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
■ 42 CARLTON PLACE Gorbals, 420 1079. FREE Clive Hodgson: Signed Paintings Until Sun 7 Oct, Wed–Sun noon–6pm. Paintings by an artist who claims himself ‘attracted to the rampant vacuity of decorative painting’. ■ THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. FREE Adeline Bourret: Le Bal Masqué Until Sat 29 Sep, Mon–Fri 9.30am–8pm; Sat 10am–8pm. Exhibition exploring the mask and the alter ego.
■ BARRHEAD HEALTH AND CARE CENTRE 213 Main Street, Barrhead, 800 7005. FREE So, You’ve Given Up the Day Job Sat 6–Wed 31 Oct, daily 9am–5pm. An exhibition of art from people free of the nine-to-five and enjoying time to paint and create. Part of Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival.
FREE Time Out: Exhibition of Artworks Thu 4–Wed 24 Oct, daily 1–3pm. Work produced by the Time Out arts group, which was set up as part of the festival to provide a year-round inclusive programme of arts workshops focused on maintaining positive mental health. Part of Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival. ■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm (Thu until 8pm); Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Fiona Tan: Disorient Until Sun 24 Feb. Spectacular two-screen film installation by the Amsterdam- based artist exploring historic and contemporary perceptions of the ‘oriental’. FREE Tales of the City Three part exhibition, first part until Sun 28 Oct, other parts until dates in 2013. Works from GoMA’s collection purchased on the Art Fund International scheme, including art from Joseph Beuys, Martin Boyce, David Shrigley, Fischli & Weiss, Alex Frost, David Hockney, Beagles & Ramsay and Douglas Gordon.
■ GATEHOUSE GALLERY Rouken Glen Road, 620 0235. Mon, Thu, Fri & Sun 1.30–5.30pm; Sat 11.30am–5.30pm. FREE September Exhibition Until Sun 30 Sep. Mixed show featuring Helen Tuner and regular gallery artists.
■ THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm. FREE Clementine Sandison: Handmade Until Thu 4 Oct. A body of work created during the Culture Kitchen Relay, a project celebrating Scottish local food and recipes. FREE Daniele Sambo: Sown Until Thu 4 Oct. A photography and light installation project exploring urban farming gardens around Europe. ■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Robert McSpadyen Until Sun 30 Sep. Prints exploring iconic late-60s rock’n’roll and horror/thriller cinema. FREE Toby Paterson: Remnant Until Sun 28 Oct. Printmaking and painting employing images derived from the everyday and elements of the city environment that have lost their meaning.
■ 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 2013. Paintings, pastels and prints. ■ GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Going Viral Until Mon 8 Oct. Stories, film, sculpture, images and music created in a collaboration between six artists and four immunologists.
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue– Sat 11am–6pm. FREE 21 Revolutions Exhibition Sat 22 Sep–Sat 13 Oct. Exhibition of women’s writing and the history of Glasgow Women’s Library, celebrating its 21st birthday this year. FREE Olivia Plender: Rise Early, Be Industrious Sat 13 Oct–Sat 15 Dec. Room-sized installations which are the result of Plender’s research into changing attitudes to mass education, drawing on examples such as the BBC and the 1924 British Empire Exhibition.
■ THE COMMON GUILD 21 Woodlands Terrace, 428 3022. Tue, Wed & Sat noon–5pm; Thu & Fri noon–7pm FREE Ugo Rondinone: Primitive Until Sat 17 Nov. A show of 59 striking bird sculptures by the Swiss artist. ■ DAVID DALE GALLERY AND STUDIOS 161 Broad Street, Bridgeton, 258 9124. Fri–Sun noon–5pm. FREE Carla Scott Fullerton: Hard Edge, Soft Line Until Sun 30 Sep. Work created during a summer residency at the gallery.
■ EWAN MUNDY FINE ART 211 West George Street, 248 9755. Mon–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm. FREE Gary Anderson Thu 27 Sep– Fri 19 Oct. Paintings.
■ GALLERY 966 The Portal, 966 Govan Road. 114 THE LIST 20 Sep–18 Oct 2012
■ 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.
■ GLUE FACTORY 22 Farnell Street, Garscube Industrial Estate, Maryhill, thegluefactory.org
✽ FREE Holography Unit Until Sat 6 Oct. Thu–Sat noon–6pm. Works
produced at the world’s first fine art holography department (at London’s Royal College of Art) from its inception in 1985 to 1994 – a fascinating look back at what the future looked like in the past. See Artbeat, page 112.
■ HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4776. Daily 9am–5pm. FREE Natural Wonder Until Tue 25 Sep. Botanical art by Janice Curless, Jean Hall and Clare Robinson. ■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 4221. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm; closed Mon. Rembrandt and the Passion Until Sun 2 Dec. £5 (£3). Rembrandt’s Entombment Sketch, considered in relation his other depictions of the Passion and similar pictures by contemporaries.
■ IOTA Unlimited Studios, 25 Hyndland Street, 338 6052. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 11am–6pm during exhibitions. FREE Inaspettato (unexpected) Until Sat 22 Sep. Conceptual photography by Renato Ventoso, aiming to present unexpected angles on a variety of themes. FREE Renato Ventoso: Inaspettato Until Sat 22 Sep. Thu 11am–6pm; Fri & Sat 10am–5pm. Conceptual photography.
