An excerpt from Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West

Martin Creed: Down Over Up

MUSICIAN Gillian Christie has taken the acoustic scene by storm since winning EK’s Got Talent 2009.

After months of hard work in the studio the 19-year-old singer/songwriter, from Gardenhall, is poised to release her debut EP, Thinking Space Part 1, at a city gig this Friday.

The talented Glasgow School of Art student says she is more than ready for her headline show after her recent slot supporting Scots folk rock singer Jill Jackson at the legendary King Tuts, and a surprise stint at the Wickerman Festival.......more

Gillian will play the City Halls Recital Room this Friday, September 10, with support from 7.30pm.

The event is expected to be a sell-out but a small number of briefs are still available.

Tickets can be purchased from the City Halls box office
for £10, or £8 with the promotional code, which can be obtained by emailing gillianchristieacoustic@hotmail.com

To keep up-to-date with Gillian’s gigs, and to preview her music, visit www.myspace.com/gillianchristieacoustic

Karla Black at the Tate

KARLA BLACK interview at Kettles Yard

Check out this video interview with Karla.

Nick Evans: The Bone Collector

Although he’s been a practising artist since leaving Glasgow School of Art in 2000 with a degree in Sculpture and Environmental Art, Nick Evans traces the beginning of his current mode of practice back to 2006, when he completed an eight-month residency at the Tate Gallery in St Ives. ‘While I was there I saw a series of plaster works by Barbara Hepworth,’ says the Zambia-born, Somerset-raised sculptor. ‘They weren’t on display to the public, they were stored in her old studio space at the Palais de Danse, lined up on the dancefloor. I think when I started work on these pieces, which are all made of plaster too, I wasn’t even conscious of the connection, but the closer I get to it the more I think about it.’.................LIST

Exhibition at Grand Union - Thinking Hand Scratching Head

An exhibition of new work by Justin Carter including 'Water Feature' (2010) above.

invite

Art review: Undergraduate Degree Show | MFA Degree Show

Part Three

Part Two, A 30 minute documentary about Glasgow School of Art for Channel 4 by Annie Griffin. We meet students in the Environmental Art department doi

Putting the EA into SEA

Degree Show 2010

Butoh Masterclass with Lindsay John

Portrait of the artist: Douglas Gordon

Which living artist do you most admire?

Anyone who's still alive and still making art. I don't necessarily admire the art, but the artist I always admire.

Graduate Studio Space Application

SWG3, Gallery, Studio, Glasgow

SWG3 Graduate Studio Application. SWG3 are now accepting applications for next years Graduate Studio, supported by the Berkeley Clinic.

3rd International Competition 'FestArte VideoArt Festival'

FestArte VideoArt Festival is based on a theme - INVISIBLE VIOLENCE in private, public, social contexts -, comprises monetary prizes and an international jury composed of leading experts. The Awards ceremony will take place in Rome, on 15 September 2010, at the new cultural space La pelanda, managed by Museum MACRO. Award-winning videos and finalist videos will be displayed in a group exhibition (15-18 September, 2010) that will be also touring across some Italian museums.

Awards: 1st Prize: € 3.500 - Art Critic Prize: € 1.000 - Audience Prize: € 500
Submissions will be accepted until 20 July, 2010.
Entry fee for each submission: € 10.

Bridge song artist Susan Philipsz on Turner prize list

Nissan Sunny 'artwork' stolen, The Independent

Could it be the first artwork stolen by accident? It seems unlikely that whoever made off with artist Clara Ursitti's L-registration Nissan Sunny had realised that it was shortly due to go on display at an art exhibition in Cheshire – although they may well have noticed that something didn't smell right.

Ursitti, who also works as a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, had imbued the 1994 car with the luxurious whiff of a Rolls Royce, carefully recreated from an 1980s scented magazine advert.

Sam Stead Boat Launch

There will also be other events and works nearby that are also part of Atypical Root. For further information please go to the website and Sam Stead here

SpeedWork Dolphins

SpeedWork Dolphins from Paul Cosgrove on Vimeo.

