Featured Exhibitions
Tibby Bilton
Andrew Black
Cento
Tibby Bilton
Andrew Black
11.03 – 23.04.23
Open Saturday and Sunday, 12 – 5pm, or by appointment (email info@gallerycento.com to book).
‘The exhibition takes its title from a prehistoric stone monument in North Yorkshire which was destroyed during the construction of RAF Menwith Hill during the late 1950s. This site and its surrounds have preoccupied Andrew Black for the last five years, forming a diverse body of moving image work and culminating in his Margaret Tait Award Commission, On Clogger Lane (2023). On Clogger Lane traces the transformation of the Washburn Valley from the bronze age to the present day, considering both political and topographic changes. Within the film, Tibby Bilton speaks to the redrawing of landscape across time and the overwriting of history, themes that also permeate Black’s two-dimensional work. The film’s concern with delving into layers of the past finds a correlative in the structure of this presentation, which incorporates paintings produced over the last 15 years, often in tandem or alongside Black’s moving image practice […]’
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Andrew Black was born in Leeds in 1990 and has lived in Glasgow since 2009. He studied Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art, and was on the committee of Transmission in 2016 and 2017. In 2018 he took part in the Experimental Film & Moving Image Residency at Cove Park, and the Autumn Residency at Hospitalfield. His 2021 community film Dàn Fianais, made in Skye, Ramsay and Lochalsh, was produced as part of Atlas Arts’ Plural Futures programme. Black’s work was recently exhibited at Centre Clark, Montreal as part of ‘The Magic Roundabout and the Naked Man’ with Aman Sandhu. He was the 2021 recipient of the Margaret Tait Award, and his film On Clogger Lane premiered at Glasgow Film Theatre and at The Tetley, Leeds, in early 2023.
Photo credit Patrick Jameson; courtesy Cento.