We are ready to welcome visitors to The drum, the chime, the scrape, the splash, the jerk, a new solo exhibition with London based artist Christian Newby.

In line with the Scottish Government’s timetable for easing restrictions we will open the gallery from 27 April 2021.

All bookings will be subject to the latest Government advice, and we will continue to update our guidelines in relation to any new advice from the Scottish Government.

Until further notice we are operating pre-booked appointments only.

View our guidelines for opening safely here.

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Newby incorporates techniques from industrial textile production into a drawing practice challenging the assumptions pertaining to value and skill within fine and applied arts practice. His work explores the design principles and craft rhetoric commonly associated with the practice of carpet tufting.

The works on display are made using a handheld industrial carpet-tufting gun and created through a process of improvised drawing. His unique technique of ‘drawing with carpet’ redirects the manufacturing function of the gun and instead explores its capacities as a mark-making tool, while observing it as a fundamental equivalent to the pencil, spray can, paintbrush and tattoo needle.

The exhibition is also available to view online via our website.

More info at www.patricia-fleming.com

The exhibition also coincides with a major solo exhibition by Newby in the City Dome at Collective, Edinburgh. Boredom>Mischief>Fantasy>Radicalism>Fantasy opens 13 May 2021.

About Christian Newby

Christian Newby was born in Virginia Beach, VA, USA and now lives and works in London, UK. He graduated with an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (2009), following his BA (Hons) in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston University, London.

Selected exhibitions include: Brick-Wall-Spider-Web-Post-It-Note, Beers London (2019); Yo Compro Calidad, Matadero, Madrid (2017); Tetracontameron, Space Between, London (2016) and Le Club des Sous l’Eau, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016). He has been an artist in residence at Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU, Hong Kong (2019); Matadero Madrid El Ranchito exchange with Arthouse Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria (2017); URRA/Gasworks Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015) and Triangle France Artist in Residence Programme, Marseille (2010). He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2016) as well as the Converse/Dazed & Confused Emerging Artist Award shortlist in association with Whitechapel Gallery (2013).