Amelia Barratt Cool Ground — boardroomcommitteeroom

Artist studios and gallery
7 Water Row, Govan
Glasgow

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Past Exhibitions
2026
Monya Riachi A Present Disturbance
Toby Messenger Systems in Collapse2025
Olivia Wiles West Side Story
Catriona Beckett The Guild of Abstraction and Image Making
Anna Lawrence Snail Trail
Sam Della-Valle Big Women Little Men
Ali Farrelly a mean diameter
2024Anna Metzger Teether
John Fletcher Acid Reflux
Group show PAPER
Scott Leeming Didn’t we have a good time?
Gabriella Day The best parts only
Studio holders show MEETING 2
Amanda Seibæk & Zane Drees For Satin Bowerbirds
Kate Holford That unquestionable bloom
Amelia Barratt Cool Ground
Anna Metzger, Maya Levy, Alfie Sellers The Ceiling So Far
Group show A sense of urgency
2023Kirstie Lackie TV Dinners
Studio holders show MEETING
Charlie Hodgson Trade Winds
Antonio Parker-Rees & Phoebe Kerr
Niall McCallum Path Users
Group show World of Wonder
Orla Kane Star face
Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King in jest
Dora Padfield & Liv Fox and now the light is on it

Amelia Barratt Cool Ground

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21 March - 18 April 2024

I had seen something, or at least I had felt that I needed to see it again, a sign along a road along a loch.
‘Closures’, and I had seen the space floating next to it for the word flowers to be. The following day there was the smooth lock that took us all the way around the roundabout, and I saw the sign, ‘Night Closures’.
Night Flowers. I settled. Petals like branches and light moving out in all directions in the nighttime, in the unseen time.

Moon, spoken to me is like a gift on the outside of the glass windows.
I will take it in and speak it into waves of rooms of inside space

Amelia Barratt is an artist based in London working with painting, writing and performance. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Slade School of Art, London. Between 2016 and 2019 she programmed the London-based performance series Oral Rinse with Martha Barratt, and in 2021 was artist in residence for the Library at Drawing Room, London.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Marina, CORPUS, Cambridge (2026); Out Of Hours, A_Place, Glasgow (2025); Cut Wire, William Hine, London (2024); Cool Ground, Board Room Committee Room, Glasgow (2024). Performance highlights include readings at: Museum of London; Royal Academy, London; Live Art Development Agency, London; Seventeen, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and Esplanade, Singapore.

With writing she has collaborated with various artists across live performance, visual art, fashion, radio and music. Recent projects include spoken texts made in response to the work of painters such as Gabriella Boyd, Dickon Drury, Devlin Shea and Guo-Liang Tan; and commissions for new writing from MAP Magazine, David Dale Gallery, Sasha Galitzine and Uferhallen Berlin. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio, NPR, NTS and Resonance FM.

She is the author of Real Life (Charles Asprey, 2022), a collection of performance texts published in print and audio. In 2023 an audio collaboration with the artist Christian Flamm, An Entertainment, was released on cassette (Studio Scilla).

Loose Talk, an album in collaboration with Bryan Ferry was released in March 2025 on Dene Jesmond Records and has been praised by critics as ‘beautiful, unsettling…intriguing and impressively original’ (The Guardian, Album of The Week), ‘interesting and elegant’ (The Sunday Times, Album of The Week), ‘a hauntingly evocative masterpiece’ (Buzz Magazine).

Curated by Gabriella Day.