

Self Portrait, coloured pencil on paper, 21x29.7cm, 2018
Glasgow artist Kirsty Lackie was born in 1989, and a sense of her fleeting existence looms large in her work. She enjoys using poetry, theatre and film to parse upon the quotidian and conjugate a sense of performance often with surreal interactions. Her recent work depicts somewhat dream-like scenes shot through with a sense of otherness and humour. Her degree in psychology (2011) from the University of Glasgow went some way to helping her understand the mechanics of a mind, and through her degree in Communication Design from the Glasgow School of Art (2018) she’s finding a mode of articulation and expression for these thoughts and observations. Her work often plays with the juxtaposition between our temporary existence and things like, the infrangibility of everyday objects, or the awkwardness in the minutiae of the everyday. But she isn’t morose or downbeat about any of this, instead she likes to set it free with humour and a healthy dose the absurd.
Education
2014 - 2018
First Class BA (Hons) Communication Design, The Glasgow School of Art
2008 - 2011
MA Psychology, The University of Glasgow
Awards
Cromarty Arts Trust Student Residency Award, 2018
Shortlisted for the GSA Newbery Medal, 2018
2014 - 2018
First Class BA (Hons) Communication Design, The Glasgow School of Art
2008 - 2011
MA Psychology, The University of Glasgow
Awards
Cromarty Arts Trust Student Residency Award, 2018
Shortlisted for the GSA Newbery Medal, 2018
Exhibitions
2021 Life on Venus II: The Human, The Tub, Hackney, London
2020 Curated for Christmas, Bowes Parris Gallery, London
2020 Art on a Postcard, online auction
2020 All Mouth Gallery, solo online presentation
2019 For 2 Hours, The Project Café, Glasgow
2018 Cromarty Arts Trust student residency award, solo exhibition and talk, The Stables, Cromarty
2018 So, What Now? GSA Degree Show, The Glasgow School of Art
2018 KHIO-GSA, The Glasgow School of Art
2017 Communication Design WIP Show, The Glasgow School of Art
2017 A Poster for a Poster Exhibition, The Glasgow School of Art
2016 Epilogue 3/4, Barras Art and Design, Glasgow
2015 Peep Show, The Glasgow School of Art
2021 Life on Venus II: The Human, The Tub, Hackney, London
2020 Curated for Christmas, Bowes Parris Gallery, London
2020 Art on a Postcard, online auction
2020 All Mouth Gallery, solo online presentation
2019 For 2 Hours, The Project Café, Glasgow
2018 Cromarty Arts Trust student residency award, solo exhibition and talk, The Stables, Cromarty
2018 So, What Now? GSA Degree Show, The Glasgow School of Art
2018 KHIO-GSA, The Glasgow School of Art
2017 Communication Design WIP Show, The Glasgow School of Art
2017 A Poster for a Poster Exhibition, The Glasgow School of Art
2016 Epilogue 3/4, Barras Art and Design, Glasgow
2015 Peep Show, The Glasgow School of Art