Who is showing at Patricia Fleming's Art Car Boot Sale this year?

By Patricia-Ann Young, 21.10.2024

Sam Ainsley, 'Idiot Futures'. Image courtesy of the artist.

Mark it in your diaries if you haven’t already – the Art Car Boot Sale, Scotland’s largest contemporary art market, returns at the end of this month at Tramway in Glasgow’s Southside. On the 26^th and 27^th October, over 100 of Scotland’s most talented artists will gather in a curated showcase by Patricia Fleming Gallery.

Art lovers will have a unique opportunity to meet, chat and buy from their favourite local artists, as well as familiarise themselves with Scotland’s new and emerging artistic talent. Artists will be displaying their work from the back of their cars, bikes – even skateboards – at this fun opportunity to buy and view.

 

Sam Ainsley

A beloved figure in Scotland’s art world for decades, it feels like people are only now waking up to Sam Ainsley as a remarkable artistic talent in her own right. Despite her work being hard to ignore, such as her iconic 11ft Warrior Women, Ainsley, who devoted many years of her career to mentoring others as a teacher at Glasgow School of Art, has had to wait for the attention she deserves. Thankfully, her first solo exhibition in 30 years took place last winter at GoMA. Her work is vivid and spirited, and she imbues her paintings with a powerful emotionality that is hard to look away from.

Leah Moodie

Leah Moodie is a young, emerging artist from the Orkney Islands. Her paintings are lush and dreamy, all milky pinks and midnight blues, with the odd citrus burst of yellow and orange to liven things up. Her paintings often feature domestic settings, like a running bath or a view from a living room window. Yet there’s often an edge there – a pan fire out of control, a pet dog with its mouth wide open, reaching and snapping. Moodie recently announced on Instagram that she has created a small batch of limited-edition lino-print t-shirts for the sale, so check out her stall early to avoid missing out.

Matthew Arthur Williams

Williams is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on photography and filmmaking. Soon Come, his 2022 exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts, was critically lauded, cementing Williams’ reputation as an artist of great emotional depth and storytelling scope.  He often approaches big topics through the personal – Soon Come, which explored the immigrant worker experience in Britain, saw Williams use analogue techniques like black and white photography and 16mm film. This created a tangibility and texture that elevated the work beyond mere documentation and pushed the viewer into a fleeting world of almost touchable memory and experience. His work is a must-see for photography lovers.

Sally Hackett

There’s a playful silliness in Sally Hackett’s work that is inescapably charming. Primarily a sculptor, Hackett works with a range of materials, from peanuts to precious metals, to bring her surrealist visions to life. There’s plenty of pathos in her work, be it in the fleshy anxiety of the clay sculpture ‘Everybody’s Pregnant’ or the heartbreak in a series of paintings called ‘In the bin and in the fire’. Yet all the while there’s a sense of humour, a finding of softness even in our most privately sad moments, like in her clay sculpture of a small crying figure being held by a too-big dog. Her sweet, kooky art would make the hardest heart smile.

Fraser Taylor

With a career that has spanned several decades and continents, Scottish-born interdisciplinary visual artist Fraser Taylor has become retrospective in recent years. Earlier this spring, Taylor opened his exhibition Instant Whip at Glasgow School of Art’s Reid Gallery. The show explored Taylor’s work between 1977-1987, starting when he was first-year student at GSA. By exploring what has changed in his practice, and perhaps more importantly, what has stayed the same, Taylor’s artistry has been more clearly anchored across his many disciplines, which include drawing, painting and textile printing. At the Car Boot Sale, expect to see Taylor’s signature abstract shape and line work on display.

 

You can view the full list of artists at tramway.org