Please join us for a public conversation with Barbara Nicholls and artist and writer Scott McCracken on the final week of the Between the Tides exhibition at the gallery.
Welcome drinks: 11 AM
Start of the talk: 11:30 AM
RSVP to info@patrickheide.com
Scott McCracken is a painter and occasional writer living and working in London. He received his BA and MFA from Edinburgh College of Art (2005-11) and studied at Turps Art School (2015-17). In 2017 he was awarded the Darbyshire Prize for Emerging Art and was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2019. Solo exhibitions include Thames-Side Studios Gallery (London), Hi10 (Skien), Borough Road Gallery (London) and Darbyshire’s Ltd. (London). His work has been included in group shows at OHSH Projects (London), HilbertRaum (Berlin), APT Gallery (London), Kingsgate Project Space (London), Hypha Studios (London) and Oceans Apart (Manchester). He is Programme Leader and mentor at Turps Art School and regularly writes for Turps Magazine.
Between the Tides is Barbara Nicholls' first solo exhibition at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art. Oscillating between chance and control, the artist investigates the possibilities and limitations of pigment, water and paper, translating her experience of the landscape into abstract watercolours. While drawing, she reflects on natural formations encountered or imagined: tide mark lines on beaches, creeping glaciers and moraine deposits, cliffs and quarries with their shifting forms of geological strata revealing traces of past events and the slow movements of the earth.