TAKE ME TO EVERY DOUBLE ARCH BRIDGE: Rosalind Lawless

Glasgow Print Studio is pleased to present a new body of work by Rosalind Lawless. Lawless's work is architectural in suggestion, exploring the unrepeatable image as it dissolves into more elusive forms. Working with found and recycled materials, including postcards and paper, she embraces an open and experimental approach to printmaking. In this new body of work, the physics of water, ink and chance have played a part in shaping intuitive responses to what is happening - and what might happen - through the physical processes of screenprint.

This new body of work began with Lawless observing a double-arch bridge for the first time. She began drawing it repeatedly, using the process to move beyond its literal meaning. Bridges and other commonplace imagery become a means of organising the pictorial space and creating a sense of perspective within the substrate. Through layering and reworking, these forms have been transformed, moving from the recognisable structures of double-arch bridges where the source is absorbed into new compositions.

Exploring the materiality of found and recycled materials remains central to Lawless's practice. This, alongside a willingness to experiment and allow the process to introduce the unexpected, continues to underpin this latest body of work.

Rosalind Lawless received her BA (Hons) from Gray's School of Art and her Master of Fine Art in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, where she was awarded the Tim Mara Award.

Lawless has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally and has undertaken a number of artist residencies and awards, including at the International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg; the Inverarity One to One Travel Award, France; the RSA Residencies for Scotland Award; and Peacock and the Worm. Her work is held in numerous collections, including the National Galleries of Scotland and the Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.