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Shelagh Atkinson?British
Moving on
2013
Edition 2/3
Signed
Framed
Screenprint
57 x 71 cm
Guide Price £800

Born in Scotland in 1959, Shelagh’s early studies
were of Social Psychology and later
Communication at Napier University Edinburgh.
A multi-disciplinary artist, she has always been
interested in people and politics. Shelagh has
exhibited extensively, both nationally and
internationally, including at The Kanagawa Print
Triennial in Japan (2001), Women in
Contemporary Printmaking Sofia in Bulgaria
(2005), Thoroughly Modern Women at the
Scottish National Portrait Gallery (2006) and
a solo exhibition at the Scottish-Russia
Institute (2010) and, most recently, at the
prestigious Kunming China International Print
exhibition (2012).
With the 35th edition of Who’s Who in Art
Morven Press (2012) Shelagh created a number
of commissioned portrait pieces, including those
of Sally Beamish, Mick McGahey, Simon
McBurney, to name a few. She works from her
studio in Edinburgh.

“

It is through the connection with my partner Karen Rookwood’s family
story of migration that I became interested in CARA and its current
projects. Migration and displacement are themes that have become
woven into my work. In the work exhibited here, the figures appear in the
scene as pocket sized portraits surrounded by a large amount of empty
space; they appear to be very much alone but not necessarily lonely.
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