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The first publication of
Highland artist Eric Cruikshank’s work was launched at the Highland
Institute for Contemporary Art on 13th and 14th June
2009. The booklet
Eric Cruikshank: Paintings and Drawings, with an essay by Daniel
Hermann, Curator of the Paolozzi Collection at The Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art, was made possible by support from The Hope Scott
Trust.
Colour I
Light I Space, taking its title from
Hermann’s essay, launched the publication alongside an exhibition of
Cruikshank’s paintings and drawings from the past three years.
Cruikshank's
simple compositions focus
on the interiors and structural components of the farm buildings at his home in the Highlands, creating variations of these
architectural spaces rather than documenting them, eliciting something
non-specific, imprinted by memory and experience. The
experience of the works themselves then becomes the primary concern. Seen within
the context of specific architecture, but shifting light, the act of
perception becomes its own narrative, the works renegotiate themselves in
each space they are displayed and the act of looking is emphasized as
particular.
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