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Aiden Milligan
MA Fine Art (with Distinction) - Gray's School of Art (2017 – 2018)
Gray’s School of Art에서 순수미술 전공으로 석사학위 취득
First Class BA (Hons) Contemporary Art Practice (Printmaking) - Gray's School of Art (2013 – 2017)
Gray’s School of Art에서 현대미술 전공(판화)으로 학사학위 취득
주로 작가의 고향인 South Ayshire에서의 일상과 관련된 작업을 이어가고 있다. 특히 Maybole 지역에서의 기억과 지역에 대한 작가의 후속연구들이 반영된, 자전적인 작업이 주를 이루는 작가이다. 그림을 통해 유머와 사악한 것 사이의 미묘한 차이와 경계를 탐구하고자 하며, 기본적으로 작가가 그린 세계는 스코틀랜드 시골에서의 일상적인 이야기를 담고 있다. 때때로 민속, 지역 관습, 그리고 작가의 시선을 토대로 삶의 이야기를 들려주는 자신의 경험으로 도리어 자아성찰을 하기도 한다. 어떤 의미에서는, 작가는 이러한 향수의 장소로 돌아가면서 지금과 같은 세상을 재조명한다. 따라서 작가의 그림 속 장소는 두 사람의 만남, 옛 추억과 현대 생활의 현실의 만남이 이뤄지는 공간이 된다. 작가는 자신의 작업에 대해 “우리의 세계는 그 어느 때보다도 상호 연결되어 있었고 그것은 좋은 일입니다. 하지만 시간을 늦추고 우리의 뿌리와 다시 접촉하는 데 진정한 가치가 있습니다.”라고 우리에게 전하며, 우리가 잊고 지낸 것들에 대해 새로이 생각하게 한다.
My work is deeply rooted and concerned with South Ayrshire; informed by my own experience in my hometown of Maybole, and my subsequent research of Ayrshire and Arran as a whole. Within my practice, I use painting to explore narratives that tread the fine line between humour and the sinister. My painted world depicts stories of people within the context of everyday rural Scotland, at times calling on folklore, local custom, and own observations from experience to conjure narratives that tell a story of life as I see it. My work deals in black humour and never escapes life’s tragedies and mishap but does offer a vision of the world through child’s eyes. If I paint a tree, a barn in a field, an abandoned air rifle range on a hill, then there’s a good chance I have fond memories of it; there is a genuine connection to my imagery and my formative years in rural Southwest Scotland. In a sense, I re-examine the world as it is now by returning to these places of nostalgia. The place in the painting is a meeting of the two, the nostalgia of old with the realities of contemporary life. Our world has never been more interconnected and that’s a good thing, but there is real value in slowing down time and getting back in touch with our roots.
ART WORKS
Exhibitions
2022
Songs of the Imbeciles, Baskwell Arts, Edinburgh (2 person show with María Gordon)
2021
In The Bleak Midwinter, Baskwell Arts, Edinburgh
Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Summer Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2020
Devil In The Landscape (Solo Show), Waluso Gallery, London
Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
RSA Annual, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
The Scottish Show, Panter and Hall, London
2019
Little Originals, Dock Street Studios, Dundee
Flora, Fauna, and Other Forms (Nomad), Bonnymuir Green, Aberdeen
Autumn Feature Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
The Scottish Show, Panter and Hall, London
2018
Winter Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Glean, The Worm, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Winter Show, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Masters Show - Gray's School of Art
RSA Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Summer Show, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London
London Art Fair (with Compass Gallery), London
2017
Naughty and Nice (Sweet 'Art) - Espacio Gallery, London
Winter Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
New Faces, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
FreshAyr, Queens Court, Ayr New Generation Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Gray's School of Art Degree Show
Contemporary Art Practice Pre-Degree Show, Hatch, Aberdeen
Wellbeing and Environmental Conference, Sir Ian Wood Building, Robert Gordon University
Stuffed, Newave Gallery, Aberdeen
2016
Base Collective Print Show, SBS Gallery, Humboldt, California, United States of America
Dressed In Grey, SWG3, Glasgow
Testing Time, (Look Again: Visual Art and Design Festival) Gray's School of Art Foyer
Perspicacity, The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen
Drawing In Response, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Awards
2018 RSA Open: Edinburgh Art Shop Prize
2017 BP Fine Art Award (Winner)
Residencies
2019 Royal Drawing School: Dumfries House
Collections
The Wood Group
Private collections across Europe, North America and Asia
Press
Art North magazine issue 05 - Spring 2020 – Featured Artist
Art North magazine issue 04 - Winter 2019