At The Margins – Opening November 7th
We’re delighted to announce the details for At The Margins, an upcoming
exhibition showcasing the personal art practices of our founder Basia
Mindewicz, alongside students Ella Edge and Judith Allan.
This exhibition is an exploration of those who are often forgotten and left
out. Who are not a subject but often an object of a conversation and
decisions. In this case we are inviting women and animals to be a part of
the space. We invite you to experience, talk and explore.
The exhibition will be in Gallery 2 of St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh –
where our studio is based, and we hope to see you at the opening night
on Friday 7th November 6pm-8pm!
The Artists
Basia Mindewicz
Basia is an icon painter and contemporary artist from Warsaw, Poland.
She trained in Poland at the College of Iconography where she studied
the ancient techniques of egg tempera and gold gilding. For many years
she has been mainly working in a very traditional style learning the icon
language. After arriving in Edinburgh, she began exploring other
‘languages’, searching for more personal and contemporary ways of
depicting parallel reality. This included combining her love for animals with
traditional icon writing techniques to create modern, yet reverent, animal
portraits.Though her animal works may not be religious, they maintain a
connection to iconography through the deep connection and meaning she
finds in making them. Painting animals is a way of celebrating them, and
Basia believes that no one is more deserving of a halo than an animal.
[Basia Gallery]
Ella Edge
Ella is a researcher, beekeeper and artist. She grew up hiking reluctantly
with her father, and attending church reluctantly with her mother, but now
scavenges most of her best materials and ideas on the trail or from
ancient spiritual practices. Ella is an Irish New Zealander, living in
Scotland with her American partner and Greek dogs.
[Ella Gallery]
Judith AllanJudith studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, then
worked in Art Education until 2012 when she became a student of Icon
Painting and its history. Her work includes traditionally painted icons and
more experimental mixed media pieces; both have subjects whose
emotional balance has been disrupted by forces outside their control.
Judith’s practice looks backwards at the lives lived and lost before us –
looking at the power of the icon and how it can present the lives of those
that we choose to remember, and how those lives or similar ones can
sometimes go awry.
[Judith Gallery]
With thanks to Scot-ART
Poster design by Siân Landau