Pentagon Galleries

'A God Given Light'

2010-04-11T18:16:00.002+01:00

The WhiteHouse presents as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010:

'A God given Light' (a God given Right)

Site specific work based on the theme of light created by artists
Mark Campbell & Craig Peacock.

Burrell House
8 Great Western Terrace
Glasgow
G12 0

Mark Campbell uses a stained glass structure and text connected with modern religious ideoligies, but in a new and illuminating way.
Craig Peacock deals in the visceral perception of place, where personal emotive thought is contextualised through drawing and paint. His work seeks a sense of the spiritual, without a premise to any specific religion.

The exhibition is installed in Burrell House, the former shipping magnate and art collector William Burrell's family residence.

End of the Pentagon Gallery

2009-12-18T13:10:00.003Z

The Pentagon Gallery as it was set up by Cathy Richmond and subsequently run by fellow artists will no longer exist in the Pentagon Centre.
Due to lack of support and a short sighted outlook on the part of the pentagon management we who run the exhibition space have been left with no other option than to withdraw our free services which were taken for granted and which in the end was a one sided affair.
We would like to thank the staff in the pentagon centre for all their help and support over the years and wish them all the best.
We would also ask that any artists that believe they may have work still in the possesion of the Pentagon Centre to get in touch with the pentagon administration by email or telephone and arrange to pick up their work.
glasgowadmin@bizspace.co.uk tel:0141 221 2123.

DREAMSCAPE

2009-11-13T11:13:00.002Z

Anne-Marie Pinkerton
& Shirley Girdwood
12th Nov - 11th Dec

Annemarie Pinkerton & Shirley Girdwood 7th November - 11th December.
Dreamscape is an exhibition of new paintings by Scottish artists Annemarie Pinkerton & Shirley Girdwood.
Here they explore that Hypnagogic state between sleep and wakefulness that has inspired so many great artists throughout art history.

Heretopia

2009-10-21T10:32:00.001+01:00

Elaine Woo MacGregor & Louise Schmid
26th Sept - 6th November

Heterotopia is an exhibition of new works by Glasgow based artists Louise Schmid and Elaine Woo MacGregor.

This show brings together two artists who have completed several residencies and traveled extensively in similar zones. Both artists come from different backgrounds in terms of cultural identity, professional training, age, language and nationality.
In the past year, they have both been creating new work at their Dovehill Studios in Glasgow, using experiences from their travel as a rich source of inspiration.

In the summer of 2007, Schmid travelled by Trans-Siberian -Mongolian-Manchurian railway to northern China. This January, she showed her work titled "Eurasian capsule" at Esther Hufschmid Gallery in Zurich.
In March 2008, MacGregor was the Artist in Residence in the Academy of Fine Art in Guiyang, China. Throughout this period, she worked with students and settlements of different Chinese ethnic minority groups in Guizhou province, southwest China. For MacGregor, it was a journey of rediscovering aspects of her Chinese heritage.

DRAWN TOGETHER

2009-08-21T15:40:00.003+01:00

Glasgow school of Art 2009 Graduates
22nd Aug - 24th Sept
Curated by Helen Shaddock

Opening Saturday 22nd 4pm-7pm all welcome.

We are delighted to be showing some of the best work from this years graduates of Glasgow School of Art giving people another chance to see some of the fantastic talent the art school produces.
We were also delighted that Helen Shaddock found the time to freely curate the exhibition and we thank her for creating a wonderful show.

The show features a variety of different kinds of work drawn together by Helen and includes:
Alex Bowie, Alison Whitehill, Amy Joslin, Anjali Lockett, Brian Dickson, Caleb Churchill, Desmond Church, Georgina Errington, Harriet Lowther, Jenny Taylor, Julia Heslop, Julia McKinlay, Kate Brown, Kate Turbett, Katherine Gallacher, Laura Moss, Lily Johnson, Louise Lockhart, Mairi Upton, Natalie Feather, Nora Reid, Olivia Bliss, Rachel Wright, Ralph MacKenzie, Sarah Campbell, Sarah Whitehouse, Sarah Wright, Sophie Manhire, Travis Souza, Weaam Sperinck.

