Models

Models
Adrien Howard
06.03 – 15.03.25
Glasgow Project Room

Reading with Adrien Howard and K Patrick, 6-8pm Thursday 13th March (readings at 7pm)

Models is an exhibition work from an ongoing project under the same name. The exhibition is an expansion of book-length poem and although initially temporary and working, the title began to propose a framework for a larger body of work of combined forms. By definition, the word ‘models’ speaks to a proposed structure and the work is generated through a process of building and unbuilding; it is through an exploration of form as a container and how subjects are expressed and survive within them. Adrien’s practice is concerned with text as a hybrid object and this often manifests in a multi-dimensional and poly-sensorial approach to writing through a visual language and the exploration of the poetic space through the different mediums and field recordings.

Alongside the exhibition there are images from the project appearing across billboards on Osborne Street
and West Graham Street supported by JackArts. These images document a process of working with designer Maeve Redmond to develop a typeface in response to the project. The type combines textures and forms found across this body of work, such as imagery within the poem and printmaking marks; these elements have been transformed into the foundations of the type and thinking through the visual excounter of a written language.

Adrien Howard is an artist based on the west coast of Scotland. They work both independently and collaboratively to produce projects which are often embodied through writing, printed matter, voice, sound and performance.

Using personal, cultural or historical narratives as a starting point, Adrien’s work considers the body and the ways we relate within dominant structures. They consider their work site-specific, whether within an archive, a physical space, or more intimate encounters, such as the page or body as a site to work from.

Adrien’s work has been presented at readings, events and exhibitions internationally most recently for Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland; The Brooklyn Rail, New York; TULCA Festival, Curated by Eoin Dara, Ireland; Glasgow International, Glasgow; Auto Italia, London; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Cuchifritos Gallery, New York. Solo shows and commissions include Glasgow Project Room (forthcoming); CCA Glasgow; Now & Next, LUX Scotland and BBC; The Edwin Morgan Trust, Glasgow; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. In 2021 and 2022 they were awarded the Jerwood 1:1 Fund and the Jerwood New Work Fund and have taken part in residencies at Can Serrat, Spain; Scottish Sculpture Workshop; Cove Park, Scotland; Artist Alliance Inc, New York. In April they will on residency at Hospitalfield, Scotland, where they are recipient of Foyle’s Visual Artist Residency. They are currently completing a low residency MFA at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York.

Adrien is also co-founder and director of Rosie’s Disobedient Press, an artist-led publishing press exploring the intersection of art and writing and platforming marginalised practitioners with a focus on queer, feminist and working-class perspectives.