8th September 2006: A message from The Chambers Gallery

www.scotsinlondon.com / www.thechambersgallery.co.uk

Dear Scots in London (SIL) (the largest Scottish network organisation in London - approaching 4,000+ dynamic, passionate Scots and growing fast),

The Chambers Gallery looks forward to welcoming Scots In London to an exhibition of Contemporary Scottish Art.

Private View: Thursday 14th September, 6pm-9pm (RSVP to Evgenia Georgiadis at evgeniag@chambersandpartner s.co.uk or tel 0207 778 1600, please cc: eddietait@scotsinlondon.com).< /p>

Dates of the Show: 15th September - 13th October 2006

Venue: The Chambers Gallery, 23 Long Lane, London, EC1A 9HL. Barbican tube station.

Scottish art is renowned for a strong figurative tradition and a subject matter rooted in the local community. In this exhibition we see how contemporary Scottish artists have situated themselves within this tradition and the trends of the wider art world. Their work explores the potential of figurative art today.

The show presents the work of several generations of artists, including the established Alexander Fraser and Adrian Wiszniewski, whose work is found in the Tate and MoMA collections. Younger generations are represented by Louis McNally, Jenny Matthews and Graham Flack, and recent graduates Andrew Cooke, Fred Olden and Bronwen Sleigh.

Kate Downie's black and white drawings highlight the bedraggled beauty of the industrial landscape of our time. New urban scapes feature strongly in the work of the younger generation of graduates Fred Olden and Bronwen Sleigh, while Andrew Cooke disturbs urban reality as comic book characters and animals erupt onto the streets of Edinburgh. Figures are entirely missing in Louis McNally's work which captures an intangible eeriness in the brooding play of cloud and sunlight on town and countryside. Alexander Fraser uses everyday objects juxtaposed in an imagined world of harmonious colour and form while Leigh Walker's figures hang suspended, Klimt-like in an abstract field of pattern. Other artists have moved away completely from landscape. Graham Flack's powerful monotones show a meticulous observance of the human head, while Adrian Wiszniewski's flattened forms and Grecian attributes herald a classical influence.

There is no 'one' Scotland, and the show offers an exciting panoply of work, presenting a cross-generational range of artists working in different media and tackling very different subjects. The Chambers Gallery look forward to welcoming Scots In London to the exhibition... www.thechambersgallery.co.uk.

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