‘Lingering in Liminality’ Triptych, 2024
Based on the journey from studio to dreamscape, this piece delves into the journey from the studio to daydream. Aiming to show how isolation can cause someone to delve further into themselves, and further away from reality. Displaying uncanny in-between spaces, this piece is inspired by the scripted spaces we encounter in daily life. Investigating how emotion can colour the way we see physical and imaginary space.
‘The Studio’, Acrylic on Board, 75 x 40 x 1.8cm
‘The Train’, Acrylic on Board, 70 x 35 x 1.8cm
‘At Home’, Acrylic on Board, 63 x 33 x 1.8cm
Displayed at The UAL Graduate Showcase 2024, Six Foot Gallery and the Edinburgh Health and Wellbeing Festival
‘Moving Past Fat Dan’, Acrylic on Board, 140 x 100 x 1.8cm, 2024
After using fat dan as a landmark for meeting up with friends as a kid, this painting explores what it's like for the artist to move past him as an adult after her return home. With the grey tones conveying the eeriness of not knowing where you’re going, and the blue swirls showcasing representing the unknown possibilities. The illustrative nature of the piece referencing Dundees creative industries in both comics and gaming.
‘Loading Time’, Acrylic on Board, 61 x 122 x 1.8cm, 2024
This piece shows an empty train station, focusing on the lack of humanity in the space. Inspired by indie horror games each object is individually rendered, thick acrylic is used in intensely contrasting blue and brown to create a surreal effect, making a dream-like, eery scene. Inspired by scripted architecture, designed in order to subconsciously guide people through spaces, the never ending pathway points the viewer in direction. The technology being used as a focal point whichhighlights the lack of people inside the space, inviting the viewer inside the isolation.
‘Mini Landscape I’, Acrylic on Paper, 15 x 15 cm, 2024
‘Home Dreamscape’, Acrylic on Paper, 25 x 25 cm, 2024
‘Mini Landscape II’, Acrylic on Paper, 15 x 15 cm, 2024
‘Watched’, Acrylic on Card, 42cm x 25cm, September 2024
‘Tay Watching’, Acrylic on Board, 59.4cm x 42cm, July 2024
‘Thinking Space’
25th October- 2nd November 2024,
The Keiller Centre, Dundee
After graduating from the University of the Arts London, Emily McGhie Jackson’s first solo exhibition ‘Thinking Space’, explores the transition though university before coming back to revisit Tayside. Vibrant landscapes showcase her daydreams of home from the city. With greyer scenes showing how isolation colour our view of the world, causing us to draw further into ourselves.
Emily McGhie Jackson is a Scottish artist exploring liminal space and our perception of reality. In her introspective painting practice, she aims to show how our mood and experiences of space can shape how we physically view the world. Using an illustrative style, her paintings exist as physical objects containing portals which invite the viewer to step into another world. Jackson’s practice explores scenes from her everyday life. Painting empty liminal spaces, within the busy city and the open countryside, she explores the relationship between physical space and atmosphere, how nature can feel endless yet welcoming and how architecture can feel endlessly barren. Particularly inspired by video game engines, she usesphysical perspective to incorporate the viewer into a space which allows room for their own contemplation.
