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Laura McMorrow | The Gardener Digs

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Laura McMorrow | The Gardener Digs

 

Laura McMorrow's solo exhibition of paintings at The Dock in County Leitrim runs from 19 October 2024 till 18 January 2025.

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Carol Douglas | Actually I Can

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Carol Douglas | Actually I Can

 

This year, Carol Douglas was invited by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to present a solo exhibition of work. The show, called Actually I Can, presents 51 paintings that are about the everyday, portraying household objects and people in domestic settings.

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Celebrating the Colour Red

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Celebrating the Colour Red

 

It is red's affinity with fire and warmth that makes it a shade we seek out in winter - a salve to abate the seasonal blues might you say! So to warm our cockles and cheer us all up this winter, we've selected a variety of artworks that celebrate red in all its splendour.

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Lauren Bryden | Artist Interview

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Lauren Bryden | Artist Interview

 

This autumn, we caught up with Glasgow-based artist Lauren Bryden. Read the full interview, in which Bryden talks of the importance of matrescence and how (m)otherhood has shaped her and her art making, by clicking on the link below.

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Sarah J. Stanley | Pattern Seeking Creatures

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Sarah J. Stanley | Pattern Seeking Creatures

 

We have a whole new collection of paintings by Sarah J. Stanley, a Glasgow-based artist whose work explores themes of religious dogma and subservience. Blocks, bricks, grids, ladders, and stairs are commonplace in Stanley's painterly lexicon. They form boundaries, pathways and even cages, evoking ideas of confinement and coercion- a feeling known only too well by Stanley. She grew up in a family of Christian fundamentalists. Extreme and cult-like, with no time for anything but Church and bible studies, her childhood was void of play and deviance.

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