Lucy Skaer @GlasgowTramway

I had a meeting this morning in Glasgow's south side and found myself just round the corner from Tramway.

I had my laptop with me so thought I'd go and work there and combine this with a dip into Lucy Skaer's newish exhibition, Exit, Voice and Loyalty.

This picture shows part of the exhibition which is on in Tramway 2 until December 15.

Skaer, who has recently returned to Glasgow from New York, was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2009.

I have to confess I hadn't actually seen or read up on her work so went in with a completely open mind.

To enter the exhibition, you walk through a corridor which is a replica of the one which she used to walk down every day to get to her studio in New York, complete with several shiny metal doors, you're tempted to open them - but they are a construct so you'd be going nowhere.

This sets the scene for the rest of the exhibition. You then walk into a room - which would have been her studio - and find a film of the the corridor at sunset.

Back out of this room and you are in Tramway 2, which seems to alter chameleon-like with every artist who shows therein.

I think Skaer must have a very tidy mind. I actually felt very soothed by the scene inside. The walls were lined by evenly spaced and sized pieces of pale newsprint. Guardian 2 sized...

Skaer has been collecting the yellow, magenta and cyan printing plates from the newspaper since August and printed each plate individually.

As a newspaper hack, who has worked in tabloids and broadsheets for over a quarter of a century (gulp) it seemed to sum up the fragility of an industry which was once at the vanguard of information technology.

We always used to joke that they were tomorrow's chip paper. Here, Skaer has turned newsprint into something fragile and and quite beautiful with faint images bleaching out to nothingness.

Every artefact here has been chosen with care. The centrepiece, which you can see here, is an army of glazed lozenge shaped ceramic pieces.

They are lined up on the tram-lined floor like terracotta warriors; shiny and good enough to eat. If you visit, you can read all about the various aspects of this exhibition in the helpfully provided notes, which occasionally veer off into arts-speak.

What Skaer seems to be getting at is burrowing under the skin of what makes an artwork, or a commodity, or even an event, valuable in our society.

There were beautiful little touches, such as placing the worn stone steps from the house where she grew up close to glass columns - which turn out to be unsold work from an exhibition.

There's also a slice of 500-year-old yew tree propped up between the newsprint prints.

Very apt. And quite lovely too. A good day at work. And the soup was lovely too.