A_Place Gallery

A_Place Gallery is delighted to present “OPENING”, a group exhibition at the launch of its new art space, featuring Neil Bickerton, Gwenan Davies, Sam Drake, Louise Evans, Giovanni Giacoia, Tess Glen, Maggie Hills, Jamie Limond, Graham Lister, Samuel O'Donnell, Jonathan Pinn, Richard Walker, Daisy Weir, Sarah Wilson and Amy Winstanley.

The exhibition title, “OPENING”, takes on multiple meanings given the context of the show. Quite plainly, an exhibition has an opening. But, as the inauguration of a new art space in the city centre of Glasgow, the gallery itself might also be taken as an opening move: a beginning, an entering in, an overture.

A_Place Gallery is located in Adelaide Place Baptist Church, a neoclassical building from 1877, which has recently completed renovation works. The gallery launch coincides with a fresh lease of life for the building and a new chapter in its history as part of a community committed to the life and well-being of the city for nearly 170 years. (The exhibition is also taking place as part of the Glasgow Doors Open Days festival, for which the theme is “a sensory city”).

The exhibition features 15 artists for whom painting is a significant aspect of their practice. Painting represents another opening of sorts, a visual doorway into the thoughts, lives, preoccupations and concerns of each individual painter; each painting a modestly-sized portal to worlds beyond themselves, even as they each speak as defined objects within the world.

15 September - 29 September

Private View: Friday 15 September, 6 - 9 PM

Opening hours: Sun 2-4, Tues-Thurs 11-2 & by appointment

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