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Liquid Soft, Lightning Touch
Artist Andrew Mackenzie discusses the works on paper with Kirstie Skinner (c) Andy McGregor
doggerfisher, Edinburgh
31 March 2005
Liquid Soft, Lightning Touch brings together work by seven artists: Markus Amm, Vanessa Baird, Shannon Bool, Myriam Holme, Olaf Quantius, Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek and Tam van Tran. The show offers a rare opportunity to see a wide range of artists hitherto mostly unknown in Scotland – doggerfisher Director Susanna Beaumont has come across them on her travels to Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the USA.
Susanna’s own passion for works on paper and her interest in notions of expanded drawing are evident in this fascinating selection. Unfamiliar geologies, uncanny folkloristic narratives and enigmatic graphic strategies speak of exotic mental and geographical landscapes. And yet the practice of drawing has a kind of universality – there is something humane in the act of drawing and mark-making which resonates across cultures.
We will be joined by Andrew Mackenzie, who is one of Scotland’s most interesting painters. His abstract landscapes have a restrained, crystalline quality that has attracted a great deal of attention in Scotland and London, including the Contemporary Art Society’s Artfutures exhibition. His forthcoming shows include Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London 2005 and Merz Gallery, Edinburgh, May 2005. Andrew works freelance in gallery education and contributes to many aspects of the National Galleries of Scotland Education programme and will bring the invaluable insight of an artist to our discussion.