In Dialogue 1. Life Rhythm

6 – 9 May | Opening Event Thursday 5 May, 6 - 8pm

Alan Davie (1920-2014) – Rug, tapestry and screen-prints made in collaboration with Kip Gresham
Deirdre McLoughlin b. 1949 – Sculpture

Alan Davie  ‘Bulls Moon (Variation III) 2000’ screenprint/Kip Gresham  73 x 88 cm 

Writing in 1963 artist Alan Davie remembered his studies at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1940s thus ‘I learned to hate Art… and to love the potter’s workshop and the goldsmiths craft…also I felt the drift to the discovery of jazz.’   In a prolific sixty-year career Davie redefined Art and his relationship to it through painting, printmaking drawing, jewellery, textiles and jazz.  Three screenprints in collaboration with Kip Gresham are on show alongside a large scale  limited edition rug designed by Davie in  1974, and a small sample tapestry created with Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios.

Deirdre McLoughlin  White Life   2008  Ceramic Sculpture 25.25 x 21 cm

Deirdre McLoughlin’s sculptures are intimate in scale but expansive in their rhythm and energy encouraging us to find ‘the immensity within ourselves’.  McLouglin studied at Trinity College Dublin, before beginning her work as a sculptor, prompted by an introduction to clay in Holland with the artist Rosemary Andrews.  She lived and worked in Kyoto for four years as a young artist working alongside the influential avant-garde Japanese sculpture group Sodeisha (literally walking through mud) followed by three months travelling throughout China visiting Liling, Jingdezhen, Xian and the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves. She was shortlisted for the LOEWE prize in 2019 and her works are now found in public and private collections throughout Europe and Asia. She continues to work from her studio in Amsterdam making sculpture ‘.. that is an adventure to what is not yet known. Energy is the key – then focus. My whole self is my working tool.’

Please join us on Thursday 5th May between 6 - 8pm for the opening of In Dialogue 1. Life Rhythm

Exhibition opening times:

Friday: 12 - 7pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11am - 5pm
Monday: by appointment