VICTORIA MORTON │ GENERATION: 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland │ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh → 25 January 2015

Dirty Burning. 1997. Medium Oil on canvas, 210.00 x 180.00 cm © The Artist. Courtesy of the artist and the National Galleries of Scotland

After Madam Butts. 2010. Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm. Photography: Ruth Clark. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy of Private Collection

Daphne Oram. 2014. Oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm. Photography: John McKenzie. Location: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art © The Artist and the National Galleries of Scotland.

Installation view. Photo: John McKenzie

“Ʈri lj-scêl pêntñz r on dsple bî Glazgo-bêst ātist Victoria Mwtn: Drti Brnñ, 1997, Aftr Madm Buts, 2010 n a ny pêntñ Dafni Ōṛm, 2014. Ɖz ʈri wrcs r cnctd bî îdiyz abt myzic, pwtričr, n ɖ rlešnšp btwn tnaḷti n lîtwevz in culr.

Mwtn’z stîl v pêntñ ofn apirz sponteňs or impṛvîzd, bt z bêst on a dīp undrstandñ v āthistri n ʈiyri. Az wel az ʈı̣retcl cnsrnz, Mwtn rmenz ingejd wɖ ɖ ptnšl fr ɖ sîc̣lojcl n imošnl impact v pêntñ. Ɖ ātist olso hz a loñ-held intrest in nonvrbl fwmz v cmynicešn, in ptklr, myzic n hz an actv involvmnt wɖ myzicpṛduẋn hrslf.

Olɖo Drti Brnñ, 1997 apirz olmst intîrli abstract, it includz a slfpwtrit in ɖ pinc/red ẹria at ɖ lowr-rît v ɖ pêntñ. Mwtn asošietd ɖs wɖ ɖ xpirı̣ns v biyñ inveḷpt bî a pêntñ, n ɖ sîcic ifct v culr fând in ɖ wrc v Abstract Xprešnist pêntrz sč az Bānit Nymn (1905–1970). Aftr Madm Buts, 2010 hz its rūts in a pwtrit bî Hanz Holbîn ɖ Yungr (c. 1497/8–1543) ẇč Mwtn incântrd in a myziym in America. Mwtn crietd hr lêtist pêntñ, Dafni Ōṛm, 2014 az a rspons t ɖ tu ŕlı̣r wrcs on dsple. Ɖs ny wrc z a pwtrit v ɖ pạnirñ bt ltl nôn ilectronic cmpozr, Dafni Ōṛm, n xplorz Mwtn’z intrests in myzic nâ.

Born in Glazgo, Mwtn undrtŭc a BA n Mastrz in Fîn Āt at ɖ Glazgo Scūl v Āt, grajuetñ in 1995. Š livz n wrcs in Glazgo.”

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