05/09/2024
This years exhibition can be found on the mezzanine level of Leith Arches. This year the work is curated by Blair Kemp, who showed his work ‘Hanging on a Star at the previous edition of ShortScape. Blair is an artist living in central Scotland. His practice is mostly lens-based, but he also likes to explore social and collaborative art.
Adam Lock: In my current practice I create multimedia sculptures composed of film, sound, and found technological objects to reconfigure and re-map haunted spaces through the lens of science fiction. Through presenting a fictional dystopia that appropriates aesthetics of the Anthropocene and retro-futurism, I construct narratives that explore loss and grief after apocalyptic events, and that are concerned with how the liminal and ephemeral qualities of memory can intertwine with fiction.
Aisha Plumridge: Drawings from my immediate surroundings, dreams, mythology, personal recollections and anecdotes are used to realise larger compositions as oil paintings. Floating between imagination and memory, my imagery communicates with essence, childhood nostalgia and harmony with the natural world. The paintings become dreamworlds imbued with a tangible reality.
Finlay Yates: My images begin from lists made in fear of forgetting, scribbled notes on fleeting impressions: The sticker on the lamp post, the dream on the post-it note. Urging the contents of these lists to coalesce in oil, I create temporal markers in my memory and taste.
In my work I paint reminders to remember.
Sorin Bath is a multimedia artist from Sheffield, working in Edinburgh, creating motorised sculpture installations that appear to be alive. I currently work with ventilation tubes and wires to create worm-like sculptures that sit between industrial and natural forms, specifically drawing on the weird / monstrous / unhuman. My practice looks at new materialism’s object vitality, to push for a shift away from the traditional inert and passive artwork, and to step towards an uncanny, pseudo-living artwork.