Some Rhythms Persist, a two-person exhibition by Shenece Oretha and Camara Taylor, is set to conclude on Saturday, May 30.
The showcase, which began on Friday, April 3, has been developed during a production residency at the studio, supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.
This exhibition merges sculpture, sound and printmaking through unconventional materials and techniques.
These include molasses-based mordants for steel etching, rice as both a medium and an instrument, and copper plates shaped through percussive action.
The exhibition is noted for expanding printmaking beyond traditional boundaries, engaging with histories of colonialism, agriculture and industry.
It also explores sound, rhythm and embodied experience.
The works of Camara Taylor trace the intertwined histories of sugar production, steel and imperial trade between Scotland and the Caribbean.
Reflecting on the work, Taylor said: “I’m thinking through the history of sugar – through steel, rum and molasses … and also re-using and recycling previous works to form new works.”
Sculptural installations such as Glasgow Punch and Future Claims incorporate rum, oxidised steel and industrial pipework.
Shenece Oretha’s practice focuses on the sonic and symbolic potential of plants including rice, sugarcane and grains central to global food systems and colonial economies.
In Come See, Come Hear, copper plates etched and struck with mallets become both visual and sonic instruments, while rice-based works such as In Spite and In Spirit foreground endangered agricultural lineages.
The artist described plants as “the original instruments”.
Oretha said: “You wouldn’t have the shaker and percussion if you didn’t have moving plants and bushes.”
The exhibition also explores how sound, rhythm and repetition function as forms of knowledge and resistance.
Oretha’s Tune, Tune, Tune explores the double meaning of musical recognition and attunement, while Taylor’s print works and sculptural fragments revisit earlier pieces, highlighting cycles of transformation and return.
The exhibition, through layered material processes and sensory experience, invites audiences to engage with sculpture and print as active, evolving forms.
Some Rhythms Persist is open to the public at the Glasgow Print Studio, located at Trongate 103, Glasgow.
The gallery operates Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 5.30pm.
