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Hetty Haxworth: Colour and Form

Exhibition Runs: 02 August - 28 September 2024

Preview: Thursday 01 August, 6pm - 8pm

Glasgow Print Studio Ground Floor Gallery

Glasgow Print Studio presents new works by Hetty Haxworth, an artist-printmaker living and working in rural Aberdeenshire.

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The Giant's Causeway, a rock formation of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns located on the north coast of Northern Ireland, is the driving inspiration for this show. The basalt pillars, with their interlocking geometric shapes, can be seen in many of the prints exhibited, as can the ever-changing colours and shapes of the landscape as it interacts with the weather and ambient light.

Other work in this exhibition draws upon the artist's local landscape in rural Aberdeenshire. The inspiration for these pieces is varied, incorporating ideas from sketches of reflections on a nearby lake, or a study of delicate ice formations in winter. Hence landscapes, together with a recurring theme of the circular moon and cascading water, plays an important role within the work in this show.

The conscious choice of monoprints in this exhibition brings an immediacy to the work.

Monoprint has an ephemeral quality, each unique and relying on a more painterly process, and Hetty uses this technique to capture the changing relationship between light and the terrain. The contrast between these monoprints and the graphic nature of Hetty's painted reliefs gives the illusion of movement, the shimmering textured quality of the monoprint and the play of the woodgrain weaving its way in and out of each painted shape in the reliefs. The simplicity of the work comes from a direct feeling, a response in vivid colours to a moment in time.

Hetty graduated from Glasgow School of art in 1993 and has exhibited her prints widely in the UK and abroad for the past 30 years. Glasgow Print Studio has shown her popular work for many years, including In Abstraction, 2014 (with Aimee Henderson and Rosalind Lawless), and New Works, 2019 (with Rosalind Lawless). She has also been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and in selected touring shows in Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels.

Images: Hetty Haxworth, Basalt Column I, 2024, monoprint, 53.5 x 64 cm. Hetty Haxworth, Slow Tilt Towards Spring, monoprint, 30 x 35 cm. Hetty Haxworth,Tipping Stacks, 2024, painted relief on wood, 28 x 32 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Glasgow Print Studio.

Featured Artist: John Moody

Exhibition Runs: 02 - 31 August 2024

Preview: Thursday 01 August, 6pm - 8pm

Glasgow Print Studio Ground Floor Gallery

Clyde Suite (Littoral Home)

Photographs and sketches captured over 37 years inspire this exhibition.

Some of these images were developed from snapshots, all taken from the same location above Port Glasgow. An estuarial view, just before the river Clyde enters the deeper, colder waters of the Firth. The images echo through towering windows, on two levels of a late 19th century house.

These prints hint at confinement as if behind panes of glass to reflect the exclusion of mental illness. Window glass does not create sharp photographs. But as in Poet Sylvia Plath’s only published novel The Bell Jar, it does shut off the outside world. Like Esther, the main protagonist in Plath’s novel, John can feel he is "sitting under the same glass bell jar stewing in my own sour air" in front of an almost impossible beauty.

The poems are a response to John’s mental state while photographing and sketching. Sometimes they mirror tension in repetitive urban and industrial development. The backdrop is a traditional landscape painting, dominated by the awkward proportions of the old Port Glasgow Municipal Building. A retail park and a supermarket have replaced shipyards and a Goliath of a crane. Leaving the consolation of a beguiling perspective that changes slowly over a lifetime, the mountains and estuary changing over time scales far beyond John’s brief life.

John wrote most of the poems during a tense period of pandemic seclusion. Reaching for wellbeing against a symphony of poetry and chiaroscuro colours. Then woven in a tapestry and given poignancy during the first warm spring of the pandemic.

Short phrases from the poems
integrate with images,
echoing obsessive themes
and often scattering words
like rain over the littoral.

These images are a response to a place called home.

