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Private View – Friday 29th November, 6pm- 9pm
Exhibition opening times – Saturday, 30th November to Friday, 6th December, 10am-5pm
Gallery Close, 4B Howe Street Edinburgh EH3 6TD, UK
WORK FROM THE SHOW AVAILABLE ONLINE FROM 6TH DEC
This new exhibition blurs the lines between photography and painting, challenging the viewers’ understanding of art and reality.
‘Blurred Perceptions’, showing at Gallery Close, in Edinburgh, from 29th November to 6th December, follows 18 months of collaboration between photographer Shona Perkins and award-winning artist Fee Dickson Reid.
After jointly running creative retreats, the pair – who share a love of the sea and atmospheric art – discovered that they were finding mutual threads in their work, and that their art was beginning to mirror one another’s techniques.
This exhibition is the first chance to see how their work blurs the lines between photography and painting, and between reality and imagination. The softening of time, light and perception in the work of both artists invites the viewer to slow down, to be present and more considered.
Shona Perkins is an acclaimed photographer who has shot to prominence in the last five years on the intentional camera movement (ICM) scene. Whilst largely self-taught, Shona previously enrolled with the British Academy of Photography, gaining a greater knowledge of the fundamentals and complexities of digital photography. This is her debut exhibition.
Fee Dickson Reid is an award-winning artist who creates large-scale, atmospheric seascapes in oils, based on her native East Lothian coastline. Her work is made ‘alla prima’ (all in one session) in the studio. Originally trained in architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, Fee began painting after redundancy in 2009 and has been exhibiting regularly since 2014.
Fee said: ‘We share a sense of the beauty in small moments, a love of light and the sea, a dedication to being in the right place no matter what hour for those magical twilights where the world is at its most ephemeral. After 18 months working together, we are leaning in to each other’s world’
Shona said: ‘Using intentional camera movement allows me to translate how I imagine I would paint a scene, softening the edges, just like blending oils with a paintbrush. I have always been heavily influenced by contemporary art and abstract minimalism.’
Shona and Fee will be at the exhibition daily to talk through and demonstrate their work.