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Arthur Laidlaw

Arthur Laidlaw’s compositions are closely informed by the techniques and nuances of photography, and he has suggested that the paintings could be seen as an attempt to capture something missed by the photographic instant. Compositions often begin with the merging of two or more film photographs, after scanning the negatives and processing them digitally. Laidlaw adjusts the transparency, inversion and contrast of each image, before converting the collaged composition to greyscale, loosely indexing each shade of grey to an approximate paint colour for the final work. This results in a redistribution of light and shade, positive and negative between the layered images, and disorients the perception of space. Laidlaw’s colour choices are also informed by this digital inversion: livid violets and muddy ochres, bright empty whites where shadows should be.

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Selected works
Adalbertstraße 9, wool, hessian, and latex glue, installed with cable, wire clamps, pulley, carabiner, and manual winch, 170 x 130 cm
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Adalbertstraße 9, wool, hessian, and latex glue, installed with cable, wire clamps, pulley, carabiner, and manual winch, 170 x 130 cm
Cannes 2, gouache, acrylic, and oil on linen, 170 x 140 cm
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Cannes 2, gouache, acrylic, and oil on linen, 170 x 140 cm
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Exhibitions
Cannes 2, 2022, gouache, arcylic, and oil on linen, 170 x 140 cm
Shatter 2, 2023, gouache and gesso on hessian, 35 x 28 cm
Shatter 8, 2023, gouache and gesso on hessian, 35 x 28 cm
Shatter 4, 2023, gouache and gesso on hessian, 35 x 28 cm
Shatter 3, 2023, gouache and gesso on hessian, 35 x 28 cm
Shatter 6, 2023, gouache and gesso on hessian, 35 x 28 cm
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Ghost 5, 2021, gouache, acrylic, oil, hessian, 35 x 28 cm
Ghost 2, 2023, gouache, acrylic, oil, hessian, 35 x 28 cm
Ghost 3
Ghost 4, 2021, gouache, acrylic, oil, hessian, 35 x 28 cm
Ghost, 2023, gouache, acrylic, oil, hessian, 35 x 28 cm
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