VisualArt
Alex Simpson
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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 ■ ANNAN GALLERY 164 Woodlands Road, 332 0028. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–4pm. FREE Group Show Until Sun 24 Jun. Work by gallery artists, including paintings, mixed media and glass.
■ THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000.
✽ FREE Peter Iain Campbell: What Hercules Might See
(Part III) Until Thu 26 Jul. Daily 12–6pm. Artist using photography to explore the relationship between muscle men, shipbuilding and the RAF.
■ BRAEHEAD SHOPPING CENTRE First floor, Kings Inch Road, 885 1441. Mon–Fri 10am–9pm; Sat 9am–6.30pm; Sun 10am–7pm. FREE Photography Exhibition Until Tue 17 Jul. Exhibition by photography students at Reid Kerr College. ■ BURRELL COLLECTION 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Home Sweet Home Until Sun 24 Jun. Photography exhibition created by Women Asylum Seekers Together London. Part of Refugee Week.
■ CAFE SOURCE TOO Hillhead Sports Club, 32 Hughenden Road, 357 6437. FREE Duncan Lamont Until Sat 23 Jun, daily 11am–11pm. Photographs showing the majesty of the Highlands and Islands by the Oban-born photographer and designer. Part of the West End Festival.
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm.
✽ FREE Sarnath Banerjee: History is Written by Garment
Exporters Until Sat 28 Jul. Drawings and films by the Indian artist and graphic novelist, whose work examines the daily tensions of Indian life. Giuseppe Mistretta: The Braille Room Tue 17–Sat 28 Jul. Work by a recent graduate of the Glasgow School of Art’s prestigious MFA.
■ THE COMMON GUILD 21 Woodlands Terrace, 428 3022. Wed & Sat noon–5pm; Thu & Fri noon–7pm. FREE Wolfgang Tillmans: A New Installation ●●●●● Until Sat 23 Jun. The photographer has his first solo exhibition in Scotland since 1995. Part of the West End Festival.
■ 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 First of the Summer Wine Until Fri 31 Aug. Work from the Scottish Colourists, Glasgow Boys & Girls, Blackadder, Eardley and Gillies. ■ DAVID DALE GALLERY AND STUDIOS 161 Broad Street, Bridgeton, 258 9124. Fri–Sun noon–5pm. FREE Fiona Burke & Marzia Rossi Until Sun 8 Jul. Joint show by Irish artist and Italian artist, concerning the history of painting.
■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon– Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Karla Black ●●●●● Until
In 2010 Alex Simpson graduated with a first class honours degree in Illustration from the University of Brighton, where she received the John Vernon Lord Sketchbook Prize. Alex is a multi disciplinary artist who works intuitively across painting, sculpture and printmaking. Her work centres around personal narratives that are played out in worlds of melancholic children and strange creatures exploring their relationships with loss, fear and the unknown. At the core of Alex’s practice is painting – a dialogue between artist and medium – in which she invites spontaneity to bleed out her delicate figures into washes of gouache and ink. Alex also works with ceramics – sculpting three-dimensional counterparts to her gouache apparitions – using glazes to retain the textural flow of painting in this medium. Recently she has been commissioned to produce miniature porcelain sculptures for Guinness, The Guinness Monument and paintings for the Bavarian State Opera House Magazine Max Joseph. She now lives in South East London. ■ alex-simpson.co.uk alex-simpson.tumblr.com thisiscentralstation.com
Sun 24 Jun. Major new process-based sculptural works. FREE Tales of the City Until Sun 28 Oct. Works from GoMA’s collection purchased on the Art Fund International scheme. Featured artists include Joseph Beuys, Martin Boyce, Barbara Kruger, David Shrigley, Daphne Wright and others. FREE Tales of the City: Gallery 3 Until Sun 20 Jan 2013. More works from the Art Fund International scheme, including the creations of Eve Arnold, Beagles & Ramsay and Douglas Gordon. FREE Tales of the City: Gallery 2 Fri 22 Jun–Sun 20 Jan 2013. Art by Rob Churm, Fischli & Weiss, David Hockney, Scott Myles, David Sherry and more.
■ GATEHOUSE GALLERY Rouken Glen Road, 620 0235. Mon, Thu, Fri & Sun 1.30–5.30pm; Sat 11.30am–5.30pm. FREE Mixed Exhibition featuring Alan King Until Sun 24 Jun. Paintings by gallery artists, including depictions of circus and vaudeville performers by King. ■ THE GLASGOW ART CLUB 185 Bath Street, 248 5210. FREE Ironbbratz First Annual Graduate Exhibition Until Mon 25 Jun. Mon & Wed–Sat noon–5pm. Mixed media, from drawing to sound.
■ GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS 730 Great Western Road, 334 2422.
FREE Plants Life People Until Sun 24 Jun, daily 10am–6pm. Photography exhibition showcasing contemporary botanical science. Part of the West End Festival.
■ 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 Bronwen Sleigh, Rachel Duckhouse & Mark Campbell Until Sun 15 Jul. New work by Glasgow- based artists, exploring ideas of space, architecture and perspective.
✽ FREE Helen Fay Until Sun 1 Jul. Prints by artist with a predilection
for images of animals and landscapes. See Art Spotlight, Inside Back Cover.
21 Jun–19 Jul 2012 THE LIST 121