Jupiter+ Paisley

In September 2024 JUPITER+ arrived in Paisley. Students from every high school, college and community group throughout Renfrewshire, Inverclyde & Dunbartonshire were invited to explore contemporary art first-hand.

Paisley-born artist Anya Gallaccio brought her work ‘Stroke’ to Paisley. Gallaccio typically creates temporary site-specific installations with large quantities of organic materials. For Jupiter+ she took over a previously unoccupied shop space and the walls with layers of dark chocolate in an artwork that plays with all of the viewers senses. This artwork will be open and free for the public to explore.

ABOUT ANYA GALLACCIO

Anya Gallaccio (b. 1963, Scotland) attended Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths’ College at the University of London. Gallaccio creates site-specific installations, often using organic materials as her medium. Past projects have included arranging a ton of oranges on a floor, placing a thirty-two ton block of ice in a boiler room, and painting a wall with chocolate. The nature of these materials results in natural processes of transformation and decay, often with unpredictable results. Gallaccio has stated, “I see my works as being a performance and collaboration . . . There is unpredictability in the materials and collaborations I get involved in. Making a piece of work becomes about chance – not just imposing will on something, but acknowledging its inherent qualities.” Anya Gallaccio‘s work is remarkable for its conflation of inclusiveness and rigour, for engaging light touch which belies its profundity. Through the use of a wide range of materials, often in large quantities, such as chocolate, whistling kettles, ice, sugar, candles, salt, Polaroid photographs and lead, she conveys her preoccupation with the nature of change through the passage of time, the balance in life struck between growth and decay. Gallaccio has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions at the Tate Britain, London (2003) and at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England (2003). Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Camden Art Centre, London (2008); The Eastshire Museum, Scotland (2010); Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2011). Gallaccio’s work is featured in numerous public and private collections such as the Tate Gallery, London; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and South Gallery, London.

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Project Report 2024

More About Jupiter+ Paisley

Paisley has been the home to the first LEGACY project for Jupiter +

By turning the learning space into an Artist’s Studio, we have been able to award, through a competitive process, a 6 month residency to 3 talented, recently graduated artists from Paisley.

The residency not only supports the full costs of the studio for 6 months but also provides a monthly ‘making’ stipend for materials. A mentoring programme with artists and members of the Jupiter Team is the backbone of the residency. This is designed to midwife young creatives through the challenging moments that so often characterise an early career in the arts.

For 2025 we have had 3 extraordinary individuals who have embraced all the opportunities this residency offers