A_Place Gallery is delighted to present Out of Hours, a solo exhibition by Amelia Barratt.
25 April - 9 May 2025
Preview: 25 April, 6 - 9PM - all welcome
Opening hours: Tues & Thurs 11 - 2, Sun 2 - 4 & by appointment
A_Place, 209 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4HZ
Amelia Barratt (b. 1989, Reading, UK) lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and works with painting, writing and performance. Barratt received a BA in Painting & Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art in 2011 and received an MFA from Slade School of Art in 2016.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Cut Wire, William Hine, London (2024); Cool Ground, Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow (2024); Librarian, Drawing Room, London (2021).
Selected group exhibitions and performances include: Loose Talk: Spatial Playback, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2025); The Seasons Reverse, 36 Washington Street, Glasgow (2024); Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London (2024); An Entertainment (live with Christian Flamm), Charles Asprey Tyers Street, London (2023); Tableau,Outlier, Glasgow (2023); Readings from Real Life, David Dale, Glasgow (2022); OUT NOW, Uferhallen, Berlin (2021); Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London (2021); Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana (with Dickon Drury), Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2021); Performance for Gabriella Boyd: For days, Seventeen, London (2020); Alvaro Barrington: Artists I Steal From, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London (2019); Museum Lates: Night Council Radio, The Museum of London, London (2018); Tall Tales From An Artist-Led Space, Cubitt Gallery, London (2018); Performance for Glasgow International, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow (2018); To write, to publish, to speak, to move, CCA, Glasgow (2017); This can only be thought of as a monologue within a dialogue, ECA, Edinburgh (2017); All Day Breakfast: Selected Works on Paper for Reading International (2017).
Residencies include: Villa Lena Residency, Palaia (2022); Annotations II Residency, Drawing Room, London (2020).
Awards include: Stanbury Scholarship (2016); UCL Arts & Humanities Dean’s List (2016); Alfred W Rich Scholarship (2015).
In 2025, Barratt collaborated with Bryan Ferry to release the album Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond Records); Barratt is the author of Real Life (published by Charles Asprey, 2022), a collection of performance texts published in print and audio. In 2023 an audio collaboration with the artist Christian Flamm, An Entertainment, was released on cassette (Studio Scilla).