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 Chloë Østmo, Oliver Flexman and Steven Dickie: The View from Little Diomede Until Fri 8 Jul. Exhibition jointly curated by +44 141 and the Market Gallery, exploring geographical themes. ■ 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. Exploration of ideas behind the work of the architect. FREE Material Considerations: Stone Until Sat 13 Aug. Display looking at past, present and future uses of stone in Scotland.
■ 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. A display of photographs from Gillanders’ visits to sculptor Ian Hamilton Finlay’s famous garden, Little Sparta.
■ AULD KIRK MUSEUM Cowgate, Kirkintilloch, 578 0144. Tue–Sat 10am–1pm & 2–5pm. FREE East Dunbartonshire Photographic Competition Exhibition Sat 25 Jun–Sat 16 Jul. Winners and runners up in this amateur photography competition.
■ THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890. FREE Panel – O! and Other Letters Thu 21–Sun 24 Jul, 10am–5pm. Typographic artworks by Edwin Pickstone exploring the Merchant City’s design heritage. Part of the Merchant City Festival. ✽✽ FREE Michelle Hannah: Who wants to live forever ●●●●● Until Sun 10 Jul, call for opening times. Mixed media work delving into the recesses of the human imagination and dystopian fantasies. See review, page 113.
■ CAFÉ COSSACHOK 10 King Street/Trongate 103, 553 0733. Tue–Sat noon–midnight; Sun 1pm–midnight. FREE The Real Red Shoe Until Thu 30 Jun. Glasgow-based painter Zenobia Mumford explores the folk symbolism of the red shoe.
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm.
✽✽ FREE British Art Show 7 Until Sun 21 Aug. The grand touring art
affair continues its Glasgow soujourn with work by The Otolith Group, Christian Marclay, Charles Avery, Luke Fowler and more. ■ THE COACH HOUSE GALLERY 518 Great Western Road, 341 0993. Tue 10am–5pm; Wed–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Batik Exhibition Until Sun 26 Jun. Colourful batik works from the Scottish members of the Batik Guild. Part of the West End Festival.
■ COLLINS GALLERY 22 Richmond Street, 548 2558. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–4pm. 114 THE LIST 23 Jun–21 Jul 2011
FREE Art Extraordinary ●●●●● Until Sat 25 Jun. Selected work from the Pittenweem collection of ‘outsider art’. FREE Textiles from Nunavut Until Sat 25 Jun. Tapestries and traditional packing dolls from Baffin Island in Arctic Canada. FREE David Sillars and Theosophical Society Artists Sat 2–Sat 23 Jul. Prints, paintings and drawing by Glaswegian artists. FREE Opening the Door: John & Jacqui Crabtree and David Sillars Sat 2–Sat 23 Jul. Work by artists influenced by the theosophical tradition.
■ 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. Featured artists include Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Olafur Eliasson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra and David Shrigley. See review, page 113. Part of the West End Festival.
■ DAVID DALE GALLERY AND STUDIOS 71–73 Brook Street Bridgeton, 258 9124. Fri–Sun noon–5pm. FREE Rob Chavasse, Lara Macleod & Jake Rusby Sat 9–Sun 24 Jul. Artists explore the gallery space in diverse ways.
■ THE DUCHY GALLERY 23 Duke Street, 237 8754. Fri–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Mark Briggs: Tiredness Can Kill Until Sat 2 Jul. Self-reflexive installation employing text, light and film.
■ EASTWOOD PARK THEATRE Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4.30pm. FREE Scottish Painting Exhibition Until Wed 29 Jun. Paintings by artists working in the west of Scotland. FREE Georgie McGowan Wed 13 Jul–Wed 31 Aug. Art works inspired by memories of Neilston Mill in East Renfrewshire. ■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. FREE British Art Show 7 Until Sun 21 Aug. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. See CCA, Glasgow.
■ GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS 730 Great Western Road, 334 2422. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Digital Botanica Until Sun 26 Jun. Prints and an installation (on display in Kibble Palace) inspired by the greenery of the West End, by Tom Donald. Part of the West End Festival. FREE Ghost Orchids Until Thu 15 Sep. A site-specific sculptural installation in the gardens’ Orchid House by Siobhan Healy.
