Molly Russell: How a devilish dad inspired a pet project

Dearly Departed presents an intriguing series of twelve life-sized animal coffins, stretching from a 4.5 metre giraffe to a meerkat. The daughter of the late Ken Russell, Molly has created a highly ambitious exhibition about her childhood experience. more

Russell is spending a lot of time in a factory in Durham, where she is collaborating with coffin-makers J C Atkinson & Son of Tyne & Wear. "I thought of all the lovely sweet animals rather than snakes and tapeworms and how coffins could be made. It made it less sinister – a giraffe isn't a dark thing – so it became something more sweet." more

MLitt in Fine Art Practice at the Glasgow School of Art.

Masters of Letters are the students of the MLitt in Fine Art Practice at the Glasgow School of Art.  MLitt in Fine Art Practice is a 12-month postgraduate programme, in its inaugural year.  The MLitt is a practice-based taught programme, with four specialist pathways in painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.  In this, its first year of running, 20 artists are enrolled.
These artists are:

Elina Aho * Emily Crowe * Sung Hyeon Hong * Natalie McGowan

Ellie Barrett * Nadege Druzkowski * Sukaina Kubba * Philippe Murphy

Blandine Bardeau * Nuntanat Duangtisarn * Jenny Lewis * Alys Owen

Richard Blass * Stephanie Gaumond * Lei Liu * James Sayer

Ondrej Chmel * Philip Gurrey * Samantha Madonik * Beth Shapeero

The Masters of Letters are pleased to announce the culmination of our postgraduate program

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART
MACKINTOSH BUILDING, RENFREW ST. GLASGOW
STUDIOS 30, 31 AND 32
31 AUGUST (OPENING) TO 9 SEPTEMBER 2012

Amy Dolan, Ziggy Sawdust

AMY Dolan, a 21-year-old arts graduate from Lasswade, has her own furniture redesign business, Ziggy Sawdust, set up with the help of the Prince’s Trust. more from the Scotsman

Liz West: Shooting stars

More cheerful are Liz West's images. A tutor at Glasgow School of Art once told her that every photographic slide should look "like a jewel" – and hers certainly shine brightly. This is serious colour-blocking: the 27-year-old contrasts different masses of uniformly hued objects in a supermarket to make an aesthetic experience out of a consumerist chore. more

Andy Knowles

Round Town is the debut single from production team The Nice Nice Boys - aka Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy and Andy Knowles of Johnny Marr and The Healers. Their collaboration with up and coming hip-hop artist Marvellous Macc Mello is an unorthodox mixture of high-end indie pop and uncompromising UK hip hop. Recorded in McCarthy’s Sausage Studios and mixed at Abbey Road the single is released on McCarthy and Knowles’ label Meat Records. more

ArtWorks Scotland has produced a survey as part of the next stage of research, to capture information about artists career paths, their views on professional development requirements, and details about the skills, knowledge and qualities needed to work in participatory settings.

They want to reach as many artists as possible, across all art forms, who work in participatory settings. The survey will take about 15 minutes to complete, and respondents get the chance to win a new iPad, and other prizes.

go to the survey....

Salon Art Prize

Over the past five years the Salon Art Prize has exhibited 428 artists and welcomed over 9700 visitors to our gallery in East London. To celebrate this success we will be moving to a larger gallery space to accommodate more artists per exhibition and will also offer an overall prize fund of £10'500. The Salon Art Prize supports Painting, Photography, Sculpture & Installation, and 2-D Media (Collage, Drawing, Printmaking etc.).

This year's selection panel consists of:

Gavin Delahunty (Head of Exhibitions, TATE Liverpool)

Godfrey Wordsdale - (Director, BALTIC centre for contemporary art)

Anthony Spira - (Director, Milton Keynes gallery)

Susanna Brown (Curator, Photographs, Victoria & Albert Museum)

more info here

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...

Christine Borland and Brody Condon

Christine Borland who recently completed a Production Residency at GSS with her live casting project 'Cast From Nature' invited Brody Condon to Scotland to collaborate on a new project together.

The project is one of eight supported through Creative Scotland’s Vital Sparks funding scheme. The Vital Sparks programme, made possible through Scottish Government’s Innovation Fund, encourages experimentation, radical new work and innovative approaches to engaging with audiences.

Condon is an artist based in New York whose work is concered with the relationship between actual and simulated experience.

Borland and Condon are collaborating with us and a team of medical education, and other professionals to develop a new joint project. Their new work, which is in its early stages of development, will explore the performative possibilities inherent in their shared interests; incorporating such diverse themes as surgery, dissection and weaving.

They've been travelling the country, visiting various production spaces, museums and archives both for inspiration and as part of their research.  The artists also delivered a talk on their work at the Pier Arts Centre Orkney as part of Symbols in a Landscape, a flagship project of the Year of Scottish Islands that aims to present events to audiences in Orkney that explore links between art and archaeology. They delivered a lecture on Thursday 03 November to 3rd Year Glasgow School of Art Forum for Critical Enquiry students, in a lecture series organised by Dr Ross Birrell. more

Anna McCarthy

REVOLUTION AND ITS MUSES - book performance from Anna McCarthy on Vimeo.

The British artist Anna McCarthy (*1981 in Munich) is an active contributor to the Munich based rock-band “DAMENKApELLE,” has directed a theatre play in 2011 in which a variety of Munich based artists were involved (“Ich dachte man darf alles”) and – for the last five years – works on an ongoing project entitled “How to start a revolution”. This summer (2011) she published her book “REVOLUTION & ITS MUSES”, produced on invitation by Extrapool (The Netherlands). She will present her book in the form of a "book performance" with discussions to follow with Julia Maier of the Kunstverein Munich. photos here...

