Investable Artist: First solo show
Naomi McClure's first solo show opens this Friday in Edinburgh at the Upright Gallery and we're delighted to see her making waves in the art world. It's a great time to invest!
Naomi McClure doesn’t shy away from the macabre, creating semi-abstract work that explores a very modern folk tale that bespeaks our celebrity-obsessed culture. The series title, "July 3, 1971, 17 Rue Beautreillis Paris", references the untimely death of Jim Morrison at 27 – the mysterious age in which many notable cultural figures have also passed away. What does it mean that society memorialises, idealises, and mystifies these figures as more-than-human? McClure’s circuitous work – each piece acts as an inspirational blueprint for the next – holds up our notions of ceremony, memory, and linkage right where we cannot deny them. A unique process of layering oil over wood is used, that consequently achieves a textural angularity that cannot fully be placed. Strangely, what’s implied are both ghostly spaces with a depth of field, but also pure abstractions of colour and light.
From Series: "July 3, 1971, 17 Rue Beautreillis Paris." IV. by Naomi McClure
From Series: "July 3, 1971, 17 Rue Beautreillis Paris." I by Naomi McClure
From Series: "July 3, 1971, 17 Rue Beautreillis Paris." II. by Naomi McClure
From Series: "July 3, 1971, 17 Rue Beautreillis Paris." III. by Naomi McClure
From Series: "July 3, 1971, 17 Rue Beautreillis Paris." V.by Naomi McClure
