28 January 2025
Visual Arts Round-Up
We’re incredibly proud of our Awardees, who each demonstrate outstanding talent in their field. This week, we’re shining a spotlight on some of the stunning work produced by those working in the visual arts.
Erin McQuarrie (2023)
Erin McQuarrie is a textile artist and researcher from Glasgow based in the Scottish Highlands. She believes ancient methods of making provide an innovative means of interpreting and responding to contemporary life. Her work will feature in ‘Collective Threads’ at The Invisible Dog Art Centre in Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Ana Watterson, the exhibition will be accompanied by two weeks of textile and fibre-filled workshops, demonstrations, and performances.
Collective Threads
Thursday 23 January – Sunday 2 February 2025
The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn
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Haneen Hadiy (2022)
Haneen Hadiy is a visual artist whose work explores her Scottish and Iraqi identity. Her works are known for their distinctive intimacy and integrity. She continuously experiments through a variety of mediums to explore her family history, cultural heritage, and identity as a diasporic artist. ‘Scotland Through Her Eyes’ explores the intersection of cultural identity, spirituality, and the natural beauty of Scottish landscapes through the lens of Islamic symbolism. The work is currently featured in Nationhood: Memory and Hope, a new exhibition of powerful and poignant photography celebrating the diversity of the UK today. The exhibition will run at Impressions Gallery in Bradford from 11 January to 26 April 2024, before touring to Belfast, Cardiff and Glasgow.
Nationhood: Memory and Hope
Saturday 11 January 11 – Saturday 26 April 2025
Impressions Gallery, Bradford
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Jean Oberlander (2018)
Jean Oberlander is a Scottish textile artist, educator and writer. Her work focuses on journeys and memories of stitches. Her work will feature in Piecing, a group show with Hannah Zbitnew and Ruby Smith at Garage Gallery in Walthomstow, London. The artists describe the show as “an ode to memories of stitches, using what you have and building connections between layers of material”.
Piecing
Friday 7 – Sunday 9 February 2025
Garage Gallery E17, London
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Thomas Cameron (2019)
Thomas Cameron closed 2024 with a solo exhibition ‘Twenty-six days a year’ at Canopy Collections in London. Focusing on subjects depicted in moments of waiting, the exhibition captured the understated moments in life, often spent alone and almost immediately forgotten. It was the first exhibition to examine the theme of waiting in Cameron’s practice, which is characterised by figurative paintings depicting everyday scenes of people in the city.
Thomas Cameron | Twenty-six days a year
Friday 8 November— Friday 20 December 2024
Canopy Collections HQ, London
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