Urban Calibration | Glasgow
Paintings on panel, 2026
Installed at Achilles Heel Running Store, Glasgow

Urban Calibration extends Movement as Method into a denser architectural condition.

Developed through repeated running routes across Glasgow, the works test how directional shifts reorganise pressure across the surface. The hinge operates as a structural pivot rather than a graphic device. What appears minimal carries accumulated force.

Presented as a pair, the paintings articulate a shift within the run: an open forward condition and a compressed field of force.

Exposure resolves through a single decisive passage, holding forward motion thinly across the surface. Compression develops through resistance. That resistance becomes embedded within the work, where interruption is absorbed into mass rather than depicted as event. Friction between passages registers accumulated pressure.

The works were installed in the window and interior of Achilles Heel Running Store on Great Western Road, situating the paintings within the urban environment that informs the running routes from which they emerge.

Urban Calibration marks a movement from sustained duration toward structural testing under interruption. The emphasis remains reduction, inevitability and embodied force translated into spatial form.