Sandy Smith: Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition

An MFA in 2m 44s... from Sandy Smith on Vimeo.

Karla Black: Tate Britain

"That's what sculpture can do, it can be a pure engulfment and absorption in the material world, when you're not even aware of yourself, when you have no self consciousness, and you're not being watched and you're just purely absorbed in the material world. That is the best possible kind of escape – when you are fully connected to yourself.

"I think about art as a place to behave, as an escape, not just for me but for the people looking at it," says Black. more

Discussion Event: I am the architect, this is not happening, this is unacceptable

Artists’ strategies for working in public - learning from practice

 

Wednesday 25 April

11.30am – 5.00pm

The Mackintosh Suite, House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park,

10  Dumbreck Road, Glasgow G41 5BW 

The range of strategies, sites and locations in which artists make, interact and present work in public contexts are wide reaching - from urban cities to rural villages; from ‘official’ to ‘unofficial’ spaces such as galleries/museums to shop fronts, abandoned buildings and off-site spaces. The breadth of communities, commissioners or patrons and publics involved are equally diverse. What is this complex of relations; how might the different needs of artists, communities, commissioners or patrons, be understood, negotiated and represented; what can we learn from practice within these diverse contexts?

This event aims to explore these questions and more, through local, national and international examples and contributions from Lewis Biggs, co-curator Aichi Triennale 2013 and curator, Folkestone Triennial 2014; Professor Christine Biehler, artist, writer, and artistic director of LandArbeit, Germany; Henry Coombes, artist, one of six selected artists to represent Scotland at the The 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice; JustinCarter, Shauna McMullan and Paul Cosgrove, artists and lecturers, Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art

The event is Chaired by RayMackenzie, Art historian, and writer, author Public Sculpture of Glasgow

Tickets: £10.00 (Includes buffet lunch and tea/coffees) with post event drinks reception and viewing of Henry Coombes’ new film work commissioned by House for an Art Lover as part of GI’s Included Programme for2012, which is exhibited in the Sheds at the former stable block adjacent to the House.

Closing date for bookings Sunday 22 April.

 

Programme details available here 

Please contact Diane for further information

//BUZZCUT// Festival

//BUZZCUT// is a brand new festival, created as a positive response to the loss of New Territories and Into The New. Created and led by artists unwilling to get stuck in the mud, //BUZZCUT// has a programme supporting over 50 artists from all stages of professional practice. This brave new festival exists in order to maintain Glasgow's reputation as a thriving cultural hub!

//BUZZCUT// is a FREE festival operating on a 'pay what you can' system and it takes place in two independently run venues, The Old Hairdressers   and The Glue Factory.

//BUZZCUT// takes place between March 14th-18th 2012.

Job @SSW Curator of Facilities and Programmes

Post: Curator of Facilities and Programmes
Starting: 1st April 2012
Salary: £26000 Full Time
Closing date: 7th March (Interviews circa 15th March in Lumsden or via Skype

SSW is looking for a motivated individual, to work as part of our small team, and to be responsible for the implementation of an artistic programme that integrates with the best use of our facilities.

After the first fully functioning year since the capital development, the new role of Curator of Facilities and Programmes has emerged as an absolute necessity to better support our artistic programme. SSW is an institution that is reliant on infra-structure; accommodation for artists, studios and technical workshops and we require a dedicated person to ensure the smooth running of the facilities, and programmes.

This position will be responsible for overseeing the operational efficiency of SSW’s premises, ensuring the most effective use of SSW’s facilities and technical support for artists and communities. You will assist the Director in the delivery of the artistic programme (curated and facilities), lead on marketing and communications and documentation. You will also play a role in developing evaluation of SSW’s activities in such a way that will inform the future of how we develop this new and evolving programme.

3rd Year Sculpture Exhibition

SEA at Platform and the Bridge

A group exhibition featuring forth year students from Sculpture and Environmental Art. For the second time, Platform and The Glasgow School of Art have worked in collaboration to offer the unique opportunity for students to create site specific work. Over the past few months a selection of forth year students from the Department of Sculpture and Environmental Art have developed new art work in response to the architecture and function sites around Platform and The Bridge.

The show engages with the users of Platform in a variety of different ways, it places work in unusual locations within the building, challenging our expectations and perceptions of visual art. The exhibition will feature art works in the form of sculpture, film, projection, painting, projection, installation and text. Artists:

Mollye Bendell, Leanora Brophy, Sofie Fischer-Rasmussen, Steven Grainger, Philip Longstaff, Louise Malone, Mick Chen, Gail McLintock, Alex Misick, Roisin Strang-Moran, Ellen Schafer & Yuan Zhang.

Please join us for the opening event. Complimentary nibbles and drink will be provided.

