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WASPS Artists’ Studios Visit: Louise Fraser, Jenny Pope and Carrie Fertig

25 May 2017

This month, we will be visiting three artists who each have a studio at WASPS on Albion Road. Artists include Louise Fraser, Jenny Pope and Carrie Fertig.

Louise Fraser’s practice incorporates drawing, printmaking and sculpture and is a response to the environment she inhabits. Her work draws people’s attention to the space they are in, the space they consume and the space they leave their imprint on.

Jenny Pope creates sculptural pieces inspired by beach-combing, collecting, bone structures and geology working with a range of materials including porcelain, limecrete and found materials. Through her work she explores the changes that happen in our internal lives and externally in the natural environment. Recently, Jenny has been working within a hospital, creating large drawings and wearable sculptures which explore personal space.

Carrie Fertig uses borosilicate glass as the main material in her practice of performance, film, installation, sound and sculpture. From the 20 May-2 July 2017, she will be exhibiting as part of Summa at the Royal Scottish Academy with an installation, sound and performance based on the physical, social and metaphysical events of death. The work she will be showing us concentrates on sound, including work from her group Torcher Chamber Arkestra, which features live music, fire, and digital manipulation of sound on glass instruments that she designs, makes, and repurposes.

This is a great opportunity to meet artists living and working in Edinburgh and to find out more about their working methods and approaches to their art-making

WASPS Albion Road Studio Visit

22 July 2010 at 6pm

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.