https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk Lunchtime Gallery Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:59:38 +0000 https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk en https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/2019-2026-ARCHIVE Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:59:38 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/2019-2026-ARCHIVE Archive 2026︎︎︎ Cows and other poems, Ben Redhead, Publication Launch, Giselle’s Books, Marseille (FR), 14.03.2026 2025 ︎︎︎ Cows and other poems, Ben Redhead, Publication Launch, Readings from Isaac Harris, Eleanor Tennyson, Myles Westman and Jane Goldman, Good Press, 30.10.2025 ︎︎︎ In the water in a bay, Caitlin Merrett King and David Roeder, Publication, co-published with Freuyd & Verdrusz Batman!, Owain Train McGilvary, Off-site at 20 Albert Road, 20.04 – 11.05.2025︎︎︎ Coronau, Owain Train McGilvary, Publication Launch, Readings from Marcus Jack and Michelle Hannah, 11.05.2025 2023︎︎︎ Clutch, Julia Gilmour, Exhibition and Publication Launch, Off-site at 20 Albert Road, 16.12.2023 – 07.01.2024︎︎︎ Inscriptions and Verses, Emalia Mattia, Publication Launch, 05.02.2023 2022 Vessels, Emalia Mattia, Exhibition, 02.12.2022 - 05.02.2023 pause, inside, Selcuk Colakolgu, Exhibition, 14.09 - 29.10.2022 I’M BORED OF READING I WANT REVENGE, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Exhibition, 11.06 - 13.08.2022 ︎︎︎ The Junction, Teddy Coste, Performance and Publication, 15.07.2022Remains Changed, David Roeder, Exhibition, 20.04 - 04.06.2022Ceramides, Donald Butler and Kitty Lambton, Exhibition and Reading Event, 18.03 - 02.04.2022Various Arrangements, Sarah Wilson, Exhibition, 12.01 - 05.03.2022︎︎︎ Fruiting, Hayley Jane Dawson, Pamphlet Launch, 11.02.2022 2021 Terrestrial Act, Hot Desque, Exhibition and Talk, 19.11 - 23.12.2021 Pour the Fear: Solastalgic Synchronicities, Ayla Dmyterko, Exhibition, 29.09 - 17.11.2021 Grief Bruise, Amy Winstanley, Exhibition, 28.07 - 28.08.2021 Everybody wants to see you, Eothen Stearn, Exhibition, 09.06 - 17.07.2021 Exact Science, Jessie Whiteley, Exhibition, 03.04 - 05.06.2021VIRTUAL TWIN, Online Residency, 02-03.2021 2020Lunchtime Show for Subcity Fresher’s Week, with Soft Tissue, Isobel Neviazsky, Robert Mills, Ayla Dmyterko, Kate Morgan, Raissa Pardini, Liv Fontaine, Siri Black, Ewan McCaffrey, Alternative Guide to Walking, Eothen Stearn, 09.2020 MUSICA! MUSICA! MUSICA!, Raissa Pardini, Exhibition, 01.03 - 14.03.2020Alternative Guide for Walking, Publication Launch, 26.02.2020 i guess it's about time..., Robert Thomas James Mills, Publication Launch, 22.02.2020Selected Drawings, ’91–’19, Jamie Johnson, Published by 5b, Publication Launch, 14.02.2020 Long Time Listener, First Time Caller, Patrick McAlindon, Exhibition, 07.12.2019 - 11.02.2020 2019 Tunnels, Spirals, Lattices, Cobwebs, Siri Black, Exhibition, 08.11 - 23.11.2019 Non-Stop Action! Out! Of! Control! Thriller Maniacs!, Amy di Rollo, Exhibition, 13.10 - 26.10.2019︎︎︎ Tender, Nat Akinyi, Exhibition and Publication, 15.09 - 28.09.2019Bad Timing, Katie Shannon, Exhibition and Pop-up Shop, 18.08 - 24.08.2019 Some Pictures, Isobel Neviazsky, Exhibition, 06.07 - 10.08.2019 https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Batman Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:44:38 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Batman Batman!Owain Train McGilvary20.04 – 10.05.2520 Albert Road Opening, Saturday 19th April, 4–6pm Publication launch, Saturday 10th MayOpen Saturdays, 12–4pm and by appointment.Batman! is an exhibition of new paintings by Owain Train McGilvary. This series –– presented within an installation of everyday debris relating to the studio or the dancefloor –– is a point of reflection within a larger body of work and research into homosocial imagery, stemming from amateur photography from North Wales’ only gay bar and absences from Cardiff’s museum archives. Over the last four years, McGilvary has been engaging in various collaborative endeavours with his peers to re-assemble the various formal and informal archival materials into multimedia installations. These archival remnants have also become visual material for his paintings, within which to create new narratives –– pushed up and layered over gay iconography from popular culture, comic books, fanfiction and internet searches, particularly regurgitating and fracturing paintings of the Welsh mining community by Jack Crabtree. These paintings hold a dense pictorial landscape which seek to reinterpret an idea of a collective (and personal/individual) specifically Welsh gay identity. The exhibition also marks the publication of