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
■ THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. Mon–Sat noon–midnight. FREE Alessandra Campoli: Edges Until Mon 30 Jan. A reflection on boundaries and limits, combining photography, photomontage and performance art. ■ ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN SCOTLAND Level 2, The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, 225 8350. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm. FREE High Street Until Tue 17 Apr. Exhibition looking at the evolution of the Scottish high street.
■ THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890. Opening times vary, see individual exhibition listings for information. FREE Iwakura Mon 16 Jan–Tue 27 Mar. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm. A group show of international artists who studied in Kyoto, Japan, discussing how art crosses the barriers of language and culture. Featuring new work by Susie Olczak, Tilde Engstroem, Alex Tobin, Katherine Roblou, Phyllis Smith and international guest artists. ■ CAFÉ COSSACHOK Trongate 103, 10 King Street, 553 0733. Tue–Sat noon–11pm; Sun 4–11pm. FREE Winter Kaleidoscope Sale Until Sun 15 Jan. Oils, watercolours, pastels and prints by Armenian, Georgian, Russian, Eastern European and Scottish artists.
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm; Intermedia Gallery opening hours vary, see individual exhibition listings. FREE Dovble Trovble Sat 7–Sat 28 Jan. It’s Our Playground curates this investigation of artworks in different media, featuring work by artists including Aaron Angell, Rachel de Joode, Ciara Phillips, Owen Piper and others. FREE No Vacancy Thu 12–Sat 28 Jan. New paintings on current political and cultural themes by Alan Stanners, influenced by his Qualmlessist Manifesto. FREE Emma McKay & Lila de Magalhaes: Seance On Sat 7–Sat 21 Jan. Tue–Sat noon–5pm (Intermedia Gallery). New work based on themes of communicating with the dead and the mask as identity. FREE (SAC) Ongoing bodies: Syndrome de Paris Suite Thu 2–Sat 18 Feb. Artists Simone Hutchinson, Alex Kennedy and Conal McStravick have developed an installation that re- contextualises a series of performances filmed at CCA and Glasgow School of Art in 2010. The installation uses the movements of people in the gallery to trigger pieces of video. ■ CYRIL GERBER FINE ART 178 West Regent Street, 221 3095. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm (Thu until 7pm); Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun 11am–4pm. FREE The Winter Collection Until Tue 31 Jan. Works by Blackadder, Davie, Eardley, Cadell, Gaudier Brzeska, Peploe, Wyndham Lewis and others.
■ THE DUCHY GALLERY 23 Duke Street, 237 8754. Fri–Sat noon–6pm.
Garry Maclennan
Originally from Brora in the far north east of Scotland, photographer Garry Maclennan currently lives and works in Glasgow. In the last six years he has founded a collaborative photography studio in a hidden cul-de-sac in Glasgow’s West End, been awarded a photography BA from the University of the West of Scotland and shown work in some unusual locations: in a tiny 1m x 1m gallery; in a grand filmhouse, in a fancy window display . . .
In 2011 Garry photographed artist David Shrigley’s upcoming exhibit on behalf of The Hayward Gallery and worked closely with London-based publisher Cicada Books photographing cover and content for hit DIY title, The State of Craft. Most recently, Garry exhibited Icarus, his latest series of photographs, on the walls of Merchant City style hotel, the Brunswick. A departure from his usual dramatic, barely edited, warts’n’all style, Icarus uses digital manipulation to the extreme, is highly stylised and ventures into the territory of graphic art. ■ garrymaclennan.co.uk thisiscentralstation.com
FREE Lynn Hynd: Obstacles of Vision Sat 21 Jan–Sat 11 Feb. Works on paper and an installation by Glasgow- based artist. ■ THE GALLERY @ MUSSEL INN 157 Hope Street, 572 1405. Mon–Fri noon–2.30pm & 5–10pm; Sat noon–10pm; Sun 12.30–10pm. FREE Christmas Art Show: Rubbing Shoulders Until Tue 31 Jan. Work by women artists who have rubbed shoulders with each other, including Silvana McLean, Karen Lloyd, Doreen Boogert, Anne Plutshack and others.