TIAN MILLER

2009-06-02T15:55:00.005+01:00

SIlent Emptiness
1st June - 3rd July 2009

New Installation, textile, print and embroidery based art by norwegian artist Tian Miller, inspired by her recent residency in Trondheim Norway.
Tian uses found materials such as printed fabrics, old wallpaper retrieved from derelict buildings, and garments passed on from relatives onto which she screen prints images of her own design. The effect created is an uneasy marriage of the two images contrasting the highly stylized, decorative, found patterned fabrics with appropriated technical scientific drawings and Victorian style silhouettes.
Congratulations also to Tian who has been awarded the Dusseldorf Residency where she will take up residency in Dusseldorf, Germany in July. Tian will stay in a complex of artists live/work spaces in the “Bilk” district of the city – close to the centre. Her studio will be just above the Kunstraum which is where she will exhibit her work at the end of her stay.

FARBECHT

2009-04-04T08:40:00.006+01:00

TOMMY LYDON
PAINTING

3rd April - 15th May, 209
PRIVATE VIEW:
9th April, 5.30 - 8pm
ALL WELCOME

Painter Tommy Lydon exhibits his work that spans the abstract and figurative schools of painting. Here he paints possibilities rather than a visual fact or from an automated action.
"The Abstract is, it seems to me, simply an image which is still in the process of becoming. The Figurative is simply the result achieved when the painter decides he has arrived at that particular journey's end and the picture has materialised into the moment.
Good art is when the artists image, abstract or figurative, communicates some universal insight about what Kandinsky called the 'Spiritual in
Art'."

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The White House
32 washington Street

We are pleased to announce that our new exhibition and performance space the White House is now up and running.
It is viewed as a more experimental space for artists to create and perform their work.

EARRA -GHAID

2009-03-03T15:41:00.005Z

(the Coast of the the Gaels)
21st February - 28th March

The exhibition “Earra Ghaidheal”, contains a wide work on the titled theme meaning 'the Coast of the Gaels' including painting, prints, sculpture, wood, glass and textiles, the artists are all part of an artists group called Artmap.

The group are a collective of artists who exist to promote the work of artists from the Argyle area of Scotland. Artmap Argyll, formed in 2008, has 31 active artist members.

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GALLERY NEWS:

We have just obtained a new space on Washington Street, next door to the Pentagon's main entrance.
It is quite a large space and is accessable from the street and we intend to use it to put on floor based, installation, film and sculptural work as well as larger wall based pieces.

We don't know how long this will be available for us to use so artists are asked to submit proposals for this space, although due to it not being in the Pentagon building itself they will be asked to organise the invigilating themselves.

This hopefully will lead to a very exciting and unscripted summer programme.

Ch'an style; building half done

2009-03-03T15:39:00.001Z

SAMANTHA MURRAY
19th January - 20th February

New Paintings by artist Samantha Murray.

The National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools 2008

2008-11-09T19:09:00.004Z

10th November 2008 - 16th January 2009

Following its successful exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland, art work by the best young artists in the country will go on show at the Pentagon Galleries. For the first time outside of the National Galleries group entries to the competition will be shown alongside the fifty individual award winning works in this dynamic exhibition. The National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools is supported by Scottish Widows, who are sponsoring the competition for a third consecutive year.

With a record-breaking 4,016 entries received this year, entrants faced tough competition in all six categories: nursery, primary schools (P1-3 and P4-7), secondary schools, special education schools and groups. Competition entries were based on selected NGS works, with the aim of encouraging Scottish schoolchildren to interact with and seek inspiration from works in their national collection. The competition was launched online in December 2007 when schools from all over Scotland were invited to enter. Thousands of artworks were subsequently received from places as far apart as Ballindalloch and the Borders. This will be the first stage in a two part tour for the exhibition which will move to Raigmore Hospital, Inverness later in the year.