Reflected in these images and poems is an entity (Port Glasgow) grown over 250 years. Sometimes withered by the toxins of economic deprivation, it is still a vibrant community. In poetic lines, John describes the scene below as "the Littoral Zone" or shoreline, with Port Glasgow’s town centre crowding the shore. Ecologically, littoral zone describes life - which grows, deposits itself and lives on the shore.

Screenprints, collages and digital collages are arranged in tight grids. They express the tension of repetition. An attempted integration of urban and natural forms.

John attended Sunderland Art College from 1972 to 1976, where he was first introduced to screenprinting.

He spent nine years teaching art in Inverclyde secondary schools. He followed this with a varied career in community development, politics, literacy, physical disability and mental health. This took him all over Scotland and as far afield as Adelaide and Philadelphia, promoting recovery from mental illness with the Scottish Recovery Network.

Since then, he has returned to art as his first love. He undertook courses at the Glasgow Print Studio in screen-printing and has relied on the formidable array of experience and talent at the print studio to remind him of the power of emotional health and well-being generated while creating images.

John has been publishing poetry since 2019.

John is grateful to fellow writer, Stephen Eric Smith for his exhaustive critique of the Clyde Poems.

Images: John Moody, Weathered II, 2024, screenprint, 69 x 54 cm, edition of 5. John Moody, Goliath II, screenprint, 79 x 73 cm, edition of 5. John Moody, Stretched, 2024, digital collage with watercolour, 28 x 41 cm, edition of 5. Courtesy the Artist and Glasgow Print Studio.

Between Islands

Exhibition Runs: 02 August - 28 September 2024

Preview: Thursday 01 August, 6pm - 8pm

Glasgow Print Studio First Floor Gallery

Gregor Smith, Lin Chau, Marion MacPhee (Glasgow Print Studio)
Yoko Akino, Elke Thönnes, Niall Naessens (Graphic Studio Dublin)

Curated by James Murphy (GPS) and Peter Brennan (GSD)

Glasgow Print Studio is delighted to partner with Graphic Studio Dublin for this exhibition, featuring three artists from each studio working in land and seascapes.

The exhibition will subsequently show in Dublin, opening on October 26th

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Glasgow Print Studio was founded in 1972 as an artist-led initiative providing accessible workshop facilities and later a gallery space for artists making original prints. Now, as an internationally acclaimed centre of excellence in fine art printmaking, GPS promotes contemporary and innovative printmaking and supports the development and expression of artists’ practices. Its state-of-the-art workshop lies at the centre of its activities, which encompass publishing and exhibition programmes, print sales, courses and an archive.

Graphic Studio Dublin was founded in 1960 to teach traditional printmaking skills then unavailable in Irish art colleges. These techniques of etching, aquatint, stone lithography, wood and lino-cutting are kept alive alongside contemporary techniques like photo-intaglio and screen-printing.

Graphic Studio Gallery was established in 1988 to promote the work of Irish and international printmakers through group and solo exhibitions.

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Both studios wish to thank Culture Ireland for their support.

Images (cw): Gregor Smith, Between Islands, Corryvreckan (detail), etching in an edition of 20. Niall Naessens, Cave, Tory Island, 2024, etching and aquatint in an edition of 40. Yoko Akino, It Is Happening Even If Nobody Hears It, 2023, etching and aquatint in an edition of 40. Marion MacPhee, Mayo Sky (detail), 2024, monotype. Elke Thönnes, Glendalough, 2019, etching in an edition of 50. Lin Chau, Big Waves (detail), 2024 etching with Xuan paper and chine collé, varied edition of 30.

Arts Relay

Exhibition Runs: 01 - 31 August 2024

Preview: Thursday 01 August, 6pm - 8pm

Project Ability, Gallery II, 1st Floor, Trongate 103

Arts Relay is an exhibition of inspiring artworks by Project Ability, Glasgow Print Studio and Bazooka Arts. The exhibition consists of thoughtful artworks and shares personal responses created through a creative relay process.

All three organisations took part in the Healing Arts Scotland ITAC (International Teaching Artist Collaborative) Relay, which started in January 2024 and has engaged groups all over Scotland.

