Life, still
Life, still
Sarah Freeman • Minnie Scott
06.05.26 – 06.06.26
An exhibition of drawings in pastel and charcoal of stills
from silent films and meaningful moments of places, people and objects.
Sarah Freeman
Sarah Freeman is based in the Borders and studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 1993. Her work is mostly figurative, observational drawing. She loves to embed moments in her memory or to make visual explorations of people, objects and places. In recent years she has exhibited with several Royal Societies in both London and Edinburgh societies and been a prize winner in the Royal Society of Oil Painters.
She says My aim is to observe and translate what I see, be it a place, a well loved face, or an arrangement of meaningful or characterful things, in whatever light is currently available to me. I tend to work cyclically through various mediums, often spending months simply using graphite then moving on to soft pastels, oil pastels or oil paint and always trying new ways to begin, new ways to translate, avoiding formulas, and challenging my own assumptions. I like that this approach is such a great analogy for life in general and always striving to be open to learning new ways to view the world.
She says My aim is to observe and translate what I see, be it a place, a well loved face, or an arrangement of meaningful or characterful things, in whatever light is currently available to me. I tend to work cyclically through various mediums, often spending months simply using graphite then moving on to soft pastels, oil pastels or oil paint and always trying new ways to begin, new ways to translate, avoiding formulas, and challenging my own assumptions. I like that this approach is such a great analogy for life in general and always striving to be open to learning new ways to view the world.
Minnie Scott
Minnie Scott is an Edinburgh-based artist. Finding inspiration in film and found images, she makes work thinking about storytelling, fantasy and nostalgia. She has worked in art museums for many years, and studied Contemporary Portraiture at Art Academy, London, graduating in 2022. Her work has been shortlisted for the Scottish Portrait Award and she has shown paintings at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Scottish Society of Artists annual exhibitions.
She says One of my abiding interests is how different kinds of imagery and media teach us to look, particularly at women. I made this series of drawings from pre-1920 silent films, British and Danish. Some are from very short films or fragments from the late 19th century – there’s such a sense of play and possibility in this new medium. I love a lot of things about working from moving image: the challenge of keeping some feeling of movement in a static drawing; the sense of pouncing on the still that says everything about a character or a relationship; conversely, the way storytelling can be withheld, so it’s up to the viewer to add the before and after; thinking about a world that’s made of light, the flickering of the flicks.
She says One of my abiding interests is how different kinds of imagery and media teach us to look, particularly at women. I made this series of drawings from pre-1920 silent films, British and Danish. Some are from very short films or fragments from the late 19th century – there’s such a sense of play and possibility in this new medium. I love a lot of things about working from moving image: the challenge of keeping some feeling of movement in a static drawing; the sense of pouncing on the still that says everything about a character or a relationship; conversely, the way storytelling can be withheld, so it’s up to the viewer to add the before and after; thinking about a world that’s made of light, the flickering of the flicks.
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