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SUMMARY:Andrew & Gwen Adair :                         Colour & Surface
DESCRIPTION:A joint exhibition by husband and wife artists\, Andy and Gwen Adair.  The exhibition will include ceramics and 2D work by Andy  and paintings by Gwen. \n\n\n\n\n\nArtist’s Statement – ANDREW ADAIR \n\n\n\nI have been a practicing ceramic artist for over thirty years and have always tried to maintain a playful approach to clay\, allowing the material to be evident through torn edges\, cracks\, texture and surface\, enjoying the random\, organic quality this brings. I greatly admire potters such as Voulkos\, Pearson\, Maltby and Peascod (who I was privileged to be taught by at Glasgow School of Art) for their affinity with their medium and the real integrity their work has. \n\n\n\nMy work must have similar integrity at its core and the material itself must be clearly manifest in the finished pieces. I enjoy “the potness of the pot”; something to be handled and appreciated in a tactile sense\, not just through an aesthetic eye. I remain fascinated by the same themes\, the interplay between positive and negative space\, the layering and distressing of surface\, the unpredictable and the accidental. These are constants in my work. \n\n\n\nI use a subtle and limited palette using different clays as a base. This involves stretching\, layering and folding the clay\, then imprinting the surface; printmaking with clay and glaze instead of paper and ink. My ideas in terms of content are suggested by topical discussions\, news stories\, quotes\, the music playing while I work\, whatever catches my mind and eye. \n\n\n\nAs well as continuing to work with clay\, I have\, over the last few years\, diversified into 2D\, repurposing old metal shelves\, wooden pallets\, and anything with an interesting surface that can be modified and developed. Here I am still exploring many of the same themes as I do in clay\, but on a larger scale. Using spray paint\, stencils\, a blow torch and a lot of elbow grease I am attacking the surface in a much more direct and aggressive manner. Techniques used in my ceramics\, have themselves been repurposed and reused in the 2D works and then reworked back into 3D. The sense of play remains and continues to guide my process. The outcome is not gentle or pretty\, but hopefully quite challenging to the viewer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist’s Statement – GWEN ADAIR \n\n\n\nMy work explores various themes\, but people often predominate in figure compositions and in portraits. I am fascinated by the way the disposition of figures can create a story in the mind of the viewer\, which possibly comes from my training as an illustrator at Glasgow School of Art. I am drawn to the idea of otherness\, as in folk and fairy tales\, or in performers adopting other personas and creating different worlds and alternative realities. \n\n\n\nBirds began to appear alongside the performers\, and have now become a subject in themselves\, as their colours\, shapes and textures are lovely to paint. There is also something knowing about birds. \n\n\n\nMy new-found love of landscape painting is allowing me to develop my language of  expressive and gestural mark-making. Generally my themes are quite traditional\, and I tend to work quickly in an “alla prima” fashion\, using oil paint with square brushes and a palette knife. Hopefully this gives a certain spontaneity to the work. I strongly believe that the paint should be part of the painting\, and that the marks themselves should add to the image.
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SUMMARY:The Langan Band with support from Flew The Arrow
DESCRIPTION:We are looking forward to welcoming back old friends of Upfront Arts Venue \n\n\n\nFor a knees up\, dancing folk music session with one of the top live trios in the country. High energy\, unhinged\, and musically extravagant\, taking traditional acoustic idioms and delivering with punk abandonment and virtuosic flare. A dynamic three piece offering a unique sound emerging from Celtic\, Gypsy Swing\, Roma and Flamenco and tuned in savvy. Wrapping pan European traditional acoustic music with infectious grooves\, epic\, pounding\, sing along\, punch the air anthems to intricately arranged instrumentals. Challenging the limitations of what people might expect acoustic instruments to sound like\, the use of bowed harmonics between fiddle and bass can be as menacing and eerie as it can be psychedelic and mesmerising. \n\n\n\nPercussion provided by the front man Langan\, whilst singing and driving the rhythm guitar\, he somehow co-ordinates the operating of a cajon and a tambourine with his feet –  bringing the driving\, swinging groove of the rhythm guitar together with his foot percussion resulting in an impressively tight band sound with a tempo that is free to go anywhere. Langan\, flanked on one side by Caplin\, a Hebridean classically trained violinist who is as adept at long bowed orchestral harmony passages as he is with swashbuckling dazzlingly quick tune playing and improvising. On his other side there’s Tunstall on Double Bass\, sometimes utilising his sonorous bow technique in conjunction with Caplin to create eerie soundscapes\, but mostly he’s fiercely pounding out bass lines which lock in seamlessly to Langan’s foot operated percussion and fiery rhythmic guitar playing to produce irresistible high energy\, bouncy grooves\, with beautifully subtle harmonies and vocals.‘Astonishing work\, boundlessly inventive… driving rhythms and mesmerising folk melodies’ R2 Magazine  \n\n\n\nFlew The ArrowFlew The Arrow is an Alt/Folk artist from the West Coast of Scotland\, residing in Glasgow\, where he builds his reputation as an Acoustic Songwriter. Now accompanied by Ross Hull on Fiddle\, Caitlin MacKenzie on Flute\, and Sarah McWhinney on Cello \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis will be a standing gig.   \n\n\n\nSome seats can be booked over the phone for anyone who can’t stand for the whole evening.   \n\n\n\nAll Tickets £16.50
URL:https://up-front.com/event/the-langan-band/
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SUMMARY:"PRESENCE" - Winter Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:in association with “Proseed” and coordinated by Daniel Ibbotson \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAn eclectic exhibition allowing over 50 artists to exhibit in the gallery\, some for the first time.  The exhibition is part of “Proceed” who began opening pop-up exhibitions during Lockdown to give artists a platform to sell their work and to have a presence.
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