Low Winter Sun
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 30 November – 23 December 2023
“Victoria Crowe brings us Low Winter Sun as a fitting way to end the year and mark our own winter solstice. Developed over the last two years, the exhibition charts the artist’s journey from her home and studio in the Scottish Borders to the islands of Orkney and back again. Low Winter Sun is like a book of revelation, reflecting the artist’s ability to communicate her outstanding practice in all media.”
“Winter […] seems still to be her favourite season and it was the sight of the full moon lighting the winter darkness that really caught her imagination. The result is The Moon Sequence, a group of small paintings, outstandingly beautiful even here. Dovecot Studios has also turned one of these small pictures, not into a tapestry exactly, but into a tufted rug. Less laborious than tapestry, this process nevertheless calls for the same subtlety and judgement in translating a work of art into a very different medium. The way the picture has scaled up beautifully is testimony to the strength of this image and by extension the others like it. This is a poetic and very distinguished show.”