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April (b. 1998) is a painter living and working between rural Scotland and Glasgow. Her practice is rooted in the experience of moving between contrasting and continually shifting environments, and in the ways landscape is absorbed through the body, memory and perception. Rather than approaching landscape as a fixed view, she considers it something encountered through movement: through weather, architecture, light, sound, rhythm and material experience.

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Glasgow has become an increasingly important presence within the work. The city is experienced as layered, restless and constantly being rewritten. Construction sites and scaffolding sit beside weathered facades; graffiti interrupts stone and concrete with vivid colour; artificial light spills across streets and windows; music, traffic, conversation and crowds create overlapping rhythms. People move through compressed architectural spaces while buildings are altered, demolished, repaired and rebuilt. It is a city understood through fragments and encounters—a flash of colour, a repeated structure, a surface passed every day, the cadence of a street, the feeling of moving through a place that never quite remains still.

​Working primarily in oils, April develops large-scale abstract paintings through layering, scraping back, erasure and revision. Paint is accumulated and disrupted, allowing surfaces to emerge, disappear and re-form. The process reflects the instability of the environments she moves through: structures appear and collapse, passages open and close, and moments of clarity sit alongside dense, worked areas of paint. The canvas becomes less a representation of a place than a space in which environments are continually constructed, dismantled and reimagined.​

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April holds a BA (Hons) Fine Art and a Master of Letter's (MLitt) in Fine Art Practice from The Glasgow School of Art, completed between 2019 and 2024. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries including the RSA Edinburgh, SWG3 Glasgow, Well Hung Gallery Hoxton London & many more. April was the recipient of the Barnes Graham Trust Award in 2022 and in 2026 became an Associate Fellow of Higher Education in the Creative Disciplines (Glasgow School of Art). 

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Email: Studioapril@outlook.com

Instagram: @___April____