Six Foot Gallery’s Annual Autumn Show
10th October – 18th October 2024
ANYA WATFORD | CARLY MORRISON | CHLOÉ GRIMES | DANI KERR | DANIEL CRADDOCK | DAVARDO | DOUGIE MARSHALL | ELLIOT ECHO | ERIK RICHARD H | EUAN TAIT | FEE CUIMEANACH | FIONA GREER | GILL HOULSBY | HEATHER MACDONALD | HOPE REYNOLDS | KLAUS PINTER | LIAM BEANEY | LOU GRAVES | LUCASZ LESNIK | MALAK NASEEM | ROBIN JOHNSTON | RUARIDH LAW | TOBY CUMMING
We are delighted to present our annual autumn show, featuring twenty-three artists working in a diverse range of mediums, including sculpture, soundscapes, collage, photography, painting, digital illustration, printing, and lithography.
Works available to buy from £50
Read interviews with Memento Vivere exhibitors on our blog
Fiona Greer, Ruaridh Law, Robin Johnston, Dani Kerr, Liam Beaney, Chloé Grimes, Lukasz Lesnik, Anya Watford, and Dougie Marshall.
Intern Alice discusses the history of reliquaries and what they have historically communicated in communities in ‘Knock, Knock, Knocking On Heaven’s Door: Relics, Their Reliquaries, And The Creation Of Meaning In The Middle Ages’.
Participating Artists
Anya Watford
Currently based in Dunoon, Anya traveled with her dog Artemis from Italy to Scotland to seek the land and trees that inspired her artist book while she was studying art in Florence for a year. The views of lochs, wildlife, and trees in Harry Potter inspired her to create a book and to further pursue bookbinding in the UK. Anya is passionate about nature, animals and magic. She loves to explore trails in Scotland with her dog and adores the trees of Scotland, especially the Scots Pine. Originally from Russia, Anya grew up in California where she received schooling in International Policy and Business. Anya is also a certified yoga instructor and enjoys playing sound bowls and the guitar
Carly Morrison
Carly is a Glasgow based painter whose work navigates the intersection of discarded materials and fine art, using everyday items like cardboard combined with thick, textured oil paint. Her creative process is deeply influenced by her experiences with both epilepsy and trauma, shaping her exploration of fragility, resilience, and transformation. Carly’s art seeks to find beauty in what is often discarded or deemed worthless, much like how one can find strength and growth through personal adversity. By repurposing materials seen as rubbish, she creates intricate, layered pieces that blur the lines between the mundane and the artistic, symbolising the potential for renewal in both materials and the self. Her work invites viewers to reconsider their perceptions of value and beauty, while also reflecting on the ways trauma can be transformed into something meaningful. Carly’s art challenges conventional boundaries and reminds us of the profound power of reclamation and reinvention.
Chloé Grimes
Chloé Grimes is a third year Painting & Printmaking student at The Glasgow School of
Art. Born in Glasgow and raised between Scotland and the United States, she often
struggles to identify with one nationality as she feels a deep sense of connection to both
countries, thus is keen on expressing her love for where she grew up and making others
aware of what it is like to live by the Florida Everglades. Fascinated by nostalgia and
how it dictates one’s decisions in adulthood, she creates work based on memory and
the longing to be somewhere you cannot. She specialises primarily in drawing and
realistic painting, emphasising the beauty in the things and places she finds most
comfort in. More recently experimenting with form and painting outside of the traditional
canvas, she aims to create visually interesting pieces which leave the viewer asking
more.
Dani Kerr
Dani Kerr is a multi disciplinary artist based in Glasgow. Dani’s work features themes of the macabre contrasted with modern aesthetics, inspired by everything from pop culture to mythology. Currently, they manage DemonicEros on Etsy, selling their art and other handmade products. Dani also runs online body doubling sessions for neurodivergent artists via the Neuk collective.
@demoniceros | demoniceros.etsy.com
Daniel Craddock
Daniels studio practice utilises painting and documentation. Daniel is interested in colour exploration in its simplest form, initially working with basic colour wheels such as light and dark, cool and warm and wet and dry. Sticking to a constant method with theory and practical considerations enables him to achieve consistency but also paintings of Equilibrium. Daniel categorises his work through different projects, project 1 was looking at his work inAmerica, project 2 his work in Edinburgh, project 3 was his object paintings and project 4 is his current work in Glasgow.
