Painting & Printmaking School of Fine Art

Margaret-Anne Docherty

(she/her/hers)

 

Docherty’s work, is both corporeal and ethereal. In this degree show she is exploring the transitory nature of lives, of languages and religions, the divinity of the face in a wider biblical framework and the face symbolising the unique manifestation of an individual’s character and spiritual state.

It all starts with her portraiture through which she explores death, life after death and rebirth. She then expands the work, through her research, and moves it into different areas, materials and imaginings. Emotionally Docherty endeavours to find in her subjects faces their hidden secrets like sadness, theirs and her own, joy, anger, hope and hopelessness, burden and divinity.

Docherty embraces many different materials and styles in her drawings, paintings, sculptures, collages, abstract paintings and glass works, preferring to work organically and spontaneously, driven by her inner voice which leads her to use whatever and whoever inspires her most.

Metaphysically, Docherty feels part of a Collective Consciousness. A place where she isn’t isolated but instead is a part of a larger interconnected world, where her individual awareness’s and experience’s are intertwined with a broader universal awareness that binds her to all living things. When drawing, painting or sculpting in this space, Docherty feels that she becomes conjoined with her subjects like partners in a silent universal agreement.

Docherty describes this; “ I sense that just as they are all these things, I am all these things as are we all all these things and for that small time, I feel that I can see our souls, who we have been and who we may become, in this life, the last life and the one to come. I love this ancient human puzzle that I have chosen to work out, so each part of my show may be seen as a clue to the face of our souls, I have dared build a modest church of the Collective Consciousness for those andsuch as those to come and meditate for a while.”

Contact
madone19@gmail.com
M.Docherty2@student.gsa.ac.uk
Works
PORTRAITS
GLASS WORK
SCULPTURE
COLLAGE
ABSTRACT
DEGREE SHOW 2025

PORTRAITS

AN GAIRE

A` BHAN-OGLACH

BOIREANNACH DILEAS

SEARBHANTA

NIGHEAN SONRAICHTE

O NEAMH

ALAINN

B' I AN TE A BU MHO A BHA DEIDHEIL OIRRE.

MOTHER

In kindness she leads with love.

FATHER 1

TOLERANT.

FATHER 2

DISTANT

BLACK AND WHITE 1

BLACK AND WHITE 2

SISTER

MY OWN

EDU

ABBY-SO-LUTELY

SON

SON

BROTHER

BROTHER

Graphite 1

Graphite 2

Graphite Tondo

Graphite 3

PINK

PRETTY IN...

GABRIEL

MAE

WTAF!

...AM I DOING HERE?

WTAF!

...AM I DOING HERE?

GLASS WORK

HAND MADE 1

ON GLASS

HAND MADE 2

ON GLASS

HAND MADE 3

ON GLASS

GLASS GROUP

DEGREE SHOW INSTALLATION

WORK IN PROGRESS

LARGER PIECE 1

SMALL PIECE 1

SMALL GLASS 2

SCULPTURE

PETRA

FULL HEAD SCULPTURE FROM LIFE

GIO

FULL HEAD CLAY SCULPTURE FROM LIFE

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

AIR DRIED CLAY SCULPTURE PART OF A LARGER FAIRYTAIL WORK

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

AIR DRIED CLAY PART OF A LARGER FARYTALE WORK.

THE BEAR

AIR DRIED CLAY PART OF A LARGER FAIRYTALE WORK.

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

THREE FIGURES UNDER DOME PART OF A LARGER FAIRYTAIL WORK.

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

AIR DRIED CLAY EVIL CHARACTER PART OF A LARGER FAIRYTAIL WORK.

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

AS ABOVE

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

EVIL CHARACTER UNDER GALSS

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

AIR DRIED CLAY MOUTH AND TEETH PART OF A LARGER FAIRYTAIL WORK.

COLLAGE

SHE COVERED HER EYES

AND THEN THERE WAS SOIL

SPEAK NO EVIL

SEE NO EVIL

ITS ALL AROUND

RUN FAST

YOLO 1

MEMENTO MORI SERIES

YOLO 2

MEMENTO MORI SERIES

YOLO 3

MEMENTO MORI SERIES

YOLO 4

MEMENTO MORI SERIES

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

COLLAGED THEATRE WITH CUT OUT ANIMATION FIGURES FROM THE FAIRYTAIL.

SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED

FULL FAIRYTAIL INSTALLATION

ABSTRACT

BUILDINGS 1

BUILDINGS 2

BUILDINGS 3

BUILDINGS 4

EVA 3

ARCO 1

ARCO 2

ARCO 3

ARCO 4

ARCO 5

ARCO 6

ARCO 7

ARCO 8

ARCO 9

Japanese Peanut Heads

SHAPE OF LIGHT 1

SHAPE OF LIGHT 2

SHAPE OF LIGHT 3

SHAPE OF LIGHT 4

MYSTEROLOGY 1

MYSTEROLOGY 2

ANIMAL GUIDE

DEGREE SHOW 2025

PURGATORY

THE HANDMAIDS

THE GLASS

THE PARTY

HELL

CORPOREAL

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

FRANCIS

INTO THE LIGHT

INTO THE LIGHT

THE COLLECTIVE

INTO THE LIGHT

WAITING TO BE REBORN

WAITING TO BE REBORN

CREATION

DEATH

REBIRTH