The Glasgow International impact zone

Helen Shaddok: Schema

Artist chalks up commission to represent Scotland at top festival

AN ARTIST who works with chalk and lipstick has been selected to represent Scotland at one of the world's most prestigious festivals. Karla Black has attracted acclaim for her expansive floor works and hanging sculptures, created from materials ranging from powder paint to nail varnish and body cream. Now her works will form the Scottish representation at the Venice Biennale next year.

Atypical public art = EVERYWHERE!

Is this your idea of art?........Well yes, it is!

"The Health and Safety Violations"

dorkbot-nyc, 02 September 2009 -- Ben Woodeson: The Health and Safety Violations from dorkbot on Vimeo.

Trained in Glasgow, Scotland, Ben Woodeson now lives in London, England. His practice revolves around absurd and quietly confrontational sculptures; the works set out to challenge the viewer and the exhibiting institution in a playful kind of art chicken. Since December 2008 he has been working on a new series of "deliberately dangerous" works entitled "The Health and Safety Violations" and as part of Location One's Virtual Residency programme he has been collaborating with the artist Ursula Endleicher, they have never met but will spend the last week before the exhibition opens on 9/9 finalizing works together. He has shown throughout Europe, Canada, and America and he has an upcoming solo show at Electrohype in Malmo, Sweden.

Pecha_Kucha

The inaugural whole-school pecha kucha will commence at 5.30pm on thursday 22nd april. Join this group to be the first to hear about news and get updates on speakers etc. Tickets

Psycho back in town

Central Station: Mhairi Sharp in the LIST

Our showcase of up-and-coming young talent in association with Central Station focuses on the work of Mhairi Sharp, currently in her final year studying sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art. Her physical objects, text-based works, photography and found objects explore nostalgia for 80s football casuals and terrace culture, in particular the fashion of this sub-culture. Mhairi says of her work: ‘I strive to provoke reflection and pay tribute to this lesser know sub-culture to which football and fashion mattered more, than corporate hospitality and sanitised stadia … I am able to move my work both inside and outside of the gallery environment; allowing my work to be viewed by different audiences.

Government raises curtain on £600,000 Creative Bursaries Scheme to help talented graduates find work in the arts

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Culture Minister Margaret Hodge today announced a two-year grants programme to provide at least 40 internships with established arts companies for graduates from low-income backgrounds. The initial £600,000 programme will begin in September and be managed by the Jerwood Foundation.

The pilot scheme announced today will make it easier for talented creative young people, with an arts degree, to find jobs in a market where unpaid internships are common, and those from low income backgrounds are often at a disadvantage.

Interview: David Sherry - Artist. (SEA grad)

Hildesheim project

SpAdE VS. JOKER, thanks Sarah

Kenny Hunter’s I Goat Wins £45,000 Spitalfields Sculpture Prize

Mark Fisher

Chit Chat by Ruth Barker

Conversation has been flavouring the zeitgeist lately, as I’ve been chatting to Justin Carter and Neil McGuire at Glasgow School of Art about a cross-departmental St. George’s Cross Underpass project, and attending a few conversations regarding the tentatively proposed ‘Art Park’ in Bellahouston Park. more

Tilda Swinton sparked a row after hiring controversial artist David Shrigley to promote their latest collection.

Shrigley – a former newspaper cartoonist who also directed a music video for Blur – slated fashion shows as “boring”, adding that most models live on “fluff and cocaine”.

However critics have said that the film could damage Scotland’s reputation overseas, adding that it is crude and depicts Scotland as backward.

The video has already been shown in Milan and New York, but the former Glasgow School of Art student said it was “difficult to say” what the reaction was at the fashion events.

Smith and Stewart

Stephanie Smith and Edward Stewart are Glasgow-based artists who set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.

ROSS SINCLAIR: Real Civic Life

Lincoln, Darwin and The Monarch of the Glen in a Real Life Civic Portrait Painting Protest show, made in Scotland on the occasion of the 201st anniversary of the birth of Darwin and Lincoln and the 251st anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns.
Angelika Knäpper Gallery, Stockholm.

