Environmental Rendering

In the past 5 years everything has been changing for this collection of young artists; the birth of generative AI, increasingly volatile and polarised politics, global warming and desensitisation to constant conflict. A pandemic rocked their education and socialisation. Life, now inseparable from the internet, is mutating away from physical spaces and the natural world. Environmental Rendering brings together new graduate artists from across Scotland who are approaching such surreal times with inventive storytelling and extensive visual investigation.

 

​Amy Mclean inquires into our connections and how we see the world. Malachy McCrimmon sees it reborn in absurdity, while Yulia Hap pictures how it is all going to end. Rosie Hodgson Smith pushes for personal agency in the digital landscape and, overwhelmed, Samantha Black reassures us that she feels the disconnection too.

 

Bringing us out of the surreal digital world, these artists also represent physical environments through unique perspectives. Holly Macdonald’s jewellery explores the oppression of structures and scaffolds in Glasgow, while Elene Sturua’s imposing paintings reflect on the tensions in Georgia.