"Dirk Bell, Kate Davis, Alan Michael"
2003-01-25 until 2003-03-15
Changing Room
Stirling, , UK United Kingdom

The exhibition brings together new work by three artists, from Glasgow and Berlin. It centres on their use of drawing and mixed media to make work with multiple meanings around notions of memory, representation, beauty and layering of images. The exhibition and events are supported by  Scottish Arts Council, Stirling Council and Goethe Institute, Glasgow.

he exhibition brings together new work by three artists, from Glasgow and Berlin. It centres on their use of drawing and mixed media to make work with multiple meanings around notions of memory, representation, beauty and layering of images. Dirk Bell's drawings and watercolours contain ephemeral figures that reference his everyday experience of the world and memories of other imagery. The subjects are often extraneous within gothic landscapes, or abstracted, for example as mirror images. Although relatively quickly rendered, his work reveals a talent for handling different styles and a belief in the Romantic.

In her recent work Kate Davis pushes images from the natural and manufactured world towards abstraction to make meticulously rendered drawings, that play with the representation of beauty, symmetry and evolution. Using the pencil as a tool to question how our expectation of an image can alter sight, Davis attempts to offer an alternative pattern which is open to multiple readings.

Alan Michael composes complex images in different styles and media, at times utilising figures appropriated from works by an eclectic mixture of Twentieth Century figurative painters including Balthus, Lucien Freud, Modigliani, Georgia O‚Keefe and Phillip Pearlstein. Michael‚s interest is in transformations or distortions of culture and in the currency and capital of quotation.

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