G-West Study depicts the abandoned clubhouse construction at G-West, a "ghost" golf course next to Gleneagles resort which began construction but never reached completion. It is a subject Rae has been planning to explore for some time.
Original, one of one
Signed
Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 40 cm
Framed in oak, 31 × 41 cm overall
Born in 1995 and raised in South-West Scotland, David Rae studied Painting at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen between 2013 and 2017. Following his degree show, he was selected to show in the 2018 RSA New Contemporaries, where he won both the Walter Scott and the David and June Gordon Memorial Trust Awards.
Rae is part of a growing interest in the possibility of unspoken narratives through realism and subtraction. His paintings offer a remarkable sense of space through the realistic rendition of textures and perspective. Behind this curtain of reality, figureless, empty spaces suggest an uneasy absence.
The resulting imagery has connotations of an unfinished story or a hidden truth, a simple device to incite curiosity. Rae's work suggestively imitates the beauty of human and natural environments while maintaining a stillness that is both disquieting and analytical.
G-West Study depicts the abandoned clubhouse construction at G-West, a "ghost" golf course next to Gleneagles resort which began construction but never reached completion. It is a subject Rae has been planning to explore for some time.
Original, one of one
Signed
Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 40 cm
Framed in oak, 31 × 41 cm overall
Born in 1995 and raised in South-West Scotland, David Rae studied Painting at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen between 2013 and 2017. Following his degree show, he was selected to show in the 2018 RSA New Contemporaries, where he won both the Walter Scott and the David and June Gordon Memorial Trust Awards.
Rae is part of a growing interest in the possibility of unspoken narratives through realism and subtraction. His paintings offer a remarkable sense of space through the realistic rendition of textures and perspective. Behind this curtain of reality, figureless, empty spaces suggest an uneasy absence.
The resulting imagery has connotations of an unfinished story or a hidden truth, a simple device to incite curiosity. Rae's work suggestively imitates the beauty of human and natural environments while maintaining a stillness that is both disquieting and analytical.