Praising the high standard of entries this year, Linda McClelland, event organiser, said: “The standard of entries received this year has been outstanding, clearly demonstrating the creativity being nurtured in Scottish schools. I am delighted that the exhibition is to go on tour once again, making it easily accessible to the public throughout the coming year.”

Lord Leitch, Chairman of Scottish Widows, said: “This competition offers a great opportunity to encourage creativity in children and Scottish Widows is delighted to be supporting the National Galleries once again this year. With such an overwhelming response from across the country, competition for winning prizes has been tough and I would like to congratulate all the winners. I’m sure that the experience will have helped nurture the talents of these budding artists which will be appreciated by all those who visit the exhibitions as it tours Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.”

GORDON PICKEN

2008-10-06T14:48:00.002+01:00

New Paintings
6th Oct - 7thNov

Although a figurative artist, this exhibition of new work by Gordon Picken has him depicting buildings in the urban landscape. His out buildings, shacks, apartment blocks and pavilions are weathered and scarred by the vagaries of life. The passage of time is apparent in them. At first the buildings appear banal but the artist here imbues them with symbolic significance.

There are no human figures in this series but their influence is there throughout. Having been drawn to these buildings, the artist has come to see them as something akin to "ready made " monuments. For him, they become metaphors, not just for social themes, but personal and artistic themes too.

In the process of painting this work the artist has become aware of the paradox of paint as illusion and actuality. By depicting markings, designs and paint surfaces made by others, he's had to confront the problem of "a painting within a painting". For instance, to portray the graffiti in these pictures he found the only solution was to actually mimic it in paint himself.

For Gordon each individual panel is a fragment of time and all of these paintings can be assembled and viewed as built pieces.

Old&New

2008-09-04T17:30:00.004+01:00

Old&New
28thAugust - 3rdOctober

Old and New graduates of Glasgow School of Art.

We are delighted to be once again showing new work from some of the recent graduates of Glasgow School of Art and thought it would be interesting if we could juxtapose their work with older graduates from Glasgow School of Art's differnt modern eras.

With established artists such as Christine Borland, Scott Campbell and Philip Reeves hanging next to up and coming new graduates Ella Clogstoun, Yukako and Akiko Ueda, to name only a sample of the participating artists, the exhibition vibrates yet the line between Old and New is completely blurred to the extent that it is almost impossible to distinguish between the two.

We are also delighted that Helen Shaddock a recent graduate who created a lovely installation for the show has agreed to join the Pentagon Gallery and help to run and hopefully establish the studios at the Pentagon Centre.

2008-07-12T17:45:00.006+01:00

14th July-22nd August
Lone Visions

Artists Ashley Cook, Basharat Khan and John Hughes Devlin

John Hughes Devlin is a young Glaswegian photographic artist whose work focuses on the transience of the post- industrial landscape. His images of a rapidly disintegrating environment capture the atmosphere of a landscape deprived of potential while describing a powerful, enigmatic melancholy.John Hughes Devlin is a Glasgow based, award winning artist who has exhibited throughout Europe.

Basharat Khan is a talented photographer, new media artist and an experienced outreach arts worker. He has worked for Street Level Photoworks, Project Ability, The Scottish Academy of Asian Arts, Sense Scotland, and Prince's Trust among others and has been artist in residence in northern Spain for the last three summers. He has exhibited in Streetlevel, Project Ability, Tron Theatre and Kelvingrove Museum and this new body of work explores the mythical side of Scottish landscapes.

Ashley Cook graduated from the Printmaking Departmant of Glasgow School of Art in 1987. She has exhibited widely and has work in the collection of The Scottish Arts Council, BBC, Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, The Scotland Office, Museograbado, Mexico and The Vaasa Museum, Finland. She has won numerous awards and has been an invited artist to Canada, USA, Iceland, Mexico and Spain. She lives and works in Glasgow.

Ashley has been accepted to be a volunteer for 3 months from January to April 2009 in the Gambia, teaching a community programme of arts and crafts in London Corner area of Serrekunda, Makumbaya Primary school and Allatentu, which is a project for those suffering from HIV.

