Lauren Gault Lauren Printy Currie Stephanie Mann Alan Stanners Edward Lear John Piper Mary Potter Peter DeWint Ronald Ossory Dunlop Charles Haslewood Shannon Duncan Grant George Coates Horace Brodzky William Logsdail Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois William Hilton William Hilton Sr. William T Warrener Anna Airy Alfred Stannard Austin Garland John Downton Henry Moore George Frederik Watts Vanessa Bell Peter Brannen Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 Still Life Your own rushing blood (1) - Lauren Gault Garden Flowers – William Logsdail The White Ring – Stephanie Mann Still Life With a Parrot – William Hilton Sr. Carnations – Peter DeWint Roses Triumphant – Anna Airy Flowers in a Persian Jug – William Logsdail Zinnias – Vanessa Bell Daffodils – William Logsdail Portrait Your own rushing blood (2) - Lauren Gault Portrait of The Artist's Mother - Mary undoing dark green, twisting to right – Henrietta Dering Curtois Lauren Printy Currie Portrait of Justina Hilton – William Hilton Portrait of a Woman – Ronald Ossory Quadrille – William T Warrener Dunlop Leonline – William T Warrener Atalanta – Charles Haslewood Shannon Mary Ann Carlton – William T Warrener Angelica Garnett – Duncan Grant The Kimono - Austin Garland Girl's Head – George Coates Child with Roses – John Downton Nude Study – Horace Brodzky Standing Woman – Henry Moore Portrait of Goldwynne – William Logsdail Emily Tennyson – George Frederik Watts Maria Van Wassenaer Hanecops – Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 Landscape Hot Contents – Alan Stanners Martigues – Ronald Ossary Dunlop Off The Bone – Alan Stanners Near Cannes – Ronald Ossary Dunlop Still Life on Safari – Stephanie Mann Mestre, Near Venice – William Logsdail Mount Tomohrit from above Tyrania, Church of St. Maria Della Salute, c.1885 – Albania – Edward Lear William Logsdail Turbia – Edward Lear Venice – William Logsdail Santa Maria Della Salute – John Piper Venice – William Logsdail Saint Riquier, Somme, 1972 – John Piper Grez Ser Le Loing – William T Warrener Sea defences – Mary Potter December Day at Grez – William T Warrener Landscape with Castle – Peter DeWint Landscape with Trees – William T Landscape with Rainbow – Peter DeWint Warrener From Pont Aberglaslyn – Peter DeWint Landscape with Trees – William T Trees at Lowther – Peter DeWint Warrener Fenland Landscape – Alfred Stannard Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 Lauren Gault About: Lauren Gault is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture and film. She was born in Belfast, graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2008 and now lives and works in Glasgow. Gault normally produces her work in response to a given space and context, bringing together objects and materials to form installations that are given a single title. Her work is borne out of significant periods of research, and recent areas of interest have included divining, archaeology, and theories around the ‘vessel’ as object. Work in The Usher Gallery: (Still Life) Your own rushing blood (1) metal, print on trace paper, paint, glazed ceramic, fizzy water, glass, wood, 2014 This work was made specifically for this space and can be seen as a physical manifestation of a still life – hoping to capture a 'slice of life' in the same way as many of the traditional paintings in the room. Gault's interest in still life comes from the 'missing element' in the work – the artist's hand - and the fact that what we see is the result of a series of decisions made by the artist. Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 Gault has used a scanner to create a tracing paper print of her composition including glass, fallen petals, water and gelatine. Many of these materials are seen in other works on show; however Gault is offering a view of the objects, from below on a transparent material, which is not normally possible. (Portrait) Your own rushing blood (2) glazed ceramic, laminated trace sheet, hair, 2014 Gault has approached the idea of portraiture in a non-traditional, deconstructive way. Her work includes clay casts of different parts of the artist's body – her thigh, finger, elbow, knee and hand. Alongside the ceramic works is a print, produced on a scanner with the image of strands of the artist's hair, presented on laminated tracing paper. The clay casts were fired in a kiln and glazed; Gault selected a metallic grey for the exterior and a watery blue for the interior creating a boundary between the inside and outside of the ceramics alluding to the boundary between the interior and exterior of our bodies. The printed and sculptural aspects of this work combine to create an abstract self portrait of Gault, giving aspects of her body in detail without allowing us the whole picture. Previous exhibitions include: 2013 Sweet ensilage, Tramway 5, TRAMWAY, Glasgow, 1st - 24 February Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 This was Gault's first exhibition in a public institution and presented the theme of 'agriculture as culture'. She borrowed four ensilage bales, fermenting grass used as cattle fodder, from a farm outside Glasgow which were returned after the exhibition