A catalogue to accompany Kate Downie’s June 2021 exhibition, Between Seasons
We are thrilled to welcome Kate Downie back for her seventh solo exhibition with The Scottish Gallery. Between Seasons is an exhibition of international standing, reflecting the extraordinary times in which we live. A series of ten tree paintings form the heart of this exhibition. Each painting can be viewed through 180 degrees, with bottom and top image transected by a central horizon line, forming a mirror-like reflection. The trees, which Downie has captured at six-month intervals, move forward and backwards in time, existing in a continual state of transition. Each work is a journey without a beginning or end, a cycle of life, death, and regeneration within which we all play a part.
About Kate Downie
Born in North Carolina, Kate Downie is one of Scotland’s most respected contemporary painters, celebrated for a practice that moves fluidly between painting, drawing, printmaking and installation. After studying at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Downie travelled extensively, undertaking residencies and projects in the United States, England, Amsterdam and Paris. Over the past three decades she has built a distinctive body of work rooted in direct engagement with place, landscape and industry, responding intuitively to environments through colour, gesture and mark-making.
