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Ann Louise

Kieran

I am a visual artist who makes drawings, objects, prints and collages. The placing of my work often seeks to convey a relationship between the piece, the artist and the viewer. Large scale, collaged drawings, incorporate a recurring and an imagined floral motif. A faded yet present symbol, perhaps a memorial or an offering, these drawings are necessarily time based; made, unmade and remade through careful engagement and application of ink/collage to create a visual and emotional balance. Through a creative process balanced between the intuitive and the conceptual, drawing and mark-making is central to everything I do and make. A move from the city to the country side in 2026, was also a pivotal turning point in my practice with the rural surroundings of the Scottish Borders having had a deep impact on my work, acting as an impetus to explore a long-held interest in place, personal and collective memory, loss and belonging often through the lens of landscape and the natural world. “My work seeks to conjure a feeling or an atmosphere, alluding to a potential narrative rather than providing a fixed meaning or a literal representation”.

Disciplines: Mixed Media

Location: Galashiels

Materials: Etching, Found, Objects, Monoprint, Paper, Paper Cutting, Pen & Ink, Screenprinting

Instagram: brigid_ann_louise_Kierian

I am a visual artist who makes drawings, objects, prints and collages. The placing of my work often seeks to convey a relationship between the piece, the artist and the viewer. Large scale, collaged drawings, incorporate a recurring and an imagined floral motif. A faded yet present symbol, perhaps a memorial or an offering, these drawings are necessarily time based; made, unmade and remade through careful engagement and application of ink/collage to create a visual and emotional balance. Through a creative process balanced between the intuitive and the conceptual, drawing and mark-making is central to everything I do and make. A move from the city to the country side in 2026, was also a pivotal turning point in my practice with the rural surroundings of the Scottish Borders having had a deep impact on my work, acting as an impetus to explore a long-held interest in place, personal and collective memory, loss and belonging often through the lens of landscape and the natural world. “My work seeks to conjure a feeling or an atmosphere, alluding to a potential narrative rather than providing a fixed meaning or a literal representation”.

Previous Experience

2026 Squash Court Gallery, Hugo Burge Foundation – Print Club (August) Waterfall Gallery, Hawick Museum – Print & Page 2 (Aug-Nov) Priorwood House, Melrose – Print & Page (June) SSA 127th Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh (January/February) 2025 No 31 Gallery, Duns – Showroom (December) Garfield Mill Gallery, Hawick – (November) The Glen Gallery, Traquaire, – Paper (October) Gallery Ten, Edinburgh – featured artist, online exhibition Robson Gallery, Halliwells Museum, Selkirk – curated 4 person show (June-August) Priorwood House, Melrose – South East Printmakers and Book Artists (May/June) 2024 SSA 126th Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh River Drawn, Findra, part of Open Studios Innerleithan Elsewhere Somewhere Else, solo exhibition at Old Gala House, Galashiels Relative Values, Bibliotheque, Newry, N.Ireland By Leaves We Live, Priorwood House with South East Printmakers and Book Artists LAHA – Little Art Hub, Galashiels Polaroid, Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder 2023 SSA 125th Annual exhibition, Mac Laurin Art Gallery,

Collections

Elsewhere Somewhere Else

Drawings – ink

Collage/Mixed Media

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