5 June - 21 June 2026 /Amelia Barratt & Anna Paterson / Daybook
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Amelia Barratt’s oil paintings and Anna Paterson’s works on paper accentuate the minor politics of everyday life. Through the most minute of details, their observations connect us to each other. Held at Patricia Fleming Gallery, which occupies Glasgow’s former Sheriff Court, their two-person exhibition shines a light on the urban area of Laurieston.
A material engagement with the urban world is central to Amelia’s practice. Her collage-like paintings juxtapose a diversity of marks, shapes, and lines corralled from everyday encounters.
Anna Paterson’s works on paper involve folding, ripping, and puncturing, often exploring surfaces as sites of optical and emotional experience.
Based in Glasgow, Amelia studied at Glasgow School of Art and Slade School of Art, London. Based in London, Anna trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal Academy Schools and was a guest student of Peter Doig at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
The gallery aims to strengthen the visibility of artists working in and with a connection to Glasgow. The festival offers an opportunity to bring people together both local and international. The gallery has a long history of supporting and promoting new art from Scotland.
Laurieston is one of the few neighbourhoods in Glasgow still housing an abundance of listed buildings occupied by galleries and creatives. It is home to its name sake, the iconic Laurieston Bar. Our networks have continued to evolve alongside other likeminded galleries who exist beyond traditional art world centres.
Amelia Barratt (b.1989 UK) lives and works in Glasgow. She studied at Glasgow School of Art (2007–11) and Slade School of Art, London (2014–16).
Recent solo exhibitions include: Marina, CORPUS, Cambridge; Out Of Hours, A_Place, Glasgow (2025); Cut Wire, William Hine, London (2024); Cool Ground, Board Room Committee Room, Glasgow (2024). Group exhibitions include: The Persistence of Painting, Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow (25-2026)
Performance/readings: Museum of London; Royal Academy, London; Live Art Development Agency, London; Seventeen, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and Esplanade, Singapore.
In 2021 Barratt programmed the London-based performance series Oral Rinse with Martha Barratt and was artist in residence for the Library at Drawing Room, London. Barratt is the author of Real Life (Charles Asprey, 2022), a collection of performance texts published in print and audio. In 2023 she collaborated on an audio work with the artist Christian Flamm, An Entertainment was released on cassette (Studio Scilla). Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond Records, 2025), an album in collaboration with Bryan Ferry, is out now.
Anna Paterson Anna Paterson (b. 1989 UK) is a contemporary artist based in London. She trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal Academy Schools, and was a guest student of Peter Doig at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with recent shows featuring innovative drawing practices.
Anna Paterson’s works on paper involve folding, ripping, and puncturing, often exploring surfaces as a site of optical and emotional experience. Experimental processes of image-making on paper, incorporate techniques associated with printmaking, painting and domestic cleaning. Layers of paint are repeatedly removed and reapplied with wire wool, sponges and rags; destructive and constructive gestures made equivocal. Recent works incorporate folded patterned lines and perforated marks, loosely influenced by lace-making templates and hallucinatory visual phenomena. Paterson treats the paper’s surface as a plane of optical and emotional experience, a fragile reality that can be
easily altered or disturbed.
Exhibition/residencies include: Drawing Room, Turner's House (artist-in-residence), and Lungley Gallery. Selected exhibitions include: Wastebook, Mackintosh Lane, London
(2022); Dream 1, Vermland, Copenhagen (2020); All About My Mother, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016); and Cuts, Shapes, Breaks and Scrapes, Seventeen Gallery, London (2016).
Exhibition is free and open to the public 5 June - 21 June, 2026
PV: 5 June 4-6pm
Gallery opening times throughout the festival
Fri 5 Jun – Sun 7 Jun (10am – 5pm)
Mon 8 Jun – Sat 13 Jun (12pm – 5pm)
Sun 14 Jun – Tue 16 Jun, closed
Wed 17 Jun – Sun 21 Jun (12pm – 5pm)
or by appointment
Exhibition continues until 27 June (Wed-Sat, 12-5)
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.
Directions: Patricia Fleming Gallery, Oxford House, 4 Oxford Lane, Glasgow, G51 9EP (Central Station 10 minutes walk, Bridge St and St Enoch Subway 5 minutes walk).
For further info and all media requests, please contact: gallery@patricia-fleming.com