New exhibition to challenge landscape paintings

The show opens at Glasgow School of Art in July

A taste of the exhbition
Published 30th Jun 2017

The Against Landscape exhibition looks to question the way paintings are set, according to curator Daniel Sturgis.

The London-based painter said: "The exhibition has 15 artists represented from America, the UK and from Scotland, and each of them is working with an understanding, or is in some way inspired by the landscape, and that is represented in a slightly hidden way within their work.

"I think that all exhibitions are about asking questions and about people coming to think what their understanding is of how an artist might reflect on the natural environment and landscapes.

"Questioning is what this exhibition's all about. It's asking you to challenge your expectation of what landscape painting might be. I think they're all wonderful work."

The free exhibition will be run in the Reid Building of the Glasgow School of Art from Saturday 1st July until August 23rd.

It will feature works from 15 artists, such as Patrick Caulfield CBE, and Eva Rothschild, as well as Roy Voss and Daniel Sturgis himself.

It is being run in collaboration with Grizedale Arts, which has hosted the exhibit until now.

Some of the paintings will also hang on "eccentric" panels, which were made by Grizedale Arts, which is a rural organisation based in the Lake District.