18 - 22 March 2025 / David Sherry / Performance Season
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- Mar 18
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David Sherry's (b. 1974) artworks question common sense acts, social interactions and the omnipresent etiquette of everyday life. Often pursued through deadpan performances, David's artworks prompt us to question our daily rituals just at the point when they become unnoticed.
On Thursday 13 and Thursday 20 March, we will host two evenings of performance with Sherry. Each of these performance sets will be contextualised alongside a range of Sherry's wider artworks — painting, sculpture and video. This wider presentation will provide a deep insight into the flux of thinking which informs Sherry's practice over the last 25 years.
A further roundtable talk will take place on Saturday 22 March. Titled On Collecting_Performance, this talk will bring together experts to think critically about the ways in which artworks by performance-based, live and socially engaged artists are presented and collected (details below).
All the artworks in this presentation can be seen here
Dave Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) lives in Glasgow. He graduated from the University of Ulster Belfast in 1997, completing his MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2000. An artist known for his socially astute performances Sherry's work has been presented at some of the world's leading art events, including the Liverpool Biennial, Manifesta 11 (2016) and the Venice Biennale, where he represented Scotland (2003).
Select recent and forthcoming exhibitions include: Videocity in Odessa at the Museum of Modern Art Ukraine (2025); Rex Box Bern and Bern Art School (2025); Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh (2025); P-ART-Y Kristiansand Norway (2024); Voices in Buildings, Edinburgh (2024); Art Night Dundee (2023); IMMA Dublin (2023); De Warande Belgium (2022);
Sherry's performances are held in many collections including the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art.
Public event: On Collecting_Performance Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:00 - 18:00
Reflecting on the conditions and classifications that dominate the contemporary art market, the round table talk will focus on the ways in which artworks made by performance-based, live and socially engaged artists are presented and collected. As a commercial gallery championing experimental art, in a city known for risk taking, we will discuss which artworks from these artists can and should be made available for acquisition; where the para-, preparatory and seemingly divergent artworks sit in relation to an oeuvre and in the market.
Panellists
Julie-Ann Delaney, Curator, the University of Edinburgh Art collection
Portland Green, Executive Producer, Producer and Curator
Patricia Fleming, Curator and Gallerist, Patricia Fleming Gallery
Ned McConnell, Curator, The Roberts Institute of Art
David Sherry, Artist
Panellist biographies
Julie-Ann Delaney has been the Curator of the University of Edinburgh Art collection for the past 6 years, prior to which she was Senior Curator at National Galleries of Scotland. She specialises in the development of collections through the commissioning and acquisition of work by contemporary artists, and has devoted a considerable period of her career to exploring methods to support and acquire performance work in particular.
Portland Green has produced, commissioned, curated and distributed performance, film and contemporary visual art projects for biennales, public spaces, galleries, cinema, theatre, television, digital billboards and online spaces. These projects have been collaborations between dancers, choreographers, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers and technologists addressing important issues of our time and reflecting diverse lived experiences in partnership with leading international arts institutions. Additionally Portland has directed and produced arts documentaries for broadcasters. Some examples of past projects can be viewed at www.portlandgreen.com.
Patricia Fleming is an independent curator and gallerist based in Glasgow. Since the early 1990s Fleming has been an active part of Glasgow's visual arts community, establishing artist run initiatives and project spaces such as Fuse and Fly Gallery (now known as Market Gallery). Between 1999 and 2002 she was the curator at the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow. She was also the first curator for the Walesh International Venice Biennale with the critically acclaimed exhibition ‘Further’, Cerith Wyn Evans, Bethan Huws, Paul Seawright and Simon Pope. In 2017 Fleming established Patricia Fleming Gallery, a gallery which champions women artists and public access to contemporary art. In 2017, Fleming initiated the Art Car Boot Sale (ACBS), in collaboration with SWG3 and later Tramway. ACBS widens access to Glasgow’s contemporary visual art and artists, generates sales, inspiring new adventurous collecting in Scotland.
Ned McConnell is a curator at the Roberts Institute of Art and a writer specialising in performance, multidisciplinary practices, exhibitions and curatorial collaborations in contemporary art. He has been curator at Pump House Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery, shaping exhibitions and performance programmes that explore the dynamic intersections of live art and visual culture.
Gallery Opening Times: Wed-Sat, 12 - 5 pm
Directions: Patricia Fleming Gallery, Oxford House, 4 Oxford Lane, Glasgow, G51 9EP (Central Station 10 mins walk, Bridge St and St Enoch Subway 5 mins walk).
Access
The gallery threshold has three steps and two grab rails. An alternative front door with two low steps and temporary ramp is available at 3 Oxford Lane, please call us to use this door, someone will meet you.
We regret that there are no wheelchair-accessible toilets within the gallery. A wheelchair-accessible toilet is available at St Enoch Centre or at Central Station.