Alan Stanners
12 - 28 Jan 2012
ALAN STANNERS
No Vacancy
12 - 28 January, 2012
No Vacancy presents a new body of paintings by Alan Stanners, influenced by a manifesto written by the artist in 2011. The Qualmlessist Manifesto offers the artist and audience a set of equally serious and laughable frameworks from which to make, and ‘understand’, his paintings.
A number of the paintings presented in No Vacancy draw on wide references to current political and cultural circumstances. Works that subtly quote recent rioting and political disillusionment, or co-opt QR Codes (Quick Response barcodes) also give nod to primitive and abstract painting. No Vacancy suggests a provocation to act, but leaves the question to act against what or whom?
About Alan Stanners
Stanners (born Dundee, 1985) graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007. He has exhibited across Europe, with recent shows including The Qualmlessist Manifesto, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, 2011 and Thing on the Doorstep, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2010. He also worked collaboratively with Glasgow-based collective 85A and will exhibit at The Duchy, Glasgow as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2012.
No Vacancy
12 - 28 January, 2012
No Vacancy presents a new body of paintings by Alan Stanners, influenced by a manifesto written by the artist in 2011. The Qualmlessist Manifesto offers the artist and audience a set of equally serious and laughable frameworks from which to make, and ‘understand’, his paintings.
A number of the paintings presented in No Vacancy draw on wide references to current political and cultural circumstances. Works that subtly quote recent rioting and political disillusionment, or co-opt QR Codes (Quick Response barcodes) also give nod to primitive and abstract painting. No Vacancy suggests a provocation to act, but leaves the question to act against what or whom?
About Alan Stanners
Stanners (born Dundee, 1985) graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007. He has exhibited across Europe, with recent shows including The Qualmlessist Manifesto, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, 2011 and Thing on the Doorstep, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2010. He also worked collaboratively with Glasgow-based collective 85A and will exhibit at The Duchy, Glasgow as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2012.