Category: collaboration

Reliquary Sculpture shown in The Saatchi and Royal Scottish Academy Galleries

It was an absolute delight to exhibit ‘Future Reliquary’ at The Saatchi in September as part of The British Art Fair. She could be found, with a wall to herself, on the top floor of the gallery in the DIGITALISM section. The most exciting thing for me was a new collaboration with the Augmented Reality artist Max Čelar.

Max Created an Augmented Reality layer to the sculpture, this could be viewed through a phone app which Max helped to develop, Meadow. You can see a screen video of his creation below. Max developed my ideas around what the medieval reliquaries of the past would be holding sacred in a future without our biodiversity and wild spaces. He created an alternative world within the heart of the sculpture. The sculpture is cast from White Marble Jesmonite and is available in an edition of 5. This edition with the Augmented Reality included is £7,700. It is magical and wonderful and got a lot of love and good reviews at the Saatchi.

I am currently working on a second sculpture that will be wearing goggles, and perhaps a third with a mask over her mouth. You get the idea.

Next year I will be exhibiting a different version of this one and another of the triptych within the Scottish Society of Artists Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy Gallery on Edinburgh’s Princes Street. This time the sculptures will contain a Pepper’s Ghost illusion. This is a Victorian optical illusion, I love the time travelling nature of these works which reference medieval and classical time periods, the early 1900s and the far distant future.

The two sculptures will form an installation which will also comprise fired, porcelain elements and painting on the walls. The exhibition will take place at the Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 2EL from 14 February – 10 March 2027.

The Stoic

I will be at the RSA earlier in 2027 with ‘The Stoic’, an oil and resin painting on aluminium. This has been selected by Visual Arts Scotland for their annual exhibition which runs through January 2027.

I called her The Stoic partly because she has the gaze of a philosopher and the air of a mystic but mainly because I wrestled with this one for over a year and a half so needed to exercise a great deal of stoicism to finish it.

Thank you for your continuing support for my practice, I always love to hear your thoughts on the work I make.

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Artist’s Talk at the Graystone Gallery

The Graystone Gallery will host an Artist Talk on Saturday, April 20th, featuring SSA Award winners Gill Walton and Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou. Their collaborative work, “Sotto Voce,” impressed at the 2023 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, winning the SSA Past Presidents Award. Join the artists for an inspiring conversation about their multimedia artwork. RSVP at lesley@graystonegallery.com.

SSA Award Winners Gill Walton and Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou

This event has passed but you can see both recordings here.

Part 1 and Part 2

 Navigating the Narrative
… and expressing internal worlds.

Gill’s sculptural paintings depict the human form; she layers graphite pencil with beeswax, metal and other precious, elemental materials. Her process echoes the layering of emotions, using the human figure as a mechanism for reflecting our own internal worlds.

Rebekah’s projects frequently delve into the delicate balance between truth and fiction, history, and memory. Her work often explores the concept of multiple realities or parallel narratives existing simultaneously. This could manifest in nonlinear storytelling structures, where different versions of events coexist or interact with each other.

To enjoy an afternoon of inspiring conversation at Graystone Gallery, simply click the button below or email: lesley@graystonegallery.com to RSVP. Reserve My Place at the Artist Talk.

From a Whisper…to award

Long-standing friends and colleagues, Gill and Rebekah have collaborated to create ‘Sotto Voce’ a large-scale, multimedia artwork incorporating vintage star cluster images and ancient dog roses.This beautiful, complex image features a combination of Gill’s drawing and Rebekah’s skills with mixed media composing. ‘Sotto Voce’ was chosen to be exhibited in the 2023 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, where it won the SSA Past Presidents Award. Kate Downie PPSSA RSA called it “… a very detailed piece but she holds sway over the room and has a quiet power.”

To hear more about their astonishing collaborative works, join Gill and Rebekah for Graystone Gallery’s next Artist Talk at 2pm on Saturday 20th April.

Image: Gill Walton & Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou, Sotto Voce

Interested in attending the Artist Talk at Graystone Gallery on Saturday 20th April at 2pm? Simply RSVP to lesley@graystonegallery.com to reserve your place and meet the artists.

Both Gill and Rebekah are exhibiting in the Graystone Gallery Spring Exhibition, which runs from Friday 12th April – Sunday 12th May 2024. View The Spring Exhibition.

The Graystone Gallery, 52 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5AX

We Won an Award

Artists, Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou and Gill Walton have collaborated to create ‘Sotto Voce,’ a large-scale, multimedia artwork incorporating vintage star cluster images and ancient dog roses. Printed on quality rag paper and overlaid with drawing, pigments and gold and silver, it recently won the Past Presidents Prize at the Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition. The artists intend to produce more pieces, with an exhibition planned for 2024/25. The artwork is available for sale until January 2024.

Recently, I have been collaborating with my long time friend and colleague, Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou, to create a couple of large scale, complex, beautiful pieces. They are a combination of my drawing and Rebekah’s skills with mixed media composing. She included (amongst other things) vintage glass plate negatives of star clusters taken through a telescope in the 1800s and dog wood flowers that died more than 200 years ago. The resulting image was printed onto highest quality archival rag paper, we then both worked over the top of the image with drawings and pigments and gold and silver leaf.

We are very proud of this work, we feel she is magnificent in all the details, from the stars to the tiniest flower. Our goddess is quiet but oh, so powerful, hence the title ‘Sotto Voce’

To our delight ‘Sotto Voce II’ was chosen to be exhibited in this year’s Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition at the MacLaurin Galleries in Ayr this year and to further that delight, she won an award!

The Prize was awarded by Kate Downie PPSSA RSA, she stated that she was moved by the way our piece held her presence. “it is a very detailed piece but she holds sway over the room and has a quiet power.” Just what we thought Kate!

Rebekah and I have set the intention to produce much more work together next year with a view to holding an exhibition of the series in 2024/25.

The piece is currently available for sale from the MacLaurin Gallery until January 2024

I also have two pieces in the 30×30 online exhibition which runs alongside the annual exhibition.

  • The Alchemist’s Pot- 2023- Graphite, beeswax and bronze- 30cm x 30cm, £320
  • Vessel Hand Eye_2023_GraphiteBeeswaxBronze_26cmx30cm, £320

In other news

Two of my Alchemy series are currently in the Winter Exhibition at the Graystone Gallery in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. This is a new gallery in a very beautiful space and a great location. The exhibition runs until the 25th January and includes many wonderful Scottish artists. Pay a visit if you can.

Keep in touch because I will be busy next year. I am back at Borders Art Fair in March and Inception in May with a new series of work based on Reliquaries.