A Scottish Symphony - Form & Colour

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'A Scottish Symphony: Form & Colour' at Crane Court Gallery exhibits a showcase of artists with their hearts in Scotland, presenting work across a range of mediums connected not only by a shared heritage and embrace of place, but also by their commitment to their respective crafts.

The exhibition presents, among others, Duke Christie, a sculptor living and working in Moray, Scotland who makes sculpted forms with hand-carved textures out of wood. His pieces are often torched, scrubbed, and pigmented to enhance the grain, creating a fascinating play of light on highly tactile surfaces. Christie’s work aspires to celebrate wood with all its imperfections, telling the story of the tree’s life written in its grain.

Silversmith and jeweller Sheng Zhang is an artist, living and working in Glasgow, whose designs are influenced and inspired by minimalist art, contemporary architecture and geometrical form. Associating with boundary, volume, silhouette, capacity, shadow and subtle detail, Zhang’s practice concentrates on exploring the connection of internal and external, positive and negative space in his vessels and containers. Each piece of his work results from a carefully controlled and purposely structured making process by using a blend of traditional metal skills with intermittent aid of digital technologies.

Connie Liebschner is a painter living and working in Glasgow, interested in how two-dimensional images can capture immersive spaces using multiple layers, viewpoints, and opacities. Liebschner current practice explores how to recreate the Scottish landscape within the limitations of constantly shifting light, altering scenes, the constraint of a camera’s lens and the boundaries of an artist’s panel that do not exist if stood within real-time and space.

Silversmith Caius Bearder's inspiration stems from his home island of Guernsey. The natural beauty of the island's coastlines inspires the flowing lines and forms in Bearder’s work, combining soft aquatic surface lines and denser textures to reflect turbulent rock faces and waves. Working predominantly in silver, Bearder uses a combination of engraving and hand-forming to achieve the details that provide dynamic light to play on the surfaces of his pieces.