exhibitions
streetlife
26th October - 26th November 2022
Chris Nugent returns to Doubtfire for his fourth solo exhibition, where he continues to explore the built and natural environment. This new collection looks to make sense of the harmony and chaos that exists in the city streets; the essential elements of street life. “Having lived and studied in Edinburgh all my life, the city acts as a potent theme and I have revisited this subject many times. This new body of work reveals elements of nature, the city’s green spaces within its streets, the distant urban spread, how we live and breathe.” Chris Nugent’s approach to the built environment moves between realism and semiabstract montage as this facilitates a diverse range of media, mark making and challenge where one approach impacts the other.
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Chris Nugent
Chris Nugent lives and teaches art in Edinburgh and has been exhibiting throughout the UK and Europe since graduating in 1986, including showing in SSA and RSA. With a clutch of awards since then, he has developed a fluid approach to the interaction of light and colour on the elements of sky, sea and land.
His work is primarily focussed on cityscapes, working with mixed media to create a multi-layered interpretation of the bustle, energy and dynamic of features and panoramas – adapting this bold style to seascapes and other locations. He also uses a combination of metals depicting Scotland’s coastal scenes - primarily steel and copper that he has altered over time to exploit its textural and tonal qualities.
'The works on canvas seek to convey what I believe makes Edinburgh so desirable – its energetic urban sprawl, contrasted with peaceful, green spaces that allow you time to contemplate.
With my metal works, I have sought to reduce the elements of land, sea and sky to simple horizontal shapes that evoke the changing atmosphere of the Scottish coastline.
BA Hons (1st Class) in Drawing and Painting, ECA, PG DIP, PGCE dip Member SSA, VAS