Little Low Heavens

We are delighted to be showing Little Low Heavens - a series of ten new works by Brandon Logan at Bard, in partnership with Ingleby Gallery for this year's Edinburgh Art Festival.

Brandon Logan (b. 1996) is an Orcadian artist, based in Stromness. During his time as a student at Edinburgh College of Art he developed a distinctive process of abstract painting, gradually coating warps of string with layers of acrylic paint that, once dry, become self-supporting works that sit somewhere between painting, sculpture and tapestry.

Though resolutely abstract, Brandon’s practice is rooted in the rhythms and atmospheres of his surroundings. For him, Orkney is a place where time is both visible and deeply felt, experienced in the shifting weather and light, the layered history of the land and the cycles of life. The island holds echoes of those who came before: Neolithic tombs, Iron Age brochs, Viking settlements, and the scars of two world wars. These ghostly resonances shape his understanding of place and time.

Candles symbolize peace, truth and enlightenment. To light a candle is a ritual act that connects us across time and place. We can hold fire momentarily in our hands and thereafter it holds us.

‘A Scottish Enlightenment’ is a group show of candlesticks at Bard this winter, by makers and artists living and working all over Scotland.

The title of the show is taken from a line in the poem Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins, in which the poet describes the eggs of a thrush as ‘little low heavens’. Brandon found this line poignant as an expression of colour beyond literal description; it captures an abstract intimacy that is similar to his own approach. We find Brandon’s work compelling for the moods he conjures - the apparent simplicity of the paintings belies the layers and depths within them.

Please contact us to receive a digital catalogue of Little Low Heavens.

Little Low Heavens is on show at Bard, in partnership with Ingleby Gallery for EAF25, from Thursday 7th August until Sunday 24th August. During this period, Bard will be open from 11am until 5pm from Wednesday to Sunday, and otherwise by appointment.