GSA LIVE PLATFORM
Opening Fri 10th Feb at 6pm

You can get there by bus from just outside Queens Street Station, the x19 will take you straight there, just get off at the McDonalds

David Shrigley: Brain Activity - Exhibition Trailer

SSW Technical Placement, graduate opportunity

This is an opportunity for a recent art graduate to gain more practical experience and training in sculptural techniques and processes. Working alongside the Senior Technican, Technical Placement participants work as a valuable member of the SSW team, assisting artists achieve their desired outcomes, co-ordinating with SSW office staff in the delivery of programming, and assisting with the implementation of Health and Safety regulations. There is an emphasis on individual development and enuiry, and where possible Technical Placements will focus on the areas they most wish to address. As well as working and training alongside the Senior Technican, Technical Placement participants are expected to develop their own body of work while in residence. Participants will be provided with studio space and access to all facilities, which should be fully taken advantage of. more

'What the Hell Are You Doing?' David Shrigley

Squiggles, or ‘Shriggles’. That’s what you can call them. Some are. Some are concepts or mottos for life – written in pen on a scrap of paper. Some things are sculpture. Things and Shriggles. Shrigley’s universe. The Shrigleyverse. Do you want to go there? David Shrigley tapes a note, handwritten on cardboard, to a lamp post underneath a blob of clay in the shape of a little head. It reads: ‘Notice’ – While you are reading this there is a man in one of the windows high above you who is taking your photograph. He will make a wee model of you and put it with other wee models of other people. Then he plays weird games with them.’more.....

COME IN, WE'RE OPEN: Jess Higgins and the Garnethill Multicultural Centre

For one week only, the old tearoom in the Garnethill Multicultural Centre will be open for business, serving teas and coffees, cold foods and sweet treats on a donations and/or trade basis.

Jess Higgins from First Year SEA has reactivated the Cafe in the basement of the Garnethill Multicultural Centre on Rose Street. Jess and other students from First Year SEA will also be running various services throughout the week including....

HILL STORIES - a listening and talking service.
GIVING AND TAKING LIBRARY - a swap shelf for unwanted books.
SKILLS FOR TRADES - a notice board where you can post a note of a skill or service you can offer for free to someone in return for a skill/service from them.

As well as more small scale events TBC.

All are welcome for a cup of tea and a sit down, tell your friends!

Year of the Dragon

Happy New Year Everyone

This February, the Hayward Gallery will present the first major survey in the UK of works by David Shrigley

Spanning the upper galleries, David Shrigley: Brain Activity will cover the full range of Shrigley’s diverse practice from the past two decades of the artist’s career, including drawing, animation, painting, photography, taxidermy, and sculpture. The exhibition will feature some 175 works, the majority of which are new or never before shown in the UK. more.......

School of Art awarded grant to probe 'Glasgow Miracle'

Glasgow School of Art is to get one of the largest grants of its type to work out why the city has produced so many successful contemporary artists.

The money - £122,500 - will be used to investigate an archive of photos and recordings dating back three decades. It is hoped it will help shed light on what conditions and events led to what one curator has dubbed "The Glasgow Miracle". 

The cash has been awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

It was a German curator who first coined the phrase "Glasgow Miracle" to explain the stream of successful contemporary artists coming out of the city.

Experts believe more practical measures could be at play. They cite strong teaching, cheap studio space and a cluster of artists in one area of the city. 

The grant will be used to archive two significant collections of photographs and articles - many of them at the former Third Eye Centre where everyone from Billy Connolly, Miles Davis and Damien Hirst have appeared over the years.

Ross Sinclair (SEA) will be conducting a series of person-to-person interviews with artists who have made Glasgow an internationally recognised centre of visual arts will be also be carried out.

Researchers said as well as helping them understand the origins of the city's successful scene, it may help with future investment. more

I Had Been On Autopilot

Interim show of M.Litt Sculpture Students

Ellie Barrett / Jenny Lewis / Philippe Murphy /Alys Owen

Friday 20th January, 5pm onwards

Garage Space in the Barnes Building

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

Meet the Connect10 artist: Claire Barclay

“I am drawn to the more ambiguous museum objects,” she says. “They spark a curiosity as to their uses and meanings.”

She is also interested in information and ideas that relate to the psychological connections between people and objects, or between form, material and meaning.   more

Turner Prize won by Martin Boyce

He also used his speech to "acknowledge the value of accessible education and the importance of teachers" - an apparent reference to the rise in tuition fees and funding cuts to arts courses.

"If I wanted to go to art school now, I don't know if I could do it," he said afterwards. "I really don't know."

Art is "a really important and valuable part of our culture", he continued, adding: "The idea that you're going to go to art school now and it's going to be a privileged place to be is just so depressing." more

Martin Boyce at the Cooper Gallery

DESIGN RESEARCH UNIT: 1942 – 72

Artist's Talk Event
Martin Boyce

Turner Prize 2011 Nominee
1 December, 5.30 - 6.30pm

Please book for this free event here...