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About

April (b. 1998) is a Glasgow-based artist and producer working with colour, space and environments. Using paint as her primary medium, she explores questions surrounding both natural and built environments of Scotland. Her practice spans large-scale oil paintings on canvas, installation art, sculpture and drawing. April holds both a BA(Hons) & a Master's of Letter's in Fine Art Practice from The Glasgow School of Art (2019-2024). 

April is a painter living and working between rural Scotland and Glasgow. Her expansive, abstract canvases are saturated with luminous colour and movement, unfolding as meditations on landscape, rhythm, and material presence.

Working through intuition and process, April translates lived experience into paint, allowing gesture and texture to evolve through repetition, revision, and chance. Each surface becomes a record of thought and touch, an exploration of how the physical act of painting can hold memory, energy, and emotion.

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Her use of oil paint, layered, scraped, and rearticulated over time, creates a dense and shifting materiality that recalls the vitality of Abstract Expressionism while remaining deeply personal and grounded in the everyday. Domestic and sensory encounters, from the texture of fabric to the cadence of a conversation, become embedded within the work’s surface, merging the intimacy of life with the expansiveness of landscape. Paintings emerge over long periods, moving through cycles of collapse and reconstruction, freedom and control. Each canvas feels alive, breathing through its layers of colour and gesture, a living document of process and transformation.

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Opening Night of 'Beneath the noise' Exhibition, 2025, SWG3, Glasgow, UK. 

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Hotworks, Master's Degree Exhibition, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK. 

Education

2025

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  • The Glasgow School of Art, Post Graduate Certificate (Course 1) in Learning and Teaching in the Creative Disciplines. 

 

2023-2024

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  • The Glasgow School of Art, Master of Letters in Fine Art Practice. (Distinction)

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2019- 2023

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  • The Glasgow School of Art, BA(Hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art. (First-Class)

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2018- 2019

 

  • The Tramway Visual Arts Studio, Foundation Art Course.

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2016-2018

 

  • City of Glasgow College, Diploma in Contemporary Art Practice. 

Solo Exhibitions

2025

 

  • Beneath the Noise, SWG3, Glasgow, UK.

  • The Printworks, Portobello, Edinburgh, UK.

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2024

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  • Echoes of Renewal in Rust, Gleneagles Hotel, UK. 

  • Beyond The Surface, The Briggait Front-Galleries, Glasgow, UK. 

  • Print! W2 Men's Store, West End, Glasgow, UK.

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Selected Group Exhibitions

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  • Well's Cathedral, Wells, UK. 2025.

  • Index, The Glasgow School of Art, UK. 2025. 

  • Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, UK. 2025.

  • Never go out, SWG3 Glasgow, UK. 2025.

  • 30 x 30, Society of Scottish Artists Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 2024.

  • The Beat, The Kaleidoscope Gallery, UK & Echo's Studios, Rau Pelotas, Sao Paul, Brazil. 2024.

  • Dreams, Part Crowd Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2024.

  • Landscape Painting Today, London Messum's, West East, Online Exhibition, London, UK. 2024.

  • Postgraduate Degree Show, Fine Art, Stow Building, Glasgow, UK. 2024.​

  • Shoulder's of Giants, GSA Graduate Show, Glasgow Art Club, UK. 2024.

  • Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, McLaurin Gallery, Ayr, UK. 2024.

  • Undergraduate Degree Show, Stow Building, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK. 2023.

  • WEST, Visual Arts Scotland, The Briggait, Glasgow, UK. 2023.

  • 130 Years, Scottish Society of Artists, Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Edinburgh, UK. 2022.

  • Material Matters-Remade, French Street Gallery, Glasgow, UK. 2022.

  • Annuale 2022, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. 2022.

  • Reconfiguration, Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow, UK. 2022.

  • Shedded Wheat, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, UK. 2022.​

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Studio shot from SWG3, 2025, Glasgow, UK. 

Features

2025

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2024

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2023

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2022

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2020

  • Glasgow University Magazine (GUM) Facebook

Awards

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2025

  • Jackson's Art Prize, Extended Long List. 

  • Innovator & Entrepreneur Award Winner, with Garrett Ure, The Glasgow School of Art.

  • Scottish Landscape Awards Bursary. 

 

2024

  • SWG3 Graduate Award.

  • Women in Art Prize, Longlist, 2024. 

  • Wasps Studios: Most Original Artwork at 'Do you know who I am' Exhibition. Glasgow, UK. 

  • Selected Artist: Emerging Sculpture Award at Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh, UK.

  • GSASA Student Initiated Funding Award.

  • GSA People 2024: Partnership Award, Library Services.

  • GSA Teaching Awards, 'Students do great stuff' Runner up.

 

2023

  • The WASPS Award (Solo Show) Scottish Society of Artist's Show at the MacLaurin Gallery, Ayr, UK.

  • Society of Scottish Artists, New Graduate Award (Highly Commended).

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2022

  • Barns-Graham Prize, Scottish Society of Artists at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK.

  • Duais a' chon mhoir prize, Big Arts Show, Paisley, UK.

  • Midton acrylic's year long research collaboration, Glasgow School of Art, UK.

 

 2021

  •  Cop 26, Golden Monkey Award. 

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   2020 

  • SIE, Scottish Institute of Enterprise. SISA Level 2 Innovation Catalyst. Glasgow School of Art, UK. 

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Talks

  • ELIA Conference, Milan, Italy, Artists think differently. April Lannigan, Garrett Ure, Justin Carter. Susan Brind. 

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Collaborations

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