Why I Create Art – Ashima Kumar
For Ashima Kumar – Art is the freedom to live. Creating art is a risk we choose to take in the hope that we can soar to heights imagined and unimagined.
Q&A Pam Glew
Pam Glew is a contemporary British artist, known for her unique bleaching technique on vintage flags and fabric. Antique American quilts, brocade and old jeans are dyed black and painted freehand with mixed media paint. The portrait slowly develops in the painting process resulting in an image emerging from the textile. Glew is often commissioned by large brands including Armani, Red Bull and Microsoft, exhibits internationally and is found in public and private art collections worldwide.
Q&A Phil M Davis
Phil M Davis was born in 1982 and lives in North Worcestershire, studying Fine Art and Sculpture at Loughborough University where he completed his degree in 2004. Phil began his career as a commercial artist, his early works depict scenes from his local area, as well as places he has visited on his travels abroad, in particular Spain, Italy, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. His work uses intense, bold colours as a way of reflecting a childlike wonder in the new, and in a sense the extreme, sometimes uncomfortable emotional commitment involved in relating to the culturally unfamiliar.
Q&A Tamara Savchenko
Tamara Savchenko is an artist-explorer who never likes to be put in a box with the label on it. Savchenko has experienced life in so many ways that it is impossible for her to stick to one form of art.
Savchenko has lived in four countries, graduated as a doctor and has a PhD in medicine – she has worked as a librarian, a researcher, taught anatomy in a medical school in Russia; a sales assistant, an Avon representative, a science technician and finally a science teacher in the UK. In addition to beening a mother of two children and a wife to a successful professor of physics.
B!D – Emergency Art Workers Support Fund
Visual Arts Scotland are delighted to announce B!D, a 24-hour online auction featuring the work of Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce and Turner Prize nominees, Calum Innes and Christine Borland.
B!D will officially launch on the evening of Friday 1st May at 6pm
