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ADDRESS:
The Alchemy Experiment
157 Byres Road, G12 8TS
Glasgow
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OPENING NIGHT:
Friday 6th June 19.00-22.00
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OPENING HOURS:
Mon - Thu 8.30-18.00
Fri 8.30-18.00
Sat 9.00-18.00
Sun 10.00-17.00
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CURATED BY TINSEL EDWARDS
The Hearing Trumpet
05.06.25
11.06.25
FREE ENTRY
The Hearing Trumpet is a group exhibition that brings together eight artists whose work has a sense of the surreal. It takes its title from a novel by the painter and author Leonora Carrington.
Surrealism rejected the conventional in favour of the uncanny and the alternative, it challenged imposed societal norms and authority. It recognised the liberating power of the imagination, dreams and the unconscious in its search for freedom.
The artists in this exhibition touch on these ideas from a contemporary perspective, embracing a playful humour and a sense of the absurd.
Through the mediums of painting, assemblage, collage and sculpture, the detritus of everyday life is transformed into something magical, giving us a glimpse between the cracks of reality. Personal themes are interwoven with social commentary and observation, with a consideration for both the real and the imagined. The works are a joyful celebration of materials and making, offering a view from the ordinary to the alternative, and the limitless bounds of the imagination.
Exhibiting artists:
Chevy Morello
Kimberley Bright
Salli Yule-Tsingas
Twinkle Troughton
Katie Orton
Sacha Vaughan
Tinsel Edwards
Waffle Burger
Tinsel Edwards (b.1979, Midlands UK) lives and works in Glasgow. She has a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London (2001) and is an alumni of Leith School of Art - year long One Day Painting Course (2022) and the Mentoring Year (2023).
Recent solo exhibitions include Holding On, Saltspace, Glasgow (2023), Femme Maison, Subversion Gallery, Glasgow (2022). Group exhibitions include Silent Disco 24, Suffolk (2024) curated by John Moores prize winner Graham Crowley and Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day auction, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2023). In 2024 Tinsel was awarded a grant from Creative Scotland to develop her expanded painting practice. Now a member of Glasgow Sculpture Studios she has been creating ceramics, and is currently doing the painting mentoring programme Turps Banana Correspondence Course 24/25.
Tinsel’s painting practice expands into working with found materials, assemblage and ceramic. Autobiographical visual storytelling rooted in the everyday and the domestic, with a focus on experimentation, play and a DIY sensibility. Recent work explores the emotional complexities of motherhood from a feminist perspective.
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