All work highlighted throughout CIRCLE Summer Mixed
Accomplished printmaker Emily Crookshank is excited. Her life is in transition. She is taking her fidelity to art and nature to another level, realising that individual and collective potential are interconnected.
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Engaging with her new ‘live work’ community in Thamesmead, an urban place with ancient woodland and an established travelling populace, Emily has found a space to set up her own, long waited for, print studio where she will run collaborative workshops focusing on art, environment and community.
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Emily is not the only one feeling good – CIRCLE are exited too. As well as the larger etchings we are showing a hot off the press series of place specific mono prints inspired by the Cornish landscape.
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The etching process is a disciplined art with many restrictions. Once mastered, the artist can conjure very subtle shades of expression. Working in a series is the printmakers norm – each print is born from the one preceding it and like a line of footprints in the sand, every print is slightly different.
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Crookshank spends chunks of her time in the wilder landscapes of Britain and like the notable printmaker Norman Ackroyd she shares a passion for Scotland, Mull and the Hebrides – describing the rhyme of the landscape, firstly, with drawing – the most spontaneous form of expression: the drawings are memento of her engagement with nature.
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Emily’s prints are not likenesses but abstract forms born from the printing plate, although her black inked densities evoke feelings of time passing time – the inner light of the land.
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With so many images posted on social media we forget how special the materiality of original art is – the viewer needs to engage face to face with the work in a gallery – to be immersed in its mystery. Handmade prints using time honoured techniques have a depth and sensuality which can never be encountered by looking at a small-screen facsimile.
Education
2007 – 2011 The Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting and Printmaking
Exhibitions
2017 Winter Show, Circle Contemporary, Cornwall
2017 The Art Hound Gallery, Cambridge
2017 The Christmas Show, Grandy Art, London
2017 The Masters Monoprint Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2017 National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2017 Sir John Hurt Art Prize Shortlist, Holt /festival, Nofolk
2017 Lorfords Antiques, with Grandy Art, London
2017 LIBRARY London, Brocket Gallery, London
2016 Under a Grand, GrandyArt, London
2016 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London
2016 Emerging Artists Exhibition, Kilbryde Castle, Dunblane, Scotland
2016 National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2016 The Original Print Show, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2016 neo:printprize, Bolton, Manchester
2016 …end of beginnings… Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich
2016 Holt Festival Art Prize, Holt, Norfolk
2016 Art Hub Print Show, Deptford, London (1st prize winner)
2016 The Royal Academy Summer Exhbition, Piccadilly, London
2016 Make No Bones, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London
2016 Chroma Blue Issue, Safehouse 2, Peckham, London
2016 Ellipse, The Pigeon Hole Cafe, Camberwell, London
2015 Christmas Show, Grandy Art, London
2015 Under A Grand, Grandy Art, London
2015 The Summer Collection, The Strathearn Gallery, Scotland
2015 The Summer Collection, Grandy Art, Cotswoldsa
2015 Summer Show, Grandy Art, London
2015 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
2014 Grandy Art Christmas Show, London
2014 Under A Grand, Grandy Art, London
2014 Last One To Leave, Turn Out The Light, Deptford, London
2014 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
2013 Under A Grand, Fulham, London
2013 Winter Show at Ballingrew, Stirling, Scotland
2013 Young Artists Exhibition, Kilrie Granary, Fife, Scotland
2013 Summer Exhibition, The Ruthven Gallery, Auchterarder, Scotland
2013 Consequence, Dalpatrick Farm, Crieff, Scotland
2012 Eyes Open, The Drawing Room Gallery, Dunkeld, Scotland
2012 The Owl Barn Artists Exhibition, The Tallet, Gloucestershire
2011 Coastal Encounters, The Old Malthouse, Dorset
2011 Best of the Scottish Degree & Diploma Shows, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow
2011 GSA Degree Show, Macintosh Building, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2011 Eyebrow Says, The Barnes Building, Glasgow
2010 Work in Progress, Newbury Gallery, Glasgow
2009 Work in Progress, Newbury Gallery, Glasgow
Residencies
2014 Loop Art Residency, Deptford, London (Nov 2013 – April 2014)
2012 The Owl Barn Artist Residency, Cirencester (April – Aug)
