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