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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art For my final takeover, I'm in Aberdeen at the Gray's School of Art degree show. Taking a 3-hour train from Glasgow certainly feels like a significant departure, so it's fitting that the theme running through much of the work on show is a reconnection with the surrounding natural landscape. Kristina Aburrow's @kristinaaburrow mixed media work allows her materials and the landscape to directly transform each other, celebrating the ecology of the north east. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Duncan Boyne's paintings, guided by an interest in psychogeography, are both faithful documentations of the abandoned and disused sites the artist visits, and attempts to visualise the loneliness and absence that haunts them. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Coming from a long line of Stonehaven fishermen, Hannah Ross @hannah_ross_painting is inspired by maritime culture. Ross's richly textured paintings explore the language, symbolism and history of the Gansey jumper, making the case that its significance as a marker of identity could be considered similar to tartan. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Sofya Tagor @sofyatagor creates nostalgic, illustrative paintings inspired by the artist's childhood growing up in Russia, illuminated by projected photography and video footage. The resulting works blend imagination and reality in an emotional narrative. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Andrew McCallum's @andrewcmcc paintings combine fantasy with realism and traditional forms of art with the contemporary queer culture embodied by their subjects, while Jacob Hoffman @jacob.hf unpicks the rigid designs of masculinity imposed by the classic suit. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art You might smell Emily Strachan's @milly.m.strachan work before you find it, as this artist sets out to create a multisensory experience incorporating the visual, tactile and olfactory. Influenced by "sense-appreciative" rituals and games across different cultures, the work requires us to slow down and engage in a richer perception of the organic materials at play. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Valentina Lauto @valecastttworks distorts, abstracts and transforms the human voice to create an immersive multimedia installation. Each of the various audio, video and sculptural elements of the room have their origins in voice notes sent by the artist's partner, adding a strange feeling of comfort and intimacy to Lauto's experiments. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art While autobiographical, Indie McCue's @indiemccue "Transition Gaming" focuses on the lighter side of the artist's life as a queer and trans man. This fully interactive installation features a suite of shonky, retro video games featuring McCue in surreal visions of everyday life, employing a sense of humour and silliness perhaps too often excluded from mainstream representations of trans experiences. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Samantha Robinson @robinsonartwork hopes to nurture empathy and connection with the natural world in "Your Body is the Landscape". The installation, which consists of wall-based drawings, photographs and text, is designed to be navigated one viewer at a time by handheld torches and wooden stepping stones, immersing the viewer in an experience that lasts as long as you want to keep looking. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art If you're someone whose day is inexplicably brightened by a gruesome true crime podcast or tell-all serial killer documentary, Gray's has all bases covered. Emily Booth crafts eerie "Kubrickian" interiors inspired by the personal lives of history's most terrifying serial killers, while Naomi McClure's @naomimcclureart conspicuously empty paintings represent crime scene composites of the sites of infamous "27 Club" deaths. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Martin Bell's colourful assemblage asks both of waste can be made art, and if art-making can be wasteful, weighing up the value of recycled materials and ideas. Meanwhile, Xander Campbell's @xandercmpbll satirically kitsch sculpture work "Embassy Mall" indulges in and critiques consumerist excess. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Davina Panesar @davina_panesar borrows from the tradition of op art to probe into our evolutionary aversions, creating a series of sculptural paintings inspired by phobias and philias. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Oliwia Majewska @oliwia_majewska employs simple yet striking visual metaphors to tell individual stories of mental illness through photography and sculpture. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Jasmine Regmi's @jasmineregmi.art vibrant paintings draw on the artist's Nepalese heritage, illustrating the Hindu living deity of the Kumari Goddess. The Kumari is a young girl taken over by the spirit of the Goddess Taleju, who is then worshipped until she begins menstruation. #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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#andegreeshowtakeover by @fk.art Closing today's takeover is the work of Amy Barnett @amylbarnett_ which, in contrast to other works in the show which encourage us to get closer with nature in the here and now, invites us to connect with the less-than-natural world that may exist long after we're gone. Attempting to "aetheticise the Anthropocene", Barnett creates tactile geological artefacts from synthetic composite materials, enhanced by a crunchy, sensory soundtrack made in collaboration with Bea Dawkins. From this work, it's clear the artists at Gray's are concerned not only with where they stand but with where they're headed. Thank you for following along with my degree show takeovers! It's been wonderful to do this again with a year of distance from my own degree show and to witness so many new ideas and approaches from the class of 2019. You can find my work over at @fk.art – fingers crossed we might meet again. Bye for now! #andegrees19 #graysschoolofart #rgu #graysdegreeshow #aberdeen #contemporaryart #fineart #scotland @grayscontemporaryart.19 @grayspainting19

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