■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Utility: Rationalising Furniture Design Until Sun 30 Sep. Key pieces of furniture from the postwar Freedom of Design movement. ■ KENDALL KOPPE GALLERY Suite 1–2, 6 Dixon Street, 07969 403472. Wed–Sat 11am–5pm. FREE Laura Aldridge: Things Held Inside / The New Sea Fri 28 Sep–Fri 9 Nov. New work from Glasgow-based artist.
■ THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5365. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Glasgow School of Art Graduate Degree Show Until Sat 29 Sep. The first exhibition of its kind of work from across the GSA’s range of Masters programmes, from Architecture to Animation via Graphics, Fine Art, Design Innovation and even Medical Visualisation. FREE Shaping Places Exhibition Until Sun 7 Oct. Urban design display drawing on the image library of late urban designer Steve Tiesdell.
✽ FREE The Invisible College & Churches in the Modern World
Until Wed 17 Oct. A dual display exploring Catholic church architecture of the 20th century, with particular focus on an important Mackintosh School of Architecture project and an insight, curated by NVA, into the past and future of St Peter’s Seminary. See review, page 113. FREE Scottish Furniture Makers Association Thu 4–Sun 21 Oct. Annual selling exhibition of work by some of the country’s finest craftsmen and women. FREE Unbuilt Mackintosh Mon 15– Sun 28 Oct. New architectural models created by Glasgow model-makers Ozturk based on unbuilt designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Part of the Creative Mackintosh Festival.
■ 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.
■ MACKINTOSH MUSEUM The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. FREE Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow since WWII Until Sun 30 Sep, daily 11am–5pm. Major new exhibition placing in context the work of women artists in Glasgow since 1939. ■ MANSFIELD PARK GALLERY 5 Hyndland Street, 342 4124. Wed–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Buccleuch Street Until Sat 22 Sep. New paintings by Lesley Banks, Marie Barbour, Helen Flockhart, Eilidh Keith, Kay MacLean and Gardner Muirhead.
■ MARKET GALLERY 334 Duke Street, 556 7276. Thu–Sun 11am–5pm FREE Studio Projects: Vol 1 + Skill/Trade + Warm Minds Until Sun 23 Sep. New studio projects by
Stefan Blomeier, Lewis Cook, Jamie McNeill, Rickie McNeill, Callum Monteith, Liam Richardson, Gayle Meikle, Jack Park and James Merchant. ■ MARY MARY @ 45 ALEXANDRA PARK STREET 45 Alexandra Park Street, marymarygallery.co.uk FREE Sara Barker Until Sun 30 Sep, Thu–Sun 11am–6pm. An ambitious new multi-media sculptural installation by Glasgow-based artist Barker, commissioned specially for this domestic apartment used by Mary Mary gallery for projects.
■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue–Sat noon–6pm.
✽ FREE Alistair Frost: Image Coming Soon Until Sat 20 Oct.
New work by the artist. See review, page 113.
■ MITCHELL LIBRARY North Street, 287 2999. RGI 151st Annual Open Exhibition Until Sat 6 Oct, daily 10.30am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). £2 (£1). Annual exhibition of oil paintings, watercolours and sculptures open to all Scottish artists. ■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14–20 Osborne Street, 248 3711. Mon– Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm. FREE Andrew Kerr: Delmess Was Charged Until Sat 20 Oct. New abstract paintings and sculptures by Glasgow-based artist.
■ PLATFORM The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696. Mon–Fri 10am–8pm; Sat & Sun 10am–5pm. FREE The Language of Situation Until Fri 28 Sep. Project Ability curates this large exhibition exploring the notions of signage. FREE ARTSpace Exhibition Mon 1–Mon 22 Oct. An exhibition of work by artists participating in Platform’s ARTSpace project, as part of the venue’s mental health and wellbeing festival- within-a-festival, Headspace. Part of Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival. ■ PROJECT ABILITY Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Lesley Nimmo: Selected Paintings Until Sat 29 Sep. First solo exhibition from Project Ability member Nimmo.
■ RGI KELLY GALLERY 118 Douglas Street, 248 6386. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5pm; Sat 10.30am–3pm. FREE Salon des Refusés Until Sat 29 Sep. The overspill from the enormous 151st Annual Exhibition at The Mitchell provides an extra chance to get up close with Scotland’s largest open submission contemporary art exhibition. FREE Gavin Weir: Glasgow Town Tue 2–Sat 13 Oct. Paintings, drawings and photographs of Glasgow’s city centre drawing on ideas from urban realism and the works of Edward Hopper and Richard Estes. FREE Mhairi Malcolm: The Day Above Tue 16 Oct–Sat 3 Nov. Mixed media work inspired by journeys and gathered remnants of landscape.
■ ROSE AND GRANTS 27 Trongate, Merchant City, 553 0501. FREE Alexandra Muirhead: Female, Untitled. Mon 1 Oct–Sat 3 Nov, daily 9am–5pm. Drawing and painting exploring aspects of the female form. Part of Glasgay! ■ SCOTTISH MUSIC CENTRE City Halls, Candleriggs, scottishmusiccentre.com FREE Piano Migrations Thu 18 Oct–Sun 18 Nov, Mon–Fri 10am–6pm.