Dr Graham Lister
Dr Graham Lister
- Lecturer - Painting and Printmaking
- ORCID
https://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
- 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
Latest Additions
- Lister, Graham (2024) Strokes 1, oil on paper, 2025 [Paper Cuts 2, 50 MV, Liverpool].
- Lister, Graham (2024) Shape-Up or Get Out [The Shape of Shape, Split Gallery, London].
- Lister, Graham (2024) Highs and Lows [BEEP 2024 (Biennial of Painting 2024)].
- Lister, Graham (2024) Untitled (Reflection) [Paper, Boardroom Committee Room].
- Lister, Graham (2024) Handwritten Note (‘Thanks Graham’) [Passing Glows, Warimono Gallery].
- Lister, Graham (2024) Cut Through [Solo Exhibition]. Beacon Arts Centre, Custom House Quay, Greenock, PA15 1HJ, 2nd March – 13th April 2024
- Lister, Graham (2024) 'Made You Look', Instant Whip – Fraser Taylor, Textiles and Papers 1977-87 Revisited. In: Instant Whip – Fraser Taylor, Textiles and Papers 1977-87 Revisited. Panel, Glasgow, UK, pp. 46-49. ISBN 9781738491209
- Lister, Graham (2024) Cut It Out [CAT FLAP BLINK, Terrace Gallery, London].
- Lister, Graham (2023) Fragments and False Starts [Solo Exhibition]. Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover, 7 September - 1 October 2023
- Lister, Graham (2023) Kind of Golden Light (cover up) [Opening, A_Place Gallery, Glasgow].