All the proceeds from her work in the Lone Visions Exhibition will go towards funding the volunteer project in the Gambia Ashley can be contacted by email at lagnoma_asherscook@yahoo.co.uk

Her remit is to provide after-school arts and crafts classes. And at Allatentu, she is to provide arts and crafts classes to teach the HIV patients to make things that they could sell to provide themselves with an income.
The arts programme intends to encourage the continuation of independent creativity and learning after she leaves the Gambia. The projects will include, paper stencil screenprinting for tshirts and any cloth substrate, making permanent shoppers and papier mache bowls and objects for the community to sell.

To able to be a volunteer she needs to raise the following funds:
Materials £1040
Flight £450
Accommodation £400
Internal travel £450
Living costs £600
Total £2940

Materials breakdown
4 x 100T Screens -£320
15 litres of Texiscreen ink - £285
Poster paints - £80
Brushes - £20
Varnish - £40
Wallpaper paste - £35
White Emulsion £30
scissors £12
craft knives £18
Newsprint paper £50
Children's tshirts £200

PHOTONS by Krypt

2008-06-05T15:24:00.004+01:00

PHOTONS by Krypt
6rd June -18th July 2008

The Pentagon Galleries is proud to show ex street artist Krypt's new work which he describes as :

"Quantum rhythms described in the second dimension."

The opening night was on Friday the 6th June and was well attended and we would like to thank all our friends who help support the gallery at all the openings.

GREAT APES

2008-04-21T12:12:00.006+01:00

14thApril-16thMay

The PENTAGON GALLERY are delighted to be showing artist JOY BAIN's new work.
Well known for her wonderful images of animals Joy has created a new series of screen prints, woodcuts and charcoal drawings depicting humorous portraits of her close family and friends as apes, monkeys and orangutans.

A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Joy Bain lives and works in Glasgow.

10% of all sales will go to the PDSA

Current Show

2007-04-07T20:03:00.001+01:00

‘Tales of Glasgow’ by Paul Kennedy
9th August – 7th September 2007.

Opening Night Thursday 9th August 2007 between 5.30pm – 7.30pm.

Tales of Glasgow is an exhibition that investigates the interplay between the history of Glasgow and the way this effects the people that live in it. The forgotten, then remembered, then forgotten again. Glasgow as a ghost story, the past haunting the present.
"An explosion of fractured memory. An attempt to shock the subconscious and explore the fragments of the past that shape the mind. My work is an effort to capture the moments when we both escape and confront reality simultaneously. To present the evolution of time; relics that produce nostalgia and still remain, yet which provoke a different emotional reaction and and transport the mind to a peculiar place. to both live and not live; to exist in the dreams of others and explain their history in an image... this is what I do."

Paul graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2004, is currently employed working as a community artist in Glasgow and is a member of the Glasgow Print Studio and Wasps Studios Glasgow.

Previous Show "Working Drawing": 18 January - 9 March 2007

2007-01-13T16:15:00.002Z

This exhibition explores drawing in a broad context, showing work from the breadth of Glasgow’s artistic community and the fringe places where it meets the commercial world and definitions are often blurred.

The exhibition includes contributions from artists working in the Hope St. Studios, Southside Studios and Wasps Studios, in addition to a variety of other artists.

The artists showing are as follows:
Mark Campbell, Christina Corfield, Lisa Donnan, J.R. Ewan, Jo Garter, Shirley Girdwood, Olivia Guerlerler, Eva Gustavsson, David Kerr, Anna Lobner, Tommy Lydon, Tian Miller, Laura Molloy, Gerrad Morris, Lyndsey McCloud, Martin McInally, Ian McPherson, Jacki Parry, Jim Pattison, Craig Peacock, Bevin Quinn, Jenny Renfrew, John Robertson,Louise Schmid, John Taylor, Ally Thompson and Elaine Woo.

Images from the "Working Drawing" exhibition

2007-01-13T16:14:00.001Z

Jenny Renfrew, Yellow Flag

Martin McInally, Sectarian Son

Laura Molloy, Breakers Group

Laura Molloy, Townscape 1 (Hillhead)

David Kerr, Woodhill Park

Christina Corfield, Untitled