Mike Inglis @ The Arches

For his new Arches show, Inglis goes back to his original printmaking and street paste-ups. Shadows Fade – titled after a headstone inscription in Inglis’ Scottish seaside town – focuses on death, grief and spiritualism.
Inglis digs into his own family history and draws inspiration from his spiritualist great aunt and bereaved grandmother who witnessed the accidental death of her five-year-old daughter. Exploring the artist’s own frustrations with spiritualism and the fragile metaphysical landscape people inhabit as they try to cope with loss, Inglis’ human-scale paste-ups present the little girl happily running with a Native American headdress or staring at a dog’s skeleton above the family’s 1930 china cabinet. Spectators might remember the installation from this summer’s Rough Cut Nation, whose poster was also adorned by Inglis’ spaceboy.