Visual Art
Exhibitions are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to art@list.co.uk. Listings compiled by Laura Ennor. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
Glasgow
■ THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. Mon–Sat 9am–8pm; Sun noon–6pm. FREE Rachel Frances Sharpe: Publicity Until Fri 10 Sep. Photographic parodies of self-portraits by Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Robert Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman, from GSA student Rachel Frances Sharpe.
■ THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL 106–108 Brunswick Street, 552 0001. Daily 9am–midnight. FREE Heart Throb Until Wed 29 Sep. GSA alumnus Jacob Smith produces huge, surreal and often humorous paintings in oils. ■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Fields, Factories and Workshops Until Sat 18 Sep. Simon Yuill explores the relationships of communities and individuals to the land.
■ COLLINS GALLERY 22 Richmond Street, 548 2558. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–4pm. FREE Crossing Alba: Morven Gregor, Gerry Loose, Ian Stephen Until Sat 18 Sep. Documentation of two journeys made by four artists across the heart of Scotland by very different means. FREE New Scottish Furniture Tue 21–Sun 26 Sep. The annual selling exhibition of furniture by some of Scotland’s best designers/makers.
■ THE COMMON GUILD 21 Woodlands Terrace, 428 3022. Thu & Fri noon–7pm; Sat noon–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Robert Barry: Words and Music Until Sat 6 Nov. See
Hitlist.
■ COMPASS GALLERY 178 West Regent Street, 221 6370. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm. FREE Mark I’Anson: Always Boats and Men Until Sat 25 Sep. Evocative works in pencil and paint.
■ CYRIL GERBER FINE ART 148 West Regent Street, 221 3095. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5.30pm. FREE Anthony Fry: Recent and New Work Until Sat 11 Sep. The first chance to view work by this noted English painter on Scottish soil. ■ THE DUCHY GALLERY 23 Duke Street, 237 8754. Fri–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Off The Bone: Dominic Samsworth and Alan Stanners Until Sat 25 Sep, noon–6pm. An exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the emerging Glasgow artists.
■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Unsettled Objects Until Tue 1 Mar. An exhibition of photography, video and installation from GoMA’s collection. FREE Tomorrow: Fiona Tan Until Mon 27 Sep. Tan’s first solo exhibition in the UK. FREE First Day of My Changing Life: Our Vision of Tomorrow Until Sun 16 Jan. Work produced by Glasgow youngsters in response to the Fiona Tan exhibition.
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since Project Ability’s move to Trongate 103.
■ RECOAT 323 North Woodside Road, 341 0069. Tue–Sun noon–6pm. FREE Susie Wright: Observations Until Sun 3 Oct. Drawings, prints and wallpaper from one of Scotland’s leading young illustrators.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Futureproof Until Sun 12 Sep. Exhibition profiling several recently graduated photographers.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–5pm. FREE Glory – Pietro Fortuna ●●●●● Until Sun 12 Sep. See review, page 91. FREE Corin Sworn Until Sun 17 Oct. A new film commission shot by Sworn at the Tramway. ■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Ray Richardson – Strange Town Until Sun 19 Sep. Filmic and witty images of familiar but unspecific places. FREE Scott Campbell – Untitled Tue 21 Sep–Sun 17 Oct. Bold works exploring the layering of colour and different surfaces.
Edinburgh
■ AMBER ARTS 78 Montrose Terrace, Abbeyhill, 661 1167. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 10am–2.30pm. FREE The Space Between ●●●●● Until Sat 18 Sep. Erratic and jarringly arranged collection of mixed printmaking works. ■ ART’S COMPLEX St. Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, 661 1924. Daily 11am–6pm. FREE Yvonne Buskie – The Reader and the Cup Fri 10–Fri 24 Sep, 11am–6pm. New installation from ECA alumnus Buskie, whose work combines inspiration from board games, tea-leaf reading and storytelling.