Davardo
Davardo studied painting and art history at St Martins, Chelsea and Canterbury Art Schools. He went on to work in the design industries and then higher and tertiary arts education and research as a lecturer, senior lecturer, course leader and project manager. Latterly he worked as a creative facilitator for offenders doing unpaid work in the community The artist recently begun to explore a realm of hypnagogia where the edges of sleep and wakefulness occur and reveal an alternative sense of being. A drama of the subconscious is brought into being in the form of images that are filtered through this archetypal space and psychic forces. Davardo utilises classical references and contemporary revelatory elements derived from Jungian theories to describe this subconscious plane
Dougie Marshall
Dougie’s primary creative output is music, recording and releasing music under the alias Unthank. His music is mostly electronic in nature across a range of different genres, and heavily features unconventional sampling, sound design and the use of field recordings. In looking for an unconventional outlet for unconventional music, Dougie has been experimenting with incorporating musical ideas with other forms of art, attempting to create physical pieces to complement and deliver the audio component. Initially this has taken the form of video with one project completed and another substantial work in progress, but a recent collaboration with the director at Six Foot Gallery inspired him to try his hand at sculpture, hence his entry in to this October’s open call.
@unthank_music | linktr.ee/unthank
Elliot Echo
Elliot Echo is a queer creative based in Scotland who makes art both traditionally, often opting for a mix of gouache and coloured pencils, and also digitally using Procreate. Regardless of medium, they view each project as an opportunity for reflection, experimentation, and creative growth. Elliot’s work focuses heavily on portraits, with a significant portion of their portfolio consisting of self portraits. Enjoying the process of taking a work from sketch to finished piece, they consider their practice a meditative journey through which they are able to explore the themes of identity and self-expression.
@ElliotMakesArt | elliotmakesart.etsy.com
Erik Richard H
Czech multimedia artist and filmmaker based in Scotland. Using any form of expression at hand to capture fleeting moments and emotions. Forever wondering about the mysteries of life, particularly the fabricated inner world humans create for themselves, strikingly at odds with the natural environment. Loves long walks, animals, and good food.
@erikrichardh | erikrichardh.com
Euan Tait
Euan is an emerging visual artist based in Irvine, Ayrshire. He has an experimental development lead approach to his work using a range of media from printmaking and photography to painting. He addresses architecture and the figurative form that reflects our aspects of our human condition and explores colour in many of his pieces, often working on small-scale detail work but also expanding his repertoire by working on a larger scale to convey images with simple brush strokes and abstractions in ephemeral conditions showing the boundaries between representation, reflections, and surfaces, with a sense of structure and form. His inspiration comes from contemporary printmaking and the resurgence of figurative art within Scotland. His background is in printmaking, and he graduated from the University of the West of Scotland, Ayr in July 2024 with a BA (Hons) Degree in New Media Art.
@euantaitart | euantaitart.com
Fee Cuimeanach
Fee is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist from North Ayrshire. Her practice incorporates experimental typography, monotype printmaking, expressive painting, book arts, poetry, photography, sculpture, and digital processes to explore memory, ancestry, and myth. She is the director here at Six Foot Gallery.
Fiona Greer
Fiona Greer is a visual artist based in Falkirk. Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2011 with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art specialising in Sculpture, their work has been displayed in various exhibitions and publications over the Uk. Fiona’s work mainly deals with the paranormal and haunted spaces. They channel energy from these places into their photography and painting, and have a huge interest in spirit drawing. Their work is a way to explore these haunted areas around Scotland and Fiona also draws inspiration from their own experience with the paranormal.
Gill Houlsby
Gill likes to ‘make art like it matters’. Her work is unapologetically understated and not in any way sensationalised. Her process is driven by a want to notice, discover and learn. It captures what is around us that is already there, but perhaps sometimes overlooked. She considers her work to be a slow but persistent series of social and/or environmental actions, hopefully encouraging curiosity and reflection. Gill often works outdoors and describes herself as an all weather artist. She consciously decided to purposefully embrace and work with whatever the Scottish weather brings rather than waiting for the ‘right’ conditions, a concept many others may relate to. Gill has an eclectic style and uses a variety of media including textiles, paint, spray paints, inks and found objects. She has exhibited her work in local Scottish Galleries and created installations for outdoor arts festivals in Scotland and Europe.
