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organisations that give opportunities to artists with disabilities. FREE The World Awaits (For More Info) Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. Text- based work by four artists working through disability. Part of GI. ■ QUEENS PARK RAILWAY CLUB Queens Park Railway Station, 492 Victoria Road. patriciaflemingprojects.co.uk FREE Everything Flows Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May, Tue–Sun 2.30–6.30pm. Work from Glasgow’s experimental art- into-music scene. Part of GI.
■ RECOAT 323 North Woodside Road, 341 0069. Tue–Sun noon–6pm. FREE Maya Wild: Power Power II Until Sun 8 Apr. Drawings of musicians such as Patti Smith and Grace Jones.
■ REPOSITIONED 1203 Argyle Street, repositioned.co.uk Wed–Sun 11.30am–6.30pm. FREE David Harriman: The Meadow’s Edge Until Fri 20 Apr. Mesmerising photos of the boundaries between urban spaces and desert wasteland in the western USA. ■ RGI KELLY GALLERY 118 Douglas Street, 248 6386. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5pm; Sat 10.30am–3pm. FREE Glasgow Group Annual Exhibition Until Sat 31 Mar. Painting, photography, ceramics and prints. FREE Robert McGilvray Tue 3–Sat 14 Apr. Paintings reflecting the artist’s affinity with the River Tay. FREE Kim & Lara Scouller Tue 17–Sat 28 Apr. Figurative paintings by sibling graduates of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.
■ SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL MUSEUM 225 Scotland Street, 287 0500. Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Ruth Ewan: The Glasgow Schools Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. An exhibition drawing on the artist’s research into the Socialist Sunday School movement in Glasgow in the early 20th century. Part of GI. ■ SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Jack Frame Until Thu 26 Apr. Paintings and drawings by the Glasgow- schooled artist. FREE Peter Nardini Until Thu 26 Apr. Pictures of Glasgow cafés, faces and streets.
■ SKYPARK GLASGOW 8 Elliot Place, skypark-glasgow.com Daily during GI, 11am–7pm. FREE Petrosphere Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. The second part of an exchange
project between Glasgow and Athens- based artists. Part of GI. ■ SMITHY GALLERY 74 Glasgow Road, Blanefield, 01360 770551. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 1–5pm. FREE Laura Harrison Until Sun 8 Apr. Colourful still lifes and landscapes. FREE Alasdair Gray Sun 15 Apr–Sun 13 May. Work by the celebrated novelist, playwright, poet and artist. FREE Joyce Gunn Cairns Sun 15 Apr–Sun 13 May. Work by the celebrated Edinburgh-based artist.
■ SOUTHSIDE STUDIOS 17 Westmoreland St, southsidestudios.org Daily during GI, 11am–6pm. FREE Familiar Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. Mixed media work from young Scottish artists. Part of GI. FREE Real Time Glimpses Ahead Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. Artists present their vision for the studios. Part of GI.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm; during GI also Mon 10am–5pm. Wang Fu Chun and Chi Peng Until Sat 14 Apr. Documentary photography from China. FREE Growing Up in the New Age Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. Photographs of the counter-culture. Part of GI.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Normal opening hours Tue–Fri noon–5pm, Sat & Sun noon–6pm; extended opening hours during GI Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun 12.30–6pm. FREE Rhianna Turnbull Until Sun 8 Apr. Work focusing on themes of lifestyle, attitude and identity. FREE Kelly Nipper: Black Forest Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. See preview, right. Part of GI. FREE Redmond Entwistle: Walk- Through Fri 20 Apr–Sun 13 May. Film installation inspired by the California Institute of the Arts. Part of GI. FREE The Making Of Fri 20 Apr–Sun 6 May. A collaboration between theatre director Graham Eatough and artist Graham Fagen, in which audience members will be extras in footage filmed over the first weekend of GI (Fri 20–Sun 22 Apr, 8pm, Sat also 3pm), £5 deposit must be paid). Part of GI. ■ TRANSMISSION GALLERY Trongate 103, 552 7141. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm; during GI extended opening on Thu until 8pm. FREE Stuart Gurden: Early Reflections with Reverse Gate Until Wed 11 Apr. New work. FREE Six Works of Art for your Interpretation Thu 12 Apr–Sat 5 May. An experiment in interpretation and irreverence. Part of GI.
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PREVIEW PERFORMATIVE ART KELLY NIPPER: BLACK FOREST Tramway, Glasgow, Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May
For all the apparent complexities of Los Angeles artist Kelly Nipper’s oeuvre – her commitment to Labanotation, the system used for analysing dance, or her interest in geometry – a fairly simple conceit lies at its heart. For Nipper, human movement remains the most direct expression of communication. Her meticulously executed works, based in photography, video and installations of bodies-in-action, explore relations of space, time and dimension. Often making use of dancers, these are majestic portraits of motion, and her challenging presentation for Tramway’s main gallery space will extend this highly idiosyncratic approach. Nipper’s dancers often team masks or hoods with geometrically
patterned costumes, as if tribal offspring of the bold aesthetics of 1920s futurism, or contemporary counter-parts to Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhausian ballerinas. Performing in response to score-based choreography, their slow, hypnotic, repetitive movements and patterns come to articulate contours, elegantly fashioning forms from their surrounds. Melding elements of dance, ceramics, textiles and print, Black Forest
will feature dancers performing daily routines addressing the formal attributes of the five multiple-faced polyhedrons – the cube, the dodecahedron, and so forth. Thick wool blankets will smother the cavernous gallery space, providing a unified plane to hide, support or encompass the dancers. The vast installation and repetitive nature of this work provokes thought of ritualized gestures, and it is apparent that the artist is interested in the symbolic effects of movements – their larger communications. As such, her address to the mythically and historically loaded site of the Black Forest holds great intrigue. (Rosalie Doubal)
■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Tue–Sat 10am–midnight; Sun 11am–midnight; Mon 10am–6pm, later on show nights. FREE Robert McSpadyen Until Sun 15 Apr. Prints exploring the relationship between rock’n’roll and cinema. FREE Christine Leathem Mon 16 Apr–Sun 10 Jun. Prints exploring the contrast between personal ideals and
dreams, and reality. ■ TRONGATE 103 276 8380. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Iseult Timmermans: End of the Road Until Sun 15 Apr. Photographic project about the residents of the last inhabited flats of 10 Red Court on Glasgow’s Red Road.
20 APRIL — 07 MAY
Free entry to all exhibitions. www.glasgowinternational.org ‘the UK’s best visual art festival’ The Guardian
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