New Works by Kirsty Lackie
and Huck Sanderson
16 June —18 Sept 2024
The Avenue, Newton Mearns
Glasgow G77 6EY
and Huck Sanderson
16 June —18 Sept 2024
The Avenue, Newton Mearns
Glasgow G77 6EY
Their work, which danced between figuration and abstraction, showcased their distinctive approaches to painting and subject matter. While Huck Sanderson created sweeping abstract paintings on a grand scale, Kirsty Lackie brought to life a theatrical universe of complex characters with deep red personalities.
Installation Views
Lackie has exhibited in shows across the U.K, most recently at The Alchemy Experiment (Glasgow, 2024), Shapeero/Murray (Newton Mearns, 2024), Contemporary Six Gallery (Manchester, 2024) and a solo show at Boardroom Committee Room (Glasgow, 2023). Two of her paintings were recently commissioned for Hôtel de la Boétie (Paris, 2023).
Huck SandersonHuck 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).
This exhibition celebrated two Glasgow-based female artists from different generations, Huck Sanderson and Kirsty Lackie. Their work, which danced between figuration and abstraction, showcased their distinctive approaches to painting and subject matter. While Huck Sanderson created sweeping abstract paintings on a grand scale, Kirsty Lackie brought 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 demanded 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 created large fields of soft and evocative colour, leading the artist joyfully into a cloud of unknowing. The end result was a vast field of memory and light, expressing both play and mastery.
Kirsty Lackie iz a circus master of wonky nursery rhymes and off-beat mythologies. In Lackie’s upside-down world, our unspoken and uncanny desires gazed back at us. Her characters—sometimes masked, often exposed and unashamedly on display—occupied a delicious fairy tale turned slightly awry. This merging of dreams and hedonistic fantasy served as a visual outlet for Lackie’s observations of people. How we behave and what lay beneath the surface act as fodder for her curiosity. In this collection of paintings and drawings, glimpses of who we were were delightfully rendered into wistful and mischievous paintings.