Lead Sister - Victoria Smith
25.03.2023 - 30.04.2023
For this exhibition, Smith presents a new series of shaped paintings on wooden panels, developed since moving to Glasgow. These works reference a style of craft painting that is popular decor in suburban Pennsylvania, where the artist is from.
Victoria Smith Graduated from Edinburgh College of Art 2020 and Van der Kelen Logelain, Brussels, 2021. ‘Lead Sister’ is Smith’s first solo exhibition; she has previously exhibited at Gallery Malmo, Edinburgh.
Elizabeth Radcliffe
18.09.2022 - 29.10.2022
Céline is proud to present a rare solo exhibition by Edinburgh based Artist and Weaver, Elizabeth Radcliffe.
Trained in a classical method of weaving by hand on the loom, Radcliffe’s passion for the medium was ignited as a young woman when she worked at The Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh screenprinting “cartoons” for the team of professional weavers. Inspired by the work of her colleagues, Radcliffe took evening classes at the studio after work to cultivate the skills that would feed a lifelong passion. Elizabeth later left Dovecot to enrol at Edinburgh College of Art where her technique developed in tandem with a distinct visual language that exploits the inherently graphic quality of the medium to create reduced images possessive of an almost sculptural flair. This vocabulary can still be distinguished over 40 years later in works that orbit consistent themes where the combined textures of figuration, textiles, costume and animal print re-occur as meditations on family, friends and the means by which such materials become mementos that described the strength of such intimacies.
The time consuming nature of manufacturing tapestry means that solo-shows by weavers are a rare occurrence. Radcliffe has been kind enough to lend Céline a range of works that survey her output over a considerable timespan for which we are immensely grateful and that we take great pleasure in inviting you to survey.
The Gallery would also like to offer special thanks to Becca Lipscombe for her support, enthusiasm and guidance in the realisation of this exhibition.
New Work Scotland Gregor Horne
17.07.2022 - 21.08.2022
Gregor Horne is one of the collaborators behind Gallery Malmo, Edinburgh. Recent exhibitions include Quarter (with Theo Christy) - Gallery Malmo, Edinburgh. Bildungsroman - Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh (2020). Works on Paper, Edinburgh (2020). Welcome To Malmo - Gallery Malmo, Edinburgh (2019). Artist's Self Publishing Fair The Fifth - ICA, London (2019). RSA Again (with Theo Christy) - IMO Carwash, Edinburgh.
Another Dirty Room – Erica Eyres
12.03.22 - 24.04.22
Another Dirty Room is an exhibition of new work featuring figurative paintings and realist ceramic sculpture by Glasgow based artist, Erica Eyres. Eyres recent exhibitions include 'Secret Signals' with Keith Boadwee - OTP Copenhagen, Copenhagen (2022). 'Too Shy To Party' - Plaza Plaza, London (2021). 'A Bit More Exciting' - OTP Copenhagen, Copenhagen (2020). 'Fascinated Witness' - Korai Gallery, Nicosia (2019). 'New Hobbies and Pastimes' Katharine Mulherin, Toronto (2019).
The Ventriloquists – Alan Stanners & Paul Becker
06.11.21 -
The exhibition features a selection of work by the painters, Paul Becker (Stockholm/London) and Alan Stanners (Glasgow).
Both artists' work possess an ethereal quality derived from narrative concerns intimately linked to their interest in the practice of painting for its own sake.
Paul Becker is a painter, writer and curator, He has exhibited widely, in the UK and internationally with solo exhibitions at M_HKA Antwerp in 2017, Le Salon, Brussels in 2013 and Chapter Gallery, Cardiff in 2005. Becker also runs Vera Baxter, a new exhibition project, in Stockholm with the artist Nadia Hebson.
Alan Stanners has exhibited widely throughout the UK and internationallyt. Recent shows include
Pavillion Pavillion, Glasgow, Jan Kaps, Cologne, Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow
Donald Rodney
11.06.21 -27.06.21
Celine is pleased to play host to the first ever ‘solo’ presentation in Scotland of the late Donald Rodney. A leading member of the BLK Art Group formed in the early 1980s, Rodney made work characterised by pioneering engagements with new technologies and the appropriation of mass media and pop-cultural imagery in order to examine and critique racialised identity and its socio-political consequences.
