Andrew Cranston: Music (2)

Andrew Cranston: Music (2)Often depicting narrative vignettes drawn from his own personal history, or literary and anecdotal sources, Andrew Cranstons work is consistently concerned with narrative and storytelling. Incorporating varnish and collage onto his paintings, Cranston enacts a layered referentiality with an often surreal, deadpan sense of humour. Working mostly as a painter, Cranston is interested in lithography for its proximity to drawing. The crayons, used to draw

together with a group of other government and army officials

Elaine finds inspiration in the surrounding countryside with its shifting light

completing residencies within research institutions

probably intended to come back to it at a later point

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circle and triangle

often it reflects on human engagement with landscape

This enabled him to embark on a three month period of travel and research in Iceland in 1998

His large-scale

and the coming resulting apocalypse

Envisioning the Oral Ephemeral (an engagement with aspects of Scottish culture which are neither visible or permanent) and (Scottish) Art

Nashashibi is mainly known as a filmmaker and works mainly with 16mm film but also makes paintings and prints