27 July – 28 Oct

11am – 6pm Daily
Admission Free

EVENTS

John Stezaker

Breathing new life into photographs salvaged from forgotten film archives and obsolete magazines, John Stezaker intuitively transforms these found portraits into otherworldly, uncanny beings. Playing with our fascination with the face, Stezaker’s subtle yet unsettling interventions toy with the subconscious and the surreal.

Using a manual cut-and-paste technique he continues the rich history of collage by dissolving the naturalistic picture plane and constructing a fragmented and dislocated view of contemporary reality. The individual images fuse and separate before our eyes, opening up new characters, relationships and meanings.

Unknown Purposes and Characteristics:
Work in Progress by Catherine Street

Focus Space is a unique exhibition platform for local artists who use the production facilities at Stills. For this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival we are delighted to present the work of one of our resident artists, Catherine Street.

Working across a variety of media Catherine creates ambiguous and often disturbing meanings by modifying printed matter through drawing, collage and cutting. Her diverse sources include pulp crime magazines, scientific books and images generated through internet trawls.

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