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.........

Adrian Searle: 'It's confusing. But it's the Turner prize' – video

Hilary Lloyd's flickering screens, Karla Black's crumbling craftwork and Martin Boyce's wonky rubbish bin blend sculpture, video art and installation in a new and unsettling way –but it's the quiet poetry of George Shaw's don't-care England that rises above it all. Guardian art critic Adrian Searle passes his verdict on the Turner prize 2011

 Guardian 

Art review: Turner Prize 2011, Baltic, Newcastle

This is a melancholy show, from Martin Boyce’s windswept library, in which a few leaves from his 2009 exhibition for the Scottish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale appear to have blown in with the draught, to George Shaw’s paintings of boarded-up shops. Film-maker Hilary Lloyd looks at the moon and Karla Black, who represented Scotland in Venice in 2011, has presented a beautiful room of painterly sculptures, which seem elegantly faded and purposefully tentative, as well as characteristically exuberant. Scotland on Sunday

Apparatus 22

 

26 Oct 2011, 6pm
Wed Night Open Forum

Mack Lecture Theatre, The Glasgow School of Art

Free admission

As part of the GSA's Wednesday Night Open Forum series comes a night of discussion on the work of Apparatus 22, a loose group of artists and researchers interested in the 'critical potential of clothing and fashion' and exploring long-term concerns about fashion's disposability. 

Apparatus 22 was initiated in spring 2011 after a reconfiguration process of the cutting-edge fashion label Rozalb de Mura (2006 – early 2011). Olah Gyarfas is a permanent guest of the collective. The group explore the crossovers between art, design and fashion, focusing on themes such as the critical potential of clothing and fashion, the long-term concerns about fashion's disposability, mixing fiction with reality, and blurring the lines between genders. Apparatus 22 often stage work as performances or art installations. 

Karla Black In Focus

 

A closer look at Turner Prize 2011 nominee Karla Black

Although officially dubbed a sculptor, Black’s exhibited work seems to defy classification, simultaneously occupying the regions of painting, sculpture, and performance. Upon passing through a maze of fragile polythene and paint-cracked curtains, the viewer is met with a monumental mountain range constructed out of crumpled sugar paper that fills the room. These contours are sensually coloured in pastel hues.  ArtLyst

S v EA It’s art, not sport – no-one should win, says prize favourite

THE Scottish artist whose soaring career has turned her into a favourite for Britain’s biggest art prize said yesterday she would “go away and hide” if she won. Sculptor Karla Black claimed that forcing nominated artists to compete with one another for the Turner Prize ruined their work by treating it like sport, and said she didn’t believe any artist should be chosen as winner. Scotsman

Seven-strong art-rock group Muscles of Joy - interview

The phrase ‘art-rock’ is a much-abused one, but in this case it seems appropriate. Each of the seven members of all-female Glasgow group Muscles of Joy is a practicing visual artist in their day jobs, most having previously attended Glasgow School of Art, and their sound is not what you might call unadventurous. While there’s a certain punk-rock rawness there, a lot of their songs are characterised by tonal experiments and playful vocal and musical motifs which straddle the boundary between the viscerally accessible and the avant-garde. List

Gateshead Installs Turner Prize 2011

The Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art will open its doors to the press and public later this week for the Turner Prize 2011. The four artists who have been shortlisted this year are busy installing their work and the press pack preparing themselves for the long journey from London, where they have been covering Frieze week, to Gateshead where the next big event on the art calendar is located this year.

The artists Karla Black (SEA), Martin Boyce (SEA), Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw are diverse choices representing Painting ,Sculpture,Video and sound art.  Artlyst

Glasgow's Turner connection

This week, the work of all four shortlisted artists goes on show at the Baltic, Gateshead – and two are Glaswegian: Martin Boyce (EA), whose sculptures do fearful things with modernist interior design; and Karla Black (S), who uses lipstick, pastel-coloured candles, eyeshadow and sugar paper as her materials. Artists based or born in the city who have been shortlisted in the recent past include Jim Lambie (EA), Christine Borland (SEA), Cathy Wilkes(S), Lucy Skaer (EA) and Nathan Coley(EA). There have been two further winners in Douglas Gordon (EA) and Simon Starling. Guardian

Dave Sherry, Visiting Artist with Third year this week

Kandinsky in Govan?

A Centenary International Conference on the Ideas Expressed in

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

by Wassily Kandinsky (1911)

In Govan, Glasgow, Scotland

weekend 21-23 October 2011

Cheryl Field at The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture

The Family Show at Mono

Helen Shaddock: Strength in numbers

A solo exhibition by Helen Shaddock at The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow, G1 5HZ

Exhibition Preview: Thursday 6th October 2011. 6pm- 8pm. Exhibition runs : 7 - 30 October 2011

Martin Boyce: Urban Legend by Andrew Cattanach

Martin Boyce is one of two Scotland-based artists nominated for this year's Turner Prize. Showing at the Baltic, Gateshead, from 21 October as part of the prize's annual show, we hear how the venue, the city and design have impacted on his work. Both Martin and Andrew are graduates of SEA. more

UNREST : Keith Allan, Caroline Gallacher & Ric Warren

Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow

Saturday 8th - Saturday 15th October 2011 (Closed Monday) 11am-6pm

PREVIEW: FRIDAY 7TH OCTOBER 6-9pm After-party with +44 141 Gallery & Market Gallery at SWG3.

Euan Ogilvie’s and Sogal Mabadi at Arches Live

Arches Live festival returns to Glasgow

The annual festival kicks off on September 20 showcasing two weeks of events from some of Scotland’s most exciting emergent artists in theatre, visual and live art, sculpture and music.

Neville Rae and Scott Laverie,

Work is underway to re-design the side entrance to the Rothes Halls. A design team of artists, Neville Rae (SEA grad) and Scott Laverie, alongside architect Iain McLeod, will be working on research and ideas for this project over the coming weeks and months. We will be using this site as space for people to contribute any ideas on the project. We will be continually updating this site with interesting images, ideas and text that is related to the Rothes Halls and Glenrothes.

check out the project blog

A SENSE OF PRESENCE

DO WHAT THE CLOUDS DO

DO WHAT THE CLOUDS DO

Roundtable discussion and screening

04/09/2011 | 16:00

An event for further discussion on the varying sensibilities toward the archive as seen in its practical manifestations, academic potentiality, and consumer appeal.

While archive has become a key site of inquiry within contemporary art practices, Do What The Clouds Do looks to deliberate the archive in its expanded field. Reflecting on the divergent elements which might organize ‘the archive’ as both an idea and a material accumulation, the event will look to the significance and practice of its contemporary forms. Do What The Clouds Do will work to interrogate ‘the archive’ as a site operating beyond testimony or authority, but as an active site of mutable transparency, heterogeneity, perpetual revision and distribution.

Do What The Clouds Do will consider what an instant archive might constitute in a roundtable discussion with Francis McKee (Director, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow), Malcolm Dickson (Director, Streetlevel Photoworks, Glasgow), Damien McCaffery (University of Glasgow), Glasgow-based artists collective It's Our Playground (Camille Le Houezec & Jocelyn Villemont) and Instant Archive’s curator, Nicola Wright.

The discussion will be preceded by a short screening of films and video clips selected by the panel, including Oliver Laric’s Versions (2010), with additional contributions from exhibiting artists, Emily Donnini, Ralph Mackenzie and Travis Souza.

Do What The Clouds Do will be chaired by David Dale Gallery & Studios committee member, Darren Tesar.

For more information please e-mail info@daviddalegallery.co.uk.