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.

Skeleton of whale and atomised jet engine on Turner Prize short list

A wall painted in liquid gold and the gigantic skeleton of a sperm whale are among the exhibits shown by the two Scottish artists vying for the most prestigious award in contemporary art, the Turner Prize.

Lucy Skaer, Environmental Art graduate, is showing a work called Leviathan Edge, which is the partial skeleton of a male sperm whale, including its skull, visible through narrow slits in a wall.

Richard Wright, who specialises in wall paintings, has adorned a room at Tate Britain in London with a symmetrical pattern in gold leaf.

New work Scotland

Work of Scots Turner Prize hopefuls on display

Lucy Skaer, who graduated from Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art in 1997 and lives and works in the city, is one of those in the running.

ONE & OTHER live stream

Arts Breakfast: Guest Curator: Ruth Barker of PAR+RS

Drawn Together: Natalie Lambert

CONSTRUCTS

CONSTRUCTS features a selection emerging artists working in a variety of disciplines and aims to bring together work that references or finds its inspiration from the structures, materials and forms of our man-made surroundings. Featuring both the work of artists who’s practice naturally fits this theme, as well as those who have created new works specifically for the show. The exhibition is a celebration of architecture, engineering, geometry and construction. The 13 artists have responded the show title using sculpture, installtion, drawing, painting, performance, photography and video.
Preview : Friday 4th September 6-10pm
Open Daily 5th-11th September 12-3pm

White House
(Next to Pentagon)
32 Washington Street

HALF LIFE

HALF LIFE Permanent Landworks are the legacy of NVA's extraordinary art event that took place in Argyll in September 2007. We have launched a website that gives new interpretations on the works and the sites that can still be visited, along with downloadable maps and directions. The four main routes include some of the most powerful existing Neolithic sites and forts in the area along with three NVA interventions, designed by Simon Costin and James Johnson in collaboration with Angus Farquhar. To start exploring visit:

Making Space: toward a public artwork for Glasgow Women’s Library 2 Artist in residence opportunities

Deadline for applications: Friday 24 July 2009

Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) seeks two 6-month part time Artist Residencies to be based within the library. The residencies offer an exciting opportunity for two artists to work with the rich resources of Glasgow Women’s Library - staff, learners, users and archive - to achieve the aims and focus of Making space: toward a public artwork for GWL. The residence opportunities are offered to develop ideas, visuals and participatory working methods that can inform GWL’s ambitions to realise a public artwork for their new premises at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. The residencies will support the artists’ investigation of Women’s histories and representation in the Public Realm, as well as potential means of engagement and consultation with diverse constituents of GWL.

For further details please download a job description, cover sheet and application information from here or call GWL on 0141 552 8345 or e-mail: info(at)womenslibrary.org.uk

The Art Fund Helps Hunterian Acquire Work by Turner Prize-nominated Artist Lucy Skaer

Optical illusions at Atelier Hermes

Your eyes will go spinning the moment you set foot in the Atelier Hermes in Sinsa-dong.

Artist Jim Lambie has covered the 326.81 square-meter floor with multi-colored neon vinyl tape for his first solo exhibition in Korea, titled "Nervous Track."

"It is like putting a new skin on the floor, almost like a tattoo. It also reminds of the lines of an LP," the Scottish artist told The Korea Herald last week.

Martin Boyceis in seventh heaven at the Venice Biennale

Glasgow-based artist Martin Boyce has filled seven rooms of the fifteenth-century Palazzo Pisani with a collection of installations he designed and constructed in his studios in Maryhill, Glasgow, in a large exhibition called No Reflections.

