Graham
Lister
Email : lister_art@hotmail.com
Instagram : @lister_art
WASPS Artist Studios: www.waspsstudios.org.uk/tenant_profile/graham-lister/
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, textures and repeated patterns. His work encompasses an interplay between structured and intuitive gradual abstraction processes which investigate visual patterns, motifs and surface materialities which often go unnoticed within our everyday lives. Recent exhibitions in Glasgow, Manchester, Dundee and Berlin have made use of 2D painting and drawing processes as well as ambitious, large-scale, expanded installations.
Current ongoing research relates to specific consideration of what the artist studio represents; what it means to operate in a painting/ creative studio and how the very idea of the studio offers positive possibilities for making, but equally can also represent a barrier to creative creation.
He works as a Lecturer in Painting and Printmaking, and as a Tutor within the Widening Participation programme at the Glasgow School of Art.
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 Solo Exhibitions
2024
*Upcoming* Cut Through, Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock
2023
*Upcoming* 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
2023
*Upcoming* Contrafibularities, Bloc, Sheffield
Small Works, 57w57, New York
Champs Noir, Terrance Gallery, London
2022
BEEP 2022 – 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 - 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
Creative Scotland, Open Fund for Individuals, Funding Award (Fragments and False Starts) (2023)
Creative Scotland, Open Fund for Individuals, 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