Coronau. Charting McGilvary’s research over the past four years into The Threes Crowns, north Wales’ only gar bar which closed due to an arson attack in 2014, Coronau includes drawings, collages and filmstills by McGilvary, as well as texts by Adrian Howard and Marcus Jack. Owain Train McGilvary is an artist from Ynys Môn. He usually works with artist’s video, drawing, collage and painting. His projects pay particularly close attention to cross-disciplinary collaborations and reconfiguring existing archives. Previously he has worked with wrestlers, drag artists, musicians, writers and other visual artists to create multimedia, multilingual and multi-imaginative works.Recent exhibitions include I’m attended as a portal myself with Bobbi Cameron for Glasgow International, Seeing Red at Pontio Arts Centre and Fel gwacter with Dylan Huw at Mostyn Gallery (all in 2024). In 2022-2023 he was a Wales Venice 10 Fellow supported by Arts Council Wales, Artes Mundi and DAC. He holds an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art and a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Between September - December he will undertake the Creative Wales Fellowship at The British School at Rome, looking to compare the comic book world of RanXerox with Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical paintings.  Photo credit: Max Slaven https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Clutch Sun, 10 Dec 2023 14:17:31 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Clutch ClutchJulia Gilmour16.12.23 – 07.01.24 20 Albert Road Opening and publication launch, Thursday 14th December, 6 – 8pm Open Saturday and Sunday, 12 – 4pm(Closed 30th and 31st December) ‘In August came extraordinary rains, leaving the air between downfalls soporific and bewildered. The Dragon said to me, “Why do you work so hard? What is it all for?” Nobody had ever before asked me a question like that. It seemed sacrilegious.’ –– The Dragon, Muriel Spark, 1985 An ‘it bag’ is a style of expensive, high-status and highly coveted designer handbag that gained particular notoriety in the 1990s and early 2000s. Often named after a female celebrity, or ‘it girl’, of the time –– consider the Hermès ‘Birkin’ bag, named after the iconic singer Jane Birkin in 1984, or the ‘Alexa’, Mulberry’s homage to a 2010 Alexa Chung, clad in high-waisted denim shorts and sailor stripes –– the bag quickly goes out of fashion, is discarded and replaced for the next ‘it bag’. Easily identifiable as a status item, the bag is a signifier of taste and class: two terms that have become inseparable. In the Marxist definition, ‘class’ refers to the conditions imposed by a system of capital, that is who owns the means of production. In her recent book Bad Taste or the Politics of Ugliness, Nathalie Olah points out that the term has now become maligned and is ‘increasingly used to denote a facet of personality’, specifically of those who are already wealthy ‘and their prosperity [is] understood to be a reward for that virtue’ –– the lie that is meritocracy. You either have class (and taste and style) or you don’t, although you can attempt to emulate it. To quote, the Real Housewife of New York Countess LuAnn de Lesseps’ debut single, ‘Money can’t buy you class / Elegance is learned, my friends.’ The paintings and drawings in this exhibition linger around fluctuating moments of pleasure and fragility, concerned with playing with luxury and glamour against any moral virtuosity. They depict the pulses of places and consider the complicities that we inevitably participate in, whilst living and struggling with capitalism. A deft and colourful crowd robed in baroque puffed sleeves, tiaras and stilettos gather in a club, at a protest, in the library, or individually they repose and reflect –– ‘Mould’ is haunted by damp. Gilmour is interested in creativity’s importance within our connections, survival and renewal. After years of working in the fashion industry, within her practice Julia Gilmour wrangles with the ethical and environmental impacts of such work, whilst responding to the influence of designers that she has worked for or admired. Gilmour works on newsprint and other low cost materials such as receipts, and legal pads, allowing for unpressured and prolific working, as well as a questioning of value, beauty and temporality. This exhibition also marks the launch of her first pamphlet of poetry also titled Clutch. This collection of poems was born from explorations into pop culture, working in and frequenting bars and raves in Glasgow, her personal experience of sobriety, the importance of her queer friends and family, including her uncle who died of AIDS in the 1990s, as