Heather MacDonald
Heather is an artist and printmaker currently residing in Edinburgh. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2021 with a degree in Fine Art, and has since continued to work on her own artistic practice. Heather makes work that deliberately attempts to explore and satirise common tropes and motifs that occur throughout the Horror genre. Throughout her practice, she has tried to establish connections between the ideology permeated throughout Horror as a medium, and real life events. Often incorporating historical context with purposely lewd imagery. Her work aims to be darkly comedic, subversive and uncanny.
@hev.markos | heathermacart.com
Hope Reynolds
Hope is a recent Fine Art and Art History graduate from Manchester School of Art. Her practice aims to inspire a reverence for nature by blending themes of the natural world, mythology and fantasy. With an interest in video games and digital art, she enjoys experimenting with Adobe Suite programmes. Hope is a valued member of the team here at Six Foot Gallery.
@hopepaintz | hopereynolds.portfoliobox.net
Klaus Pinter
Klaus was born in 1968.
Liam Beaney
Liam Beaney is a collage artist, who is a graduate of the University of Sunderland and is now
based in Glasgow. Their work mainly deals with political and social issues. They use their
own language of creating collages to depict the scenes in their pieces. Using magazine
cutouts, and mixed media of pen and inks. The inspirations for their work include Japanese
anime, current affairs, literature, and personal experiences with love, identity and prejudice.
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. Afflicted by seizures for most of his life, his art is both outlet and refuge. Endless staircases reflect both trap and escape, a natural dichotomy for a man often frustrated by a world desperate to systematically both ignore and vilify him. 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?
Lukasz Lesnik
Lukasz Lesnik is a Polish artist based in Scotland that mainly works in painting and sculpture. He is a recent graduate of Contemporary Art Practice from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD). Through those mediums, Lesnik explores themes of gender, homosexuality and intimate emotion. Lesnik’s practice is ever-changing but the common link to all his artworks is the lived experience of the artist. His work usually depicts moments in his life and emotions felt at the moment of creation. Lesnik’s work typically features unrealistic skin tones or monochrome effects due to the artist’s colour-blindness. The artist’s goal is to create works that people can relate to and interpret individually.
Malak Naseem
Malak Naseem is a Maldives born, Sri Lanka raised and Glasgow based artist currently studying Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art. She predominantly explores themes of the self and the ‘home’: the fragile sense of belonging through exploring unquestioned fixtures of the house.
Robin Johnston
Street photography in Glasgow has been a significant focus for my images over the past 10-15 years, seeking to capture the unique energy and atmosphere of the city. Glasgow’s streets offer a vibrant mix of historic architecture, modern urban life, interesting light qualities, and the candid interactions of its diverse inhabitants. I aim to document the unscripted moments that reflect the city’s character—its grit, warmth, and resilience. Whether it’s the fleeting expressions of a passersby, the play of light on rain-soaked pavements, or the rich textures of Glasgow’s iconic buildings.
@robinjohnstonphotog | facebook.com/RobinJohnstonPhotographyandFilm
Ruaridh Law
Ruaridh Law is a sound artist and musician based in Ayrshire, Scotland. Over the past twenty years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. Latterly his interests have been in sound and installation art. These works have ranged from intimate audio performance, to large-scale outdoor works combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling. His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night, as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases.
Toby Cumming
Toby Cumming has been creative for as long as he can remember, with his mum and sibling encouraging and teaching him about creativity since he was in nursery. This love followed him as he grew up, leading to him taking art and media classes all the way through school. Toby was shortlisted for the animation award in the Scottish Youth Film Festival, and he is currently studying game art and animation in Glasgow. He has always loved the fact that he can create things that could never exist or work in reality, especially when it comes to animating scenarios or scenes that can’t be recreated using a real camera. Toby also paints, usually in acrylics, and loves the fact that in art, he can alter reality to create something fantastical.