Lot 426
ALEX FLETT (SCOTTISH CONTEMPORARY) §
STUDY OF EUNICE
Auction: 6 April 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
Signed, titled and dated 2013 and numbered 9/10 in pencil to margin, etching
Dimensions
52cm x 47cm (20.5in x 18.5in)
Footnote
Note: These works are being auctioned to raise funds for the Demarco Foundation.
From the artist: 'I first met Richard Demarco in 1975 at a Roger Hilton Opening in the Serpentine Gallery in London, but it wasn't until the early nineties when I was working at the Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen, and he was setting up the Demarco Foundation that I got to know him better.
Many Scottish artists have relied on the good will of Richard to help them maintain a presence at home and abroad. And contra wise Richard has persuaded artists from outside of Scotland to engage in a dialogue with the arts in Scotland; amongst the most famous, Joseph Beuys and Paul Neagu.
In 1993, he asked me to contribute to the 'Witnesses of Existence: A British Response,' and later in 1994, I exhibited with him when he had the old St Mary's Primary School as a Foundation headquarters. Also In that year, I found myself helping him with the Edinburgh Festival, and in 2004 and 2007 he acted as Honorary Chair of the International Arts Festivals which I ran for the artists' town of Kirkcudbright.
This is not the first time my work has been auctioned to help Richard, but those times were when he himself held those auctions, This auction is one which I am more than happy to see happen, and hope that the money it raises will help keep the Demarco Foundation projects alive by aiding Richard in his work of introducing International artists to Scotland and Scottish artists to Europe and the world.'