{"id":56662,"date":"2025-07-15T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/?p=56662"},"modified":"2025-07-15T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:27:45","slug":"power-of-four-at-scott-lawrie-gallery-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/power-of-four-at-scott-lawrie-gallery-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Power of Four at Scott Lawrie Gallery, Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edinburgh’s Scott Lawrie Gallery<\/strong> is showing the fourth in its series of MOANA <\/i>exhibitions \u2013 the final one of this year \u2013 highlighting the extraordinary diversity and visual power of a particular group of artists associated with the Gallery, mainly based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Artists include exciting emerging talents such as Sean Hill, Linda Va\u2019aelua (whose work is pictured), and Ercan Cairns, together with more established artists Dagmar Dyck, Andy Leleisi’uao, Sefton Rani and Raymond Sagapolutele, and includes a new painting by senior Samoan\/NZ artist Fatu Feu\u2019u ONZM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Scott, ‘These are complex and nuanced stories of individual or family circumstances, unique explorations of ideas of \u2018home\u2019 and the ancestral lineage that comes with it. Many of these artists were children of migrant workers who emigrated to Aotearoa for jobs and a better life for their families. Almost all working-class in their upbringing, they demonstrate an ongoing, multi-layered, and nuanced exploration of what it means to be displaced \u2013  even embraced \u2013 within new cultural contexts.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keenly aware of the ‘western gaze’ when viewing antipodean art, Scott has carefully curated the exhibition to bring out the best in the artist, his\/her narrative, and the viewer, in exploring and absorbing ‘…the rich aesthetic riffs from some of the most unique storytellers on the planet \u2013 and all the insights, fresh perspectives (and perhaps even contradictions) that come with it.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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