Gillian Carson works with drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and video. She has exhibited in Europe, China and Cuba (Havana Biennial 2006). Her work has a poetic, repetitive and rythmical expression. She is interested inexistential experience and how repetition and rhythm can build a work, which she channels through two working titles - “Roasted Heart” (emotional) and “Processed Line” (technical). Carson has a BA Honours Degree from Edinburgh College of Art and an MA from UiB (Bergen University, Norway), Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design.
Red, like blood processes observations of beauty and horror. The work intends to highlight the beauty of human equality – we all bleed red – and should in turn beg questions about the dehumanisation of innocent victims bleeding red in conflict/genocide, where beauty is lost in the sore vulnerability of people stripped of their human rights.