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Dr Graham Lister

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Dr Graham Lister

  • Lecturer - Painting and Printmaking
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ORCID
ORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0009-0005-0218-2690
Job Title
Lecturer - Painting and Printmaking
School or Academic Area
School of Fine Art
School or Academic Area Supervised for
School of Fine Art
Email
G.Lister@gsa.ac.uk
Professional Address
Painting and Printmaking Staff Office (Level 3), Stow Building, 43 Shamrock Street, Glasgow G4 9LD, UK

Biography

My ongoing painting practice focuses on breaking down physical forms, surfaces and textures. The work encompasses an interplay between structured and intuitive gradual abstractions; investigating processes of slow looking and the distillation of glimpses and gestures through painting. My work is positioned as an attempt to foreground and consider the highs and lows of studio practices – inviting 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.

I have exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions taking place in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and Berlin. Recent paintings have been included in group shows in New York, London, Seoul and Beijing, and I have been included in the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize as well as the Biennial of Painting in Swansea (BEEP 2020, 2022 and 2024).

Research Interests

Painting; painting in the expanded field; materiality; the artist studio; studio pedagogies; abstract painting; studio process; iterative painting; palimpsest painting; abstract painting strategies

PGR Supervision Interests

I'm interested in supervising practice-based PhD study, especially projects focused on contemporary painting or which investigate studio processes, activities and routines as the may relate to studio teaching pedagogies.

Current PGR Students

Susan Torrance - Liberating the Archive

Teaching

Lecturer - Painting and Printmaking, School of Fine Art
Widening Participation Tutor