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Exhibitions are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to art@list.co.uk. Listings compiled by Rosalie Doubal. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
Glasgow ■ BURRELL COLLECTION 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Joseph Crawhall: The Hunt Until Sun 14 Feb. A selection of the Glaswegian watercolourist’s paintings of the hunt. ■ CAFÉ COSSACHOK Trongate 103, 553 0733. Tue–Sat noon–Late. FREE Winter Kaleidoscope Until Sun 10 Jan. Annual Christmas show presenting works by artists from around the world in a variety of media, as well as handmade Russian arts and crafts. Artists include Odile Escolier, Nino Khududze, Deniss Polubojarov and Bella Romelashvili.
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat 10am–6pm.
✽✽ FREE Votive ●●●●● Until Sat 30 Jan. A well considered and
disconcerting, yet compelling, exhibition showcasing the works of international artists George Brecht, Chris Burden, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Thea Djordjadze, Torsten Lauschmann and Richard Wright. It also includes artefacts from the World Cultures Collection of Glasgow Museums and a recorded performance by Basque singer Nerea Bello. ■ THE COMMON GUILD 21 Woodlands Terrace, 223 0087. Thu–Sat noon–7pm. FREE Mircea Cantor: Which Light Kills You Until Sat 23 Jan. Mixed- media Romanian artist Cantor frequently draws on his own memory to explore the realities of power and the disintegration of cultural boundaries.
■ COMPASS GALLERY 178 West Regent Street, 221 6370. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm. FREE The Winter Exhibition 2009 Until Sun 31 Jan. Artists include Jackie Anderson, Jennifer Anderson, Peter Bevan, Elizabeth Blackadder, Philip Braham, Lesley Burr, Judith Hastie and Siobhan Healy. ■ CYRIL GERBER FINE ART 148 West Regent Street, 221 3095. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5.30pm. FREE The Winter Collection Until Sun 31 Jan. Annual Winter exhibition of paintings, drawings, limited edition prints, sculptures and ceramics.
■ THE DUCHY GALLERY 23 Duke Street, Thu–Sat noon–5pm. FREE Ink Utero Until Sat 9 Jan. Three emerging Glasgow-based artists – Michael Kent, Tom Varley and Thom Walker–exhibit a series of ink drawings made in playful and experimental collaboration. The exhibition will also include a new, large scale work painted directly onto the walls of the gallery. ■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Echo and Transcend ●●●●● Until Sun 31 Jan. A wide-ranging selection of abstract art, some of which echoes and some of which transcends reality. FREE BBC Scotland Collection Until Sun 27 Jun. BBC Scotland has donated a collection of 125 artworks to Glasgow Museums. FREE A Spot of b)other: LGBTI Deaf and Disabled Cultures Until Sun 21 Feb. Pages from A Spot of b)other, a fanzine about deaf and disabled people in the LGBTI community, are on display along with portraits of its founders by fellow co- founder and sh[OUT] artist-in-residence Sandra Alland. FREE Unsettled Objects Until Mon 1 Mar. An exhibition of photography, video and installations from GoMA’s collection, highlighting major new purchases.
FREE Ajamu X: Familiar Strangers Until Sun 21 Feb. A new series of portraits by artist Ajamu X of people who identify as BME (Black and minority ethnic) as well as LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex).
■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm. ✽✽ FREE Three American Artists: Randy Bolton, Michael Krueger & John Schulz Fri 8 Jan–Sat 27 Feb. See picture caption.
■ GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS 145 Kelvinhaugh Street, 204 1740. Thu, Fri & Sat noon–5pm. FREE Carla Scott Fullerton: Breadthless Lines Until Sat 30 Jan. Fullerton’s work is shaped by her sensitivity to materials and often references architectonic forms. FREE Siobhàn Hapaska: The Nose that Lost its Dog ●●●●● Until Sat 30 Jan. A trio of monumental sculptural works completed as part of Hapaska’s residency with the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. ■ HUNTERIAN ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 5431. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5pm. FREE Collector’s Art ●●●●● Until Sat 9 Jan. Eclectic salon-style show showcasing works from two private collections featuring prints, drawings and paintings of British and German art of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Divided into two sections, each collection takes on a unique quality and speaks of its collector.
■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Japanese Surimono Prints Until Thu 1 Apr. A selection of eight delicate prints displayed in the Fragile Art Gallery. ■ MERCHANT GATE GALLERY 111 Saltmarket, 552 5847. FREE Christmas Group Show Until
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Mon 11 Jan. Mixed show of work for sale from regular gallery artists. ■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE Suite 6, Floor 1, 73 Robertson Street, 248 3711. Mon–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–5pm. FREE Luke Fowler: A Grammar for Listening (Parts 1–3) ●●●●● Until Sat 30 Jan. With this beautifully raw, yet powerful aural and visual feast, Fowler–in collaboration with Eric La Casa, Lee Patterson and Toshiya Tsunoda–creates field recordings that question how to develop new dialogues between looking and listening.
■ MONO 12 King’s Court, King Street, 553 2400. Sun–Thu noon–midnight; Fri–Sat noon–midnight. FREE Natty Brooker Debut Print Show Sun 17 Jan. British artist, best known for his collaboration with legendary bands Spacemen3 and Spiritualized, debuts his life’s work. This show is part of a series of shows in art capitals around the world, including New York, London and Berlin, where Brooker’s work will be seen as a whole for the first time in 20 years.
■ THE NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE CENTRE, LIGHTHOUSE BUILDING 11 Mitchell Lane, 221 6362. Mon & Wed–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Tue 11am–5pm. £4 (£1.50-£2; Family ticket £9.50; Free on Sat). FREE Berlin Wall: The Future Inside the Present Until Sun 17 Jan. Photographs by artists Wolfgang Fuetterer and Michelle Letowska, who have three times walked and documented the 155km circumference which the Wall took. FREE Modernista: Gaudi and his Contemporaries in Modern Day Barcelona Until Sun 28 Feb.Michael Thomas Jones presents a photographic essay of Barcelona’s Modernista buildings by Antoni Gaudi and his contemporaries. FREE Spaces of Labour Until Sun 14 Mar. An exhibition by the postgraduate Architecture department at the University of Strathclyde, this exhibition documents the historical buildings associated with traditional industries that have gone into decline, such as coal, textiles, fishing and slate. ■ SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL MUSEUM Museum of Education, 225 Scotland Street, 287 0500. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Inspiring Art Until Fri 15 Jan. An exhibition of the best of the SQA’s Art and Design Higher exams in Glasgow schools.
■ SORCHA DALLAS 5 St Margaret’s Place, 553 2662. Tue–Sat 1–5pm.
✽✽ FREE LOVE Fri 15 Jan–Fri 19 Feb. See preview, page 81.
Three American Artists: Randy Bolton, Michael Krueger & John Schulz We’re accustomed to American imagery pervading our own culture, but these three critically aware artists – whose work is displayed at the Glasgow Print Studio this month – themselves scrutinise and re-imagine American printed imagery. Bolton explores images borrowed from children’s textbooks, while Krueger is informed by his childhood spent in South Dakota and John Schulz combines woodcut with digital to transform common images. ■ Glasgow Print Studio, Fri 8 Jan–Sat 27 Feb.
■ SOUTHSIDE STUDIOS 17 Westmoreland St, 07792 739 788. By appointment only. FREE Tony Swain, Dan Miller, Alex Dordoy Until Sat 9 Jan. Group exhibition curated by Gregor Johnstone.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. ✽✽ FREE Colin Gray: In Sickness and in Health ●●●●● Until Sat 23 Jan. The photographer concludes his series The Parents, which chronicles the lives of his mum and dad, with this moving exhibition. Simultaneously a personal investigation for the artist and a profoundly disparate experience for the viewer.
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