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