Two Step- Playing Up - New Exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio
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Two Step: Playing Up
Glasgow Print Studio
Exhibition runs: 07 April – 20 May 2023
Beth Shapeero and The Cloth's Fraser Taylor began their collaboration after meeting and discovering one another’s practice in 2017 while on residency at the Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover. They took their first steps working together at Glasgow Print Studio in 2018, where they developed their individual aesthetics into a new language of rhythm and mark. Together they have established an improvised, somewhat unconventional, and fast-paced screenprinting practice.
Playing Up presents a new scale of print, the artists working at a size that is slightly too large, a little too uncomfortable, resulting in a variety of “errors” and strange marks. They characteristically lean into these unanticipated directions, exploring the work that emerges, which can be chaotic, or murky. They play from within the mess with intent. The back and forth of their interaction is fast paced, harmonious and in sync, like a dance.
Beth Shapeero (b.1985) is an emerging artist from Nottingham who has lived and worked in Glasgow since 2011. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art (Hons) at Nottingham Trent University in 2008 before relocating to Glasgow for the MLitt in Fine Art Practice in 2011. Fraser, originally from Glasgow, is an established artist and has spent a significant part of his career working in Chicago where he was a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He graduated from GSA in 1981 with a BA in Printed Textiles and an MA in 1983 from the RCA in London. Alongside fellow RCA students David Band, Brian Bolger and Helen Manning, Taylor co-founded The Cloth, a highly influential 80’s creative studio focused on contemporary textile design and production. The Cloth worked with high profile clients such as Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent, Spandau Ballet and Aztec Camera. Since 1983 Taylor has exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe, Asia and US. He returned to live and work in Glasgow in 2017.
Glasgow Print Studio
Exhibition runs: 07 April – 20 May 2023
Beth Shapeero and The Cloth's Fraser Taylor began their collaboration after meeting and discovering one another’s practice in 2017 while on residency at the Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover. They took their first steps working together at Glasgow Print Studio in 2018, where they developed their individual aesthetics into a new language of rhythm and mark. Together they have established an improvised, somewhat unconventional, and fast-paced screenprinting practice.
Playing Up presents a new scale of print, the artists working at a size that is slightly too large, a little too uncomfortable, resulting in a variety of “errors” and strange marks. They characteristically lean into these unanticipated directions, exploring the work that emerges, which can be chaotic, or murky. They play from within the mess with intent. The back and forth of their interaction is fast paced, harmonious and in sync, like a dance.
Beth Shapeero (b.1985) is an emerging artist from Nottingham who has lived and worked in Glasgow since 2011. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art (Hons) at Nottingham Trent University in 2008 before relocating to Glasgow for the MLitt in Fine Art Practice in 2011. Fraser, originally from Glasgow, is an established artist and has spent a significant part of his career working in Chicago where he was a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He graduated from GSA in 1981 with a BA in Printed Textiles and an MA in 1983 from the RCA in London. Alongside fellow RCA students David Band, Brian Bolger and Helen Manning, Taylor co-founded The Cloth, a highly influential 80’s creative studio focused on contemporary textile design and production. The Cloth worked with high profile clients such as Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent, Spandau Ballet and Aztec Camera. Since 1983 Taylor has exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe, Asia and US. He returned to live and work in Glasgow in 2017.