The Upstairs Basement
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS & WORK SPACE
Generously sponsored by:
Murray and Henderson Chartered Accountants
Anoushka Havinden
A Strange Resting Place for a Goddess
1st - 23rd August
Artwork inspired by stories of the Clyde
Lucy Gordon
Facing The Tide
29th August - 27th September
Working from her home studio, Lucy’s art uses a combination of found imagery and fabricated characters that swerve from the surreal to the sublime. Working primarily in oil paints, her subjects and compositions often contain elements of humour and symbolism, hinting at the artist’s own interests and passions.
This new body of work incorporates aspects of portraiture and sea life, directly inspired by the stunning location of the Wyllieum.
Lucy Gordon is a graduate of the Fine Art Painting department from Glasgow School of Art.
Working from her home studio, Lucy's art uses a combination of found imagery and fabricated characters to create portraits that swerve from the surreal to the sublime. Working primarily in oil paints, her subjects invite and inspire us to imagine their lives, familiar yet fictional, inscrutable and obscure; allowing us to create our own narratives about the work.
Lucy shows her work regularly in Glasgow and has had paintings exhibited in Hastings, Paris and London. She was also shortlisted for the Scottish Portrait Awards 2024 and the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2024.
In typical Wyllie style George didn’t call his making space his “studio” but plainly referred to it as “the basement”
Situated in the undercroft of the family home in Gourock and overflowed into the garden overlooking the Clyde Estuary, as does the Wyllieum.
We titled our community making space “The Upstairs Basement” in tribute.
As well as being a making space, the Upstairs Basement features a rolling exhibition programme.
