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WASPS Artists' Studios Visit
fallen falling (mono-print) (c) Louise Fraser
WASPS at Albion Road Studios, Edinburgh
22 July 2010, 6-7.30pm
This month, we will be visiting WASPS studios on Albion Road to join artists Kevin McPhee, Katherine Aarrestad, Louise Fraser and Sharon Quigley in discussion about their practice and recent work.
Kevin McPhee works intuitively and uses a combination of lo-fi materials, found objects and paint to create installations that are evocative of a self-generated mythology. Sculptures manifest through the performance of making and are evocative of a shared belief.
Katherine Aarrestad focuses upon the translation of meaning through different points in time. She uses visual subject matter that is drawn from the past and creates a viewing experience which is very much of the present. Obscure visions of reality are created by juxtaposing images with titles which open up an alternative narrative for the viewer to read.
Louise Fraser creates work in response to the visual surroundings she lives in and looks for ways to translate the idea of architecture, nature, the process of change and the story within. Her work is an attempt to bring us closer to our ever-changing, often overlooked closest surroundings and the idea that we are honed and moulded by our environment.
Sharon Quigley explores the body, with its multitude of functions and its relationship with the material properties of paint, to explore subjects of physicality, intimacy and sensation. Working directly onto paper or oil primed boards to create intricately patterned surfaces, she fuses together a myriad of micro graphic and cellular structures to cultural references from Japanese Kimono designs, arabesques and nineteenth-century engravings, in an attempt to explore and reflect the correlation that exists between them all.
Over the last 30 years, WASPS has grown to become one of Scotland’s largest arts organisations, providing affordable studio space to over 750 artists each year at 17 locations throughout Scotland. Albion Road Studios is known as ‘Citizens Studios’ and has 22 studios over two floors for up to 30 artists at any one time.