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
■ 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 ART SCHOOL The Beresford Building, 468 Sauchiehall Street, 353 4410. FREE Ross Finnie: Turn Left Until Thu 2 Feb, 9am–3pm. Photographs of the American south-west by GSA student Finnie. ■ THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890. Opening times vary, see individual exhibition listings for information. FREE Iwakura Until 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. FREE Was, Were Sat 11 Feb–Fri 2 Mar. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm. Group show by artists Richard Blass, Rosie Toner and Robert Wilson, exploring themes related to memory and prediction.
■ CAFÉ COSSACHOK Trongate 103, 10 King Street, 553 0733. Tue–Sat 11am–10pm; Sun 4–10pm. FREE February Arts and Crafts Sale Until Sun 25 Mar. Handmade jewellery from Oksana Mavrodii- Peterson and oils, watercolours, pastels, ceramics and crafts from artists around the world.
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm. FREE (SAC) Ongoing bodies: Syndrome de Paris Suite Until 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. FREE Helen de Main: Polis Sat 4–Sat 18 Feb. New printmaking and sculpture work, appearing as fragments and remnants of objects that reflect the artist’s concern to question power, movement and control. FREE Laura Aldridge: Underside, backside, inside, even Thu 16 Feb–Sat 3 Mar. Fabric sculptures by Laura Aldridge depicting oversized fabric pockets, configuring a new relationship between ‘bodies’ and ‘objects’. FREE Thinking Ourselves into Existence Thu 16–Wed 29 Feb. Psykick Dancehall (Hannah Ellul and Ben Knight) curate a resource room and listening space with an archive of recordings, as part of an ongoing creative discussion with musician, musicologist and Singing Knives label founder Jon Marshall.
■ COLLINS GALLERY 22 Richmond Street, 548 2558. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–4pm. FREE Jeanette Sendler: Cutting Through Time Sat 4 Feb–Sat 3 Mar.
Helen Shaddock VisualArt
Helen Shaddock is a Glasgow-based artist who graduated from the city’s School of Art in 2008 with a first class honours degree in environmental art. Shaddock has been involved in exhibitions nationally and internationally, and her work belongs to a number of public and private collections. Recent exhibitions include ‘Coloured Matter’, a solo exhibition of new work at Here Gallery, Bristol in June 2011 and ‘Strength in numbers’, a solo exhibition at the Briggait, Glasgow in October 2011. She also exhibited in VAULT, the new contemporary art fair in Glasgow, September 2011.
In an essay for a recent exhibition, Sam Ainsley, former head of the Master of Fine Art progamme at the GSA, wrote, ‘Helen Shaddock’s work is exuberant and life enhancing; she responds to the world with a sense of joy and wonder and allows us (the viewers) to re-experience the pleasures of colour, texture and form which have shaped our experience of the world from our childhood years.’
A reflection and revaluation of the processes of pattern cutting and dressmaking.
■ CURLERS REST 256–260 Byres Road, 341 0737. Daily noon–midnight. FREE Hannah Frank, A Glasgow Artist 1908–2008 Until Mon 27 Feb. Exhibition of prints of the work of Glasgow artist Frank, including some of her eerie black and white drawings. ■ THE DUCHY GALLERY 23 Duke Street, 237 8754. Fri–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Lynn Hynd: Collisions in the process of feeling obstacles Until Sat 11 Feb. Works on paper and plaster by Glasgow-based artist.
■ 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. 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, David Shrigley, Daphne Wright and others. FREE We Are The People: Suck On This Until Mon 13 Feb. A work by John Beagles and Graham Ramsay combining video, photography and the written word: Ramsay walked the streets of Whitehall dressed as Travis Bickle, tormented antihero of Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and eventually handed in a petition to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair which simply read ‘We Are The People – Suck On This’. 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. 2 Feb–1 Mar 2012 THE LIST 121