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
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■ 17–19 TRONGATE Merchant City. merchantcityfestival.com FREE Compass: Are You Here Until Sun 24 Jul, noon–5pm. Film and video art exploring how we locate ourselves in the world. Part of the Merchant City Festival.
■ 21 STOCKWELL STREET Merchant City. merchantcityfestival.com FREE Nothing Fades Quicker Than Yesterday’s Ideas About Tomorrow Until Sun 24 Jul, 11am–6pm. Katherine Gallacher and Ric Warren explore alternative uses of the proposed location for a new department store. Merchant City Festival. ■ 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. New graphic renderings of the architect’s projects sits alongside work from current architecture undergraduates inspired by Price’s ideas about public spaces. FREE Material Considerations: Stone Until Sat 13 Aug. Past, present and future uses of stone in Scotland.
■ THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890. FREE Panel – O! and Other Letters Until Sun 24 Jul, 10am–5pm. This exhibition of typographic artworks by Edwin Pickstone explores the Merchant City’s design heritage in a specially created workshop environment. Merchant City Festival. FREE Extracting Souvenirs from the Centre of the Sediment Fri 22–Sun 24 Jul, 11am–5pm. Tom Harrup and Deniz Uster explore the many layers of Glasgow and its beating heart in the Merchant City. Merchant City Festival. ■ CAFÉ COSSACHOK 10 King Street/Trongate 103, 553 0733. Tue–Sat noon–11pm; Sun 4–11pm. FREE Merchant City through the Eyes of Eastern European Artists and Photographers Until Sun 31 Jul. Art work documenting trips made between Scotland and Russia.
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm.
✽✽ FREE British Art Show 7 Until Sun 21 Aug. Grand touring art affair featuring work by The Otolith Group, Christian Marclay, Charles Avery, Luke Fowler and Juliette Blightman.
■ COLLINS GALLERY 22 Richmond Street, 548 2558. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–4pm. FREE Opening the Door: John & Jacqui Crabtree and David Sillars Until Sat 23 Jul. Work by artists influenced by the theosophical tradition. FREE Contemplation: Sadia Gul Ibrahim Sat 30 Jul–Sat 13 Aug. Mixed media installation inspired by Pakistani art, architecture and culture. ■ 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,
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Kate Davis, Olafur Eliasson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra and David Shrigley. ■ DAVID DALE GALLERY AND STUDIOS 71–73 Brook Street Bridgeton, 258 9124. Fri–Sun noon–5pm. FREE Rob Chavasse, Lara Macleod & Jake Rusby Until Sun 24 Jul. Artists explore the gallery space in diverse ways. FREE There is no there there Until Sun 24 Jul. Two exhibitions, the product of a curatorial exchange between Glasgow’s David Dale Gallery and Rhubaba in Edinburgh, in which the galleries each relinquish control of their space to their opposite numbers for a couple of weeks. The idea of spatiality in contemporary art is explored through the work of artists Rob Chavasse, Lara Macleod and Jake Rusby (David Dale Gallery) and Desmond Church and Lyndsey Wardrop (Rhubaba).
■ EASTWOOD PARK THEATRE Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4.30pm. FREE Georgie McGowan Until Wed 31 Aug. Exhibition of art works inspired by memories of Neilston Mill in East Renfrewshire. ■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE British Art Show 7 Until Sun 21 Aug. See CCA, Glasgow.
■ GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS 730 Great Western Road, 334 2422. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Ghost Orchids Until Thu 15 Sep. Daily 10am–6pm. A site-specific sculptural installation in the gardens’ Orchid House. ■ 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 Until Sat 1 Oct. A unique survey of Scottish, UK and international artists over 60 years old.
■ GLASGOW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY University of Glasgow, Hillhead Street, 330 6704. Mon–Fri 9am–4.55pm; Sat 1–4.55pm. FREE Weathering: An Alastair Reid Retrospective Until Fri 30 Sep. Manuscripts and poetry in translation. ■ 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. Photographs, maps and text providing an insight into a European nature conservation project.
■ HEART BUCHANAN 380 Byres Road, 334 7626. Mon–Fri 8.30am–9.30pm; Sat 9am–9.30pm; Sun noon–7pm. FREE Ingo Glaetsch Until Wed 31 Aug. A huge canvas featuring a black and white sketch of a West End scene.
■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 5431. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Breaking the Renaissance Code ●●●●●
Until Tue 4 Oct. Precious emblem books together with prints, drawings and paintings from the university’s collections. See review, page 89. ■ 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. Drawing and painting created in response to the ongoing development of the new museum. FREE Scottish Glass at Kelvingrove Until Sun 1 Jul. Four hundred 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 Breaking Boundaries Until Thu 11 Aug. A group exhibition celebrating 25 years of the Batik Guild. ■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Alistair Frost and Gerda Scheepers ●●●●● Until Sat 6 Aug. Joint exhibition by young British and South African artists. See review, page 89.