University principals accept 8% rises as lecturers offered 0.5%

The largest percentage increase was 17%

Stephen Skrynka: Theatre: Wall of Death: A Way of Life

MODERN society is increasingly obsessed with safety. Billboards instruct us to wash our hands. Recorded messages on stairs remind us to use the handrail. In the Noughties, it seems, there is a lot to be afraid of. Meanwhile, Ken Fox and his family are racing 1920s motorbikes round a vertical wooden cylinder without so much as a helmet.

Last years Newbery show

3rd Year Newbery Show 2009 from Paul Cosgrove on Vimeo.

Fleamarket!

Jimmie Durham at GSS and GSA

Jimmie Durham’s Public Programme at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios begins with a talk as part of The Glasgow School of Art’s Friday Event Lecture Series, organised by The School of Fine Art.

The Usual Song and Dance Routine with a Few Minor Interruptions

Friday, 29 January 2010

11am - 12:30pm Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street G3 6RB

Free Admission (First-come, first-served)

helenezs

GI Primer Events

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (GI) is pleased to announce a specially conceived series of ‘Primer’ talks and screening events taking place in the run up to the Festival in April 2010.

Organised and introduced by Dominic Paterson (University of Glasgow), 'Primers' are free events which expand on the Festival's theme of 'past, present, and future' through artists talks and a series of related screenings of artists’ films. These events offer a chance to reflect on the approaches contemporary artists have taken to this theme.

The first event in the Primers programme will take place on 27 January in GMAC and presents film works by Marine Hugonnier and Marjolijn Dijkman. Hugonnier's 'The Last Tour' (2005) is a beautiful film of a fictional journey by hot-air balloon, supposedly taking place at the end of our 'Age of Spectacle'; Dijkman's 'Wandering Through the Future' (2007) is a compendium of cinematic visions of the future, from Bladerunner to Barbarella. Both films deal in imagined futures and their relationship to our past and present.

Artists talks by Susan Philipsz and Gerard Byrne will take place on 9 and 23 February in Yudowitz Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue Glasgow.

Places for the screening event are free but limited, to book a space please contact GMAC on info@g-mac.co.uk

Further ‘Primer’ screenings will take place on 17 February and 17 March between 6-8pm, in GMAC.

For further information on the 'Primer' events please check our website on www.glasgowinternational.org

Please join up with our network sites at myspace.com/GiFestival and on our Facebook page (just search GI Festival) where we can keep you updated with events and on-line activity.

Shauna McMullan

Nicky Bird

David Harding

http://www.davidharding.net/

Applying to Sculpture and Environmental Art

If you are making an application to Sculpture and Environmental Art


1st Submit Application Form to UCAS

2nd Submit Supporting Visual Work and Statement to http://application.gsa.ac.uk/

Best of luck, we looking forward to seeing your application.

For more information on how to apply, go to our main website GSA

Aruba Red - 'Light Up Light Up' feat. Jah Cure. Video by SEA graduate Kyla Bruce

Ink Utero: Thom Walker, Michael Kent & Tom Varley

the game of noticing the world around you

Katrina Brown, Gi Festival Director, Talk

Katrina Brown, Gi Festival Director

Thursday 26th November 2009

5 - 6pm

Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow

FREE

The talk will also include an insight in to some of the highlights of next year's festival.

Mierle Ukeles: Letter to a young artist

In the summer of 2005, artonpaper magazine published a special issue titled "Letters to a Young Artist," inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet." It included a collection of twelve letters by established artists written in response to a letter from a fictional "young artist" - a recent art school graduate who is struggling with the moral and practical implications of being an artist in New York City.

As you slip into silence: exhibition preview Friday 13th

Featuring new work by Lynn Hynd and Sam Stead.

Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow

14th – 27th November 2009

Open Tuesday- Saturday 12-6pm

Exhibition preview Friday 13th November 6-8pm

A journey into the American West

This autumn I am taking part in a field research program run by the University of New Mexico. The program includes undergraduate and post graduate fine art students. We spend over 50 nights in the field traveling over 8000 miles through New Mexico, Utah,Arizona and to the borders of Nevada and Texas. En route we will visit monumental earth works. We will use the desert landscape as a studio to live, work and learn.

