Crystal Grey

01 April - 06 May, 2006

New works by Alan Johnston, Ragna Róbertsdóttir and Seán Shanahan, encompassing painting, wall drawing and installation. The show features site-specific new pieces in and outside the gallery, challenging our perception of our daily surroundings.

Icelandic artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir creates installations in lava, turf, glass, and also plastics. She collects frozen lava in the fields of the volcano Hekla in the South of Iceland.

Milan-based Irish artist Séan Shanahan shows one of his trademark monochrome paintings on MDF alongside two interventions. His visually basic work focuses on colour and our subjective perception of it, as well as the presence of the material object in front of us, occupying space.

Only using black, greys and white, Edinburgh-based artist Alan Johnston shows drawings in wax on the outside wall and his paintings inside the gallery. Johnston's work conveys a particular attention to the borders of the visible and reveals the details of walls, proportions of spaces and other features in the built environment.

The works in this exhibition are based on a rigorous investigation of order, space and structure in the most basic shapes around us. At the edge of perception, the works reveal the tactile as well as visual characteristics of space and our experience of it.

Capturing the luminosity and structures of Aberdeen’s crystalline granite, this is an exhibition that needs to be seen.

Audio guides explaining the artworks are available to exhibition visitors