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