A NEW exhibition celebrating 50 years of Glasgow Print Studio opens at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on Friday (November 18).

The Love of Print, co-produced by GPS and Glasgow Life, the charity responsible for culture and sport in the city, will bring together around 225 works by 130 artists. It will also include 50 newly commissioned pieces.

Prints by illustrious artists like Alasdair Gray, Barbara Rae and John Byrne are included alongside those by many of the ‘New Glasgow Boys’ - who worked with the studio to produce some of the most identifiable pieces of their career. Prints by Adrian Wiszniewski, Ken Currie, Steven Campbell, and Peter Howson move the exhibition on through the 1980s, towards the turn of the century.

Glasgow Times:

More recent renowned Scottish artists, often recognised more widely as Turner Prize winners and nominees, are also on show. Martin Boyce, Ciara Philips, Richard Wright, Jim Lambie and Christine Borland sit alongside work by less well-known printmakers.

Each artist featured in The Love of Print has gifted a print that will be accessioned into Glasgow Museums Collection.

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Artists Kate Downie, Adrian Wiszniewski and Ade Adesina, who all have works in the show, were at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to see the final preparations being made ahead of the exhibition opening.

Glasgow Times: Bailie Annette Christie, chairperson of Glasgow Life, said: “This striking new exhibition proudly recognises one of Scotland’s most celebrated centres of excellence. The team at Glasgow Life Museums has worked with Glasgow Print Studio to create an exciting and compelling exhibition, which looks back at their history, alongside rarely seen highlights from their amazing archive.

"And the joy of this show, is that many up-and-coming printmakers are shown alongside some of the most successful Scottish artists of the last 50 years.”

Founded in 1972 as an artist-led initiative, GPS provided facilities and workshop space to artists using fine art printmaking. Unique to Scotland’s cultural landscape and central to the development of Glasgow’s Merchant City as the city’s vibrant cultural quarter, the studio’s workshop, galleries, education space and other facilities now span three floors of Glasgow’s centre for art and creativity, Trongate 103.

The Love of Print runs until March 2023.