Douglas Gordon: Blood, Sweat and Tears

The Gibson Street Gala

The Gibson Street Gala will take place on Sunday 21st June from 12 - 6pm and I am inviting artists and art students to take part in an open air exhibition in Westbank Quadrant either as individuals or groups. A small fee of £15 would be charged for each section used by individuals or groups, within which work may be made available for sale. The art exhibition will be a new addition to the fifth annual incarnation of the event and we are hoping to establish it as a successful and permanent feature. The aim is to create an arts community site and encourage artists and art students to collaborate. This is a fantastic opportunity in terms of exposure and any additional creative ideas are welcome. We will have artists doing life drawing and I'm working on getting a performance artist to draw an audience. Gibson street, Westbank Quadrant and part of Otago street will be closed for 7 hours. We have live entertainment on the main stage in Gibson street throughout the day, kids entertainment in Otago street, 30 stalls across the bridge and a large courtyard(entry from Westbank Quadrant) with acoustic bands and other entertainment. We have space for more than fifty artists and I'm getting a lot of interest so if you would like a space guaranteed let me know as soon as possible. I can supply you with a table if you need one and we are looking into getting covers for work in case of rain but I would recommend artists to be prepared for that as well.

Marianne Vosloo's email for anyone intrested is marianne298vosloo@googlemail.com.

Jim Lambie. Spectacular New Sculpture for Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art

Martin Boyce interview: When in Venice

MARTIN BOYCE REMEMBERS THE precise moment he realised what was so special about Venice. Scouting out locations for his exhibition in this summer's Venice Biennale, where he will represent Scotland, he and curators Judith Winter and Graham Domke of Dundee Contemporary Arts took a boat to the Lido, the "beach resort" island seaward of the old city. Read more from the Scotsman

Roman Signer, Hammertone @ Palais de Tokyo

analogue : fourway

IRONBBRATZ is proud to present analogue : fourway. The show will feature the work of Ian Birkmyre, Pete Fleming, Kate Gallacher and Christine Leathem. This show also marks our foray into public space! Extra celebration will ensue.As always, bring quids 'cause I'm bakin' cakes.

174 Saltmarket, Glasgow.

Live Art Development Agency Tenth Year Short Films

The Live Art Development Agency was founded in 1999 to support the proliferation of Live Art practices and critical discourses in the UK and internationally. Over the last ten years the Agency has responded to the exciting, innovative and diverse nature of Live Art, by developing an extensive portfolio of resources, professional development initiatives and projects.

Julia McKinlay: Material Reflections

Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright shortlisted for Turner Prize

Two Scottish artists, one known for her intricate drawings, the other for his "thinking man's graffiti", have been shortlisted for the most prestigious, and controversial, award in contemporary art, the Turner Prize.

In a year in which the prize has taken on a noticeably more restrained air, Lucy Skaer (SEA graduate) and Richard Wright, who are both based in Glasgow and trained at the Glasgow School of Art, were yesterday on the final list for the £40,000 prize, £25,000 of which goes to the eventual winner, who will be unveiled in December. The Herald

InterventTech

InterventTech is a platform for art made or exhibited in the UK that explores contemporary life and experience. It’s a place for artists, creative producers and interested audiences to find out more about what’s going out there, learn about new opportunities and get involved.

Understanding that technologies are an integral part of contemporary life and human experience, InterventTech posts information and comment pieces about the UK’s art and technology scene. This covers visual art, media art, live and performance art, contemporary dance art, animation, games, sonic and sound art, computer art, AI and net art.

InterventTech helps to spread the word about emerging artists and creative trends, up-coming exhibitions and platforms, new opportunities, conferences, training and events across this area.

Tilly: 'Police Offered Me Bribe To Spy'

ART&RESEARCH

Spotlight falls on tactics of policing protests

Two Points of Contact

Come and visit the winners of the Duplex Give Away, Jen Sykes and Ane Oestrem, as they spend their one week residency contained in GSS car park.

Closing event on Sunday 26th April, 5pm-7pm

Cakes, cones and competitive fun will be provided. All welcome!

On Photography : Talks at Glasgow Art Fair

Talks by: Pavel Büchler, Laura Noble, Dr Sara Stevenson, Jo Longhurst
Friday 24th April between 12.30 - 3.45

John Cage about silence

Spiral Jetty (excerpts) 1970

'Small Sculptures', Pavel Büchler at Street Level

Friday 17th April - Saturday 30th May

Weds - Sat: 12 til 5pm - Free

Artist talk - Saturday 25th April, 3pm at Street Level. Free.

SHEEP SHOW