McLaren Orange

By: April Lannigan Bachelor of Fine Arts
‘McLaren Orange’ is an ongoing studio-based
research project, culminating in a series of sculptural
installation works, across varying Glasgow venues.
From Govan Project Space and the Glasgow School
of Art’s ‘Sink Space’ to Saltspace’s new Gallery in the
Axiom Building.
April salvages and repurposes rejected automotive
leather by the Scottish Leather Group, Paisley, using
artistic intervention to industry as both a cost cutting
initiative as an artist and a form of environmentalism.
The work points to notions of Post-humanism, landscape, agency, and thingness- Blurring the boundary
between human and other. Each installation work is
site specific; they are modular yet completely contributing, giving a contemporary flare to age old materials
such as leather and wood.
Aprils installation’s encompass a selection of framed
screen-prints- she prints in a way which rejects traditional Fine Art notions of editioning or registration,
instead fabricating a series of artists proofs which
operate within a larger sculptural installation work.