A_Place Gallery is delighted to present "In the water in a bay", a duo show by David Roeder and Caitlin Merrett King.
In this exhibition, David Roeder and Caitlin Merrett King present a suite of paintings and texts. The works are the result of a collaborative process of engagement by two friends. The texts have been informed by the paintings, and the paintings, in turn, by the texts. They are a conversation, born as much from years of friendship as from the somewhat artificial boundaries of a gallery exhibition and as such are threads of a much wider conversation and relationship, impossible to unpick - even to the artists themselves. Instead, as viewers, we are simply presented with the works in front of us (which is plenty enough as it is), wondering about what we don’t know and, as advised by Roeder, "…you might as well try not to think too much and just enjoy what you see and read”.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication which is available for purchase here.
4 - 19 July 2025
Preview 4 July 6-9PM - all welcome
Opening Hours: Sun 2-4, Tues & Thurs 11-2 & by appointment
David Roeder (b. 1987, Eden, GER) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and works primarily with painting and music. He graduated from the painting department of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in 2013, briefly after he spent a year at Glasgow School of Art for an extended Erasmus scholarship. In 2022, he completed a MA in Art Therapy at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. To this day, Roeder facilitates art projects for people with additional support needs.
Recent solo and two person shows include "Bei Karstadt im Dach: Sand" (with Fenja Oesterreich), Teile 2o46, Berlin (2024), "Blick aus der Höhle" (with Mirjam Jacob), Westside, Leipzig (2022), "Remains changed", Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow (2022), "Der sehr lange Fluß der Sehnsucht", Salon Käthe, Leipzig (2019) and "Ideals for a future livin'", Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2017).
Recent group shows include "Haven", White Columns, New York (2025), "Kashual Happening", Never at Home, Vienna (2025), "I know somebody who knows", ExRotaprint, Berlin (2023), "Drawing Wow", BCMA, Berlin (2019), "I was a Teenage Medium" (with Frieder Haller, Mirjam Jacob, Phung-Tien Phan and Matthew Walkerdine), Glasgow Project Room (2018) and "Chairs are for sitting on", The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2018).
Roeder's works are part of the collection of the Kunstfonds, Staatliche Gemäldesammlung Dresden and various private collections. He has been awarded an Arts & Crafts award by Glasgow Life (2015) as well as the young artist's award of the Kunsverein AK68, Wasserburg (2011). Roeder has been part of the inaugural King's Mall Residency, London (2017) as well as "The Arbroath Template" at Hospitalfield House (2015).
His music, solo as Nein Rodere and in the bands CD3 and Primitive Structures, has been released by labels such as Horn of Plenty and Aguirre and has repeatedly been reviewed favourably by The Wire. Recent live performances include De Nor, Antwerp (2025), Festival of Endless Gratitude, Copenhagen (2022), Café Oto, London (2022) and Les Atelier Claus, Brussels (2022).
Caitlin Merrett King (1992, Sheffield), lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland, and is a writer and arts programmer. She received a BA (Hons) Painting and Printmaking (2014) and an MLitt Art Writing (2022) both from Glasgow School of Art, and was a member of School of the Damned (2018).
Her writing has been published by Waterwings, Sticky Fingers, MAP Magazine, Nothing Personal, and Pilot Press, and recently commissioned by Cample Line, The Common Guild, and Hunterian Art Gallery. Her debut novella ‘Always Open, Always Closed’ was published by JOAN (2023) and her pamphlet, ‘The Ludicrously Capacious Bag’ was published by The Yellow Paper (both 2023).
She was awarded The Yellow Paper Prize for New Writing from Glasgow School of Art (2022) and an a-n grant (2023), and has undertaken residencies with 12o (London) and The Newbridge Project (Newcastle).
She is Programme Coordinator at David Dale Gallery, co-coordinator of Glasgow Art Map, a Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, and a Director of Good Press, from which she runs the itinerant exhibition and publishing project Lunchtime with Musheto Fernández. Since 2017, she has also run the occasional radio show, Group Show.
