Pentagon Gallery

LONE VISIONS
14th July - 22nd August
Recent work by artists John Hughes Devlin, Basharat Khan and Ashley Cook

John Hughes Devlin is a young Glaswegian photographic artist whose work focuses on the transience of the post- industrial landscape. His images of a rapidly disintegrating environment capture the atmosphere of a landscape deprived of potential while describing a powerful, enigmatic melancholy.John Hughes Devlin is a Glasgow based, award winning artist who has exhibited throughout Europe.

Basharat Khan is a talented photographer, new media artist and an experienced outreach arts worker. He has worked for Street Level Photoworks, Project Ability, The Scottish Academy of Asian Arts, Sense Scotland, and Prince's Trust among others and has been artist in residence in northern Spain for the last three summers. He has exhibited in Streetlevel, Project Ability, Tron Theatre and Kelvingrove Museum and this new body of work explores the mythical side of Scottish landscapes.

Ashley Cook graduated from the Printmaking Departmant of Glasgow School of Art in 1987. She has exhibited widely and has work in the collection of The Scottish Arts Council, BBC, Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, The Scotland Office, Museograbado, Mexico and The Vaasa Museum, Finland. She has won numerous awards and has been an invited artist to Canada, USA, Iceland, Mexico and Spain. She lives and works in Glasgow.

Ashley has been accepted to be a volunteer for 3 months from January to April 2009 in the Gambia, teaching a community programme of arts and crafts in London Corner area of Serrekunda, Makumbaya Primary school and Allatentu, which is a project for those suffering from HIV.

All the proceeds from her work in the Lone Visions Exhibition will go towards funding the volunteer project in the Gambia she can be contacted by email at lagnoma_asherscook@yahoo.co.uk

Her remit is to provide after-school arts and crafts classes. And at Allatentu, she is to provide arts and crafts classes to teach the HIV patients to make things that they could sell to provide themselves with an income.
The arts programme intends to encourage the continuation of independent creativity and learning after she leaves the Gambia. The projects will include, paper stencil screenprinting for tshirts and any cloth substrate, making permanent shoppers and papier mache bowls and objects for the community to sell.

To able to be a volunteer she needs to raise the following funds:
Materials £1040
Flight £450
Accommodation £400
Internal travel £450
Living costs £600
Total £2940


Materials breakdown
4 x 100T Screens -£320
15 litres of Texiscreen ink - £285
Poster paints - £80
Brushes - £20
Varnish - £40
Wallpaper paste - £35
White Emulsion £30
scissors £12
craft knives £18
Newsprint paper £50
Children's tshirts £200