"Doig’s painting had popped up on my instagram feed when it entered the National Gallery of Scotland’s collection in 2021. The figure reminded me of David McKee’s Mr Benn perhaps after he’d been shown through the magic door by the shopkeeper, about to enter into another world for an adventure. A figure in the countryside, flowers, plants, pattern, fluffy clouds all seemed like an exciting place to start. At the edge of town, at the edge of the countryside, drapes and paper flowers, a pink moon, an outdoor performance, a walkdown, the outside becomes the inside of an imagined space where anything is possible. Similar to Doig’s approach for his painting, it started with the figure, a rather bold boy, before the landscape element developed and a stage-like feel coming in latterly with the introduction of thread and embroidery." Sandra Collins
Price: £1750
SANDRA COLLINS
Selected Exhibitions since 2013:
2022 Drawing, Fidra Fine Art, East Lothian, Group Show
2022 Show me Everything, Compass Gallery Glasgow, Solo Exhibition
2021 Compass Gallery Glasgow, Winter Exhibition, Group Show
2020 Compass Gallery Glasgow, Quiet World, Group Show
2019 Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition
2019 Compass Gallery Glasgow, Winter Exhibition, Group Show
2019 Fidra Fine Art, East Lothian, Group Show
2018 Embassy Edinburgh, Group Show
2017 Paisley Art Institute, Scottish Drawing Exhibition
2016 Drawing on Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art
2015 Fidra Fine Art, East Lothian, Group Show
2014 Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Who are You? Group Show
2014 Kalopsia Collective, Edinburgh, Group Show
2014 Summer Exhibition, St Margarets House, Edinburgh
2013 Cupar Arts Biennale, Unsung (collaboration with Matthew Hawkins choreographer)
2013 St Margarets House Arts, Edinburgh - Group Show
2013 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
Education: BA (Hons) and MFA, Edinburgh College of Art
Residencies: Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA - Nov/Dec 2014
Publication: Steadfast Arte Magazine, NYC, USA (2015)
Artist’s book - ‘Universal Description of the Known World Without End'. A collaboration with poet Jim Capozzi and printmaker Michael Loderstedt (2014)
Awards: Travel Grant, City of Edinburgh Council
Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy – Website Award
The Helen A Rose Bequeath for Distinguished Work
The Scottish Further Education Unit Purchase Prize
