New Works by Kirsty Lackie
& Huck Sanderson
16 June –18 Sept 2024
29-4 August
11-5pm Tuesday-Wednesday
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Shapeero/Murray is delighted to announce their second exhibition and official opening event at Shapeero/Murray Newton Mearns: New Works by Huck Sanderson and Kirsty Lackie.
This exhibition celebrates two Glasgow-based female artists from different generations, Huck Sanderson and Kirsty Lackie. Their work, which dances between figuration and abstraction, showcases their distinctive approaches to painting and subject matter. While Huck Sanderson creates sweeping abstract paintings on a grand scale, Kirsty Lackie brings to life a theatrical universe of complex characters with deep red personalities.
Huck Sanderson, who took up painting seriously in her 60s, approaches her practice with ambition and vigour. Painting on a large scale demands physicality and daring, a leap into the void of an empty canvas. Sanderson navigates this with a playful and carefree approach to the act of making. Her sweeping brushstrokes create large fields of soft and evocative colour, leading the artist joyfully into a cloud of unknowing. The end result is a vast field of memory and light, expressing both play and mastery.
Kirsty Lackie is a circus master of wonky nursery rhymes and off-beat mythologies. In Lackie’s upside-down world, our unspoken and uncanny desires gaze back at us. Her characters - sometimes masked, often exposed and unashamedly on display - occupy a delicious fairy-tale turned slightly awry. This merging of dreams and hedonistic fantasy serves as a visual outlet for Lackie’s observations of people. How we behave and what lies beneath the surface act as fodder for her curiosity. In this collection of paintings and drawings, glimpses of who we are are delightfully rendered into wistful and mischievous paintings.
Kirsty Lackie (b.1989) paints and draws. She studied Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art (2018) specialising in illustration. Lackie has exhibited work across Europe, most recently in a group show at Contemporary Six Gallery (Manchester, 2024) and a solo show at Boardroom Committee Room (Glasgow, 2023). Two of her paintings were recently commissioned for Beata Heuman’s Hôtel de la Boétie (Paris, 2023).
Huck Sanderson (b. 1953) is an artist based in Glasgow who graduated in Printed Textiles from Glasgow School of Art in 1974. Sanderson has exhibited in Argyll, Glasgow, and France, and her work is held in private collections throughout the UK, Europe, and South Africa. In 2021, she published her book "100 Days of Covid-19 Lockdown Madness." She has had solo exhibitions at The Briggait in Glasgow (2023) and Nicolls Gallery in Glasgow (2021), as well as group shows at Galerie Ecossaise in Noyer, France (2017, 2018, 2019).