The Upstairs Basement
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS & WORK SPACE
Generously sponsored by:
Murray and Henderson Chartered Accountants
Ursula Keller
“The Curtain‘s Edge”
25th April - 17th May
Opening 25th April 2-5pm
A body of work consisting exclusively of mixed media triptych, Ursula has developed a unique 3D process which evolves photographic layers in a translucent medium resin coated to achieve an opaque transparency, her aim is the translation of the concept of Triptych into a contemporary context.
Ursula was a long term collaborator of George Wyllie, most notably coordinating the Berlin end of Wyllie’s Berlin Burd project in 1988.
Photograph by Falk Weiss
Campbell MacIntosh
“Statistical Destiny”
22nd May - 13th June
opening 23rd May 2-5pm
While at Gourock High school Campbell became interested in art and attended the Watt College A level class but his time was being taken up with playing drums in local bands and didn’t finish the course.
He left school and worked in an industrial engravers. Started working as a signmaker in 1972 with various companies in Greenock then Glasgow and Paisley. Somewhere around 20 years ago he got his interest back in art.
Campbell’s work is mostly figurative and intuitive abstract and has exhibited in West Kilbride and The Beacon Greenock summer exhibition. In his early years in sign making he was involved in George Wyllie’s artwork “ See the World Through Rose Tinted Spectacles “ supplying the pink Perspex lenses.
Alan Dimmick
“Daytripping”
26th June - 26th July
Daytrips occupy and create a space between the everyday and the extraordinary, through the act of stepping away, noticing details we might otherwise pass by, and returning with new perspectives on the familiar.
Some highlight landscapes or cityscapes transformed by a passing glance, while others capture the quiet rituals of moving from one place to another. Together, they show how even the briefest excursions can shift how we see and feel.
Some taken on short trips from home to run an errand or on those planned daytrips with friends and family. Many taken on jaunts down the west coast, in particular Millport and the Isle of Cumbrae.
In typical Wyllie style George didn’t call his making space his “studio” but plainly referred to it as “the basement”
Situated in the undercroft of the family home in Gourock and overflowed into the garden overlooking the Clyde Estuary, as does the Wyllieum.
We titled our community making space “The Upstairs Basement” in tribute.
As well as being a making space, the Upstairs Basement features a rolling exhibition programme.
Further details of our 2026 programme will be announced soon.
The view over The Clyde from George Wyllie's garden
