Exhibition review

Claire Biddles is an environmental artists and her work, entitled “Nobody Loves Us”, aims to explore the way fans of The Smiths use Morrissey's lyrics to articulate their own emotions and experiences. Placards featuring lyric quotations are carried through the city by fans; The 'voice' of the singer is adopted by the fan.

Gillian Duffee whose area of interest is often obsession and pop music, presents an installation piece, “Diana”, a bedroom aesthetic of a teenage sanctuary filled with skewed popular culture references and deals with gender politics and sexual ambiguity.

Jerry Dowds' screenprint is a collage and is concerned with the ideas of surveillance and privacy.

Eero Tittula presents an oil painting which is based on Nietzsche's concept of rumination, with which he refers to encountering something disgusting again and again. By overcoming the repulsion one can reach another existential level. The long, repetitive and laborious painting process reflects this ambivalence; repulsion and enjoyment, while the pop-art execution of the work plays against the philosophical content.

Alistair Quietsch is a painter and his work here focuses on the reinvention of landscape painting using sculptural forms and traditional painting methods. The theme of this work is the impact of the Highland Clearances on the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Some of Alistairs earlier work, which also deals with themes of Nationalism and Power can be seen on punk-art.co.uk

Tomas Jankowski studies architecture and his piece is a study of movement through space for Thai-boxing. The aim of the study was to explore the activity before designing a sports centre for it.

Calum Johnston’s piece of work is called "The Shipping Forecast". This series of images is based on his own personal experiences and the idea of navigating through life in the city. Each photograph is taken at a site which an important event has taken place in his life or is a place which has sentimental connotations. Shipping forecasts to dictate the placement of the frame within the site.

Laura Howard presents “A Stable Mind” which deals with the idea of people having both a stable and unstable mindset. Laura is interested in Philosophy and the idea that the mind has a breaking point.

Alice Brook’s piece “Overlooked” is a set of 10 letters, each of concrete and almost 1 foot high, was originally made as a public art project, sited in Yorkhill Park below the Children's Hospital and considerscctv, surveillance, perception, control and voyeurism.

Pheobe Harrison's "hono risc ausa" examines physical and linguistic man-made mechanisms that have been created to categorise encounters with unwanted, abject objects. In this way, the work investigates the process, and conventions of preservation, taxidermy and linguistic labelling devices.

Local artist Chris Deeprose will have some of his spray work on show, as previewed recently on the Glasgow Podcart website, http://glasgowpodcart.com