Graham
Lister
Email : lister_art@hotmail.com
Instagram : instagram.com/lister_art/
Graham Lister (b.1982) is a painter and researcher based in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2016, he completed a Practice-based PhD at the Glasgow School of Art.
His ongoing painting practice is concerned with using the activity of painting as a way of distilling physical forms, surfaces and experiences. His work encompasses gradual abstraction processes which investigate the visual codes and surface materialities of the spatial environments which often go unnoticed within our everyday lives. Recent exhibitions in Glasgow, Manchester, Dundee and Berlin have made use of large-scale expanded painting installations to explore ways in which movement can be controlled through the creation of internal barrier-type works.
Ongoing research relates specifically to how painting can draw into focus issues of proximity and distance through the creation of highly detailed painterly processes, expanded painting practices and the creation of exploratory personal artistic writings. Such ideas have been brought into new, challenging and interesting light during the global pandemic and this offers his ongoing practice multiple new strands of, and for, investigation.
PhD (Practice-based) - The Glasgow School of Art
FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
MFA - Gray's School of Art
MA (Art History) - The University of Glasgow
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Touching Distance, Mount Florida Gallery, Glasgow
2019
Barrier-Breakdown-Repeat, Werkstadt Kunst, Berlin
Links and Blaes, PS Mirabel, Manchester
Grille, Patriothall, Edinburgh
2018
Restructuring, Mount Florida Gallery, Glasgow
Over / Under / Cover / Repeat, The Bowery, Leeds
2016
Altermodern Painting, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Altermodern Everyday Archive, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
2012
Virtual Fragments, The Briggait, Glasgow
2010
Deconstruction Theatre, Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
BEEP 2020, Elysium, Swansea
Perhaps We Should Have Stayed, Warbling Collective, London
Sharing a View II, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Sharing a View I, Luxon Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang
New-Iso_Aesthetic, Derby, Artcore, Derby
2019
Prosaic Mosaic, Bloc, Sheffield
This Is Our Land, Paper Gallery, Manchester
2018
Twice As Nice, PS Mirabel, Manchester
99 Files, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
2017
DDDD, Art Lacuna, London
Material Cover-Ups, East Street Arts, Huddersfield
2013
Studio to Showcase, The Briggait, Glasgow
2010
Forgotten Game, Edinburgh
Stick Stamp Fly, Gasworks, London
Awards & Residencies
National Lottery & Creative Scotland, Funding Award (Touching Distance) (2020)
PS Mirabel, Curator Prize, Overall Award (2018)
Mackendrick Scholarship, The Glasgow School of Art (2015)
Press & Publications
Barrier Works, Outlast Journal (2020), Risk, Forge Magazine (17) (2017), Peripheral ARTeries, Biennale Edition (2017), Start with What you Know, Ochre Press (2017),
Collective Nouns, United Newsletter (XX) (2017)
Links
Touching Distance Catalogue: https://issuu.com/lister_art/docs/touching_distance1
Forge Art Magazine : https://issuu.com/forgeartmag/docs/issuu17/41
Peripheral ARTeries Art Review - Biennial Edition', p98 - p118, November 2017.
https://issuu.com/artpress/docs/biennial.ed.ii
Glasgow School of Art Research Outputs : https://radar.gsa.ac.uk/profile/412