Gladstone Gallery, Royal Mile, Edinburgh (30 March – 4 April 2010)

Organised by Delicartessen.co.uk

This exhibition brings young Scottish and Spanish artists together to

present a visual vocabulary that, despite the artists’ diverse cultural

background and geographical distance, can sometimes meet halfway.

Shoes, horses, bulls, dancers, musicians, castles…are some of the emblematic and powerful images that seem to survive the passing of time but are continually reinvented and

reinterpreted through art.

With the support of the Spanish Consulate in Edinburgh.

‘Sylvia von Hartmann R.S.W’ exhibition of prints, 13-18 April 2010

Christiane Kelegher

My work aims to achieve a fantasy-type narrative through my examination of peoples’ perceptions of imagination and reality. I enjoy creating ink-block type drawings using a stylised approach and incorporating them with photography and film. My current interest lies in the concepts behind “portals”- rather the methods and ways in which we create links between our own imaginary realms and our real world experiences and comparing this between the movement from dark to light and vice versa.

Kirsty Ross

My work is photography striped back to its most basic level is controlled light chemically fixed to photographic paper visually exploring the way a photographic image is created both with and without a camera. My work falls between analogue and digital processing.

Jenne Stanfield

I have always been interested in the idea that everything in the world was made up of smaller units. These smaller units, like atoms, could be connected together to form molecules which in turn could form inanimate matter like metal and stone or form the basic materials of living cells. A recurring theme throughout my work is repetition of miniature shapes that can be connected together to create larger forms. I find the production of repetitive shapes, which form the basis of my work so far, very therapeutic and find it satisfying to produce work that is very minimal, which has to be clean, precise and orderly.

Catherine MacRobbie

Catherine MacRobbie’s work combines subtle painterly styles with figurative themes introduced through biomechanical drawing, medical illustration and extreme body performance. Monochromatic paintings permeated with ambiguity, luminosity and texture reflected through delicately depicted fabric and flesh. Intimate scenes and difficult images coalesce with anatomical and mechanical diagram.

Jen Nelson

My main line of enquiry within my practice is “walking in the rural and urban landscape”. My investigation and research is based upon the fundamental act of walking in site specific locations across Scotland. I am interested in how we individually observe, engage and respond whilst walking. I use a range of media for exploration within my work including, film, photography, drawing, installation and performance.

Sylvia von Hartmann

This retrospective exhibition brings together a cross-section of the work of this well established and popular Edinburgh based artist. In a range of printmaking techniques, such as etching, lithography and screen-printing, von Harmann addresses the themes that have pre-occupied her since her student days at the Edinburgh College of Art.

This exhibition varies from the early, more figurative works to the recent emphasis on plants, especially flowers to small animals and house-loved objects.

Von Hartmanns’ work engages with the profound themes of memory and dreams, growth and decay – all under the guise of seemingly private narrative, surreal domesticity and decorative flourish.

Her accomplished draftsmanship, fine sense of colour and quirky compositions always enchant and delight, while quietly inviting contemplation.