Graham
Lister
Email : lister_art@hotmail.com
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Instagram : @lister_art
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Glasgow School of Art: http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/profile/412
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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.
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His ongoing painting practice is concerned with using the activity of painting as a way of distilling physical forms, surfaces and visual gestures. His work encompasses repeated and gradual abstraction processes which investigate the visual codes, practical techniques and surface materialities within painting. Recent exhibitions in Glasgow, Manchester, Dundee and Berlin have made use of large-scale expanded painting installations to explore ways in which physical and visual movement can be controlled through the creation of 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 surfaces, expanded painting practices and the creation of exploratory personal artistic writings. His interests additionally include consideration of what the artist studio represents; what it means to operate in a studio and how it offers both positive possibilities for making, but equally can also represent an obstruction to creative making.
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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
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Selected Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Cut Through, Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock
2023
Fragments and False Starts, Studio pavilion at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
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
2024
Cat Flap Blink, Terrace Gallery, London
2023
Tightly Kit, Loose Fit, Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York
Three Movements of. Longer Work, Bloc, Sheffield
Opening, A_Place Gallery, Glasgow
Small Works, 57w57, New York
Champs Noir, Terrance Gallery, London
2022
BEEP 2022 – Shortlisted Artist, Biennial of Painting Prize, Elysium, Swansea
Annual Exhibition, Royal Academy, London Unfinished Movement, Generator Projects, Dundee
A Plot, Hatched By Two, Warbling Collective, London
2021
Society of Scottish Artists, Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2020
BEEP 2020 – Shortlisted Artist, Biennial of Painting Prize, 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
Made You Look, Instant Whip, 2024
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)
