{"id":16598,"date":"2017-10-02T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=16598"},"modified":"2017-10-02T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:05:33","slug":"first-solo-show-gavin-donaldson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/first-solo-show-gavin-donaldson\/","title":{"rendered":"First Solo Show &#8211; Gavin Donaldson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/artist\/show\/3198\">Gavin Donaldson\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0has been in 3 group shows so far this year and held his first\u00a0solo show in Glasgow &#8211; October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>I am delighted to see him beginning to make waves as I was blown away by his degree show a few years ago in Dundee and can see great things for him..<\/p>\n<p><em>Gavin Donaldson\u2019s creased, crumpled canvases expose dripping,\u00a0blurred\u00a0and equivocal portraits. The painterly contours and smears of paint dragging across the picture plane, together with the disrepair of the canvas itself invite the viewer to witness an ongoing performance of themes. There is a duality\u00a0at work: creation and destruction.\u00a0This idea resonates\u00a0with the artist\u2019s intentions of creating paintings which echo the dual nature of a person\u2019s inner self and the self they perform to the outer world.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/artist\/show\/3198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16595 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-02-at-20.32.42.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-10-02 at 20.32.42\" width=\"454\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-02-at-20.32.42.png 454w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-02-at-20.32.42-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/artist\/show\/3198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16599 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/3198-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"3198\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/3198-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/3198-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/3198.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Donaldson\u00a0\u00a0has been in 3 group shows so far this year and held his first\u00a0solo show in Glasgow &#8211; October 2017. I am delighted to see him beginning to make waves as I was blown away by his degree show a few years ago in Dundee and can see great things for him.. Gavin Donaldson\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investable-artists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16602,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598\/revisions\/16602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}