Artist CV
Artist's statement
(b 1982GB. Lives and works in Glasgow)
Lister’s work encompasses gradual abstraction processes which allow him to better understand the visual codes and surfaces which are found in our surroundings and so often go unnoticed during our everyday lives. Recent exhibitions in Edinburgh, Manchester and Berlin have made use of large-scale painting installations to think about ways in which spaces can be controlled and altered through the creation of barrier-type works. In order to develop these temporary expanded paintings, he works through iterative processes on flat surfaces to explore how paint can be used to showcase woven, interlinked or rhythmic structures and patterns.Solo exhibitions
- 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
Group exhibitions
- 2020
- BEEP 2020, 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
- 2020-1
- National Lottery & Creative Scotland, Funding Award (Touching Distance)
- 2018
- PS Mirabel, Curator Prize, Overall Award
- 2015
- Mackendrick Scholarship, The Glasgow School of Art
Press & publications
- 2020
- Barrier Works, Outlast Journal
- 2017
- Risk, Forge Magazine (17)
- Peripheral ARTeries, Biennale Edition
- Start with What you Know, Ochre Press
- Collective Nouns, United Newsletter (XX)
Teaching
- 2017-
- Lecturer, Painting and Printmaking, The Glasgow School of Art
- 2015 – 2017
- Lecturer, Contemporary Art and Illustration, The University of Huddersfield
- 2006 - 2015
- Visiting Lecturer, The Glasgow School of Art