Exhibitions
Projects
Below you will find a selection of recently completed projects
Four Square Films
Four Square Fine Arts began working with Last Bus in 2008 to create a series of short interview based artist profiles. Four Square Films focus on artists in their own words and from the second film are supported by insightful footage of studio processes.
The aim of these films is to contribute to a broader understanding of contemporary art practice, whilst stimulating questions about the creative process, nurturing new dialogues between artists, students and art lovers.
We also look forward to including them as a valuable resource within our unfolding educational program. To find out more about this program click here.
About Four Square
Education
In 2009 we set out to develop a range of initiatives that went beyond the traditional exhibiting role of a commercial gallery. Supported and encouraged by the desire of many of the artists we represent, we believed it was time to share, engage and communicate in new ways with young people and adults. Four Square Films, our ongoing series of short documentaries exploring questions that drive the practice of artists working today, was a first step. However this has quickly grown to include workshops, scheduled artists talks, links with schools, and podcasts, so we've decided, the time is right to host these strands together on a sister site devoted to our educational work.
Visit our sister site: Four Square Arts Education
Contacting Four Square
Four Square Fine Arts, 5a, Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA
Tel: 01273 474005 Mob: 07742 659446 Please call to make an appointment to see work in stock.
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Manja Scott
Manja was born in Croatia and has been strongly influenced by the vibrant designs and colours of traditional Slavic folk culture. As a young adult the culture and natural environment of Ethiopia, Zambia and Kenya had a tremendous impact. Africa became her home for almost twenty years, a country to which she regularly returns. Having begun dancing in her childhood she later trained as both dancer and choreographer. As a result, the relationship between forms, their rhythm, colour and texture – particularly evident in Manja’s abstract work – is physically felt rather than solely a cerebral process.
The extraordinary range of techniques and media possible in printmaking hold a fascination for Scott who has focused on printmaking and painting for the past fifteen years. By varying the qualities and weights of paper the absorption of different colours and types of ink are altered making quantifiable differences to the appearance of the final work. Her techniques of linocut, drypoint and chine collé are masterly combined with her refined sense of colour. However, it is her characteristic use of carborundum which makes her prints immediately recognisable. When carborundum grit and strong glue are made into a paste and drawn onto the plate and allowed to dry, the inks applied afterwards will be absorbed to varying degrees creating deep colour and texture.
The form of a line in her abstract work or a particular hue chosen will creates a correspondent feeling of being uplifted, of lightness, in the viewer.
