We like these a lot – Greg Bryce’s Collected Works exhibiting in Whitespace’s gallery on Howe Street.
Bryce is an Edinburgh-based artist who studied at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and the Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg in Hasselt, Belgium, before completing a residency at the Konstepidemin organisation in Gothenburg in 2012. You can find out more about his general approach and previous work here.
The paintings currently on display at Whitespace are big and bright, but also rather elegant, with suggestions of fragmented maps, circuit diagrams and the Ogham alphabet.
Some also contain intriguing architectural details (archways, steps, corridors, niches) and hints of dismantled furniture (work stations, tables, office chairs, even grand pianos).
Each is an understated balance of colour and composition, and, although the connections between their individual elements are not explained, I find them all oddly satisfying. AM
Collected Works continues at Whitespace, 25 Howe Street until Thursday 17 July.
