Architecture Reassembled: Ros Lawless & Charles Young
This exhibition at Upright Gallery brings together Ros Lawless & Charles Young, two artists whose interest lies in the built environment - both real and imagined.
About Architecture Reassembled: Ros Lawless & Charles Young
| 31st May 2025 to 20th Jun 2025 | |
| Wed - Fri 11am - 5pm / Sat 12pm - 4pm | |
|
Upright Gallery 3 Barclay Terrace , Edinburgh South EH10 4HP |
|
| This is a free event | |
| Visit the event website here | |
| Facebook information can be found here | |
| Follow uprightgallery on Instagram | |
Meet the artists
Sat 31 May, 1-3pm
All welcome
This exhibition brings together two artists whose interest lies in the built environment - both real and imagined.
Ros Lawless' practice is influenced by her immediate surroundings, in particular architecture, which she uses to organise pictorial space and form.
The detail and forms within architecture, such as lines, structures and space, along with a sense of history, are intuitively explored resulting in chance compositions, accidental mark making and fresh ways of working.
Most recently Lawless has been working with wall rubbings, focusing on public and private space; the space of maintenance and workers areas. This may be fire hydrants, electrical boxes, post boxes and re-developed sites where you find the workers mark.
Whilst on residency at the International Summer Academy, Salzburg, she explored scale; working on a 'one-one' with the everyday objects within the Hohensalzburg Fortress. Thinking beyond the aesthetic and function of the substrate allowed her to utilise conventional materials in an unfamiliar way, resisting the subjective rules. The outcome of this took the form of direct wall rubbings with graphite on paper, linen or found materials. She continues to realise and redefine her process whilst focusing on these ‘workers’ areas - looking within and giving importance to her environment by taking rubbings and recordings of an often overlooked societal area.
Charles Youngs’ work has its basis in architectural model making and draws on the forms of the built environment. He focuses on the relationship between invented structures and the built history of the existing city.
He works in paper, wood and fabric and often uses stop motion animation to introduce movement into some of his pieces.
Charles’ longest running project to date, Paperholm, was a daily project where he designed, constructed and published online a new paper building every day for a year from August 2014. The individual structures come together to form a single, dense archipelago. Recording his progress every day in an online archive allowed him to bring life to the paper models through the use of gif animations. The project ended in December 2017 with a total of 1000 daily additions.
An ongoing project, begun in 2020 ‘Colour combinations’ consists of small paper buildings, each using different colour combinations, based on Sanzo Wada’s Dictionary of Colour Combinations. The first part of the project, four-colour studies, was included in the exhibition Paper Art 2021 at the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands as well as at Edinburgh’s RSA in 2022.
Where possible we will update our listings to notify of cancelled, postponed and rescheduled events, however we STRONGLY ADVISE that you check with the venue/organiser in the first instance for updates.
All information (whether in text or photographs) is supplied in good faith but should not be relied upon as being a statement of representation or fact.GOT AN EVENT TO SHARE? It's free to post your events on What's On Edinburgh, click here to find out more!
Want to be the first to hear about what's happening in Edinburgh? Just hit 'Like' on our Facebook page, join the What's On Scotland Facebook Group and 'Follow' on our Twitter account and you're all set!Sponsored Links
Similar events you might like...
Snapshots: Gallery Short Talks
Join us on Thursdays at The Palace of Holyroodhouse for a short talk on one of the fascinating photographs in our exhibition Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography!
READ MORE
Gretna 110 Exhibition
Curated by the Royal Scots Regimental Museum, the exhibition is designed to raise awareness of the 110th anniversary of the Quintinshill Rail Disaster where 216 members of the 7th Battalion died.
READ MORE
Paint the World a Beautiful Place
'Paint the World a Beautiful Place' is an exhibition by Scottish painter Sue Tait, showing at Dundas Street Gallery from 23rd to 28th May.
READ MORE
The Ascent of Man
This exhibition at The House of Smalls, showcases the artwork of 75 female artists, made in response to their feelings at the ever-increasing oppression, repression and suppression of women.
READ MORE
Doug Cocker in Conversation
Join sculptor Doug Cocker at Dovecot on the opening day of his exhibition as he discusses this dynamic new body of work and the themes in his practice, past and present!
READ MORE
Doug Cocker: Threads
Doug Cocker, one of Scotland’s leading sculptors, unveils a dynamic new body of work at Dovecot Studios in collaboration with The Scottish Gallery.
READ MORE
Architecture Reassembled: Ros Lawless & Charles Young
This exhibition at Upright Gallery brings together Ros Lawless & Charles Young, two artists whose interest lies in the built environment - both real and imagined.
READ MORE
John Bellany: A Life in Self-Portraiture
John Bellany: A Life in Self-Portraiture captures the span of an extraordinary life and career, told through the lens of the artist’s own eyes and the words of the people who knew him best.
READ MORE
Exposed 25
EXPOSED 25 is more than just a display of technical skill; it's a celebration of creativity, resilience, and the power of visual storytelling by Edinburgh College's graduating photography class.
READ MORESponsored Links
Find other events in Edinburgh
Sponsored Links