Stay Fresh X Recoat party tonight!


Tonight we close the doors of 323! To celebrate a new beginning and our 6th birthday we're holding a closing party at the space 7-10pm then we're partnering up with the Stay Fresh boys and having the after party at Stereo. Really hope you can make it. LA Bartenders are mixing some fine whisky cocktails, and the Stay Fresh guys are warming us up at Recoat so don't miss it. Tickets for Stereo will be on sale at Recoat tonight and are only £5!

Stay Fresh X Recoat Closing Party


As a celebration of 6 years of Recoat, we're holding one last event to see out 323 in style. There's gonna be a closing party at the gallery where you'll be able to see our last exhibition in the space, RIP 323. You'll be able to catch a film that's been put together to showcase what we've been up to over the past few years and have a few drinks on us.

We're delighted to say that we've brought the Stay Fresh boys onboard to help us throw a fitting tribute for the past 6 years, with an afterparty at Stereo for a night of all out party vibes with some of Glasgow's freshest selectors.

Gallery Party @ Recoat 7 - 10
After Party @ Stereo 11 - 3

Advance tickets available from Recoat, Bier Halle and Cocktail & Burger for only £5

RIP323








Thanks to everyone who made it down to the launch of RIP323, it was a great opening, and the show is looking amazing, the artists worked so hard and the whole gallery is full of colour. The show runs now till the 12th of July, it's our last show at this space to don't miss your chance to see it. If you want to see more photos of the opening and the artwork go check out our Flickr.

Last ever show at 323!

Don't forget folks, it's our last ever opening this Saturday! Really hope you can all make it! RIP 323 will run till the 12th July and that night we'll do a closing party and an after party at Stereo with Stay Fresh. Get it in your diary and see you tomorrow!

Nottingham Street Art Festival


Nottingham Street Art Festival- Team Recoat Road Trip from Recoat on Vimeo.

Chris MacFarlane made this great wee film about our road trip and exhibition in Nottingham in 2011. Thanks mate!
Tristram Aver invited us to take part in the International Street Art Festival in Nottingham that saw Team Recoat travel to exhibit at the Lace Market Gallery. We showed our Team recoat prints and some originals and painted in the space. The guys at the Switch Studio were very kind, showed us a good time and gave us space to paint too. Thanks to all involved for a quality few days on tour!
There is a cool video of the show by Hopwood&Kirby here- vimeo.com/28159452
The prints are available for only £80- recoat.bigcartel.com/category/team-recoat

Mark Lyken and Teo Moneyless


The Canals Project. Mark Lyken & Teo Moneyless from cedar lewisohn on Vimeo.

Mark Lyken and Teo Moneyless recently painted a beautiful mural in London together for the Canals Project. Gordon Beswick has made this lovely film about the whole project. We're going to be working with these fellas again for Forms and Spaces II in September, we can't wait. Watch this space....

RIP 323

Dear Recoat Supporters,
We are fast approaching our 6th birthday at Recoat. Since July 2007 we’ve been on European Tours, held international mural festivals, curated over 60 exhibitions at Recoat, created a 10 strong Scottish Collective and painted walls and vehicles with some of the finest artists in the world. Recoat has evolved and changed and it has become an Arts Hub beyond anything that we could have hoped for.

We are changing things up at Recoat this year. We have several large scale mural projects planned, including painting two at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and helping HEART (Health Education Art) paint murals across the city.

To manage these projects properly we have decided to close our present space with the intention of developing Recoat and reopening a bigger and better gallery in the future. Don’t panic, this is certainly not the end and we already have exhibitions booked in for when we open again and pop up shows that will run throughout the year.
To mark the beginning of something new and celebrate what has gone before, we are proud to present  “RIP 323”, a group show that will bring together an eclectic mix of Scottish artists who will work for 1 week to fill the gallery and arch with varied, colourful murals that will cover canvasses that will then be available for you to buy and own.

Artists participating include the entire Team Recoat Collective- Susie Wright, Kirsty Whiten, Elph, FiST, Mark Lyken, Al White, David Galletly, Syrkus, Death Rattles and Rue Five alongside Fraser Gray, Throne, Chris MacFarlane, Jamie Johnson and more.

The exhibition opens on the 8th of June 7-10pm, all are welcome. The show will then be open till mid July open Tues to Sun 12-6pm.

Can’t wait to see you there.

Amy and Ali.

Glasgow Film Festival Red Carpet







Back in February the Glasgow Film Festival asked us to create a removeable stencilled red carpet based on this cool illustration by Lesley Barnes for their posters. Sadly we worked through the night to create it using chalk paint, only for it to start snowing at 4am when we left and the entire thing was mush by the morning. Gutted. Nice while it lasted though.

Mark-Lyken-tastic





Mark Lyken is just back from The Canals Project organised by The Legacy List in London where he's been creating a huge mural with our old pal, Moneyless. This is the second time they've worked together and it is just as succesful as their first. They'll be working together again in September when we all head out to Italy for Forms and Spaces II. Exciting times! His work also features in the Futurism 2.0 book that was recently released and you can grab it over at Gamma Proforma. Last but not least, we're taking Mark down to Pleasure Principle this weekend, a collaborative Weekender from Numbers and Dedbeat, where he'll be painting one of his stand-out murals for all the revellers. Busy boy!

Press

Exhibition extended: “Westend Bestiary” a solo exhibition from

leading Scottish Artist Kirsty Whiten at Recoat Gallery in Glasgow

Half-human beasts of legend, collected and dissected for your amazement.

New artwork by Kirsty Whiten; drawings, paintings, paste-ups and mural. Wild Lyfe in the West End.

