Katri Walker: Trip the Light at Museo de la Ciudad in Querétaro, Mexico

Trip the Light looks past the spectacle of the polemical world of bullfighting to a quietness that lies beyond.  The work uses moving image to explore inherent feminine sensibilities woven throughout a masculine subculture, seeking out a delicate, poetic tension that reflects and underlies this relationship.

Liz West: An artist with extra Spice

Artist Liz West (SEA grad) is gaining a glowing reputation for her colour-drenched light installations - but her art career might not have taken off if it were not for her world-record collection of Spice Girls memorabilia. Art and pop can go hand-in-hand, she explains. more

Zhang Yuan: Chelsea School of Art Postgraduate Show

"There is a small table on which a teapot steams continuously from its spout. Look inside the china teacup and, mistily, through the ‘liquid’ inside, a video of the artist by the Thames is revealed. Look inside a tangerine placed on a shelf and there is a tiny film of the tangerine being peeled. ‘Creature’ is a crack in the wall into which you peer closer and closer until you realise you are looking at a video of a vagina, juicy and gently pulsing. This room was quiet, its various treats revealing themselves slowly, sometimes delightful, sometimes unnerving. It was the perfect combination of emotional impact and intellectual provocation and I absolutely want to go back to see it again." more

Stations of the Green

Ray McKenzie, David Harding, & Peter McCaughey will speak at 6pm Wednesday 1st May at
A CELEBRATIONof the publication of DEMOLITION PROOF: An Art Work at Glasgow Green station(eds. Mitch Miller and Johnny Rodger)

ALL WELCOME
New Glasgow Society Gallery
1307 Argyle Street (next to Firebird)

An exhibition focussing on Douglas Gordon’s demolished work ‘Proof’ at Glasgow Green Station, with film, photography, contemporary music and illustration from artists Dave Allen, Stephen Davismoon, Pat Donald, Peter McCaughey, Michael Mersinis, Mitch Miller, Gordon Munro, Johnny Rodger, and Ross Sinclair. (open until 17th May)

David Shrigley: Nominated for the Turner Prize

The artists are Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for her paintings; Tino Sehgal, for his performance work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in London last summer; Laure Prouvost for her witty, absurd films-cum-installations and David Shrigley, whose Hayward Gallery exhibition last year introduced fans of his piquant, cartoonish drawings and animations to his work as a sculptor. more

Sculptor's Prints at the RSA

Sense Makes No Sense: David Sherry

Sense Makes No Sense David Sherry 16 February - 13 April 2013

Please join us for the preview on Friday 15 February, 7 - 9pm David Sherry’s art practice centres around performative ideas relating to everyday life and depicting ordinary experiences from a new perspective. Exploring beliefs, social interaction and real experience. Making works that re-access the acceptance of common values, exploring the thin vale of sanity and the contradictions in life. Sherry gains, through his work, an insight into the psychological diversity of any singular situation, fragmenting what is accepted and analysing a basic moment in day to day life. Conveying the idea that nothing is permanent or stable, questioning what is understood and re-evaluating a collective perspective. For his solo show at The Changing Room Sherry will present new video works alongside a new series of drawings & paintings.

In The Studio: Douglas Gordon

"I wonder what to do with the stuff I am digging up through my psychoanalysis. What do you do when you dig something up – do you put it back, or do you display it? Because if you display it, there would be a hole where it has been" more

Claire Biddles:Glasgow art galleries: a multi-tiered model for other cultural cities

The city's art scene still operates on a system of mutual support between artists at different career stages, says Claire Biddles more here

Cheryl Field selected as one of Axis Web MAstars

MAstars is an annual online selection of the most promising artists from the UK's leading MA courses.

Selected by influential artists, curators, academics and arts professionals, MAstars keeps you up to date with the artists to watch and gives you an insight into the future of the UK art scene. Use MAstars to find comprehensive information and images for each selected artist.

SEA Grad Artist Cheryl’s work has a ‘tech’ appeal, whilst being firmly rooted in an existential framework. Her showing embraced the rectangular space in an exhibition of three parts. The most eye-catching piece was the large wall-based installation ‘Fellows of the Royal Society,’ which shows the very early beginnings of the Higgs Boson. The three figures are shown in individual ‘particles’ of coloured mirrors. more

David Sherry, Bear Theory, 2012

SEA Grad Artist David Sherry celebrates Axisweb's 21st birthday with a specially commissioned comic strip.