■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Alasdair Gray: City Recorder ●●●●● Until Mon 13 Aug. Alasdair Gray is one of Scotland’s most eminent writers and artists, and in 1977 he was ‘artist recorder’ for the city of Glasgow, his home town. This major exhibition features work from that period, showing how Gray’s art depicted the life of the city at a particular moment. See review, page 106. FREE Atelier Public Until Sun 15 Jan. You’re invited to go to the GoMA Gallery 3 and play around with the materials there to create something that you’d like to leave on display in the gallery; a number of artists have done the same thing. FREE Tales of the City: Art Fund International and the GoMA Collection Until Sat 1 Dec. Works from GoMA’s collection purchased on the Art Fund International scheme, in partnership with the Common Guild.
Featured artists include Joseph Beuys, 2011 Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce, Barbara Kruger and others. FREE You, Me, Something Else Until Sun 18 Mar. An exhibition of work from Glasgow sculptors, featuring pieces by Claire Barclay, Karla Black, Nick Evans, Alex Frost, Lorna Macintyre, James McLardy, Andrew Miller, Mary Redmond, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan.
■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Gallery: Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. Workshop: Tue–Thu 10am–9pm; Fri & Sat 10am–5.30pm FREE Members’ Christmas Show Until Sun 29 Jan. Prints by the gallery artists. ■ HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4776. Daily 10am–4pm. FREE Christmas Exhibition Until Sun 15 Jan. Work from 45 contemporary Scottish artists, working in a variety of media from textiles to photography. Prices start from £40. FREE Alex Boyd: Sonnets Thu 19 Jan–Mon 20 Feb. Large format landscape photos featuring a solitary figure, inspired by the late Edwin Morgan’s Sonnets from Scotland.
■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 5431. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. Colour, Rhythm & Form: JD Fergusson and France Until Sun 8 Jan. £5 (£3). Exhibition of work by the
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late great Scottish Colourist JD Fergusson, marking the 50th anniversary of his death and celebrating in particular his lifelong interest in France. FREE The Art of the Poster Until Sun 8 Jan. Classic poster designs and designers from the late 19th century, including Mackintosh, the Macdonald sisters, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha and Jules Cheret. ■ KENDALL KOPPE GALLERY Suite 1–2, 6 Dixon Street, 07969 403472. Wed–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Laying Down and Kissing the Love in the Mist Part 1 Part one: Sat 7–Wed 18 Jan; part two Fri 20 Jan–Sat 18 Feb. Exhibition of new work in two parts, curated by Laura Aldridge.
■ LILLIE ART GALLERY Station Road, Milngavie, 578 8847. Tue–Sat 10am–1pm & 2–5pm. FREE The Lillie at 50 Sat 7 Jan–Thu 16 Feb. The Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary with a major exhibition of its permanent collection, including works by FCB Caddell, JD Ferguson, SJ Peploe, Joan Eardley and Robert Lillie, the banker-turned-painter who founded the gallery with a bequest in his will.
■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue–Sat noon–6pm.
Some objects blackened and ✽✽ FREE Lili Reynaud-Dewar: a body too Until Sat 14 Jan. Artist concerned with identities draws on her early ballet training and the iconography of dance for an exhibition consisting of sculptures made largely from found objects, and short video pieces of herself dancing naked in her studio with her body blackened.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Christmas Exhibition Until Sun 22 Jan. Painting and sculpture from gallery artists. FREE Lee Robertson Sat 28 Jan–Sun 11 Mar. New figurative paintings.
■ SMITHY GALLERY 74 Glasgow Road, Blanefield, 01360 770551. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 1–5pm FREE The Affordable Art Show Sun 22 Jan–Sun 4 Mar. Ceramics, glass, jewellery and sculpture at prices under £500, from artists such as Gordon Wilson, Laura Harrison, Sian MacQueen RSW and many others.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm ✽✽ FREE What Presence! The Rock Photography of Harry Papadopoulos ●●●●● Fri 6 Jan–Sat 25 Feb. Glasgow-born Harry Papadopolous was a staff photographer for Sounds magazine from 1979 to 1984, in which capacity he photographed countless post-punk icons from The Associates to the Birthday Party. This retrospective exhibition takes in his entire career. See review, page 105.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm. FREE Gordon Schmidt: the soul is easier to know than the body Fri 27 Jan–Sun 26 Feb. A video and sound installation continuing Schmidt’s ongoing interest in the correlation between performance, document and individual experience. ✽✽ FREE Matthew Darbyshire: T Rooms Fri 27 Jan–Sun 11 Mar. An
installation exploring design’s role as a barometer of social change, and created in collaboration with Rupert Ackroyd, Jacob Farrell, Owen Hatherley and Scott King. See feature, page 105.
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