■ MERCHANT GATE GALLERY 111 Saltmarket, 552 5847. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Femme Fatale Until Sat 30 Jul. A selection of oil paintings featuring burlesque performers and glamorous femmes fatales. ■ MITCHELL LIBRARY North Street, 287 2999. Mon–Thu 9am–8pm; Fri & Sat 9am–5pm. FREE Eyes of the Street Fri 22 Jul–Wed 31 Aug. Photography exhibition depicting life on Glasgow’s streets from the perspective of people experiencing homelessness.
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14-20 Osborne Street, 248 3711. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm. ✽✽ FREE Urs Fischer & Georg Herold Until Sat 3 Sep. Work by young Swiss artist Fischer and veteran German artist Herold.
■ MONTGOMERY’S COFFEE HOUSE 9 Radnor Street, 357 1666. Daily 9am–6pm. FREE Neutral Gender: Stephanie Spindler Until Sun 31 Jul. Solo exhibition of sculpture inspired by a residency in Istanbul.
■ OFFSHORE 3/5 Gibson Street, 07748 363354. Mon–Fri 8am–10pm; Sat & Sun 9am–10pm. FREE Lightscapes Sun 24 Jul–Tue 23 Aug. Scottish landscape photography. ■ PROJECT ABILITY Centre for the Developmental Arts Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm. FREE Young Talent Until Sat 20 Aug. Annual showcase of artwork created by children and young people who take part in Project Ability’s Create Programme.
■ RECOAT 323 North Woodside Road, 341 0069. Tue–Sun noon–6pm. FREE Rudimentary Perfection Until Sun 31 Jul. Art by a group of artists linked by a shared graffiti heritage. ■ ROGER BILLCLIFFE GALLERY 134 Blythswood Street, 332 4027. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–1pm. FREE Summer Exhibition: Artists’ Prints Until Mon 15 Aug. Prints by artists from London’s Advanced Graphics and Aberdeen’s Peacock Printmakers.
■ SALTIRE CENTRE Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, 273 1000. FREE Alistair R Ross Until Fri 22 Jul, 10am–5pm. Exhibition of work by one of the country’s leading figurative sculptors.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Joe O’Brien: Fragments of a Scottish Childhood Until Sun 24 Jul. Paintings inspired by recollections of the artist’s childhood in Glasgow’s Maryhill district. FREE Alumni: Glasgow University Fri 29 Jul–Fri 30 Sep. Scenes from around Glasgow University painted by popular gallery artists including Peter Nardini, Karen Cairns, Todd Garner, Jack Frame, Lee Robertson and Adrian McMurchie. ■ SMITHY GALLERY 74 Glasgow Road, Blanefield, 01360 770551. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 1–5pm FREE Summer Exhibition Until Sun 24 Jul. New works by Margaretann Bennett, Gordon Wilson, Joyce Gunn Cairns and many more. FREE Gordon Wilson Sun 31 Jul–Sun 28 Aug. Paintings, predominantly in oils, ranging from quirky portraiture to dynamic landscape and figurative work.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Gina Glover: Playgrounds of War Until Sun 7
Aug. Poignant images of abandoned military bases in the UK, Germany and Eastern Europe. See Artbeat, page 88. ■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE British Art Show 7 Until Sun 21 Aug. See CCA, Glasgow.
■ TRANSMISSION GALLERY Trongate 103, 552 4813. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm. FREE Transmission Members Show Until Sat 23 Jul. New work.
■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Tue–Sat 10am–midnight; Sun 11am–midnight; Mon 10am–6pm, later for shows. FREE Claire Forsyth Until Sun 24 Jul. Images of journeys both urban and pastoral. Part of the Merchant City Festival.
■ TRONGATE 103 276 8380. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Peter McCaughey: Pole Bender Until Sat 30 Jul. The Glasgow- based artist offers the gallery space as a sketchbook of current thoughts, processes and engagements.
■ THE VIRGINIA GALLERY 45 Virginia Street, 552 5699. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun 12.30–5pm. FREE Whet Paint Until Sun 7 Aug. Art by Raga Tilang and Patty McGonigal. ■ WELCOME HOME CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, welcomehomestore.co.uk Tue–Sat 11am–6pm. FREE Fabricated Until Wed 31 Aug. Textile design showcase.
EDINBURGH ■ ALPHA ART GALLERY 52 Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, 226 3066. Mon, Tue, Thu & Fri 10am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm.