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■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE @ AIRD’S LANE 3–5 Aird’s Lane, 248 3711. Thu–Sat noon–5pm; closed Mon–Wed & Sun. Victoria Morton Until Jan 2015. Glasgow artist who incorporates her own paintings and sculptures into some installations.
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14–20 Osborne Street, 248 3711. Mon– Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm; closed Sun. Richard Hughes: Field Trip Until Fri 19 Dec. Mon-Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm. New work from artist interested in finding elements of everyday romance and making them concrete. ■ PATRICIA FLEMING PROJECTS Studio 225, South Block, 60/64 Osborne Street, 0796 806 6708. Wed–Fri 10am–4pm; Sat 10am–2pm; closed Mon, Tue & Sun. NEW Kate V Robertson: In Progress Fri 21 Nov–Sat 20 Dec. Wed-Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–4pm. New work concerned with making subtle interventions in environments.
■ PEOPLE’S PALACE & WINTER GARDENS Glasgow Green, 276 0788. Palace: Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon; Winter Gardens: daily 10am–5pm. LAST CHANCE Fred A Farrell: Glasgow’s War Artist Until Sun 23 Nov. Sketches and watercolours from the WWI artist.
■ PLATFORM 1000 Westerhouse Road, 276 9670. Mon– Fri 9am–8pm; Sat & Sun 10am–5pm.
✽ LAST CHANCE Glasgow Women’s Library: 21
Revolutions Until Sun 7 Dec. See preview, page 97.
■ PROJECT ABILITY Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; closed Mon & Sun. LAST CHANCE David Bradley Until Sat 15 Nov. Paintings of the life around the artist.
■ REID BUILDING Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. Opening times vary, check individual exhibitions for details. LAST CHANCE ELIA NEU/NOW Festival Until Sun 16 Nov. Thu–Sun 10–5am. £tbc. The NEU/NOW Festival is spending its sixth year in Glasgow. The festival provides an international platform for graduating / graduate artists from across Europe and beyond. NEW Alasdair Gray: Spheres of Influence II Sat 22 Nov–Sun 25 Jan. Mon-Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. The work of Gray through the prism of other artists. Part of The Alasdair Gray Season. ■ ROGER BILLCLIFFE GALLERY 134 Blythswood Street, 332 4027. Mon– Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–1pm; closed Sun. LAST CHANCE David Smith RSW: Tugboats and Trawlers Until Sat 15 Nov. Painting of boats from the Clyde. LAST CHANCE Kate McBride: The Onward March of the Pygmy Elephants Until Wed 19 Nov. Small ceramic figurines with a deeply ironic twist. LAST CHANCE Norman Edgar RGI: New Paintings Until Sat 15 Nov. Landscapes and still life paintings.
■ SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL MUSEUM 225 Scotland Street, 287 0500. Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon. Alexander Millar: Working Man – The Homecoming Until Feb 2015. Paintings of working men and women of Glasgow.
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PRIVATE VIEW DOMINIC SAMSWORTH Dominic Samsworth graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2010 and currently lives and works in Herefordshire. He has created a new body of work for SWG3 Gallery in Glasgow, opening this month Can you describe the work you will be including in SWG3? I will be showing a new series of paintings. They are shaped canvases based on plan views of swimming pools, painted with pool paint. Here, the status of painting and pool combined, executed with exacting lines, observing a blurring between art world sincerity and leisure time venality. They are aerially viewed as if just before touchdown in your next tourist destination. How will the work respond to the gallery space? The exhibition puts the viewer into an environment resembling a sterile desert or an artificial beach. Four tons of rock salt will cover the entire gallery floor. Like a morning beach in preparation for the ensuing action it will be raked and smoothed over each day. The glare off the salted floor enhances the reverberation of aquamarine on the pool’s surface. On this dilapidated resort’s furniture, there is no sun to lounge under: the salted floor beneath only dehydrates, leaving the mirages hosted in the white wall gallery abyss, more inviting but ultimately useless. Did you also recently comment that your work had shifted from architecture to a more domestic environment? Yes, I had been deconstructing low-tech architectural structures, focusing on billboards and advertising hoardings, and this led to the re-collaging of the adverts themselves. Similar to the content of these I started to see art as just another leisure object, readily available and consumed after the gallery show. Having experienced the entwining of art making and commerce it seemed hard to ignore this aspect in production. (Interview by Rosie Lesso) ■ Dominic Samsworth, SWG3, Glasgow, until Sun 14 Dec.
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