Centaur Drinking
Due to the success of Kirsty Whiten’s show “Westend Bestiary” at Recoat Gallery in Glasgow, the exhibition has been extended for an extra week and will now finish on Sunday 14th April.

The small but exquisite show, which features seven new works, focuses on Whiten's penchant for reconstructing myth and imagining awe-inspiring creatures of old in a modern context.

The opening night on 8th March was typically lively and saw two of the pieces being snapped up, since then a further three pieces have sold leaving just two of Whiten’s beautiful pencil drawings left.

Visitors to the gallery are also treated to a mural and two paste-ups created exclusively for the event by the artist. Whiten also decorated a wall on Gordon Lane in Glasgow City Centre with a paste-up of “Schemie Centaurs II” as part of the show, which will remain in place after the exhibition has been taken down.

As well as the remaining drawings “Centaur Elder” and “Marching Centaurs”, the gallery is also selling limited edition Giclee prints at various sizes and greetings cards, individually signed by the artist.
Photos can be seen on Flickr or Facebook and are available on request.

The Artist: 

Kirsty Whiten has been working as an artist since 2000, exhibiting from Glasgow and London to New York and Melbourne, and her warped imagery has been featured in magazines such as Juxtapoz and Hi Fructose and art blogs worldwide. Her most recent body of post-apocalyptic work; 'Breeder badlands', was on show in Stolenspace, London, and led to a series of lithographs co-published by Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop in 2012.

The Work:

Schemie Centaurs II paste-up in Glasgow City Centre
Whiten's characteristic detailed pencil drawings and large canvases are a darkly humorous social comment, always with a wink at sex and gender, but an eye on human development and culture, and our connection to ideas that survive the ages.

The 'schemie centaurs' have appeared in Whiten's work numerous times, most notably in the 'Rough-Cut Nation' exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2009, when a group of contemporary and street artists blasted every surface of the old galleries with enormous murals before the renovations and refurbishments began. Whiten made large paste-ups of her drawings, and the 'Schemie Centaurs' were prominent; they were snapped up quickly when the mural was cut down and auctioned in sections.

View a list of works

Also for sale in the gallery are limited edition Giclee prints of all artworks, numbered and signed by the artist (£60 for A3 and £120 for A1) and A5 mini Giclees featuring all designs, individually signed by the artist (£4 each, 3 for £10 or 7 for £24).

Watch a film of Kirsty talking about the exhibition

View the artwork online

Further information
Open from Tuesday to Sunday until 14 April 12pm- 6pm
Free Entry

Contact Information: Amy Whiten or Alistair Wyllie

Tel: 0141 341 00 69
Mob: 07968 252 454
Email: info@recoatdesign.com
Web: www.recoatdesign.com

Address:
Recoat Gallery
323 North Woodside Road
Glasgow G20 6ND

Exhibition Extended: Westend Bestiary


Westend Bestiary has been extended and will now close on 14th April. Kirsty Whiten's centaurs snd sphinxes have been so popular, we decided to give you an extra week to come and be amazed by these man (and woman)-beasts. Here's a link to the Facebook event.

Centaur Elder -Original Drawing- Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS - PENCIL ON PAPER
SIZE - 64 x 52cm. Framed.
Go to online shop.

We only have 2 original drawings left! But as well as the framed “Centaur Elder” and “Marching Centaurs”, the gallery is also selling limited edition Giclee prints at various sizes of all the artworks, individually signed by the artist priced from £4 - £120. Please don't miss out. Go check them out in our online shop or get down to Recoat to see them in the flesh. They are beautiful, well crafted works by one of Scotland's leading contemporary artists, Kirsty Whiten.


Marching Centaurs - Original Drawing - Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS - PENCIL ON PAPER
SIZE - 64 x 52cm. Framed.


More photos can be seen on Flickr or Facebook.

List of Works

Centaur Drinking - Original Drawing - Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS - PENCIL AND WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER
SIZE - 64 x 52cm. Framed.
SOLD

Centaur Elder
Centaur Elder -Original Drawing- Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS - PENCIL ON PAPER
SIZE - 64 x 52cm. Framed.

Marching Centaurs
Marching Centaurs - Original Drawing - Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS - PENCIL ON PAPER
SIZE - 64 x 52cm. Framed.

No Man’s Land –Original Work – Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS – MIXED MEDIA ON CARD
SIZE - 70 x 100. Framed.
SOLD

Schemie Centaurs II –Original Drawing – Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS - PENCIL ON PAPER
SIZE - 64 x 52cm. Framed.
SOLD

Three Sphinx Absorb The Grief Of The People - Original Drawing - Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS - PENCIL ON PAPER
SIZE - 64 x 52cm. Framed.
SOLD

Vanguard – Original Painting– Kirsty Whiten
MATERIALS – OIL ON CANVAS
SIZE - 122 x 152cm
SOLD


Also for sale in the gallery are limited edition Giclee prints of all artworks, numbered and signed by the artist (£60 for A3 and £120 for A1) and A5 mini Giclees featuring all designs, individually signed by the artist (£4 each, 3 for £10 or 7 for £24).

Back to press.

Westend Bestiary- Kirsty Whiten








Last weekend we opened Westend Bestiary, a beautiful solo show from Kirsty Whiten. Thanks so much to everyone who made it down, was a quality launch event. The show has been featured on loads of blogs and in bothe the Herald and the Scotsman so thanks so much for all the support!
The show consists of paintings, drawings, paste-ups and a mural. We also have all the artwork as Limited Edition Giclee prints at various sizes. You can see all the photos of the launch, the artwork, Kirsty prepping the space and hanging her paste-up at the Bier Halle in Glasgow on our Flickr or Facebook. You can also view all work still available in our online shop or of course visit the gallery, we're open 12-6pm Tues to Sun and the show runs till the 14th April. See you soon....