the skinny preview for LINE exhibition

Salon @ Doubtfire Gallery, Frame Creative

Posted by Joseph Constable, Fri 25 Feb 2011

To add a further dimension to its already multifaceted approach, visual arts publication, LINE magazine, is launching its accompanying exhibition programme this month with a large and diverse group show. Running from 25 February to 11 March and housed in the rooms of Edinburgh’s Doubtfire Gallery, Salon looks to be a wide-ranging showcase of works from near twenty emerging and established artists.

To realise this new programme, LINE has teamed up with the curators of Candid, whose exhibition of May last year was also driven by a motive to promote and support emerging artists from around Scotland. Salon takes this idea one step further by inverting the seemingly unshakeable hierarchy of the art world; undergraduate artists from the ECA and GSA are shown next to those recognised both nationally and internationally.

Significant works include a drawing from music video director, Chris Cunningham, and prints from Scottish illustrator Vangeli Moschopoulos, whose work will be remembered from the show Midnight Clear, which was held at Doubtfire Gallery last December. There are more familiar faces from Scotland, with works from Rachel Maclean, Shaun O’Donnell, and Sophie Milner, the latter of which will be showing prints made for the musician Laura Marling. These works are nicely balanced by new work from the art schools, notably a series of sketch works from Kathryn Lloyd, a sculptural piece by Elliot Burns, and a large compilation work from Ian Rothwell and Hugo de Verteuil.

In what will likely be the first of many, Salon seeks to mirror the goals of its creators by championing fresh talent and giving it a professional platform, which can only be a good thing.

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