- Venue
- Patriothall Gallery
- Starts
- Wednesday, June 18, 2025
- Ends
- Saturday, June 28, 2025
- Address
- 1D Patriothall (off Hamilton Place) Stockbridge Edinburgh EH3 5AY
- Location
- Scotland
- Organiser
- Patriothall Gallery
The starting point for the exhibition was a shared experience at the Cyprus College of Art in Lempa, Paphos, where fellow artists Anuschka Barlas, Grace Crabtree, Rosina Godwin and Hannah Wroe met while on residency. Located in the hills near the ruins of an ancient Neolithic settlement and overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, the college, its beautiful surroundings, and the valuable connections forged during this period had a lasting impact. Together with Lezanne Scott, whose work shares similar themes, the artists have produced a series of works exploring approaches to landscape and place, with impressions from Cyprus weaving a connective thread.
Places become embedded with the emotion we associate with particular events, and to revisit the memory of a place is to recover those emotions. As writer Rebecca Solnit eloquently puts it:
“… place, which is always spoken of as though it only counts when you’re present, possesses you in its absence, takes on another life as a sense of place, a summoning in the imagination with all the atmospheric effect and association of a powerful emotion. The places inside us matter as much as the ones outside.”
All of the participating artists have thought about their relationship to place and landscape – both physical and psychic – in different ways, creating works that exist in the hinterland between experience and memory: the gap between recollections and imaginings of places, and how they are. The diversity of media used, including drawing, collage, egg tempera, handwoven tapestry, knitting and watercolours underlines the significance of materiality as well as more conceptual concerns when echoing the authentic distortion and hazy uncertainty that characterises remembered places.
