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title = "Ghostlands: 3 person exhibition: Kate Downie RSA, Robbie Bushe RSA, Ronald Plowman ",
abstract = "Each of us finds reason to stop, stare and linger. Our visual world can be so familiar we look right through it, letting our gaze flicker between the external and internal. The immediate visual topography becomes overlaid with intimate reflections, occurrences and notions; transient, ghostly, and often eluding depiction.{\textquoteleft}Ghostlands{\textquoteright} examines the work of three artists who share a preoccupation to draw and paint a world which reveal their distinct visual meanderings between observed and imagined places. Each is very much connected to the North East Scotland legacy of lyrical narratives with its stark unromantic imagery and each demonstrates a commitment to imaginative depiction through dexterous and searching drawing.",
keywords = "art, gallery, exhibtion, ghosts, pictures, panitngs",
author = "Robbie Bushe and Kate Downie and Ronald Plowman",
note = "Kate Downie was born in America of British parentage, but returned to live in the North East of Scotland at the age of 7. She studied Fine Art at Gray{\textquoteright}s School of Art, Aberdeen, including post graduate studies. She has held artists{\textquoteright} residencies in the USA, Amsterdam, Paris and more recently Corsica and Norway. During her career Downie has established studios in places as diverse as a brewery, a maternity hospital, an oil rig and an island underneath the Forth Rail Bridge. She has taught both in art colleges and universities and has directed major public and community art projects since 1987. Like the Scottish Artists Joan Eardley and DY Cameron in the last century, Downie has spent the past 25 years exploring an artistic vision for both the extremes of a Scottish urban/industrial landscape as well as the less pastoral of Scotland{\textquoteright}s coastal {\textquoteleft}edge-scapes{\textquoteright} beyond the cities. As President to the Society of Scottish Artist from 2004 to 2006, Downie co-curated contemporary visual art projects of international standing, including an exchange exhibition with Indian artists and the Bodyparts live art Festival at the RSA in Edinburgh. Downie's work appears in many public and corporate collections including the BBC; Adam & Co; Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art; Gracefield Art Gallery, Dumfries; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Rietveld Kunst Academie, Amsterdam; City of Edinburgh Council; HM The Queen; Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow & New Hall College Art Collection in Cambridge. In 2005 the artist was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, and in 2008 became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. Ronald Binnie The majority of my work is rooted in the landscape. Mostly drawn from my locality, it is a landscape that is neither spectacular or unique, yet it can offer much to the imagination. The starting point for a painting begins with an often generic representation of a scene, which acts primarily as the basic composition. It is then that invention takes over. Ideas for paintings are based on internal and external influences. Internally, the area between dream and reality, memory and biography. Outside influences are drawn from film, various literary forms, and art of the past and present. Pictorial concerns such as balance, colour, and surface also inform the narrative. The aim of my work is not to merely make representatonal paintings. It is to suggest thoughts and ideas, to evoke a sense of recognition in the imagination of the viewer. To go beyond the anecdotal. ",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "26",
language = "English",
publisher = "Tatha Gallery",
}