Rodney was an inspiring figure during his life and his prescient work has transcended his untimely death. It maintains great relevance to this day as new generations of artists engage with the issues raised by Rodney and his contemporaries to inhabit the vital discursive field that he worked to establish in the landscape of British contemporary art. The exhibition is supplemented by a screening of a video portrait of Rodney by Trevor Mathison and Edward George and an in-conversation event with artists Keith Piper and Alberta Whittle, alongside a screening of The Genome Chronicles by John Akomfrah. Link to the talk
Curated by Ian Sergeant
Supported by Glasgow International
Cview – Jack Cheetham
16.03.20 -
Celine is excited to present cview, by Jack Cheetham.
cview examines potential and on-going failures of its creator through the reimagining of certain consumer-driven fantasised moments. It is rooted in contemplations around consumer cultures, labours and legacies. It also incorporates expanded forms of caricature, primarily based on Cheetham himself, as a potential mode of personifying, exhausting and evaporating the effects that objects and materials can have on people over time.
This project is supported by the National Lottery, Creative Scotland & Glasgow City Council. We would like to thank Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop for facilitating Jack in the early research and developmental stages of this project. Also, we would like to make a special thank you to McNiell’s Bar and Torrisdale Studios.
Jack Cheetham is based in Glasgow, Scotland.
soft tissue tape launch
19.01.2020
Celine and soft tissue present an evening of sound performances with Elina Bry & Mark Vernon, Nakul Krishnamurthy and soft tissue. The event launches the debut release of soft tissue on the London-based label Penultimate Press.
Doors at 6pm, performances start at 6.30pm.
Mark Vernon and Elina Bry present Prelude: Opera of the Body, an introduction to their shared uncanniness. Communication of a stomach ache. Discovering a new collaboration, a new body, a new medium. Who knows?
soft tissue is a collaboration between Glasgow-based artists Feronia Wennborg and Simon Weins, synthesising recordings from everyday life with experiments in analogue and digital feedback. In their performances, soft tissue play within networks of micro amplifications, blurring boundaries between initiated and environmental sounds.
Nakul Krishnamurthy is an Indian composer and artist who is based in Glasgow, UK. In his work, he experiments with the structural foundations of Carnatic music and reconfigures them, thereby examining its boundaries and generating new interpretations of the art form. His work is an intersection of Indian classical music, procedural composition and experimentation derived from contemporary Western art music sensibilities, and electronic music.
Some Kinda Love – Andrew Gillespie, Ryan Kearney, Navi Kaur
12.10.19 - 17.11.19
Celine is excited to present Some Kinda Love, a new constellation of artworks and relationships by Andrew Gillespie. The exhibition explores his interest in attractions - to surfaces, images, objects, landscapes and people. Included in the exhibition is a text by curator Ryan Kearney and a film by Navi Kaur, both of whom work with Andrew on Recent Activity projects.
Ryan presents his current research into the history of queer spaces in Birmingham, whilst Navi presents Finding Faith in Space, a film originally shown in Recent Activity’s Nomadic Vitrine. This exhibition is part of an ongoing dialogue between artists and cities. In December, Gallery Celine will make an exhibition at Recent Activity, in Birmingham.
To realise this exhibition, Andrew has been generously supported by a Sculpture Production Award from The Pangaea Sculptors' Centre.
Passionate Acts in Virulent Times – Phyllis Christopher
28.07.19 - 22.09.19
Céline is proud to present an exhibition of work from the archive of Photographer and Photojournalist Phyllis Christopher.
Christopher’s notable contributions to the discipline are characterised in part by her role as a contributing photo-editor to the magazine, On Our Backs which ran 1984-2006. During the self-publishing boom of the 1980’s, the first Lesbian Erotica magazine published in USA was a vitally inclusive publication which stridently promoted and appealed to the lesbian experience against a backdrop of conservative hostility and predominantly anti-pornographic feminism.
Integral to cultivating the magazines distinctive style, Christopher’s wider practice as a photojournalist contributed to the architecture of On Our Backs’ aesthetic but was also indictive of broader concerns within the LGBTQ community of the US at the time. Living in San Francisco throughout the 80’s/90’s/00’s, Christopher documented a wealth of events at a key juncture in the fight to progress gay rights. Straddling the boundary between voyeur and participant, her portrait of a community asserting its’ visibility is balanced by the intimacy of her erotic work, the intensity of which shifts fluidly between the abstract and the explicit methods of image making. Operating in the studio and the street, Christopher skilfully and consistently channels a logic of duality making her archive a dynamic, artistic document of social history that possesses a rare sensitivity and complexity.
‘Passionate Acts in Virulent Times’ brings together a range of work pulled from different periods of Christopher’s career to demonstrate the consistently dualistic nature of her output and provide insight in to the intimate life of a struggle key to the construction of the modern American cultural and civic landscape. At present Christopher is working on a publication of her wider archive the visibility of which we hope will be assisted by this exhibition.
Old School New Body Toby Christian
07.04.19 - 11.05.19
Celine is proud to present Old School New Body, a new solo exhibition by Toby Christian.
