Brandon Logan

My works are made by sealing warps of string with layers of paint, until the paint supports the string, and the string in turn supports the paint. Areas of string and paint are then cut away by hand, exposing an archaeology and leaving behind patterning which might nod to both decorative networks and systems of information, or language.

This process is one of my own devising and is a relatively simple one, though I am only able to condense it into such terms now that I have come to know it and its capabilities intimately. The resultant works share something with the appearance of textiles or tapestries, being fluid in their composition and possessing a drape - yet where a textile may be folded, worn – behave sociably, in short – the paintings have a built-in fragility which clearly marks them out as not for use. Nonetheless, the work does occupy a discomfiting space between object and artwork, craft and art, pointing outside of itself, perhaps to a broader lexicon which it might soon become part of, or indeed might have been sliced away from.

First class MA(Hons) Fine Art (Painting)
Edinburgh College of Art 2014-19

Awards:
The Astaire Art Prize 2019, First Prize
Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries Prize 2019
The University of Edinburgh Purchase Prize 2019
Shortlisted Visual Arts Scotland Graduate Showcase Award 2019
Shortlisted Scottish Sculpture Workshop Graduate Award 2019

Selected Group Exhibitions:
June 2019, Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show
April 2019, The Astaire Prize Shortlist, Edinburgh College of Art
Mar 2019, John, Edinburgh College of Art
Mar 2019, 54321, Edinburgh College of Art
Dec 2018, Annual Open Exhibition, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Mar 2018, Cured Meat, Fire Station, Lauriston Place
Dec 2017, Annual Open Exhibition, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
April 2017, Running Up That Hill, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh
Mar 2017, Acid Free Tissue, Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh
Dec 2016, Annual Open Exhibition, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Dec 2016, Painting! Painting!, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh