list.co.uk/visualart Exhibitions are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at 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. Daily noon–6pm.
✽ FREE Karen L Vaughan: I Can’t Get That Sound You
Make Out Of My Head Until Fri 31 Aug. Contemporary indie music-themed embroidery. ■ BURRELL COLLECTION 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Jean-Francois Millet: Under Investigation Until Sun 6 Jan. New display of paintings, pastels and prints.
■ CYRIL GERBER FINE ART 178 West Regent Street, 221 3095. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun 11am–4pm.
✽ FREE The First of the Summer Wine Until Fri 31 Aug.
Annual summer exhibition; featured artists include Scottish Colourists, Glasgow Boys & Girls, Blackadder, Eardley and Gillies.
■ DGP STUDIO AND SPACE 32 St Andrews Street FREE Buisneachd – Witchcraft – Enchantment Until Sun 5 Aug. Thu– Sun noon–5pm. Artist Moira Maclean explores ideas about witchcraft, women and the home.
■ THE DUCHY GALLERY 23 Duke Street, 237 8754. Fri–Sat noon–6pm. FREE James McLardy: The Swan and Hostage Fri 3–Sat 25 Aug. Sculptures by Glasgow-based artist currently in residency at the gallery. ■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Tales of the City Until various dates in late 2012 and early 2013. Three-part exhibition featuring works by major artists purchased on the Art Fund International scheme. Includes such well-known names as Joseph Beuys, Martin Boyce, Fischli & Weiss, David Hockney and many more. FREE Fiona Tan: Disorient Fri 20 Jul–Sun 24 Feb 2013. Spectacular two- screen film installation.
■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE The Medium is the Message Until Sun 9 Sep. An exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the Glasgow Print Studio exploring how artists have used words in printmaking since the 1960s.
■ HIDDEN LANE GALLERY 1081 Argyle Street, hiddenlanegallery. com Tue–Sat 11am–5pm. FREE Images of Glasgow Until Fri 31 Aug. Three centuries’ worth of photographs, paintings and prints of the dear green place. ■ HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4776. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Scottish Society of Architect Artists’ Summer Exhibition Until Mon 27 Aug. Diverse work by society members, plus work by members of French design group Ligne et Couleur.
■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 4221. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. FREE Modern Medals Until Sun 19 Aug. Almost 1000 modern art medals – a little-known form of miniature sculpture. ■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. The Essence of Beauty: 500 Years of Italian Art Until Sun 12 Aug. £5 (£3). Italian art from the 14th to the 19th centuries. FREE Utility: Rationalising Furniture Design Until Sun 30 Sep. Key pieces from the postwar Freedom of Design movement.
■ GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS The Whisky Bond, Dawson Street, 07582 698832. Thu–Sat 11am–5pm. FREE The Clipperton Project Until Sat 27 Oct. Work emerging from the Clipperton Project, an arts and environment project exploring the effects of human activities on the world’s most remote places. A group of artists undertook a journey to an uninhabited French atoll in March 2012; the resulting work is on display, accompanied by a busy programme of events and workshops.
■ THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5365. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Input & Ideas: Rethinking Scotland’s Policy on Architecture & Place Until Sun 26 Aug. Ground-breaking architectural projects. ■ LILLIE ART GALLERY Station Road, Milngavie, 578 8847. Tue–Sat 10am–1pm & 2–5pm. FREE The Lillie at 50 Until Thu 27 Sep. The Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary with a major exhibition of its permanent collection, including works by FCB Caddell, JD Ferguson, SJ Peploe and Joan Eardley.
■ MACKINTOSH MUSEUM The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. Daily 11am–5pm.
✽ FREE Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow since WWII ●●●●● Until Sun 30 Sep. Major new exhibition, focusing on the work of Glasgow pioneers like Margaret Morris, Mary Armour and Kathleen Mann and younger artists such as Mary Redmond, Hayley Tompkins and Karla Black. See review, page 124.
■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue–Sat noon–6pm.
✽ FREE Lotte Gertz ●●●●● Until Sat 4 Aug. Beautiful but unassuming abstract works by the Glasgow-based artist.
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14–20 Osborne Street, 248 3711. Mon– Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm. FREE Katja Strunz: Dynamic Fatigue Test ●●●●● Until Sat 18 Aug. Sculpture drawing attention to its constituent materials and their capacity to absorb stress. See review, page 124. FREE Tom Fairs Until Sat 18 Aug. Characteristic busy cityscapes by the late painter. ■ PROJECT ABILITY Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Let the Games Begin Part Two Until Sat 18 Aug. A group show by Project Ability’s Aspire artists on the theme of sport, victory and success.
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The latest Artist Rooms exhibition is a solo show of sculptures by Greek artist Jannis Kounellis. A leading light of the ‘Arte Povera’ movement of the 1960s, Kounellis became renowned for incorporating materials into his work such as soil, coal, stones and fire. His performance art has also incorporated live animals, most prominently in ‘Untitled 1969’, for which he brought live animals into Whitechapel Gallery. ■ Tramway, Glasgow, until Sun 23 Sep.
■ RECOAT 323 North Woodside Road, 341 0069. Tue–Sun noon–6pm. FREE Unlucky for Some Until Sun 12 Aug. The Glasgow gallery that champions (among other things) street art and graffiti celebrates its fifth birthday with work from gallery faves including Kirsty Whiten, Anna King, Moneyless, She One and Remi Rough.
■ RGI KELLY GALLERY 118 Douglas Street, 248 6386. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5pm; Sat 10.30am–3pm. FREE Black Until Sat 4 Aug. Selected work by recent graduates from GSA’s Fine Arts departments. FREE Cartel Tue 7–Sat 18 Aug. Work by artists who have recently graduated from North Glasgow College. ■ ROGER BILLCLIFFE GALLERY 134 Blythswood Street, 332 4027. Mon– Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–1pm. FREE Summer Design Collection & Felis Catus Until Fri 31 Aug. An eclectic collection of tableware, jewellery and animal sculptures.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Summer Exhibition Until Fri 31 Aug. Wide variety of original paintings from artists including Sarah Carrington, Pam Carter and Jack Frame.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm
✽ FREE David Peat: A Retrospective ●●●●● Until Sun
5 Aug. Retrospective of classic street photographs by one of the masters of the genre.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm.
✽ FREE Jannis Kounellis Until Sun 23 Sep. Major sculptures from
the influential Greek artist.
■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Joyce Leitch: It’s All About Blue Until Sun 12 Aug. Monoprints, etchings and woodcuts that shift between the abstract and the representational. ■ THE VIRGINIA GALLERY 45 Virginia Street, 552 5699. Tue–Sat 11am–5.30pm. FREE ‘Who’s for the Game?’ Until Sat 4 Aug. New work made in response to a turn-of-the-century propaganda poem of the same name.
OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm (Thu until 8pm); Sun noon–6pm.
✽ FREE Infinite Jest ●●●●● Until Sun 26 Aug. Three artists
(Cinthia Marcelle, Rob Pruitt and William Mackrell) interpret the notion of infinity through artwork involving circular narration and mobius strips. ■ MOUNT STUART HOUSE AND GARDENS Rothesay, Isle Of Bute, 01700 503877. Daily 11am–5pm. House entry £11 (£6–£9). Sanctuary | Comraich Until Wed 31 Oct. Daily 11am–5pm. Exhibition only £4. A wealth of contemporary art curated by James Mackay and Sophie Crichton Stuart and featuring Ian Bourn, Gill Clarke and Lucy Skaer, Nina Danino and Kate Davis.
■ PITTENWEEN Various venues, Pittenweem, Fife, see pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk for more information. Pittenweem Arts Festival Until Sun 5 Aug, daily 10am–5pm. Now in its 30th year, the festival celebrates with art and workshops across the village from over 100 artists, including principal artist John Byrne.
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