Sorcha Dallas

Inhabiting the gaping hole which is the commercial contemporary art scene in Scotland, Sorcha Dallas’s gallery has proven itself highly adept at succeeding where so many have sunk without a trace. Part of the reason for her success must surely lie in her support for young upcoming artists, such as Kate Davis. Davis produces delicately rendered, obsessively worked, pencil drawings that whisper their peculiarity. Combining the technical neurosis of a fith-form shading expert with the troubled adult psyche of an aficionado of surrealism, her images resonate with a hallucinogenic intensity. Trying to decipher the rhyme and reason of these images is as futile as dodging raindrops; the fragments of bodies and objects existing in an imaginary and temporal space are alien to the one-dimensional rationalism of everyday life.