Preview : Tuesday 18th October
Exhibition continues 26th November 2005

The title of Temple Bar Gallery and Studio's next exhibition is distinctly unambiguous. For this show Irish artist Kevin Kelly draws together an eclectic mix of Glasgow-based artists. Kelly aims to provide a flavour of the diversity of work being produced in the context of the Glasgow art scene.

In the past twenty years Glasgow has transformed itself from a home of heavy industries to become a vibrant and edgy modern city. Emerging from this background is a thriving visual arts scene that is a magnet for international talent and home to a significant number of Irish artists. Art from Glasgow is built around a core of those Irish artists based in Glasgow. Three of the artists in the show, Duncan Campbell, Maria Doyle and David Sherry are from Ireland but have rarely exhibited here.

David Sherry's practice takes a subversive look at everyday situations. A nominee for the prestigious UK art prize, Becks Futures 2003, Sherry applies mild altercations to his own life to expose habits of human orientation. In particular Sherry is interested in how people make decisions and how we all tend to slip into easy patterns and routines. His three video pieces for Art from Glasgow titled Stepping Off, Looking through Tom Cruises eyes and Smashing Tin in one way or another explore the complexities inherent in day to day life.

Duncan Campbell has produced a diverse body of work in many different media. One of his most significant works to date is arguably his documentary style film Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (exh. Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, 2004, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2003). In this piece Campbell compiles a series of images collected from a Belfast community photographic archive. The spirit of protest in the city's depressed classes is reanimated by Campbell's stream of consciousness voiceover. Campbell will produce a new work for Art From Glasgow.

The basis of Maria Doyle's delicate low-tech drawings lies in a blend of storytelling and personal events. The stories she conveys in her drawings emanate from an exploration of her own lived experiences. In her sparse drawings Doyle juxtaposes images that seem familiar with images from an imaginary space that lends the work a dreamlike quality.

Stuart Gurden's practice embodies a gently ironic awareness of the nature of geological and cultural time-scales, revealing the artist's role as a social commentator. It is deliberately inconclusive and speculative and borrows vicariously from gathered knowledge and experience of different disciplines, seminal figures and historic moments. For Art from Glasgow Gurden will exhibit an earlier work Channelling (Formica rufa/William Melvyn Hicks), an audio sculpture, which delightfully imagines the reincarnation of the comedian Bill Hicks in the not entirely appropriate form of an enlarged sculpture of an ant. Gurden's second piece for the show is Eye-may-mah, a scripted digital video shot in the north of Iceland exploring an apocryphal tale about a visit to Iceland by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.

Artists Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan have worked collaboratively since 1995 and are currently exhibiting in Selective Memory for the Scottish Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. Their installations are often a re-staging of a vocabulary of motifs, images and forms from within their practice. This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric refers to a number of works, two of which will be exhibited at Temple Bar Gallery. The works "classified" by this title are all linked by the motif of a zero. In the main sculptural piece the "rhetoric" object exists as a textured black monolith and in turn is re-used as a element within a photographic tableau.

Further information and images for press are available from Claire Power, tel + 1 671 0073 or email claire@templebargallery.com