THEY HAD FOUR YEARS

Preview Night - Friday 20th May at 6-9pm

Show Run - Saturday 21st May to the 19th of June 

Open Thursday to Sunday, 12 - 5pm

GENERATORprojects is excited to announce the return of our annual show ‘They Had Four Years’. This group show features newly commissioned work from four talented Fine Art graduates from across Scotland. 2022’s selections are: Madeleine Kaye (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design), Gianni Esporas (Gray’s School of Art), Melanie Chuaiprasit (Glasgow School of Art) and Josie Ko (Glasgow School of Art). 

They Had Four Years aims to give recent graduates an opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional environment. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's They Had Four Years is all the more important as some of the selected artists missed out on a physical degree show in 2021 and have yet to show their work physically.

Madeleine Kay

Is concerned with language, contradiction and intimacy, finding moments of translation while searching for objects with multiple histories and identities. Currently her practice is an examination of the feminine and the flame. Beginning as a concentration on the word ‘heather’, guillotining this word into two parts; ‘heat-her’, Kay interprets this as a plant, pronoun, fire, and instruction. 

Gianni Esporas

Practice explores embodied female identity and specifically Asian female labour through sculptural tools for performance and video. Through her work Esporas questions and seeks to understand how Asian women navigate the post-colonial West. 

Melanie Chuaiprasit

Is a Thai/British artist who uses craft to explore her relationship to both her family and home. Through sculpture made with traditional crafts, Melanie explores her dual heritage. She utilises sensory memories and learning techniques to extract and create a map of her experiences of these cultures.

Josie Ko

Uses the relegated status of craft in the art world to address the identity politics of marginalised groups. By interacting with craft practises her work celebrates the art from these communities that is often left out of the art history canon. The rejection of the Western art canon and the white gallery space is a theme Ko perpetuates throughout her work. She incorporates mixed media techniques to present a new reimagined depiction of the Black body. 

The show will be a colourful celebration of craft and kitsch punctuated by heather.