https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0218-2690
Graham Lister is a painter and researcher based in Glasgow, Scotland. He currently teaches at the Glasgow School of Art.
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My ongoing painting practice focuses on breaking down physical forms, surfaces and textures. The work encompasses an interplay between structured and intuitive gradual abstraction processes; investigating visual patterns, handwriting, and representations of brushstrokes. My work also as an attempt to foreground the highs and lows of studio practices – making work which invites consideration of periods of working/ not working/ not knowing what to do.
I’m interested in thinking about how artists make, exhibit, re-work, love and hate what they do. Recent semi-abstracted paintings have focused on repeated gestures, cursive script and have zoomed-in on small aspects of previous pieces which I particularly like … trying to get to the bottom of what it is about them that seems to ‘work’.
Recent solo exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and Berlin have made use of painting and drawing processes as well as ambitious, large-scale, expanded installations. I have also exhibited work widely in recent group shows in New York, London, Seoul and Beijing.
Ongoing research relates to consideration of what the artist studio represents; what it means to operate in a painting/ creative studio and how the very idea of the studio offers positive possibilities for making, but equally can also represent a barrier to creative development. As an artist who ‘thinks through making’, the development of research is connected to the process of exhibiting work – in order to better comprehend the ways that the work itself operates, and the ideas that it might connect with.
PhD (Practice-based) - The Glasgow School of Art
FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
MFA - Gray's School of Art
MA (Art History) - The University of Glasgow
Painting, oil painting, materiality, artist studio, studio pedagogies
Interested in supervising practice-based PhD study, especially projects focused on painting or which investigate studio processes, activities and routines as the may relate to contemporary pedagogies.
Susan Torrance - Liberating the Archive
Lecturer - Painting and Printmaking BA(Hons) course.