well as her experiences of the fashion industry. Clutch uses words as another way to draw, experimenting with forms and stylistic choices. Clutch is interested in how we are interwoven with and often beholden to our everyday objects and materials. Julia Gilmour is an artist from Glasgow. She is studying for an undergraduate degree in Scottish Literature and English Literature with a focus on Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She has exhibited in the group shows, Pop Girls Run Riot, French Street Studios, Glasgow (2023) and Are you free on Sunday?, Cathcart Road, Glasgow (2022). Photo credit: Matthew Barnes https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Emalia-Mattia Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:59:37 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Emalia-Mattia Vessels Emalia Mattia 02.12.22 – 05.02.23 32 St. Andrews StreetOpening Friday 2nd December, 6–8pm Publication Launch: 5th February, 1–3pm ‘Vessels is a series of recent and older acrylic paintings on board and paper. I build imagery around desire, local architecture, historical artifacts, and the Tammy Wynette lyric “A real good life, is hard to find”. My roots in performance lead me to create paintings as sceneries populated by stand-in performers.’Emalia Mattia was born in Washington D.C. and grew up mainly in Liguria, Italy. After graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in 2018, they’ve been developing their painting, printmaking, and performance practice in Glasgow for the past four years. At the time of this exhibition opening, they are nine months pregnant. Photo credit: Matthew Barnes https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Selcuk-Colakoglu Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:05:47 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Selcuk-Colakoglu ON NOW! pause, inside Selcuk Colakoglu 14.09 - 29.10.22 Selcuk Colakoglu was born and raised in Glasgow. He graduated from BA (Hons) Media in 2015 and in 2021 received a postgraduate scholarship from the Glasgow School of Art where he has just completed his Masters Degree in Fine Art (Printmaking). Upcoming exhibitions include, ‘Here and Now’, a group show with Glasgow Print Studio for the 50th anniversary at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in November 2022. Download the exhibition text here. https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Sticky-Fingers Thu, 26 May 2022 15:54:33 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Sticky-Fingers I’M BORED OF READING I WANT REVENGE Sticky Fingers 11.06 - 13.08.22 Exhibition Opening: 6:30 - 8:30pm, 11th June @ LunchtimeSticky Fingers Summer Party: 8:30pm - late, 11th June @ Bonjour Sticky Fingers Publishing are an intra-dependant feminist press based in London. Since 2019 they have published feminist queer crip work which is too messy, fragile or terrifying to be published anywhere else.  Since 2020 Sticky Fingers have been producing a monthly mail out; a postal subscription publishing output which is received by over 50 subscribers across Britain and the world. The Sticky Fingers mail out is a space for works-in-progress, print scraps, and disciplines against genre. Gathered here in their first exhibition is a selection of ephemera, prints and writing from across the last two years of mail outs. To coincide with the exhibition is a limited edition A2 Risograph poster compiling all of their reading recommendations from the back of every previous mail out. https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Teddy-Coste Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:59:46 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Teddy-Coste The JunctionA performance by Teddy Coste Friday 15th July, 7pm Lunchtime GalleryTeddy Coste is an artist who lives between Glasgow and Paris. He had performed at Radio Athènes (Athens), Montevideo (Marseille), Treize (Paris), Swimming Pool (Sofia), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam) and Sans Serriffe (Amsterdam). Poster by Musheto FernandezPhotos by Matthew Barnes https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/David-Roeder Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:43:52 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/David-Roeder Remains ChangedDavid Roeder 20.04 - 04.06.22Open Weds - Sat, 11am - 6pm Opening event 19th April, 5 - 8pm David Roeder (1987, Eden) is an artist and mental health worker currently based in Berlin. His visual practice centers around painting, which he studied in Leipzig and Glasgow. These works are informed by a strong interest in the "plasticities and dissolution of the everyday" (Jessica Higgins) and are