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Nov 23–Dec 21
Nov 23–Dec 21
Thurs–Sat 11–5pm
Shapeero Murray
Newton Mearns
Glasgow G77 6EY
Glasgow G77 6EY
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Or make a visit by appointment: director@shapeeromurray.com
Public Transport:Take the Bus 4 / 38 from
City or Shawlands
City or Shawlands
Since the 1970’s, checkpoint racer series have become a mainstay attraction in Arcade rooms. Why is this? Because deep down, everyone wants to be on a bike and in a race. Daily worries about the price of olive oil subside into a glorious, unabashed race against time. It’s just you and the horizon. And the clock. On a simulated motorbike with simulated horsepower, listening to a generational soundtrack from the mastermind Hiroshi Kawaguchi.
This show is about a gang of Super Night Riders. It is a show of wonky collage, furious drawings, secret visions, sonic prints and strange nightmares. Somehow, for the riders, the fire still burns within. In a bleak political landscape lies a bunch of shoegaze bikers, haphazardly circling their own start and finish line in the sand. More than just racers, these artists walk the trapezoid between making art and wrestling work, 9-5s, babies, boyfriends, sick parents, and societal demands to have nice holidays. Between these two disparate universes is the the studio. It is the ultimate checkpoint where time speeds up and slows down. This group show celebrates the inner clock that guides artwork to a finish line.
The work of Anne Goldrick, Julia Johnstone, Beth Shapeero, Fraser Taylor and Andy Murray speak of a studio practice built on impression, speed and instinct, call and response. This speed acts as a counterpoint to the work of Angus Fernie and Colette Kerr, who both use the window as a portal to describe the passing of time. Whilst Tracey McMaster’s work conjures the ethereal subconscious of night, photographer Catherine Hyland scans the expansive horizon of China’s Gansu Province in the sun drenched daylight. For others, the horizon is imagined. Toby Messenger’s assemblage work operate like a Sega controller: one switch, and a secret highway emerges in front of you. Heeyoung Noh’s unicorn gore fantasy and Oscar Marcus Boyle’s melancholic vortex drift into mythology and folklore. Kirsty Lackie and Marguerite Carnec draw from the well of real life – both celebrate simple pleasures, poetic visions and hidden fantasies.
Although a studio life is resolutely solo, for a brief moment in time,
the band gets together. The engine is revved. The stars glisten to
the promise of new frontiers. Enter the Super Night Riders.
Artists:Anne Goldrick
Andy Murray
Angus Fernie
Beth Shapeero
Catherine Hyland
Colette Kerr
Fraser Taylor
Heeyoung Noh
Julia Johnstone
Kirsty Lackie
Marguerite Carnec
Oscar Marcus Boyle
Tracey McMaster
Toby Messenger
Sept–Nov 2024
and Huck Sanderson
16 June —18 Sept 2024
This exhibition celebrates two Glasgow-based female artists from different generations, Huck Sanderson and Kirsty Lackie. Their work, which dances between figuration and abstraction, showcases their distinctive approaches to painting and subject matter. While Huck Sanderson creates sweeping abstract paintings on a grand scale, Kirsty Lackie brings to life a theatrical universe of complex characters with deep red personalities.
Huck Sanderson, who took up painting seriously in her 60s, approaches her practice with ambition and vigour. Painting on a large scale demands physicality and daring, a leap into the void of an empty canvas. Sanderson navigates this with a playful and carefree approach to the act of making. Her sweeping brushstrokes create large fields of soft and evocative colour, leading the artist joyfully into a cloud of unknowing. The end result is a vast field of memory and light, expressing both play and mastery.
Kirsty Lackie is a circus master of wonky nursery rhymes and off-beat mythologies. In Lackie’s upside-down world, our unspoken and uncanny desires gaze back at us. Her characters - sometimes masked, often exposed and unashamedly on display - occupy a delicious fairy-tale turned slightly awry. This merging of dreams and hedonistic fantasy serves as a visual outlet for Lackie’s observations of people. How we behave and what lies beneath the surface act as fodder for her curiosity. In this collection of paintings and drawings, glimpses of who we are are delightfully rendered into wistful and mischievous paintings.
Kirsty Lackie (b.1989) paints and draws. She studied Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art (2018) specialising in illustration. Lackie has exhibited work across Europe, most recently in a group show at Contemporary Six Gallery (Manchester, 2024) and a solo show at Boardroom Committee Room (Glasgow, 2023). Two of her paintings were recently commissioned for Beata Heuman’s Hôtel de la Boétie (Paris, 2023).
Huck Sanderson (b. 1953) is an artist based in Glasgow who graduated in Printed Textiles from Glasgow School of Art in 1974. Sanderson has exhibited in Argyll, Glasgow, and France, and her work is held in private collections throughout the UK, Europe, and South Africa. In 2021, she published her book "100 Days of Covid-19 Lockdown Madness." She has had solo exhibitions at The Briggait in Glasgow (2023) and Nicolls Gallery in Glasgow (2021), as well as group shows at Galerie Ecossaise in Noyer, France (2017, 2018, 2019).
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Shapeero Murray
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Gallery:ShapeeroMurray
The Avenue / Newton Mearns
Glasgow G77 6EY
Public Transport:
Take the Bus 4 / 38 from City
or Shawlands
Contact:For all enquiries contact:
Andy Murray /
Beth Shapeero director@shapeeromurray.com