Gertz’s work all about repair, refuge and reuse

LAYERS of Silt is the title of an exhibition now showing at the Cample Line gallery. It features new work on paper and fabric by artist Lotte Gertz and runs until August 31. In it, she extends her long-standing exploration of painting and printmaking and includes soft-ground etchings and lithographs that she has produced at Edinburgh Printmakers as part of her 2024-25 RSA Residency for Scotland. Varied in their scale and mediums, the works nevertheless are held together by an ethic and instinct on Gertz’s part for repair, refuge and reuse. Danish born, she trained at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at The Glasgow School of Art, and has lived and worked in Glasgow since graduating in 2002. “Drawing and writing are a way of thinking for me. It can be observational drawing of objects and images around me, or from imagery that I invent. I rarely throw anything away,” said Gertz. The title Layers of Silt reflects something of that accumulative process and of the gradual sedimentation of uses and reuses, thinking and rethinking over months and sometimes over years. Layers of Silt is supported by Creative Scotland and a newly commissioned essay by Martin Clark, director of the Camden Arts Centre, will accompany the exhibition.