ALEX MALCOLMSON
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Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1 - 21 June 2021

Magnetic North
 If you have any queries about the exhibition below please contact the Open Eye Gallery
34 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE
Phone: 0131 557 1020
Email: mail@openeyegallery.co.uk             visit the Open Eye Gallery website
The Open Eye Gallery will has opened its doors to the public again.
If you are able to visit then please contact the gallery to make an appointment.
The gallery is open Tues - Fri 11am to 5pm - Sat 11am to 4pm
Please note that some pieces are sold so do check the Open Eye website to see what is available
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Magnetic North
“Like everyone else I have been unable to travel far in any direction in the last year but if I had been it would be to the North: that is the source of my work and, like a compass needle, the direction I am always drawn to.
Apart from not being able to travel, lockdown has not been very much different in terms of the day to day routine for many artists including myself who are accustomed to work in a fairly solitary way. In that I have been fortunate. 
One of the things I have missed though is the experience of visiting galleries. I am so pleased that the Open Eye will be able to welcome visitors to this show.
If we had any doubts about the value of experiencing art these have surely been dispelled by the pandemic. It seems that for many of us isolation has intensified the desire to appreciate art in all its forms.
Unless artwork is made for the computer screen there will always be a need to experience the physical piece rather than its virtual reproduction. Like many artists I labour at getting a particular quality, working on a surface till the colour and texture satisfies. My work is often three dimensional, but even pieces that are largely on a flat plane are intended as objects in themselves as much as images that represent something other.
Once I am able to travel I will head north to the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness and stand in the room overlooking the harbour surrounded by the works of Ben Nicholson and Alfred Wallis. I will see the fishing boats tied up and the sun glinting off the sea through a Barbara Hepworth sculpture. I will look at the paintings and listen to their ’surface noise’.
Alex Malcolmson. May 2021

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  • Home
  • About
  • Works
  • Exhibitions
    • Previous exhibitions >
      • Godfrey & Watt 2021
      • Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall, 5 September - 30 October 2021
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. Magnetic North 1 - 21 June 2021
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. On a Small Scale, 1 - 23 Dec 2020
      • Godfrey & Watt, Harrogate 14 -28 Nov 2020
      • Twenty Twenty Gallery, 18 July - 22 August 2020
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. Festival Spirit. 4 - 29 August 2020
      • Godfrey & Watt, Harrogate 30 Nov - 8 Dec 2019
      • Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall, 8 September - 26 October 2019
      • Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay 31 August - 28 September 2019
      • Fry Art Gallery 16 - 17 November 2019
      • Aldeburgh Gallery. 7 - 12 June 2019
      • Godfrey & Watt, Harrogate 1 - 9 December 2018
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. Sea Room 2 - 19 Nov 2018
      • Bircham Gallery, 16 June - 18 July 2018
      • Aldeburgh Gallery. 8 - 13 June 2018
      • Godfrey & Watt, Harrogate 25 November - 3 December 2017
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. On a Small Scale, Nov 29 - Dec 23 2017
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Christmas Show Nov 25 - Dec 23 2017
      • Yew Tree Gallery, 3 September - 30 October 2017
      • Twenty Twenty Gallery, 12 August - 16 September 2017
      • A Collector's Exhibition. Aldeburgh. 9-14 June 2017
      • Sea Winds, Shetland 25 May - 4 June 2017
      • Bircham Gallery, 3 December - 11 January
      • Godfrey & Watt, Harrogate 10 - 14 December 2016
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Christmas Show Nov 28 - Dec 23 2016
      • St Judes in The City, London 23 Nov - 4 Dec 2016
      • Ship to Shore, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh May 14th - June 1st 2016 Solo Show
      • Fry Art Gallery 12 - 13 November 2016
      • Venice Observed. Aldeburgh. 9-15 June 2016
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 35th Anniverary Exhibition January 9 - 27 2016
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Studio Selection Nov 28 - Dec 23 2015
      • Godfrey & Watt, Harrogate 20 - 29 November 2015
      • 108 Fine Art, North base, 24 October - 14 November 2015
      • Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall. Sept 5 - Oct 31 2015
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Invited Artists June/July 2015
      • Galleri Allmenningen, Bergen 18 April - 16 May 2015
      • Bircham Gallery November 2014 - January 2015
      • Fry Art Gallery November 2014
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh July 2014
      • Aldeburgh Gallery June 2014
      • St Judes in The City, London May 2014
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2013
      • Bircham Gallery Christmas 2013
      • Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2013
      • Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall 2013
      • Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock 2013
      • Ainscough Gallery Dartmouth 2013
      • Open Eye Gallery
      • Bircham Gallery Christmas 2012
      • St Judes Gallery 2011
      • The Scottish Gallery
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