A Time And A Place

Now in its second year, Place Projects is fast becoming an integral part of the Collective Gallery’s ever-expanding New Work Scotland Programme. The artist-led initiative aims to support emerging artists by developing a community in which constant dialogue leads to the creation of art. Places are coveted by recent graduates, eager to be nurtured by one of Scotland’s leading galleries and keen to collaborate with some of the country’s most talented up-and-coming artists.

In keeping with this spirit of the free exchange of ideas, The Journal spoke to Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) graduate Rachel MacLean and Glasgow School of Art alumnus Simon Gowing (SEA). Maclean and Gowing’s collaboration, The Principal Inhabitants of the Moon, is the first of two Place Projects to be shown at the Collective Gallery.

"By drawing attention to a failure, can it be made into just an everyday event, rather than something negative?"

log in: yesterdaysfailure

password: ifailedyesterday

all contributions must be anonymous.

they can be as long or as short as needs be

a contributor can donate as many or as few failures as they wish, day by day.

Roman Signer

mariele neudecker

Catalyst Arts, Belfast

Call for submissions for the Annual Student Show, December 2009.

Catalyst Arts believes in supporting artists at all stages in their careers, and the student show is our main showcase for newly emerging visual artists, providing gallery support and fresh networking opportunities.

They are interested in presenting a broad range of innovative, exciting new work in any and all mediums.

This call is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students, including those who have graduated during 2009.

Those wishing their work to be considered for exhibition should submit a written proposal with artist statement and no more than 5 images of work. Go to the website for details

Closing date for submissions is Friday 6th November no later than 4pm.

iTunes U

iTunes U is a part of the iTunes Store featuring free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more, that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 200,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. With iTunes U, there's no end to what or where you can learn. More info here

St Georges X Underpass Project

A Glasgow School of Art Public Architecture/Art/Design Project.
A cross-school project in collaboration with Glasgow City Council and local community to redesign the public underpass at St Georges Cross.

jonathan richman - i was dancing in Oran Mor

Running Time is the first ever exhibition dedicated exclusively to artist films in Scotland.

Including artist,

Jason Dee, Mark Neville, Smith (SEA staff) / Stewart, Aileen Campbell, Beagles and Ramsay, Phil Collins, Pernille Spence, Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield, Kate V Robertson, Ashley Nieuwenhuizen, David Sherry (SEA grad), Alan Currall (SEA staff), Torsten Lauschmann, Roderick Buchanan (SEA grad), Douglas Gordon (SEA grad), Hugh Watt, Maayke Schurer, Rosalind Nashashib, Margaret Tait, Dalziel and Scullion (SEA grad), Ben Rivers, Matt Stokes, Ian Stephen, Stuart Gurden, Gair Dunlop, Jason Nelson, Roderick Buchanan (SEA grad), Henry Coombes, Duncan Marquiss, David Shrigley (SEA grad), Matt Hulse, Dani Marti, Luke Collins, Zatorski and Zatorski, Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir, Paul Rooney, Luke Fowler, Katy Dove, Andy Wake, Will Duke, Craig Mulholland, Tatham & O' Sullivan, Patrick Jameson, Steven Cairns, Will Duke, Michael Windle, Stephen Sutcliffe, Eduardo Paolozzi . Annabel Nicolson, Martin Boyce (SEA grad), Hayley Tompkins, Jim Lambie (SEA grad), Stephen Partridge, Anne Bjerge Hansen, Stuart Gurden, Tamara Krikorian, Jenny Hogarth, Alistair Maclennan, David Hall, Boyle Family,

Central Station is now LIVE

Central Station is a space where artists, film-makers and designers can talk about their processes, showcase their work, share tools and tips and access resources.

Central Station is made by Glasgow-based digital studio ISO (founded by GSA graduate Damien Smith) and is primarily funded by Channel 4's 4ip fund, the Scottish Arts Council Inspire Fund and Scottish Screen.

The Glasgow School of Art is a partner of Central Station together with the British Council and the GFT, with various activities and events from across the School forming part of Central Station's content.

Straylight Performance Weekender 2009

30DAYS 30ARTWORKS

AN ARTPROJECT BY ALISTAIR GOW AND HELENE ZAKARIASSEN SKULSTAD.