Danele Evans studied Painting at Edinburgh College of Art (2023) where she was awarded the Clason-Harvie Bursary, shortlisted for the Astaire Art Prize and nominated for the Freelands Painting Prize. She exhibited recently in Then and Now: 100 Years of VAS (after receiving the VAS Graduate Award), Maclaurin Gallery (for the SSA Highly Commended New Graduate Award) and Leeds Art Gallery.
Danele explores the spatial and psychological relationships between people and the contemporary built environment. A period of time in Jerusalem before her final year was influential to the direction of her practice and it was there that she began to reflect on broader relationships between people and where they move.
The configuration and architectural character of the holy city is an important departure point through which she draws attention to negotiations of space and placement in past and recent histories of ownership, belonging and difference. These exhibited works respond to current shifts in the world where place and position is contested, complex and in constant flux. Varied levels of tension in these paintings, together with subjects ambiguously placed suggests a precarity in the grounds we stand on.
