Ian Reddie is an Edinburgh-based artist producing mixed media paintings, screen prints and digital art. Born in Kirkcaldy (Scotland) in 1960, he became an artist after a career of over twenty years as a graphic designer in London and Edinburgh, having graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee in 1982.
In 2007, Ian received a grant from the Hope Scott Trust for developing a project on Roslin Glen. Works were exhibited at various sites throughout Midlothian. He has had solo exhibitions at the multi arts centre GRV (Edinburgh) in 2008 and WASP Patriothall studios (Edinburgh) in 2009. An exhibition followed during the Edinburgh Art Festival at the Art’s Complex in August 2010. In 2011 he presented the Covenant series at the Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre, coinciding with David Greig’s play ‘Dunsinane’.
At the start of 2012, he took part in the re-launch of Gallery 1 of the Art’s Complex and later on in the ‘Art of Giving’, Edinburgh, Surgeon’s Hall. He exhibited ‘Riad’ at the Paisley Art Institute in June 2013.
He recently took part in the group exhibition 5 Spot, at Hopetoun House (Edinburgh) and the Three Harbours art festival in East Lothian.
He co-curated the group exhibition ‘Art in Granton’ held at granton:hub 18-20 March 2016. This exhibition brought together 30+ international and local artists.
At the 2019 exhibition ‘Art in Granton’ three of his abstract landscape paintings were re-purposed into a mixed media art installation by Gina Fierlafijn Reddie entitled Down to the Wire (2019).
His work has been bought by private clients in Scotland, England, Ireland and Belgium
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Ian has consistently developed his abstract style since the beginning of his artistic career. After exploring screen printing and digital collage, he began painting in mixed media. Oils, marble dust, concrete, grit and jute are amongst the materials he has used. Texture is a vital component of his style, with surfaces and colour being worked and reworked, scoured clear and covered over again. Elemental forms cut through these tactile landscapes, creating humanist reference points in the universal chaos of existence. Dynamic tension is created by the relationship of form and space, the exploration of edge – the boundary at which states alter; solid becoming void; the definite, ambiguous.These works invite the viewer to respond at an emotional level; to find their own orientation, and create their own personal narrative.
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