■ BOURNE FINE ART 6 Dundas Street, 557 4050. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 11am–2pm. FREE New Acquisitions Until Sat 2 Oct. Classical artworks including pieces by Ernest Stephen Lumsden and William Kidd.
■ CITY ART CENTRE 2 Market Street, 529 3993. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm.
✽✽ Edward Weston: Life Work ●●●●● Until Sun 24 Oct. £8 (£5).
See Hitlist. FREE In our Own Image: Representing the Human Form Until Sun 24 Oct. Works looking at the artist’s preoccupation with the human figure.
✽✽ William Wegman: Family Combinations ●●●●● Until Sun
24 Oct. £8 (£5). See Hitlist.
■ COLLECTIVE GALLERY 22–28 Cockburn Street, 220 1260. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Hito Steyerl: In Free Fall ●●●●● Until Sun 26 Sep. An accessible yet immensely stimulating presentation of video work, focusing on the interstices between politics and aesthetics. ■ CORN EXCHANGE GALLERY Constitution Street, 561 7300. Wed–Sat 11am–4.30pm. FREE Atsuo Okamoto: Faraway Mountain ●●●●● Until Thu 30 Sep. Absorbing and tactile works created using
Emma Wilson: Pumpkinsputnik Pumpkinsputnik is the creative outlet of Emma Wilson, designer- maker. Emma graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen in 1995 and became a jeweller, making silver and enamel jewellery, before taking a career break to raise her young family. Pumpkinsputnik was born in 2005 out of a need to start making things again, and produces beautiful handmade notebooks and stationery. The books have soft covers made from watercolour card, are filled with good quality cartridge paper and sewn together with paper string. The covers, cards and stationery are printed with designs based on Emma’s photographs of trees and plants which she manipulates in imaging software. Emma likes to mix new technologies with traditional techniques, so although the images are completely digital and are printed with a top of the range printer, the books are bound in a very simple and traditional way. ■ www.pumpkinsputnik.com ■ www.thisiscentralstation.com
■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Eduardo Paolozzi Until Sun 26 Sep. Screenprints influenced by the Pop Art style and Paolozzi’s collage work. FREE Pop Goes the Easel Until Sun 26 Sep. Exhibition of pop art based around Ken Russell’s 1962 film. ■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 5431. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5pm. FREE Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys Until Mon 27 Sep. A selection of works from the Artist Rooms collection, including portraits of Beuys by Andy Warhol. FREE Aspects of Scottish Art 1860–1910 Until Sat 11 Sep. Featuring works by Fraser and Bough, McTaggart, Chalmers and William York MacGregor. FREE James Paterson: Works from The Artist’s Studios Until Mon 27 Sep. Small exhibition celebrating the James Paterson Museum collections.
■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880–1900 ●●●●● Until Mon 27 Sep. £5 (£3). Major retrospective exhibition. FREE Scottish Glass at Kelvingrove Until Sun 1 Jul. Long-
term exhibition of glass art and artefacts from the past 450 years. ■ MANSFIELD PARK GALLERY 5 Hyndland Street, 342 4124. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm. FREE Sandy Murphy Until Sat 25 Sep. Textured still lifes and landscapes by the Ayrshire painter.
■ MARKET GALLERY 334 Duke Street, 556 7276. Thu–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Studio Projects 22 and 23 Sun 12 Sep–Sat 9 Oct. Part of a series of showcases of the work of young Glasgow artists, this time featuring Kari Stewart and Kate V Robertson.
■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue–Sat noon–6pm.
✽✽ FREE Nick Evans: Anti- Autonome Sat 18 Sep–Sat 30
Oct. See preview, page 90.
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14–20 Osborne Street, 248 3711. Mon–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Richard Wright Until Sat 23 Oct. See review, page 91.
■ PROJECT ABILITY Centre for the Developmental Arts, Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. Free. FREE Recalling Lines: New Work by Robert Reddick Until Sat 18 Sep. Drawings made by Reddick