The Relay connected participatory arts organisations across Scotland through shared and responsive art making. Stimulus was passed from one group to another, inviting participants to create new works in response to what they received.

The original inspiration was a painting by Scottish artist Andrew Cranston titled 'Those who hide well live well'. It represents a figure, in isolation, during lockdown.

A collection of twelve unique mixed media artworks created by Project Ability’s Aspire artists were passed on as creative inspiration to respond to. Bazooka Arts and Glasgow Print Studio joined forces to collaborate in this relay, with participants from Bazooka Arts’ Creative & Connected Carers Project in Coatbridge who produced screenprints in response.

The project itself was described as providing a sense of sanctuary, giving respite relief for many of the participants, most of whom have unpaid caring roles.

"It was sheer joy from start to finish, I loved every minute of working together with the artists, it really was my sanctuary. It was better than any therapy I’ve ever had.”

Project Ability, Bazooka Arts and Glasgow Print Studio work with shared values, that the arts should be truly accessible for everyone and firmly believe in the multiple health, personal and social benefits that can be experienced through arts participation.

Image: Group collaborative screenprint.

Screenprint Course (Beginner/Refresher)

Screenprint (Beginner/Refresher)

Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th August 2024

Learn to screenprint with award winning artist Rosalind Lawless.

You will learn how to prepare a screen, create image separations, and produce a small edition of screenprints using a range of photographic, stencil-based, and direct mark-making techniques. This course is suitable for complete beginners, and for those who wish to refresh their existing screenprinting skills.

Rosalind has collaborated with and editioned for a wealth of highly respected artists, including Toby Paterson, Claire Barclay, David Shrigley, Elizabeth Blackadder, Jeremy Deller, John Byrne and Ciara Phillips.

She studied Fine Art Printmaking at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen from 1999 to 2002. She graduated with a Masters of Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London in 2004. Rosalind has collections in PATHFOOT, Stirling University, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Pallant House Gallery and Museum, Chichester.

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If you have any queries about this course, please email us at classes@glasgowprintstudio.co.uk

Last Chance To See......

Andrew Cranston: Etchings

Exhibition Runs Until: 27 July 2024

Glasgow Print Studio Ground Floor Gallery

Glasgow Print Studio is delighted to present five new editions by Andrew Cranston, a Scottish painter living and working in Glasgow.

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Image: Andrew Cranston, Still Life In Grangemouth, 2024, etching, 25 x 25.25 cm, edition of 30.

Featured Artist: Tom Matthews

Exhibition Runs Until: 27 July 2024

Glasgow Print Studio Ground Floor Gallery

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Phasing

Tom Matthews’ work investigates how measured ways of understanding and representing space can connect with the more qualitative ways in which we experience them. Explored through an evolving body of work, Phasing charts the evolution of Matthews’ spatial representation, from studies of traceable locations, to objects taken out of their context.

Image: Tom Matthews, Phoenix Road 1:100, 2024, etching, 44.5 x 62 cm, edition of 8.

each body wakes up on a wave

Rudy Kanhye and Lauren La Rose with Ines Gradot, Sabe Lewellyn, Aurelie Chan Hon Sen, Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams

Curated by Rudy Kanhye and Lauren La Rose

Exhibition Runs Until: 27 July 2024

Glasgow Print Studio First Floor Gallery

For Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, Glasgow Print Studio is delighted to present each body wakes up on a wave, bringing together artists using diverse print and printmaking techniques to address themes of empire, migration and transcultural solidarity.

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This project has been assisted by Creative Scotland, CHARTS, Aapravasi Ghat Trust, National Library of Mauritius, the Mahatma Gandhi Institute, the Intercontinental Slavery Museum, Pamplemouse Botanic Garden, Blue Penny Museum, Unlimited and Disability Arts Online.

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Images: each body wakes up on a wave, Rudy Kanhye & Lauren La Rose, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow International 2024. Photograph: Eoin Carey.

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