list.co.uk/visualart Exhibitions are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 16 days before publication to art@list.co.uk. Listings compiled by Laura Ennor and Alex Johnston. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
GLASGOW
■ +44 141 AT SWG3 Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246. Wed–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Josh Whitaker: Moiré (Stages/Taxed) Until Sat 28 May. Debut solo show featuring work that mixes social commentary with an investigation into the utility of art itself.
■ ANNIESLAND COLLEGE 19 Hatfield Drive, anniesland.ac.uk FREE Art at Anniesland Mon 13–Fri 17 Jun. Mon–Fri 10am–4pm. End of year show by students from Anniesland College. Part of the West End Festival. ■ THE ARCHES FOYER 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. Daily noon–midnight. FREE Jenny Soep Until Mon 20 Jun. Dynamic and spontaneous drawings depicting live events.
■ ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN SCOTLAND Level 2, The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, 225 8350. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm. FREE Cedric Price: Think the Unthinkable Until Sat 3 Sep. Work both produced and inspired by celebrated and thoughtful architect Price. FREE Material Considerations: Stone Until Sat 13 Aug. The second in a series of exhibitions exploring sustainable building materials. FREE Remodelling Home Until Sat 4 Jun. Model houses made out of clay at Scotland’s Housing Expo 2010.
■ ART EXPOSURE GALLERY 19 Parnie Street, 552 7779. Tue–Sat noon–5pm. FREE Glasgow Art Part 2 Until Mon 30 May. Paintings by Gary Harper, Ian Rawnsley, Valentine Petrov and Jo Heuston.
■ ART LOVER’S CAFÉ House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4779. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Robin Gillanders Until Mon 4 Jul. Photographs from Gillanders’ visits to sculptor Ian Hamilton Finlay’s famous garden, Little Sparta. ■ THE BLYTHSWOOD GALLERY Blythswood Square. Mon–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 10am–1pm. FREE Spring Exhibition Until Sat 28 May. Paintings by artists of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
■ BURRELL COLLECTION 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE China Through the Lens of John Thomson Until Sun 12 Jun. Documentary photos of mid 19th- century China.
■ CAFÉ COSSACHOK 10 King Street/Trongate 103, 553 0733. Tue–Sat noon–midnight; Sun 1pm–midnight. FREE Awakenings Until Tue 31 May. A selection of figurative and abstract images concerned with images ‘revealing themselves’. FREE The Real Red Shoe Thu 2–Thu 30 Jun. Glasgow-based painter Zenobia Mumford explores the folk symbolism of the red shoe. ■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. FREE Welcome Home: 234D Until Sun 19 Jun. Tue-Sat 11am–6pm, Sun
11am–5pm. Four designers from FAB3D and Welcome Home have translated 2D patterns into 3D lighting designs, combining traditional craft and digital design techniques along the way.
✽✽ FREE British Art Show 7 Fri 27 May–Sun 21 Aug. Tue–Sun
11am–5pm. After 21 years the grand touring art affair returns to Glasgow, with pieces on show by The Otolith Group, Charles Avery, Luke Fowler and Juliette Blightman. From noon on Sat 18 Jun to noon on Sun 19 Jun there will be a rare opportunity to see Christian Marclay’s acclaimed film The Clock, a montage of clips from thousands of films showing various clocks, watches and times of day, always keeping correct time. Also at the Gallery of Modern Art and Tramway. ■ THE COACH HOUSE GALLERY 518 Great Western Road, 341 0993. Tue 10am–5pm; Wed–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Batik Exhibition Fri 3–Sun 26 Jun. Colourful batik works from the Scottish members of the Batik Guild. West End Festival.
■ COLLINS GALLERY 22 Richmond Street, 548 2558. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–4pm. FREE Art Extraordinary ●●●●● Until Sat 25 Jun. Selected work from the Pittenweem collection of ‘outsider art’. See review, page 136. FREE Textiles from Nunavut Sat 11–Sat 25 Jun. Tapestries and traditional packing dolls from Baffin Island in Arctic Canada supported by a demonstration by a leading Inuit tapestry weaver.
■ THE COMMON GUILD 21 Woodlands Terrace, 428 3022. Wed & Sat noon–5pm; Thu & Fri noon–7pm. FREE ‘You seem the same as always, -’ Until Sat 30 Jul. Work by major international artists with the common theme of the artist’s hand. Includes work by Olafur Eliasson, Douglas Gordon, Richard Serra and David Shrigley. West End Festival. ■ COMPASS GALLERY 178 West Regent Street, 221 6370. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm. FREE Scott McMurdo: Portraits of an Interior Mind Thu 2–Wed 22 Jun. Portraits in paint and charcoal of mainly elderly subjects from a promising young artist.
■ CURLERS REST 256–260 Byres Road, 341 0737. Mon–Thu 11am–11pm; Fri & Sat 11am–1am; Sun 12.30pm–11pm. FREE Juliebee Photo Showcase Until Tue 31 May. Freelance photographer Julie Broadfoot showcases her work.
■ DAVID DALE GALLERY AND STUDIOS 71–73 Brook Street Bridgeton, 258 9124. Fri–Sun noon–5pm. FREE Container and Contents Sat 28 May–Sun 19 Jun. Inspired in part by Daniel Buren’s text, Beware, Naomi Bell, Dominic Samsworth and Joanna Waclawski explore the notion of the institution and its role as common, cultural or social space.
■ THE DUCHY GALLERY 23 Duke Street, 237 8754. Fri & Sat noon–6pm. FREE Mark Briggs: Tiredness Can Kill Sat 4 Jun–Sat 2 Jul. New solo work. ■ EASTWOOD PARK THEATRE Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4.30pm. FREE Noye’s Fludde Exhibition Until Tue 31 May. Art work produced by East Renfrewshire schools in response to Reeling and Writhing’s production of Noye’s Fludde at Paisley Abbey.
VisualArt Angharad McLaren
Angharad McLaren designs and makes contemporary woven textiles in her studio at the Briggait in Glasgow. A lover of sailing, rock climbing and windsurfing she sources unusual sports-related materials such as climbing ropes, sail materials and neoprene alongside more traditional yarns such as wool and silk to create textiles that are both decorative and functional. She also looks to the traditional textiles she grew up with or gathered on her travels – Scottish tweeds, Welsh blankets, Mayan Backstrap weaving and Thai silks.
Angharad studied Textile Design at Glasgow School of Art and went on to an MA at the Royal College of Art. She has worked in several weaving mills, exhibited internationally, gained business funding from NESTAs Starter for 6 programme and the Scottish Arts Council Crafts Start Up Award and won awards for colour, innovation and design. Currently she sells a range of textile products – cushions, hot
water bottle covers, lavender bags, rugs and scarves – as well as working on projects for interior and fashion designers. Last year she was commissioned to design blinds for the Shetland Museum Café in Lerwick, made in 100% Shetland wool and inspired by the colourful landscape of the Isles. She is currently working on a new blinds commission and a collaboration with a product designer – and balances her studio work with plenty of fresh air and adventure to keep the inspiration flowing. ■ www.angharadmclaren.co.uk www.thisiscentralstation.com
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