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Charlie Yates is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Graduating from The Glasgow School of Art in 2019, Yates has been able to continue to paint throughout all the lockdowns and has produced this extensive body of work that comprises ‘Breathe’, his first major solo show. Yates’ work is informed by sketches, photographs and recordings both of a written and of a verbal nature. These observations are combined with recalled experiences from his family, memories and photographs reaching back into the 1950s, through the 70s and up to the present day. Already his work has reached critical acclaim from The Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh and he’s been noted as someone to look out for.
Yates’ practice of continually interrogating the material and images often results in undetermined scenes. This, offset with the use of a limited palette, makes for a series of atmospheric and nostalgic interpretations of fond experiences. The sense of travel and the different light of foreign locations, something that is very much a memory or a fantasy to most people at the moment, is additionally poignant at this time of limited movement and travel and unrest in the world; evoking memories of hitherto.
Cala Gracioneta | Detail | Oil on canvas, 20 x 20cm, 2021 (£620)
Events
Two Private Views:
Friday 13th May 5pm – 8pm & Saturday 14th May 11am – 5pm
Even with the recent lifting of Covid restrictions here in Scotland, we are continuing with the two PV model as it’s wonderful to offer both a day and evening occasion to meet the artist, gather and share the experience and have some light refreshments (including fizz on the Friday).
Talk and Demo: Live on Instagram and in real life:
Saturday 21st May 11am – 1pm
Charlie Yates is offering insight into his inspiration, career and his practice, processes and materials in this two-hour workshop presentation. It’s a very informal two-way dialogue between anyone who attends either virtually or in person and the artist.
Light refreshments will be served and live art making by Charlie will be performed.
