2009

The Gallery @ Mussel Inn has been open since December 2007. Situated in the mezzanine area of the restaurant in Hope Street, The Gallery offers a unique venue for showing photography and fine art. Each month there is a brand new exhibition, opening with a preview party on the first Thursday evening of each month.

During the past year we have seen a wealth of talent on display, ranging from the historic pictures from the archive of the Scottish Photographic Circle to the artistic expression of photographers like Sara Briggs, Tina Vanderwerf, Tommy Ga-ken Wan and Nick Holmes. Exploring the diversity of photography today we promise even more variety and surprises to come.

The gallery welcomes new-comers as well as established professionals and the audience is growing every month. Artists and photographers interested in putting on their own exhibition can contact Johanna Larson, the gallery's curator, directly for more information. Please email gallery@intermediascotland.com

Now Showing:

4 June - 1 July 2009

Nick Holmes
Sea Margins



“I have been watching water for very many years. My colour photographs are the selective results of an on-going exploration of the ephemeral interfaces between water, air, light, rock and sand. Discovered details depict a revelation of the infinite modes of fractal relationships. The harmony of the observed sea-scape mirrors ordered chaos of its minute constituents. The random interactions generate natural forms and are the genesis of the image. The streams and shore of the Island of Mull are the sites and sights of acts of creation; nature’s and mine.”

Influences
Chaos Theory
Dynamics of water
Photography by Eliot Porter and David Muench

Awards
2009 Rocky Mountain National Park, Artist Residency
1987 ‘Living Scotland’ Glenfiddish Award. ‘Mull from Past to Present for the Future’ - a binary photographic survey

The Gallery So Far:

May 2009

Karen Mackay
Wall of Sound


“Technique doesn’t come into it. I deal in emotion” – Jimmy Page

Although I didn’t say it, this is about as close as I can explain as to what I strive to capture when photographing performers. I find the contrast of being so insular, so completely in that moment whilst reaching out to so many, fascinating.

I want more than a photograph.
I want a memory.

Music is both so personal and yet as the same time universal. I believe that the most interesting photographs are those that we not only see. We feel them. That evoke an emotional response.

Whatever that emotion may be.

KAREN MCKAY
Confusing the singer with the song since 1998.

This exhibition was sponsored by:

April 2009

Tom Manley
‘The City, Shot’
 Urban corners collage & photographs


Glasgow based Tom Manley shows a series of urban photographs based on the theme of the 'everyday' - places within the city which are overlooked, yet have their own identity, colours & textures, which give the places a unique atmosphere.

The more surreal digital collages - in contrast to the photographs - are a more personal and emotive response to the built environment where the play of colours, emotions and textures form the inspiration.

The exhibition also includes photographs of 'the overlooked' taken in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  Despite the nation's oil wealth and affluence, Tom focuses on the more impoverished lifestyles - 'the overlooked' - supporting the city, and highlights the imbalance in this futuristic metropolis.

Tom was the winner of G!A Photography Competition 2008  (Glasgow Institute of Architects - Social Landscape category).

"A poignant image expressing the reality of a human life at that moment in time while documenting an urban social space." 
Colin Prior

See more of Tom's work on  www.flickr.com/photos/tom_manley/
e: tfmphotographics@yahoo.co.uk
t: 07729 202402

March 2009

Bill Murray
The Portraits

This exhibition reveals a unique collection of black and white portraits taken by Bill Murray in Glasgow during the 50’s and 60’s. Hidden in an old Ilford box, recovered from his darkroom behind the kitchen in the West End, two years after his death. We thank the Murray family for kindly sharing their family photo album with us, bringing back memories of having a bath in the kitchen sink and going for a walk in the country in pointy shoes.

The exhibition was sponsored by Jack Brown Eyecare

Eyecare for all the family - 35 Bath Street Glasgow

February 2009

Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Lives That Ever Are


Tommy Ga-Ken Wan is a 23 year old photographer based in Glasgow.

  "...a talent for capturing the essence of moments as they really are at that time; something which my own art - painting and drawing - is unable to do"
- Alasdair Gray, writer and painter

"Such an incredible eye, backed up by a sublime technical mastery."
- Martin Firrell, public artist

"From the first glimpse I ever saw of his work I was immediately seduced by his originality and talent...there is a flame burning inside this guy that most of us can only dream of."
- Eric Hands, photographer

"His photo's have a real sense of timelessness to them. He is truly talented in the real sense of the word."
- Moh Azima, Director

www.tommygakenwan.com

January 2009

Tina Vanderwerf
Dutch photographer and member of Scottish Photographers
Lost & Found

www.tinavanderwerf.eu



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