■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Contemporary Monotypes Until Sun 3 Jul. Eighteen artists apply painterly approaches to printmaking. FREE Seth Orion Schwaiger Until Sun 3 Jul. Schwaiger uses planographs to explore ideas of flaw and process.
■ GOETHE INSTITUT 3 Park Circus, 332 2555. Mon–Thu 10am–5pm; Fri 10am–4pm. FREE From Death Zone to Nature Reserve: The European Green Belt Until Fri 19 Aug. Items documenting a unique conservation project around the notional area of the Iron Curtain. ■ HANSBERG AND WOOLF 49 Cochrane Street, 07580 287422. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm. FREE Alex Villar Fri 24 Jun–Fri 15 Jul.
Lesley Barnes
Lesley Barnes Studied Film and English at Glasgow University before attending Glasgow School of Art to study 2D/3D Motion Graphics. Lesley’s graduation film Herzog and the Monsters has shown in competition at film festivals all over the world and has won a number of awards. Lesley was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2007.
Since graduating Lesley has worked with Ko Lik films on several projects including two half-hour animations for BBC Scotland. Lesley has also directed adverts, and produced animation for television and film. Lesley recently expanded into illustration and her work has since featured in publications such as Grafik and The Sunday Times Style Magazine and at institutions such as the V and A.
Most recently Lesley has directed an animated music video for Belle and Sebastian. She was also involved in a specially commissioned project fusing animation, genetics and jazz with Mercury-nominated musician Kit Downes at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival earlier this year. ■ www.lesleybarnes.co.uk www.youtube.com/user/LesleyToastandJam www.thisiscentralstation.com
Solo show including video art, photography and installation from the New York-based artist. ■ HILLHEAD LIBRARY 348 Byres Road, 339 7223. Mon, Tue & Thu 10am–8pm; Wed 10am–5pm; Fri & Sat 9am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Highrise Until Sun 26 Jun. Dramatic monochrome photographs documenting life in Glasgow’s high rise blocks. Part of the West End Festival and Refugee Week Scotland. FREE Visual Journeys Until Sun 26 Jun. Children’s responses to a graphic novel about the refugee experience. Part of the West End Festival and Refugee Week Scotland.
■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 5431. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5pm. FREE Breaking the Renaissance Code Sat 25 Jun–Tue 4 Oct. An exhibition of precious emblem books together with prints, drawings and paintings from the university’s collections. ■ IOTA Unlimited Studios, 25 Hyndland Street, 338 6052. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 1–5pm. FREE Rita McGurn: Framed Drawings Until Sun 26 Jun. Small monochromatic works, which will be auctioned off in aid of Yorkhill Children’s Foundation at 4pm on Sun 26 Jun. Part of the West End Festival.
the new Riverside Museum under construction. FREE Scottish Glass at Kelvingrove Until Sun 1 Jul. The fruits of 400 years of glassmaking in Scotland. ■ KENDALL KOPPE GALLERY Suite 1–2, 6 Dixon Street, 07969 403472. Wed–Sat 11am–5pm FREE Ciara Phillips: In Residence Until Mon 5 Sep. New work by the Canadian-born, Glasgow-based artist.
■ LILLIE ART GALLERY Station Road, Milngavie, 578 8847. Tue–Sat 10am–1pm & 2–5pm. FREE Milngavie Art Club Until Fri 1 Jul. Annual exhibition of paintings by local artists. FREE Breaking Boundaries Sat 9 Jul–Thu 11 Aug. A group exhibition celebrating 25 years of the Batik Guild.
■ MACKINTOSH MUSEUM The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. Mon-Fri 10.30am–4.30pm. Sat 10am–2pm. FREE Live Your Questions Now Sat 16 Jul–Sat 1 Oct. A unique survey of Scottish, UK and international artists over 60 years old. ■ MARKET GALLERY 334 Duke Street, 556 7276. Thu–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Chloë Østmo, Oliver Flexman and Steven Dickie: The View from Little Diomede Until Fri 1 Jul. See +44 141 at SWG3, Glasgow.
■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Drawing (on) Riverside Until Sun 14 Aug. Highly detailed studies of
■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue–Sat noon–6pm. ✽✽ FREE Alistair Frost and Gerda Scheepers Sat 25 Jun–Sat 6 Aug.
Joint exhibition by young British and