Toby Christian lives and works in London. He has been awarded the inaugural Matera Residency in July 2019, and his forthcoming solo exhibition Burners opens
in September 2019 at Alessandro Albanese, Milan. Recent exhibitions and performances include Trippy Scroller, PEER, London (2018), The News, Swimming Pool, Sofia, curated by David Dale, Glasgow (2017) and Railing, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017). His forthcoming book will be published in 2020 by Koenig Books, who also published his previous books Collar (2017) and Measures (2015).
This exhibition is generously supported by Central Saint Martins.
something vague and irrational – Camara Taylor & Sulaïman Majali
12.01.19 - 08.02.19
retreat, is an ongoing collaborative endeavour between Sulaïman Majali and Camara Taylor that thinks around strategic isolation, separatist states, capacities or lack thereof. Within retreat, both are thinking and questioning the fallout and reverberations through time of ongoing catastrophe(s). Concerned with the implicit failings of research, praxis and (a lack of) practice; retreat floats amidst the outlines of absences; which become trace, gesture and evidence of that which has been expelled, or refuses to be held in the archive. Using a methodology of divergence and employing fiction as apparatus, the project reinscribes on much chartered territories, to negotiate the ramifications.
Majali and Taylor’s respective practices hold shared interests in, and desire for developing recalcitrant strategies, as a means of approaching/reproaching subject, system andpower. poetics of relation - the right to opacity - a history of misrecognitions - visibility as trap. They are working of and towards methods of refusal and withdrawal, stemming from a desire to retreat from particular ways of working and being, or making public. The works also stems from frustration, fatigue and cognitive dissonances. something vague and irrational illustrates and/or points to the feelings (as facts), frustrations and propositions that initiated collaboration.
Sulaïman Majali (b.1991) is an artist, writer and impostor.
Camara Taylor (b.1627) is an amorphous blob.
Interspecies Talks – Lucy Duncombe, Jack Wansbrough & Timothea Armour
03.12.18
Celine and Ideal Mexico present an evening of talks with Lucy Duncombe, Jack Wansbrough and Timothea Armour.
The evening will be also the last day to see our current exhibition; The Yips with works from Titania Seidl, Céline Struger and Lukas Thaler.
Timothea Armour will speak about The Neighbours are Bats, a project using bat detector recordings to imagine a band with five common British bat species as its members. The talk will look at cohabiting with wildlife - specifically bats in urban spaces - and the role of technology in our encounters with 'nature'.
Jack Wansbrough will present some of the research towards Wet Courage, a pop tape about 1960s and 1970s cetology, released by Glarc in November. Using archive recordings, the talk will touch on representation of dolphins and whales, interspecies communication and metamorphosis.
Lucy Duncombe will present a somewhat poetic review of inter/intraspecies communication between human vocalists and human-made machines. It looks at examples of technologies (*voice changers and vocoding, voice cloning, Amazon Echo, vocal biometrics), that enable the capture and analysis of the voice, altering the ways we ‘read’ our utterances. The contents of the talk is research material of a kind for a new musical work being developed with William Aikman called A Snapshot To Fix U 4-Eva.
The Yips MAUVE at Céline – Titania Seidl, Céline Struger & Lukas Thaler
04.11.18 - 02.12.18
Céline is proud to host the return leg of our exchange with MAUVE, Vienna
Titania Seidl (b.1988 in Vienna)
She recently exhibited at Parallel Vienna (solo), destiny’s atelier, Oslo (solo), Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (group), Casa Blanca, Mexico City (group), M HKA, Antwerpen (group), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (group), Club Pro Los Angeles (group), Galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna (group), MUSA, Vienna (solo).
She studied at University of Applied Arts, Vienna and Newcastle University.
Céline Struger (b. 1982 in Klagenfurt) is based in Vienna and Lower Austria.
She recently exhibited at Gachang Art Space, Korea (solo), Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt (solo), K.A.S. Galéria, Budapest (group), Gallery Frewein Kazabaev, Vienna (group), Kaeshmesh, Vienna (solo), GOMO, Vienna (group), Saarländische Galerie, Berlin (group).
She studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and graduated from University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Lukas Thaler (b.1989 in Hall in Tirol)
He recently exhibited at Guimaraes,Vienna (group), MUSA ,Vienna (solo), Ginny/Sinkhole, London (group), Casa Blanca, Mexico City (group), Ferdinandeum Innsbruck (group), Club Pro, Los Angeles (group), Drop City, Newcastle (group,) Spektrum Tower, Warschau (group), Galerie im Andechshof, Innsbruck (solo), Fait Gallery, Brno (solo).
He studied at University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
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Photography: Sean Campbell