Fragments and False Starts

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Fragments and False Starts is an exhibition by Scottish artist, Graham Lister, at Studio Pavilion in Glasgow. It features recent drawings and paintings, that explore how layering, organising, planning, repeating gestures and simplifying are all core parts of what happens in his studio. Studios are spaces where artists make and think and talk and write. Where they look and succeed and fail and eat and sleep and start afresh and draw and paint. Where they rest and work and don’t work …

The exhibition has been supported by Creative Scotland.
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Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park
10 Dumbreck Road, Glasgow, G41 5BW

Exhibition Dates: 7th Sept – 1st October 2023

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Fragments and False Starts was a body of practice-based research which was more than a year in the making. It was funded by Creative Scotland and allowed for new, ambitious visual work to be developed which specifically investigated the process of making in the painter’s studio. The project foregrounded iterative processes, ideas of repetition and refinement, of planning and creating works.

It culminated in an ambitious solo exhibition in September 2023, at Studio Pavilion in Glasgow. It was accompanied by a publication and encompassed talks and reading groups which derived from the ideas it began to uncover.

Fragments and False Starts featured 4 new drawings, a large scale work on canvas and 2 stacked installation works, comprised of new oil paintings.