influenced by the glowing flatness of certain pre-renaissance and abstract expressionist art. Quality of texture and associated feelings of tactility play a key role in both his visual and his musical practice, with an Lp (as Nein Rodere) released by Horn of Plenty earlier this year. Roeder runs Verdrusz Books, an occasional publishing imprint and is active in various projects facilitating and supporting art by people with additional support needs. A recently finished MA in Art Therapy further intensified the exploration of "feeling and form" (Susanne Langer) across all his fields of his activities. Forthcoming projects in 2022 include, ‘Kamen mit Rucksack’ with Mirjam Jacob (Westside, Leipzig), a talk on drawings from psychiatric archives (Verein für Außenseiterkunst, Berlin) and an appearance at Knotwilg Festival (Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels). https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Donald-Butler Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:12:03 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Donald-Butler CeramidesDonald Butler and Kitty Lambton 18.03 - 02.04.22 Open Weds - Sat, 11am - 6pm Closing Event and Reading  Friday 1st April, 6:30 - 8pm  Book a ticket in advance here! Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi describes skin as “interposed between the world, and ourselves, and acts as a sensitive processor of world experience”. The epidermis then is the plane through which desire and understanding of the world is processed and stored as bodily memory. Ceramides are lipids which help to maintain and protect the skins natural barrier. Sometimes they are described as the mortar which keep the bricks (cells) of our skin barrier held together. Applying them topically helps to restore skin damage and retain moisture, and they are often found in products such as rich moisturisers.  Donald Butler and Kitty Lambton are long term friends and independent practitioners both based in Glasgow. In a spirit of entangled molecular bodily interplay, they have produced two new limited edition prints titled Ceramide (1) and Ceramide (2). These prints are a celebration of interdisciplinary sharing and collaboration, and is the second engagement with cosmetic chemistry by Donald Butler for Lunchtime. Standing in answer to Free Radicals, 2020, an earlier pamphlet which took its name from unstable atoms which cause skin damage, Ceramides calls for healing and ecstatic bodily desires. * Donald Butler is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. Their practice is an infected body, a stain of immorality, the site of contagion; it looks to viral transmission as a relational method and as a system for the display of information. Works are haunted by bodily trauma and call for complex interconnected solidarity. Recent projects include From Here a Home Was Imagined, CCA Annex (2021-2022), a film programme focusing on nostalgia within Queer discourses; Free Radicals (2020), a pamphlet distributed by Lunchtime in support of HIV Scotland’s Generation Zero campaign. Kitty Lambton is a Scottish designer based in Glasgow. She graduated from Textile Design at Gray’s School of Art in 2018 and has since been creating organic, free-flowing designs for wall art and textiles in Glasgow’s east end. Kitty’s distinctive compositions stem from her very close examination of the ordinary. The things we see routinely are often the ones that go unnoticed. We casually engage with objects in their normal environments without giving them a second glance. Kitty teases out the overlooked beauty in the form, colour and detail of the objects that populate our busy lives and turns them into designs for your home. https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Sarah-Wilson Fri, 07 Jan 2022 11:27:57 +0000 Lunchtime Gallery https://lunchtimegallery.co.uk/Sarah-Wilson Various ArrangementsSarah Wilson12.01 - 05.03.22 Open Weds - Sat 11 - 6pm Sarah Wilson is an artist based in Glasgow. She graduated from BA (Hons) Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art in 2014. Recent exhibitions include: RBA Rising Stars, Royal Society of British Artists, Online, (2021); Members Show, Saltspace, Glasgow (2020); Glasgow Drawing Club, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London, (2019); Small paintings, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, (2018); Suppertime, with Laura Gaiger, Crownpoint Studios, Glasgow, (2018); Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, (2018); Southside Salon, House For An Art Lover, Glasgow (2017), Lemon Yellow, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow (2017). Click here to read the exhibition text.