MLitt Fine Art Practice School of Fine Art
April
(She/Her)
April (B.1998) is a Glasgow based contemporary artist, working predominantly in painting and sculpture. Her recent Solo-Exhibition’s include ‘Echoes of Renewal in Rust’ at Gleneagles Hotel and ‘Beyond the Surface, at WASPS, the Briggait, Glasgow.
Hotworks is an ongoing creative research project, focussed on exploring the communal identity of rural Lanarkshire through painting, capturing shifts in cultural identity, understood through archival research. The series, titled Hotworks, addresses the regions de-industrialization and its effects on the contemporary landscape. By re-imagining archival material through the lenses of collapse and renewal, April’s paintings delve into themes of nature, agency, locality and surface tensions.