmented figures, blocks of colour, strong contrasts, and empty spaces. The people in her paintings are not meant to represent specific people. They show emotional states, pressure, distance, and the marks people can leave on each other. Although her work comes from personal observations, it is not only about her own life. She is interested in what happens between people, what is carried silently, and what remains after closeness changes or disappears.
Rab Wilson
Rab is a landscape, abstract, and portrait artist based in the Inverclyde village of Kilmacolm, and is a member of the Paisley Art Institute. Rab’s work is intuitive and physical, with textured layers that create a personal communication. He is fascinated with how the landscape reflects and exudes a synthesis of colours, tones, lines, marks, layers, and abstract shapes. In his work, Rab does not intend to be representational but reimagines what he has viewed in the landscape with the intention of capturing an emotion or conveying a message. He uses a mixed-media approach, utilising materials that include sand, paper, inks, acrylic, and oil paint.
@artistrabwilson | robertwilsonartist.co.uk
Francesca Marcuccilli
Francesca is a 19-year-old Scottish multidisciplinary artist who paints, designs, and does photography. Her work has has been exhibited in the Glasgow gallery of Photography and explores the identity of different locations, the community it holds, and how it feels to be there. She is currently studying architecture.
Hannah Burdess
Hannah is a multidisciplinary artist and Creative Director building immersive worlds from symbolism, Surrealism, and decolonial practice. Bold neons, metallics, and layered, symbolic meaning – work demands attention and holds space. University of Glasgow Graduate with a creative route through events and management, she also founded Coco & Co and artist brand Coconut Water, exhibiting and collaborating across Glasgow, Edinburgh, and NW England.
@sum.coconut.water | coconco.co.uk
Claudine O’Sullivan
Claudine is an Irish artist based in Glasgow. Working across drawing and painting, her practice explores movement, perception and abstraction through a framework she calls Movement as Method. Using endurance running as a form of field research, O’Sullivan generates drawings, notes and observations that are later distilled into paintings. Rather than depicting landscape, the work investigates how repetition, duration and spatial awareness can be translated into abstract form. Recent work has shifted from describing movement as trajectory towards exploring enclosure, containment and negative space. Through processes of reduction and repetition, O’Sullivan creates paintings that register embodied experience while allowing form to emerge from sustained attention and physical engagement with place. She recently undertook a residency at Cove Park, Scotland.
@claudine_os | claudineosullivan.com
Shea Preston
Shea is a painter from Northern Ireland, currently based in Edinburgh. Working primarily in oil paint, he makes carefully constructed paintings of things that catch his attention, from insects and flowers to fridges and Norwegian trolls. Built slowly through layers of paint, the works often begin with an attempt to improve upon reality. Plants become greener, colours become brighter, and objects drift further from reality. The longer he spends with an image, the stranger it tends to become. Balancing close observation with intention, Preston’s paintings are interested in the point where careful looking, too much paint, and a slightly obsessive attention to detail transform familiar subjects into something peculiar.
Dougie Marshall
Dougie is primarily a composer and musician who works with field recordings, found and sampled sounds, and all kinds of electronic instruments. His work focuses heavily on sound texture using degradation and manipulation as production techniques to find new and interesting applications of these sources. His recent work has been towards finding new outlets beyond an audio only approach, including making compositions for use as part of sculptures, both collaboratively and of his own making, and also branching out to soundtracks. In addition to his more experimental work, Dougie also writes, records, and releases music under the name Unthank, available on Bandcamp and through all major streaming services. His most recent release is an album inspired by the work of David Lynch, featuring poetry written by Six Foot Gallery’s own Fee.
@unthank.music | linktr.ee/unthank
Lou Graves
@gravelvetart | lougraves.co.uk
Sara Jane McIntosh
Sara Jane is a Canadian artist, teacher and maker based in Glasgow, whose work spans many disciplines including ceramics, textiles, printmaking and photography. Her practice explores relationships between landscape, memory and making; often drawing on folklore and myth as well as our ever-changing relationship to the natural world. Sara Jane has a professional background in creating puppets for stop motion animation and has worked in set, costume and production design for film and television. She teaches art and craft workshops and ceramics classes as part of developing her own artistic practice and often incorporates elements of traditional craft into her work.
