4by8 Gallery Presents
Ruby Bayley-Pratt
1st - 30th May

“I came upon a single feather, a half-hearted wish for something better.” This series is based upon a theory of mine: “A Ribbon Around A Lamp-post”. Years ago I was on the school bus daydreaming out the window and we drove past a lamp-post with a blue ribbon tied in a perfect bow around it. The beauty of that little ribbon tied all the way up there, a flash of colour on something usually so dull, so mundane, clicked with something deep inside me. Since then, I’ve focused on seeing the beauty in the little thing; on appreciating the tiniest details that we so often pass by. The way a beam of light hits a bit of moss, the way a petal has landed in the grass, the way a feather balances perfectly on the water surface. Ruby x”

4by8 Gallery presents
Tupelo Tree
2nd - 30th May

Studying photography a while back forced me to see things in different angles and perspectives. I recently joined a printmakers and plan to make a mess of beautiful art there.

Trees are my constant safe place.

Tupelo Tree began in January 2012.

You can follow me on Facebook where I update what I’m doing and where I’m showing or have a look at my Etsy site. www.facebook.com/tupelotree www.etsy.com/shop/tupelotreeprints

4:8 Gallery presents
Castles Built In Sand
2nd - 29th April

A collective of independent filmmakers, photographers, musicians, artists and writers, Castles Built in Sand (CBIS) exists to observe, document, explore and share ways of working. Their approach to critical and creative work is to allow time and space for self-reflexive/questioning thought-processes to take place, as a means of uncovering meaningful trends in society. Through these ways of working they hope to produce observational documents that arouse open-ended and inclusive debate.

Here CBiS present work from two of their recent studies: Ghosts and the Machine and Helpyourself Manchester.

On April 8the, also at The Forest, CBIS will be screening their recently completed documentary film Helpyourself Manchester - alongside two short films from local D.I.Y. filmmaker Jamie Khrist.

http://castlesbuiltinsand.wordpress.com/

4:8 Gallery presents
JULIE HUGGAN
1st - 30th March

Julie Huggan is a local Edinburgh artist and student at the Open University studying art history and business. Working mainly in photography as well as mixed media to create surreal, colourful kaleidoscope inspired prints. Using photographs of forest scenes from her travels and of local areas around East Lothian and Edinburgh have inspired this exhibition. Last exhibited work at the ‘We are Young’ exhibition at Whitespace gallery in Gayfield Sq.

Greeting cards of Julie Huggan’s prints are on sale at Earthy Foods and Goods as well as through her facebook page www.facebook.com/juggled.

4:8 Gallery presents
JESSICA SCHOUELA: VACANT KINETICS (photographs on acetate)
16th Feb - 28th Feb

More and more, I feel confronted with what I have come to identify as a severe social apathy, not only to that which is distant, but also to that which is often closest to us. In a world of infinite choices of capital, ephermeral encounters, growingly mediated through technology, we may not be advancing as we believe, not progressing or evolving, but rather, vibrating, buzzing, perhaps with hidden meditations that there is some real movement, and that perhaps, it is in an alright direction.

4:8 Gallery presents
ANA-MARIA LUNGU
25th Jan - 22nd Feb 2013

Part of a larger project of around 200 photos that investigates the state of architecture and old patrimonium buildings in my hometown - Bucharest. Quite often, they’re surrounded by glass buildings or inappropriate sites.

Find Ana’s work here -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidia/sets/72157627445467620/