VisualArt 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
■ 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 alongside work by current architecture undergraduates. FREE Material Considerations: Stone Until Fri 12 Aug, 10.30am–5pm. Uses of stone in Scotland. ■ BIG MOUTH COFFEE BAR AND CAFÉ 167 Dumbarton Road, 337 7023. Mon–Fri 8am–7pm (Fri until 6pm); Sat 9am–6pm. FREE Seeing You There Until Wed 28 Sep. Caroline Watson exhibits drawings and mixed media work exploring themes of nature and solace as well as cultural memory and attachment.
■ THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890. FREE Emilia Muller-Ginorio & Thomas PR Horak Until Fri 26 Aug. Daily 2.30–5.30pm. Muller-Ginorio’s Contexts for Sewing is an exploration of artistic labour and production in an attempt to confront globalization while Horak’s Time is a Piece of Glass concerns time.
■ CASTLE GALLERIES Level One, Princes Square, 48 Buchanan Street, 221 6867. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm FREE Bob Dylan: Drawn Blank Series 2011 Until Wed 31 Aug. Signed prints of the singer’s colourful and mysterious paintings. ■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm.
✽✽ FREE British Art Show 7 Until Sun 21 Aug, Tue–Sun 11am–5pm.
■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE British Art Show 7 Until Sun 21 Aug, Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. See CCA, Glasgow.
✽✽ FREE Peace at Last! Until Sun 16 Oct. Work created by Glasgow artist Kate Davis in response to objects from the Glasgow Museums collections.
■ GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS 730 Great Western Road, 334 2422. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Ghost Orchids Until Thu 15 Sep. A site-specific sculptural installation in the gardens’ Orchid House by Siobhan Healy. ■ 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. See
review, page 131.
■ 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. Illuminating works on the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. ■ 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 unique European nature conservation project along the line of the Iron Curtain. ■ 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 sketch of a scene on the Great Western Road. ■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 5431. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5pm
Ruth Ewan: Brank & Heckle
See Hitlist. FREE Kai Fischer: Entartet Until Sat 20 Aug. An exhibition reflecting on the Third Reich’s 1937 Exhibition of Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst), which aimed to ridicule non-conforming artists and ended up as an inadvertent celebration of modernism. ■ COLLINS GALLERY 22 Richmond Street, 548 2558. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–4pm FREE Contemplation: Sadia Gul Ibrahim Until Sat 13 Aug. Mixed media installation inspired by Pakistani art, architecture and culture.
■ CYRIL GERBER FINE ART 178 West Regent Street, 221 3095. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5.30pm
✽✽ FREE First of the Summer Wine ●●●●● Until Wed 31 Aug.
See review, page 131.
■ THE DUCHY GALLERY 23 Duke Street, 237 8754. Fri–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Karen Cunningham & Zara Idelson Until Sat 3 Sep. Joint show by emerging Scottish artists. ■ 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.
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For her first major solo show in the UK, Aberdeen-born artist Ewan explores notions of silence and protest by taking historical objects, images and sounds and rendering them ‘active’ through use. Her ongoing interest in radical histories and Dundee’s social heritage is reflected in the show’s title, which combines ‘brank’, the Scots word for the Scold’s Bride, used to silence and torture women, with ‘heckle’, in common usage now and thought to have originated in Dundee’s jute mills. ■ Dundee Contemporary Arts, Fri 12 Aug–Sun 9 Oct.
✽✽ FREE Breaking the Renaissance Code ●●●●●
Until Tue 4 Oct. See Hitlist.
■ 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. Studies of the development of the new Riverside Museum. FREE Scottish Glass at Kelvingrove Until Sun 1 Jul. Glass art and artefacts from the 18th century to the present day.
■ LILLIE ART GALLERY Station Road, Milngavie, 578 8847. Tue–Sat 10am–1pm & 2–5pm FREE Breaking Boundaries Until Thu 11 Aug. Group exhibition celebrating 25 years of the Batik Guild. ■ MITCHELL LIBRARY North Street, 287 2999. Mon-Thu 9am–8pm; Fri & Sat 9am–5pm FREE Eyes of the Street Until Wed 31 Aug. Glasgow’s streets from the perspective of the homeless.
■ 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. ■ OFFSHORE 3/5 Gibson Street, 07748 363354. Mon–Fri 8am–10pm; Sat & Sun 9am–10pm. FREE Lightscapes Until Tue 23 Aug. Scottish landscape photography.
■ PROJECT ABILITY Centre for the Developmental Arts Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm FREE Young Talent Until Sat 20 Aug. Work created as part of Project Ability’s Create Programme.
■ ROGER BILLCLIFFE GALLERY 134 Blythswood Street, 332
OUTSIDE THE
FESTIVALS
4027. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–1pm. FREE Artists’ Prints Until Mon 15 Aug. Prints by artists from two major printmaking workshops, London’s Advanced Graphics and Aberdeen’s Peacock Printmakers. ■ SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm FREE Alumni: Glasgow University Until Sun 28 Aug. 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 Gordon Wilson Until Sun 28 Aug. Paintings 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 Futureproof Sat 13 Aug–Sun 9 Oct. The third in a series of annual exhibitions which profile rising young artists from Scotland’s photography and visual arts courses. ■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–5pm FREE British Art Show 7 Until Sun 21 Aug, Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. See CCA, Glasgow. ■ THE VIRGINIA GALLERY 45 Virginia Street, 552 5699. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun 12.30–5pm FREE John, I’m Only Dancing Sat 13 Aug–Mon 12 Sep. Abstract painting and photography by Robin Burgess and Michael James exploring Glasgow’s queer culture.
■ WELCOME HOME CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, welcomehomestore.co.uk Tue–Sat 11am–6pm FREE Fabricated Until Wed 31 Aug. Textile design showcase featuring playful interpretations of theme, scale and material from makers based in Glasgow and London. OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 10.30am–5.30pm (Thu until 8.30pm); Sun noon–5.30pm. FREE DCA Editions – Martin Boyce Until Wed 30 Nov. Prints created at in the DCA print studio. ✽✽ FREE Ruth Ewan: Brank & Heckle Fri 12 Aug–Sun 9 Oct. See
caption, left.
■ MOUNT STUART HOUSE AND GARDENS Rothesay, Isle Of Bute, 01700 503877. Daily 10am–6pm. House admission (includes exhibition entry) £10 (£8; children £5). Modernism has two faces . . . Until Mon 31 Oct. Work by contemporary artists inspired in part by the work of Dadaist artist, sculptor and weaver Sophie Taueber-Arp. ■ VARIOUS VENUES pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk FREE Royal Burgh of Pittenweem Arts Festival Until Sun 14 Aug, times vary. A celebration of visual arts taking place in homes, galleries and public venues throughout Pittenweem. This year’s featured artists include Kate Downie, Pum Dunbar and the students of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.