Bank Street Gallery
katy colvin & maureen crosbie
If you grew up in the Kirriemuir area and are under twenty five, you will already be aware of Maureen Crosbie and Katy Colvin.
Crosbie is a peripatetic art teacher in local primary schools. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, she moved to Kirriemuir in 1990 and immediately made her mark in the town through the children she taught. Her buoyant personality ensures an engagement which many young students probably didn’t even anticipate of themselves! The key to her success is undoubtedly her excitement for all things creative. But with her young following, she provides herself a convincing platform through her prolific stained glass creations. Influenced by the community and world around her, her work reveals a zeal for her Scottish heritage and an energy which appears limitless. Here she focuses her curiosity on the old town itself – from the Picts to Bon Scott!
Recognition amongst the young people of Kirriemuir and Angus is not exclusive to Maureen Crosbie. Katy Colvin, too, will be known to many. Colvin trained (in illustration and graphic design) in Edinburgh but having spent much of her life abroad, she moved to Kirriemuir in 2004. Here she chose as home - to bring up her young son and practise her craft: Katy set up Kirriemuir’s first ever tattoo parlour almost the moment she arrived. Her success in that business is directly attributable to the quality of her art. A pop artist of the finest kind, she too is significantly influenced by her immediate surroundings and is closely attuned to the beat of her clientele. In this exhibition, Katy pursues an exploration of eigengrau, the flat grey (sometimes known as dark light or brain gray) perceived by the eye in perfect darkness.
maureen and katy’s show runs from 22nd june 2012 until 3rd august 2012