Campbell Barclay
Campbell is a painter, printmaker and community based artist working from Leith. He graduated from Gray’s School of Art in 2022 studying Painting. His work draws from current events, urban regeneration and community building. His recent work has been focused on building connections within Leith, using skateboarding as a canvas for community resilience. Interested in materiality and subconscious processes within art, Campbell often draws from the urban environment, using art as an imaginative weapon against our concrete existence.
@17.clay_waves | campbellbarclay.wordpress.com
John Tinneny
Born and raised in Belfast, John is an artist, writer and translator based in Glasgow. He works across photography, textiles and the written word, and his work explores themes of Irish and queer identity, history and heritage, as well as that of translation in its many and varied forms.
Elizabeth Riddell
Elizabeth is an artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, and digital media. Drawing upon personal experience and social observation, her work explores the intersections of class, place, memory, and everyday life. Rooted in Glasgow and its histories, she examines how individual narratives are shaped by broader social and cultural forces. Her practice is informed by an interest in the overlooked and familiar, often focusing on domestic environments, communal spaces, and the rituals of daily existence. Through subtle interventions and acts of re-framing, she reveals the significance embedded within ordinary objects and encounters. Working across a range of media, she employs documentary, archival, and conceptual approaches to create works that balance humour, critique, and reflection. Whether engaging with the history of Glasgow, the politics of domestic space, or the social dynamics of everyday environments, her practice seeks to uncover the complex narratives that exist beneath the surface of the familiar.
Megan Adams
Megan is a multi-disciplinary emerging Canadian artist living and working in Glasgow. She creates both functional and non-functional art pieces which draw on her experiences to explore themes of connection, home, and play. Her practice incorporates a range of media, including textiles, ceramics, printmaking, and reclaimed materials, and her passion for learning and creative experimentation means she often combines materials and methods across disciplines. Megan’s style is vibrant and often abstract, with clean lines and bold use of colour. Out of her varied experiences, she has developed a love for collaborative projects and a strong interest in the role creativity can play in community building, mental health, and empowerment. Through her artistic practice, it is her desire to create moments of connection, joy, hope, or curiosity in those that interact with it.
Pearl Kinnear
Pearl is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist with a socially-engaged practice. Her work with communities is integral to both her individual and collaborative practices across drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. She makes art in response to things that have and lose value and that can morph into other things when the backdrop changes, playing on the relatability of objects in a space where they become a glimmer of a memory for the maker and the viewer, and creating links to a common experience and environment. Her work is often developed in crossover with music, film and theatre, and influenced by social issues and an examination of value in things deemed inconsequential. She is a longstanding member and former Director of Glasgow Independent Studios and currently serves on the Committee for Glasgow Project Room. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Lauren Evans
Lauren is a contemporary artist who uses themes such as feminism, motherhood, mental health, and politics in her works, heavily inspired by current world events and pop culture. She considers herself a mixed media artist, in which her primary medium is collage however she also has an interest in print, found objects and installations. Lauren is drawn to physical mediums, things that she can craft with and build upon in layers. As a collage artist, she interprets most things as their own version of collage in one way or another.
@thisstuffisgolden | laurenevansart.co.uk
Beau Best
Beau is a Scottish multimedia artist with a BA (Hons) in Art & Contemporary Practices. Their multidisciplinary practice spans a range of media and techniques, with a thematic focus on the intersection of culture, storytelling, and technology. This approach reflects a commitment to exploring how narratives evolve within contemporary visual culture. Inspired by movements such as Art Nouveau and Superflat, alongside the global rise of new media, Best is constantly exploring new ways of working through experimenting with mixing traditional mediums with modern technological advancements. As a result, their works often intentionally blur the lines between fine art and design. Best has exhibited work in several group shows, including: Saturate Your Mind at Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow (April 2024), Trajectory at The Pipe Factory, Glasgow (May 2024), and emerge at Perth Creative Exchange (May 2026)
@apollosdiscus | apollosdiscus.xyz
Jane McInally
Jane is a visual artist whose work spans painting, collage, sculpture, installation, moving-image, public art, and events. Her personal practice goes hand-in-hand with commissioned work and socially-engaged projects and collaboration. Her creative process often involves elements of chance and playful observations of the absurdities and everydayness of life, touching on questions of reality, memory and imagination.
Gill Miller
Gill is a Glasgow based expressionist artist. She studied at Caledonian University then worked as a Graphic designer for a number of years. Her life changed dramatically when she became partially sighted due to Multiple Sclerosis. Creativity is an important part of her life and so a few years ago she started to channel her passion through paint and mixed media. She mainly uses a mixture of Acrylics, inks, pen, pastels and collage. Her learnings have been a mixture of online art courses and self taught. As a visually impaired artist she paints expressively, depicting the world as she experience’s it rather than as she see’s it. She uses all her other senses – sound, smell, taste and touch – to help communicate feelings and emotions in her work. Through mark making, colour and bold use of contrast she invites the viewer to experience what she feels when they see her artwork.
Lesia Davidson
Lesia is a Scottish artist currently based south of Glasgow. She paints in her (rather messy) home studio. Lesia is inspired by nature and tries to capture the dífferent colours and textures she sees onto canvas. She applies paint at a fast pace and this technique echoes in the vibrancy of the painting. She uses a mixture of paint brushes, palette knives and old credit or library cards to apply paint in multiple layers. Lesia loves to see where her paintings land in the world and is pretty chufled finding she has collectors in Glasgow, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Florida and in numerous countries across the world. It totally blows her mind that good people spend their hard earned money on her pieces. Perhaps more amazing is that they want to have her paintings and look at them every day.
Melanie Errey
Melanie is a mixed media artist working primarily with colourful painting. She creates to bring more colour and fun to everyday life and to share stories as a way of processing events of our lives that have an impact. Her art draws on themes of shared human connection such as thoughts or experiences we all have but rarely share out loud. Her aim is that the work that she creates through practising art will remind people of their inner child and who they really want to be, as well as inspire and challenge identity, connection and the role of art. She has completed numerous art residencies including at House Conspiracy in Brisbane and the Education Residency funded through Arts Tasmania where she worked in her studio at the high school in Scottsdale, Tasmania. Errey has presented solo exhibitions since 2022 and her work has been included in group exhibitions.
@melanieerrey | melanieerrey.com
Sasha Shalmina
Representational art, like music with lyrics, carries a finite range of meaning. Abstract art, however, resembles music without words – its interpretation can change over time, evolving with the viewer’s state of mind. Sasha’s work centres on painting the unseen: the shifting landscapes of emotions, memories, moods, thoughts, and atmospheres. Her practice prioritises feeling over representation, creating spaces where viewers can project their own inner worlds. Each painting begins with a powerful emotion sparked by a dream, a memory, a piece of music, or a realisation reached through meditation. She allows the experience to take hold and guide the early stages, working intuitively as the image emerges from her subconscious. Once the emotional intensity settles, she returns to the canvas with clarity and intention, refining the work through a more rational lens.
@sasha_shalmina | sashashalmina.com
Jingjing Tong
Jingjing is a Chinese artist based in Glasgow. Her practice explores how everyday images can be transformed into spaces that feel both familiar and strange. Focusing on the relationship between daily experience, perception, and imagination, she investigates how painting can alter the meaning of ordinary scenes and reveal their ambiguity, mystery, and emotional resonance. Working primarily with Chinese painting pigments and mixed media, Jingjing employs repetition, distortion, fragmentation, and recombination to create images detached from their original contexts, existing somewhere between memory, observation, and invention. She is particularly interested in elusive visual moments that emerge within ordinary environments, when decorative elements, spatial arrangements, and chance encounters collide, allowing familiar things to temporarily slip from their usual meanings and open up new possibilities for association and interpretation.