28 April 2011 at 6pm
This month, we will be visiting the Talbot Rice Gallery to see the largest display of works on paper to date by the internationally renowned artist Rosemarie Trockel.
Rosemarie Trockel (1952) became prominent in the mid 1980s with her now famous ‘knitted pictures’ and is highly regarded internationally as well as representing Germany at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and 2003. In recent years, collage has become an enabling tool for Trockel to combine aspects of her multifaceted practice, which includes photography, film, sculpture and installation.
This exhibition includes Trockel’s book drafts which, like her drawings, play with expectations and negate easy readings. They open up the possibility of interpreting Trockel’s work in a non-linear fashion, seeing them as potential ideas for future works, while simultaneously being a record of her past ideas. Advocating her interest in a combination of male and female identities – of the female within the male and vice versa – Trockel’s work presents us with the grotesque, the theatrical and chimerical.
31 March 2005 at 6pm
Liquid Soft, Lightning Touch brings together work by seven artists: Markus Amm, Vanessa Baird, Shannon Bool, Myriam Holme, Olaf Quantius, Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek and Tam van Tran. The show offers a rare opportunity to see a wide range of artists hitherto mostly unknown in Scotland – doggerfisher Director Susanna Beaumont has come across them on her travels to Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the USA.
Susanna’s own passion for works on paper and her interest in notions of expanded drawing are evident in this fascinating selection. Unfamiliar geologies, uncanny folkloristic narratives and enigmatic graphic strategies speak of exotic mental and geographical landscapes. And yet the practice of drawing has a kind of universality – there is something humane in the act of drawing and mark-making which resonates across cultures.
We will be joined by Andrew Mackenzie, who is one of Scotland’s most interesting painters. His abstract landscapes have a restrained, crystalline quality that has attracted a great deal of attention in Scotland and London, including the Contemporary Art Society’s Artfutures exhibition. His forthcoming shows include Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London 2005 and Merz Gallery, Edinburgh, May 2005. Andrew works freelance in gallery education and contributes to many aspects of the National Galleries of Scotland Education programme and will bring the invaluable insight of an artist to our discussion.
27 March 2003 at 6pm
This month’s event takes place at doggerfisher, where the Gallery’s Director, Susanna Beaumont, will be on hand to give an introduction to the current exhibition of works on paper Soft Sun Down. We will also be talking to artist Louise Hopkins.
