Tag Archives: light

Peter McCaughey

21 September 2011 at 6.30pm

Peter McCaughey is an artist based in Glasgow, who works internationally with a practice focused on the local. He describes his practice as people-centred, ideas-based work. His research is currently focused on landscape and memory, ritual, exchange, and how art and the artist might operate in relation to people in the public realm. His work is often site-related and time-specific. Sometimes the work is transient, involving film, video, outdoor projection, sound and light and storytelling; on other occasions the work is permanent, using more traditional materials and processes to explore experiential and conceptual ideas.

Through his recent work, he has been testing the contested role of the artist in the process of regenerating place. He regularly collaborates with artists, architects, engineers, writers, and community activists. To do this as effectively as possible, he established Wave, a small organisation set up five years ago to support and direct a team approach to large urban regeneration arts projects, public art commissions and various levels of consultation.

Currently, Peter is beginning the second half of a one-year residency at the Glasgow Housing Association as their Creative Advisor. He has also started his first project as an art commissioner for the urban regeneration company, Clyde Gateway.

Peter hopes to use Trongate 103 as both a traditional studio for testing and developing ideas, and a meeting place to test some of the models he is currently trying to develop that aim to bridge the lack of opportunities for artists working in the city.

James Lumsden and Rosalind Lawless

31 May 2007 at 6pm

We will explore new work by Scotland-based artists, James Lumsden and Rosalind Lawless. Both artists are proficient in their skill as painters but their motives are different. James pursues the unfeasible journey to perfection and is fascinated by light and a desire for clarity. Rosalind is intrigued by space and physically constructs space within the composition of her work. Both artists share a common goal to engage with painting in its purest state.

We will look at material and method. Joining us in our discussion will be the artists and Gallery Director, Amber Roome.

James Lumsden has recently exhibited at MAC, Birmingham and has had a number of shows at Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London. More locally, he has had a solo show at An Tuireann Arts Centre, Portree as well as exhibitions in Ireland, Denmark and Canada.

Rosalind Lawless is a recent graduate of the Royal College, and has already had solo shows at Glasgow Print Studio and Hamnavoe Gallery, Aberdeen as well as having work in Aberdeen Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Garry Fabian Miller

28 October 2005 at 6pm

‘The pictures I make are of nothing which exists in the world . . . What I am trying to suggest is a state of mind which lifts the spirits and gives strength and some kind of clarity.’

Garry Fabian Miller, 2003

Garry Fabian Miller was born in Bristol in 1957. Much of his early work was landscape-based and focused on the horizon between the sky and land or sea. Since 1985, he has been producing optically mesmerising photographic works without the use of a camera or film. Instead he works directly with light, using techniques pioneered in the 19th century by William Henry Fox Talbot.

All his works are made by passing light through objects, or through filters of oil or coloured water, onto photo-sensitive paper. Its a simple, semi-controlled process, but one that constantly surprises.

The images Miller creates are essentially abstract, but there is a certain familiarity about them. They can represent a moment when day is either beginning or ending – a quality of light that we have all witnessed.

For his third exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, the artist presents his most recent series of works Exposure, made in response to time spent on the Hebridean Island of Tiree. He first visited this remote community in 1974 as a teenager when he made his very first photographs.

Garry Fabian Miller is one of the most progressive artists working with photography today. His work has been the subject of a major exhibition at the Rencontres dArles, Europes major festival of photography in the south of France. A 256-page monograph on his work, Illumine, was published earlier in the year by Merrell.

The Ingleby Gallery has also published a book, Exposure, to accompany the exhibition.

We will be talking to Caroline Broadhurst, Gallery Manager at the Ingleby Gallery, about this incredible body of new work.