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Email : lister_art@hotmail.com

Instagram : @lister_art

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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 practice is concerned with using the activity of painting as a way of thinking about contemporary physical experiences. His work encompasses gradual abstraction processes which showcase investigations of the visual codes and surface materialities which often go unnoticed within our everyday lives. Ideas connected to how the painting studio is used, and how painted explorations of surface textures, materials and repeated mark-making processes can be positioned in new and interesting ways form the core of his practice-based research activities.

His paintings have been shown in a large number of group exhibitions nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions also taking place in recent years in Manchester, Glasgow and Berlin.

Prior to his PhD at the GSA, he studied at Gray's School of Art, studying on the MFA programme, and at the University of Glasgow, gaining an MA(Hons) in Art History. He worked at the GSA from 2008 - 2015 (Historical and Critical Studies and Painting and Printmaking), and then at the University of Huddersfield 2015 - 2017 (Contemporary Art).

Returning to Glasgow in 2017, he has worked as a Lecturer in Painting and Printmaking and as a Tutor for the Widening Participation programme at the GSA.

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

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