to their original agricultural context. Gault drew on Temple Grandin's work in the treatment of autism and livestock management. Temple Grandin invented a machine called a 'squeeze box' or hug machine when she was just 18 as a way of calming hypersensitive and autistic people. Grandin was autistic herself and found that she sought out deep pressure stimulation but found being hugged or held by people over-stimulating and stressful. Grandin is celebrated for her revolutionary work in improving conditions for livestock before slaughter and based her machine on 'squeeze shoots' used on cattle, after she noticed the calming affect it produced. Gault's Sweet Ensilage created associations between Grandin's work and connected phenomena with motifs of binding, containment, pressure and clarification. 2014 When two or more are together - Glasgow International (with Lauren Currie in association with Spike Associates, curated by Spike Island) Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 In this recent group exhibition, Gault worked with the artist Lauren Printy Currie who is also exhibited in this rehang. Through When two or more are together, Gault and Currie invited members of Spike Associates to explore the nature of artistic collaboration. The result was a publication created through a long distance dialogue containing a collection of individually authored works and assemblages investigating the nature of collaboration. Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 Lauren Printy Currie About: Lauren Printy Currie is based at Glasgow Sculpture Studios and studied for her BA Hons Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts, University of Dundee. She is the co-founder and director of the duchy, a gallery space in Glasgow from 2009 - 2013. Printy Currie makes sculptural objects that explore the physicality of experience and perception. She purposely uses unpredictable casting and relief processes and assembles layers of material and colour into groups in order to emphasis the tactile quality of the individual elements. Work in The Usher Gallery: (Portrait) undoing dark green, twisting to right steel, inkjet print on Somerset silk paper, inkjet print on crepe de chine, plaster, 2014 This piece is an abstract work alluding to the figure and inspired by other paintings in the room. The title itself references Charles Haslewood Shannon's work Atalanta (1893) which is displayed nearby. 'Undoing dark green, twisting to right' was a written description of Shannon's work from the Usher Collection database which describes the content of the image and the action of the sitter. The prints on the ground and rolled within the steel frame connected to the wall are abstract prints of Ronald Ossory Dunlop's Portrait of a Woman where Printy Currie has enlarged the gestural brushstrokes and flipped and repeated sections. Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 The plaster element on the ground resembles the profile of the sitter in William Tom Warrener's work. The digitally printed fabric resting on top takes its pattern from the ruff of Maria van Wassenaer Hanecops in the portrait by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt. Printy Currie references several paintings, within a range of artistic styles, exploring the multi- faceted nature of identity. Previous exhibitions include: 2013 Space is not a void, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (with Laura Aldridge and Emily Musgrave) Space is not a void, uses contemporary collage and sculptural assemblages to explore the phenomenology of space. Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view, essentially subjective experience. This exhibition used practices with a strong sense of materiality, forcing the view to consider and question their surrounding environment. Found objects, colour and texture represent permanence and perception in the works. Usher Gallery Rehang 2014 Stephanie Mann About: Stephanie Mann graduated the MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art in 2013. Since then she was awarded the John Kinross Travel scholarship and undertook a period of development in Florence, Italy. She worked on a short film commissioned by the BBC in Japan, as part of the Edinburgh International Art Festival and recently had solo exhibitions in both Summerhall and in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Mann's abstract compositions elude categorisation and are open to multiple readings. Work in The Usher Gallery: (Still Life) The White Ring digital prints, video and wall painting, 2012 Film one - Sand Hands Print one / Print one - Still Life with Flemming Cherries / Print two - Still Life with Pastry / Film two - Still Life on Face Stephanie Mann presents her version of still life through video to challenge the idea of still life as something static. Still Life on Face creates a precarious composition balanced on, and often falling off, the artist's face. Still Life with Fleming Cherries and Still Life with Pastries are the two photographic works alluding to the process of capturing an image. Each shows a composition of natural and man-made objects next to a painting of the same objects.