PAST EVENT: This was part of the EAF22 programme.

The first exhibition in Scotland by London based artist Daniel Silver spanned the Fruitmarket’s Exhibition Galleries and Warehouse, a celebration of Silver’s recent shift to working with clay. Painted ceramic busts, figures, and abstracted totems or vessels ranging in scale from tabletop to over life-sized were exhibited alongside new works on paper.

Silver captures the essence of his subject by modelling swiftly in clay and painting with quick, deft strokes. At once representation and process, his art captures the essential nature of both the body and the material in which it is being worked. The exhibition spoke of human connection; of the process of looking and the intimacy of touch. Sometimes working from life, sometimes referencing ancient and modern sculpture, Silver’s works explored the human figure as it exists in and moves through the world.