The Fruitmarket Gallery
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Lucy Skaer
dal 16/5/2008 al 8/9/2008

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Louise Anderson


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16/5/2008

Lucy Skaer

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

The artist makes drawings, sculptures and films, often combining them in installations of all three. Her work has its origin in found images which Skaer works and reworks, transforming them while retaining a sense of their original meaning and physical form.


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The first opportunity to see a major solo exhibition of work by Lucy Skaer, one of Scotland’s most promising young artists, whose large-scale drawings, sculpture and films are beginning to bring her international acclaim. This exhibition features work newly commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery, shown in the context of Skaer’s practice as it has developed since 2001.

Skaer makes drawings, sculptures and films, often combining them in installations of all three. Her work has its origin in found images – photographs from newspapers and books, pictures sourced from the internet, paintings and sculptures by other artists – which Skaer works and reworks, transforming them while retaining a sense of their original meaning and physical form.

This exhibition is the most substantial presentation of Skaer’s work to date, and offers a chance to assess the development of her practice. Drawings dating from 2001 to 2008 are shown alongside the film Flash in the Metropolitan, 2006 (made in collaboration with Rosalind Nashashibi) and the installation Leonora, made for an exhibition in Zurich and not yet seen in this country. Two major new installations complete the exhibition. One takes the form of a cluster of three huge drawings, dominating the space of the upper gallery. The other is a new sculptural work, which takes inspiration from the medieval imagery of the Danse Macabre or Dance of Death.

Lucy Skaer has spoken about wanting her work to operate as ‘a portal into a space beyond comprehension’, about ‘playing around with what can and can’t be represented, making a seemingly easy jumping-off point into something beyond the system being used to represent it’. Often beautiful, always formally and conceptually intriguing, her work makes its meaning with a compelling force.

Opening may 17 2008

The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street - Edinburgh
Free admission

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