An Art on a Postcard Mini Auction Curated by India Rose James

About 

b.1994 Edinburgh, Scotland 

Lives and works Glasgow, Scotland 

Creating work which draws so much influence from old masters such as Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Eugène Delacroix, suspends my work somewhere in between the past and present. 

Re-imagining these stories to highlight their power, beauty, and often absurdity, I am exploring the role they play within a contemporary narrative and the ability they have to deliver a timeless portrayal of humanity. 

I reinterpret these iconic scenes to learn from the human architecture, playing with the traditional intentions of the imagery. I want to honour each works ancestry whilst questioning our ineluctable relationship with the past. 

Drawn to the fleeting nature of the painterly gesture, I am using the process of painting itself as being an act of both excavation and construction. Each painting is an attempt to capture an image within the spontaneous gesture, to encapsulate this feeling of touch and fleeting movement. I want to produce works that feel timeless, as if caught in the movement of a moment. 

I paint in an almost negative way, applying the paint only to remove most of it, searching through each layer for earlier shape and form, whilst attempting to reveal what lies beneath the surface. Each painting is an excavation process, as I attempt to visualise something that has been forgotten. 

Education 

2012-16 | BA Fine Art | Edinburgh College of Art 

Exhibitions 

2022 

 Upcoming: ART FOR UKRAINE online charity auction with @theauctioncollective – 1st – 22nd April 

 ARTISTS FOR UKRAINE Charity auction currently live with @procrastinarting_ 

 What She Said, Group exhibition curated by Purslane art in honour of International Womens Day – supporting Choose Love’s Ukraine fundraiser 

 On Paper: &Gallery group show, Edinburgh, Scotland 

2021 

 All That Remains x Purslane, solo exhibition at 14 Cavendish Square, London, UK 

 Thesmophoria, Soho Revue x Purslane, London, UK  

 DAYDREAMING, Tom Faulkner, Chelsea, London 

 Latitudes: A response to covid 19, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland 

2020  

Lily Macrae, Art Pistol Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland 

2019  

Zeitgeist, 108 Fine Art – Harrogate, UK 

She Said, Cass Art, Glasgow, Scotland 

Phantoms: Between here and there, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan 

Air 3331 Open Studio: Nishikichō Studio, Air 3331, Kanda Nishikichō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan 

2018  

CASS ART Glasgow, Group show, Glasgow, Scotland 

State of Change, Art Pistol Gallery Glasgow, Scotland 

Awards & Residencies   

2020 Pandemic: A response to Covid 19 Award, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland   

2019 Residency with Air 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Sotokanda Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan  

2018 The British Sasakawa Foundation Emerging artist grant, promoting mutual cooperation between the UK and Japan  

2018 The Hope Scott Trust, Murray. Beith. Murray, grant for emerging Scottish Artists 

Please do not bid on artwork in our Art on a Postcard auctions if you intend on selling the artwork after you have purchased it. This auction has been organised for charity and all artworks have been generously donated by the artists to raise money for the Hepatitis C Trust. When the work produced for the charity is sold on the secondary market it damages our relationship with the artist and prevents us from fundraising.