Exhibitions
Captain Lightfoot Presents...
08/08/2014 - 16/08/2014
Captain Lightfoot Presents... is an art exhibition organised by Captain Lightfoot that took place in the Victorian Glasshouse at Lauriston Castle in Edinburgh for 7 days over the month of August 2014.
With a strong interest in narrative and symbolism in visual art and a focus on instigating evolving exhibitions and projects that explore these concepts in relation to curating and the role of the viewer, Captain Lightfoot will work in collaboration with the Learning and Access department of the City of Edinburgh Museum and Galleries, to deliver an exhibition of new site-specific work by all three members of Captain Lightfoot and also of invited artists Jessie Makinson and Stephen Kavanagh- as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival.
Acting like whispers of a forgotten pleasure, the art works will hint at the faded stories, secrets and past that belong to the building itself. With a combination of painting, sculpture and photography, the exhibition will lead the viewer through the space, so that with each new work or structure encountered, another chapter of the Glasshouse may be revealed. Sat within the 30 acres of opulent gardens and parkland surrounding Lauriston Castle, the Victorian glasshouse is a beautiful and enchanting space to show contemporary art outside of the normal gallery context, with the aim of inspiring critical and creative dialogue between the artists and the public.
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival, the UK's largest annual festival of visual art: www.edinburghartfestival.com.
No Heroics Please
22/03/2013 - 27/03/2013
Captain Lightfoot presented their first exhibition No Heroics, Please (funded by the Hope Scott Trust) to a London audience at the Crypt Gallery, Euston.
With it's beautiful and eerie architecture of low arches, maze-like corridors, brick work walls and ruined-tombs; dominantly but peacefully sharing it's history and stories with who ever enters, the crypt acted as a most striking and intimate location to explore the relationship between space, artwork and the viewer.
With a particular focus on how the viewer can be led through an exhibition and experience art work in an 'unconventional' gallery space. No Heroics, Please evolved into an exploration of how an artwork can stand by itself as a self-contained object, whilst simultaneously absorbing and playing with or against the distinct characters and essence of the building it occupies.
Everything Stuck to Him
03/2014
Everything Stuck to Him is an exhibition by artist collective Captain Lightfoot (Anneli Holmström, Emma Pratt and Kadie Salmon). With a focus on the longevity of an exhibition and the experience of the viewer as they unravel and piece together an overall narrative, the exhibition used the unusual and striking space of the Vaults along with lighting techniques to control and manipulate the viewers experience of an art work whilst disrupting and playing with the narrative of the exhibition as a whole. 'Everything Stuck to Him' ran through the course of one day and consisted of sculpture, projected photography and film. Each art work acts like the chapter from a novel or a scene from a film; with works that appear for an instance and then disappear just as quickly into the darkness of the Vaults.'