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Kate Downie RSA
Live from the Academician’s Studio

Kate Downie RSA: Live from the Academician’s Studio

Events happening today event
3 February 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Photo credit: Alicia Bruce
Photo credit: Alicia Bruce

Two Children Plus Two 

Kate Downie on Joan Eardley

7pm, Zoom

 

This first studio encounter of 2022 brings together two renowned Scottish-based artists, Joan Eardley (1921–63), whose centenary is being celebrated in 2021–22, and painter and printmaker Kate Downie (b. 1958), who has long acknowledged Eardley’s creative influence. In her work, Kate has tackled similar themes to Eardley – child portraiture, the urban landscape, coastal terrain – and there is a sense of connection, an understanding in her artistic practice.

 

Drawn to the possibilities left open by Eardley’s Two Children (1962-63), found incomplete on the artist’s easel at her death, Kate is creating a new artwork in which she proposes to ‘finish’ the painting. Making studies of local children, she attempts to get inside Eardley’s head, responding to and reimagining the composition with its graffiti, found objects and unfinished figures.

 

Chaired by Annie Cattrell RSA, this unique ‘Live Session’ will take you into Kate Downie’s studio as she generously documents her journey, sharing her insights and discoveries as she looks, thinks, draws and paints to better understand Eardley and this her final ambitious canvas.

 

This project has been carried out with full permission of the Eardley estate and Glasgow Museums.

 

View the event online here

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