Details

First Name	Siobhan
Last Name	McLaughlin
Username	siobhanmclaughlin
Website	http://www.siobhanmclaughlin.co.uk
Region	Greater Glasgow
Disciplines	Painting, Moving Image
Themes	Abstract, Landscape, Site-specific, Environment

Statement

Siobhan’s art practice sits between abstracted landscape and an expanded form of painting. Firmly situated in the history of experiential landscape painting, she combines personal experience with compositional devices, such as using alternative recycled materials, to create non-traditional depictions of landscape. Her recent work has evolved from sketches of Lochnagar in the Cairngorms, following a walk from Nan Shepherd’s book The Living Mountain. Through the sensory experience of walking, translated into the physicality of large-scale painting she processes ideas of place, memory, recovery and ecology.

“Recently, I’ve explored how I can evoke the tactility of my experience of landscape digitally, through a contemplative film of my painting Glen Muick. Hanging this 20-foot long painting between trees, with light shining through the materials, really transformed it. I’m thinking more about slowing down, appreciating and really looking at our landscapes and new ways of seeing painting. This has sparked ideas about how to expand my painting to physically exist within the landscapes that inspire them.”

Biography

Siobhan McLaughlin is an artist and curator based in Glasgow. She graduated with First Class Master of Arts with Honours in Fine Art from Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art in 2019.

Her art practice sits between abstracted landscape and an expanded form of painting. Firmly situated in the history of experiential landscape painting, she combines personal experience with compositional devices, such as using alternative materials, to create non-traditional depictions of landscape. In 2020 Siobhan completed a film commission for the British Art Network and in 2019 was awarded the inaugural SSA Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Award at the Royal Scottish Academy.

She is a selected member of the British Art Network’s Emerging Curators Group and her curatorial research focuses on post-war Scottish Art and opening up private collections to the public, with an interest in tackling elitism and accessibility. Siobhan is the curator of Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-off World, a centenary exhibition due to open at Dovecot Studios in Summer 2021 (postponed due to covid-19).

In 2020 while working on the Alan Davie exhibition, Siobhan researched and wrote 160 short artists biographies for a publication celebrating the Mrs Jay and W. Gordon Smith collection, on sale through the Open Eye Gallery.