CIRCA 111 review

Glasgow: Kate Davis at Sorcha Dallas

Kate Davis: Could you please should, please?, 46 x 68.5 cm; photo Alan Dimmick; courtesy Sorcha Dallas

The space has been made awkward. Most of the small gallery where this exhibition is being held is filled by a stage. Although Glasgow-based artist Kate Davis has painted the platform a fleshy pink , it can still be recognised as once belonging to Glasgow independent music venue The 13th Note. Later it passed into the hands of local gallery Transmission for various uses, meaning the surface is broken and creased and stamped with activity.

Situated around the periphery of the platform are three drawings of surrealist objects, including a wine glass with arms, the head of which is spilling out. One of these works, entitled Could you? (2004) shows a figure holding a hand in salute to a face exploding like a dandelion clock. These almost-bodies, found in the drawings and the skin of the stage, fill the room with a strangely beguiling atmosphere.

Sarah Lowndes is a writer and lecturer based in Glasgow.

Kate Davis, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, November 2004 - January 2005

Article reproduced from CIRCA 111, Spring 2005, p.99

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