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

Health & Safety Violations - interview with Ben Woodeson

Subservient shoe brush open toed sandals thing, 2010 A wire brush spins around randomly, threatening your open-toe sandals. A motion-activated vacuum pump sucks out the air from a gallery space: the longer viewers remain inside, the less air for them to breathe. A cobble stone is rotating on a rope. The sole purpose of that kettle is to spread red acrylic paint on your shoes. An electric fence criss-crosses the path that leads to an art gallery or the bar. Elsewhere a randomly activated tripwire awaits visitors...more

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva - Artists Talk

Bill Bollinger @ the Fruitmarket Gallery

The Fruitmarket Gallery is proud to present this major exhibition of the work of American artist Bill Bollinger (1939–1988), one of the most important artists of the 1960s. A work of art historical rediscovery as well as an exhibition of great power and beauty, it brings an artist once mentioned in the same breath as Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse and Fred Sandback back for serious reconsideration. more.........

Michael Visocchi wins the Jerwood

The £25,000 commission will see winning artist Michael Visocchi, graduate of Sculpture and Environmental Art, produce a large-scale work at the Jerwood Sculpture Park in Warwickshire.

Ya dancer! well done Michael

Claire Barclay interview:

I like my work to be at that point between threatening and fun, or repulsive and fascinating

Sam Stead : Repetitive Gestures

ontology: a new work by Cheryl Field

“There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust”

from “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe.



It is this friction between the poetics of the abject and the direct visceral responses of our physiology that informs this new work by Cheryl Field. Exploring material properties that evoke the bodily to provide an encounter between the writhing forms and their audience, she invites us to question the potential for manipulation in the complex territory between object and viewer. Laden with connotations of the corporeal, the installation attempts to draw us into our own physical and psychological apparatus, mapping the disparities highlighted by the work between disgust and attraction, what is apparent and the intricate, veiled processes that lead us to form our response to what is presented.

Preview: Saturday 18th October 7 - 9pm

19th October - 9th November 2008
open Saturdays and Sundays 11-7pm
or by appointment on 07932 607 706

The Fridge Gallery, Southside Studios, 17 Westmoreland Street, Glasgow, G42 8LL

Pedal Power - a commission for Stavanger 2008

I invite you all to follow my adventures in Stavanger, Norway. From 22nd-30th August, 3 pedal generators will be located around the city in various sites including schools, gyms, shopping centres and on the street. At the end of each day the energy stored in batteries will be harvested to power a lighting system for a pedestrian walkway beneath the city road bridge.
For more up to date information please see www.justincarter.info or www.justincarter.info/blog
See you all in September...best wishes, Justin

Public Art Resource+Research Scotland

Public Art Resource+Research Scotland (PAR+RS) is a new initiative that aims to promote excellence and innovation within public art

Finding the beauty in simplicity of form

Sarah Lucas

Kenny Hunter in Map Magazine

Gabriel Orozco at PBS

'Big Things on the Beach'

“Big Things on the Beach” wishes to commission a new temporary artwork for Portobello’s beach and environs. The artwork will aim to engage with the local community and build on the Trust’s successful commissioning programme since 2004.

Expression of Interest by 2.02.08
Three short listed artists will be given £250 to develop their proposals for interview. If interested please send a covering letter outlining your interest, approach and initial idea for this commission with a provisional budget, your CV including 2 referees, artists statement and 6 images of previous work (hard copies please) to.... see website by clicking image.

Aeneas Wilder

Rolling Huts

Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth

Lolly Batty's sculpture on the move

Ben Woodeson