UPCOMING……
Delighted to be showing the 2 colour screen print Within in the upcoming Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) Exhibition:
THE LAND | SSA AT THE DICK INSTITUTE
15 March - 7 June, 2025 The Dick Institute, Elmbank Avenue,Kilmarnock, KA1 3BU
More info to follow!…..
Image: Calum Wallis, ‘Place to scramble’, courtesy of the artist
Thrilled to be presenting the 3 colour screen print ‘au Japon 3’ in the
INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL PRINT EXHIBITION Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Bankside Gallery, London 7-17 November, 2024
Exhibition Introduction
by Gill Saunders,
Honorary Senior Research Fellow (and formerly Senior Curator of Prints), Victoria & Albert Museum
We live now surrounded by print - most of it mass-produced, impersonal, without texture or affect, it is the ubiquitous visual scaffolding to our daily lives. But despite this, printmaking persists as one of the most engaging and dynamic of the visual arts.
Getting hands-on with acids and inks, screens and solvents, metal, wood, lino and stone, artists continue to find an almost infinite choice of materials and methods to motivate and shape new work.
This year's exhibition offers a cornucopia of sensation and emotion: wonder, surprise, laughter, anger, mystery, magic. The moods range from the elegiac and wistful to the celebratory and the satirical. Familiar scenes and subjects are made fresh, new perspectives jolt expectations.
Here is print doing what it does so well - delighting, informing, moving, inventing, amplifying or whispering - as the artists skilfully exploit the effects unique to their chosen processes. With artists applying from New Zealand, USA, Canada, Japan, Kenya, Norway, Sweden, Italy, France, Serbia, Iceland, and Poland, as well as the UK and Ireland, the competition is truly international and reflects the flourishing state of printmaking worldwide.
Looking forward to viewing all the amazing works by a phenomenal group of international contemporary printmakers. Hope to see you there!
au Japon 3, 2024, 3 Colour screenprint on Madrid Litho paper, 100 x 70 cm
Affordable Art Fair, Glasgow 2-3 November, 2024
Hope you can join me at this two day Affordable Art Fair featuring multiple talented artists!
Devised by the inimitable Karla Healy; www.karlahealy.art
New Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8TL 2-3 November 2024; 10:30 - 17:30 GMT
Free entry
Prices start at £2! All works under £200!
GET ON WITH IT, 23-24 July, 2024
Delighted to be presenting the print ‘c19cb’ in this beautifully curated show by Emily Chung, @wingsumchung, alongside the amazing works of a group of her fellow MFA students and recent graduates from Glasgow School of Art
Hope to see you there!
Private View 23th July 19:00 - 21:00 GMT Public View 24th July 13:00- 17:00 GMT
New Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8TL
c19cb, 2024, Screen print and Stone lithograph on Madrid Litho paper, 100 x 70 cm
Print Unleashed 2-18 July, 2024
Exhibition Text
‘ “Print Unleashed,” is a visual art print exhibition where creativity roams free. The exhibition brings together the work of a group of twenty-one artists, including staff, students and alumni from the Glasgow School of Art and DJCAD in Dundee’
The exhibition unveils the power of print using lithography, screen printing, etching and digital prints, expressing a range of ideas and concepts unique to each artist during their creative journey. Featuring work by June Barton, David Bridgeman, Frankie Brown, Lu Chen, Emily Chung, Kefei Dong, Fi Robertson, Mary Harker, Karla Healy, Kristopher Malone, Lindsey McAulay, Aoife McGarrigle, Maya McMahon, Liz McNeill, Ralph Overill, Douglas Rogerson, Sunny Townsend, Yatong Tan, and Li Yihao.
Hope you will get the opportunity to view the fabulous print works of this diverse group of artists who were brought together by the screen printer extraordinaire June Barton @june.barton.39! I will be showing Ambella and Nitric 2 from a series of stone lithographs developed from the reworking of one image on a single limestone plate
Ambella, 2024, Stone lithograph on Madrid Litho paper, 100 x 70 cm
Nitric 2, 2024, Stone lithograph on Madrid Litho paper, 100 x 70 cm
PRESS
Sharp A, and Macleod-Brown C. (2024) ‘GSA Degree Show 2024: School of Fine Art’, The Skinny, 27 May 2024
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/features/gsa-degree-show-2024-school-of-fine-art?amp
“In Painting and Printmaking, students have been grappling with current global issues, subverted fantasy stories and archetypal cultural tropes. Eerily yet undeniably relevant, Liz McNeill's paintings portray abstracted compositions of congestion, dissipation, and fragmented figurative elements that emerge from layers of oil, acrylic and gouache, implying something brutal and bodily. While encouraging viewers to derive their own interpretations and meanings from her works, she also addresses a central concept of moral injury, rooted in her own experiences as a cardiologist during the pandemic and AIDS crisis. This perspective informs her search for release in the present, as she addresses suffering in Gaza and considers more broadly where organisations intended to provide care often lack the necessary support from the very structures in which they operate.”