Sculpture making its mark transforming the cityscape of Glasgow

New sculptures crop up in urban areas all the time, often under the banner of regeneration, but the people behind the artworks and those who study them seem to have conflicting views of what matters most – for art to be pleasing to the eye, or to pose questions to the viewer? As Glasgow City Council plans the best way to commemorate victims of the potato famine in a public memorial, it is a question that it is worth considering. more

Graduate Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva to represent Macedonia at 55. Venice Biennale

Skopje, 12 November 2012 (MIA) - Project "Skin is Identity and Surface for Projection, Representation of the Soul" by author Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, submitted by the National Gallery of Macedonia (NGM), will represent Republic of Macedonia at the 55. International Art Exhibition "Venice Biennale", held 1 June - 24 November 2013 on theme "The Encyclopedic Palace". more

Insight & outlook

Insight and Outlook is an exhibition of artwork and writing from prisons, secure hospitals, secure children's homes and criminal justice services in Scotland. This inspiring collection of painting, drawing, sculpture and creative writing has been selected from entries to the 2012 Koestler Awards – which has been rewarding artistic achievement in the penal and secure sectors for 50 years.

The exhibition has been curated by young care leavers with guidance from Glasgow artist David Shrigley. The exhibition is kindly supported by The Co-operative and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Exhibition opening

3–5pm | Friday 2 November
Exhibition to be opened by Baroness Linklater with speakers including artist David Shrigley and Colin McConnell, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service.

Professional Workshops with Flux Laser Studio

Spend the afternoon with Flux Laser Studio (initiated and run by The Glasgow School of Art Graduates (Alice Jacobs and Philip Longstaff) and Glasgow Sculpture Studios staff discussing your ideas and exploring the true potentials of the laser machine.

To book your free place phone 0141 353 3708 or email info@glasgowsculpturestudios.org

21 Revolutions: a GWL exhibition at the CCA

21 Revolutions: Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women's Library

Friday 21 September - Saturday 13 October 2012
11:00am - 6:00pm: FREE

Glasgow Women's Library is a phenomenon, the sole resource of its kind in Scotland. To mark the Library's 21st birthday, it commissioned 21 women artists to make limited edition fine art prints inspired by its library, archive and museum artefact collections. Artists have created work that draws on sources including campaign badges, knitting patterns, Suffragette memorabilia, album covers, feminist newsletters and lesbian dime novels; a selection of these inspirational objects from the GWL collections will be included in the exhibition. The selected artists are:

Sam Ainsley / Claire Barclay / Ruth Barker / Karla Black / Nicky Bird / Ashley Cook / Delphine Dallison / Kate Davis / Fiona Dean / Helen de Main / Kate Gibson / Ellie Harrison / Elspeth Lamb / Shauna McMullan / Jacki Parry / Ciara Philips / Lucy Skaer / Corin Sworn / Sharon Thomas / Amanda Thomson / Sarah Wright

David Sherry ‘I want to believe’

A performance evening during Incubate 2012, with Bas Schevers (NL), David Sherry (UK), Jean-Charles de Quillacq (F), Jodi (NL) and Pablo Wendel (D), curated by pietmondriaan.com

The performances in this exhibition are drawn from everyday situations. While appearing to be simple, sometimes even inconspicuous acts, they attempt to show the absurd, tragi-comical sides of daily life. The artists invite us to follow their lead and believe in their stories – or not.

‘I want to believe’ will take place on Saturday the 15th of September, 19.30hrs at NS16, NS-plein 16 in Tilburg. See you there!

UNDERCURRENTS magazine issue Two out now

Critical and creative writing from Scotland's Art Graduates.We are a not-for-profit magazine with all sales going towards producing the next issue.

Edited by Christopher MacInnes
Designed by Sebastian Howell

Contributors:
Tom Walker, Lauren McLaughlin, Christopher MacInnes, James Stephen Wright, Julie Pallesen, Sofie Fischer-Rasmussen, Neil Clements and Francis McKee

This issue features 4 colour pages of artworks as well.
Printed by PDC
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Molly Russell: How a devilish dad inspired a pet project

Dearly Departed presents an intriguing series of twelve life-sized animal coffins, stretching from a 4.5 metre giraffe to a meerkat. The daughter of the late Ken Russell, Molly has created a highly ambitious exhibition about her childhood experience. more

Russell is spending a lot of time in a factory in Durham, where she is collaborating with coffin-makers J C Atkinson & Son of Tyne & Wear. "I thought of all the lovely sweet animals rather than snakes and tapeworms and how coffins could be made. It made it less sinister – a giraffe isn't a dark thing – so it became something more sweet." more

Amy Dolan, Ziggy Sawdust

AMY Dolan, a 21-year-old arts graduate from Lasswade, has her own furniture redesign business, Ziggy Sawdust, set up with the help of the Prince’s Trust. more from the Scotsman