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Adinda van ‘t Klooster

This solo show by Adinda van ‘t Klooster features works she made in the past four years, whilst doing her practice-based PhD with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland.

Van ‘t Klooster’s interdisciplinary practice incorporates site-specific light and sound installation, improvised audiovisual performance and biofeedback sculpture. Some works are made available through documentation whilst the main biofeedback artwork, the Emotion Light, can be experienced as part of the exhibition.

Bags of cash for Glasgow gallery

The Turner Prize-nominated Scottish artist Karla Black is demonstrating that, despite her success, she still remembers her roots. The former Glasgow School of Art (SEA) student has donated four signed limited-edition bags from her latest exhibition to a silent auction, the proceeds of which will go to the Glasgow Project Room. The Project Room is a non-profit making gallery, running since 1997, which exhibits the work of both aspiring and established artists outside the constraints of council funding. It thus ensures artists’ work is not overlooked through fear of its being unprofitable. more

dRAW

The Annual Sculpture and Environmental Art Drawing Show

Open to all SEA students, graduates and staff

Exhibition opens Friday 9th December 5-7pm

Exhibition runs until 4pm Friday 16th December

Deadline for receiving work Thursday 1st December

Submission guidelines:

All drawings must be made on A3 Seawhites Cartridge paper 140gsm. One free sample can be obtained from Moira Thompson in the Barnes building.

All submissions must respond to a selected title, pulled randomly from the box outside Moiras office. Anyone unable to visit in person please email j.carter@gsa.ac.uk

All submissions should be deposited in the box outside Moiras office and should have the following information on the reverse side of the paper: artists name, title and arrow to indicate orientation for hanging.

Postal submissions should be sent to ‘SEA Drawing Show’, The Harry Barnes Building, 9-11 West Graham St, Garnethill, Glasgow.

Atelier Public

Henry Coombes and Gregor Johnstone

Queens Park Railway Club are delighted to announce their inaugural exhibition. As part of QPRCs curatorial residency with program Gregor Johnstone and Henry Coombes.

Art Destroyed The World And It Won't Stop There

Coombes and Johnstone have spent the last two years collaborating on an iPhone app that would allow the smart phone to measure loneliness. It works by wiping the phone through your arse crevice to take measurements of bum-hole acidity. As personal hygiene declines following long periods of isolation the levels of acidity correlates perfectly to loneliness. The app was a total failure so they decided to make a film about the horror and futility of making art.  queensparkrailwayclub

Ben Woodeson: Experimental Station - Part 1, In the Laboratory

Danger, or rather the perception of it, is at the core of Ben Woodeson's work. The sculpture he's showing in Laboral bears the tongue-in-cheek name Health & Safety Violation #15 - Spiral twist hazard. I'm all for poking fun at the over-regulations that dominate cultural spaces (especially in England, a country never afraid of reaching new heights of ridicule in that matter.) Spiral Twist Hazard is a black cable that hangs from the ceiling and twists, untwists, whips and moves as if it had a life of its own. we make money not art

Henry Coombes at SEA

Henry will be running a project with our First Year students for the next three week, kicking off with a talk about his work to the whole department.

Turner Prize 2011: Turner Prize nominee Martin Boyce

Leaves and a waste bin feature in the exhibition of Martin Boyce, who talked to DAVID WHETSTONE to conclude our look at the four Turner Prize contenders. more

Lucy Skaer Film for an Abandoned Projector

Until 15 December 2011
Lyric Picture House
113-115 Tong Road, Armley, LS12 1QJ

In the darkness of the derelict Lyric Picture House in the Armley area of Leeds, the cinema's old Kalee projector plays a new 35mm film. Specific to its place, Skaer's sculptural film work is the imagined subconscious of the projector itself. Through repeated screenings, the film slowly bears witness to its own presentation through scratches and marks that visibly scar and efface the surface of the image. At the end of the project the cinema will once again be dormant. e-flux

Martin Boyce In Focus A closer look at Turner Prize 2011 nominee Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce's work draws on a wide range of influences, as much from the fields of architecture and design as that of art. His Turner Prize exhibition, evocative of a park landscape, contains a myriad of references to icons of Modernism: this is seen nowhere more clearly than in the centrepiece of the installation, a library table which was inspired by those designed by Jean Prouvé for the Maison de l’Etudiant in Paris. But to this quote, Boyce adds a further reference in the form of a hanging mobile, immediately evocative of work by Modernist artists such as Alexander Calder. The intricate handcrafted detail of the installation's focal piece reveals the in-depth research into the history of design which underlies this piece and the scholarly nature of Boyce's artistry.  more.....

Andrew Kerr - So Ensconced/Maya Deren

whilst Kerr's sculpture appeared temporary, inmprovised and possibly even slightly irreverent, both forms demonstated an affinity with nature and culture respectively. Born in 1977, Kerr (S) is one of the younger members of an internationally recognised generation of artists who have made exhibitions for Inverleith House in recent years, including Karla Black (S), Douglas Gordon (EA), Jim Lambie (EA), Victoria Morton, Tony Swain, Hayley and Sue tompkins and Cathy Wilkes (S). Gardennews

Meet the Turner Prize Nominees: A Q&A With Scottish Artist Karla Black

GATESHEAD— The Turner Prize exhibition is now on view at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, with the winner of Britain's most prestigious art award to be announced on December 5. In the run-up to the jury's decision, ARTINFO UK offered a set of questions to each of the shortlisted artists — Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd, and George Shaw — so we can get to know them better. This week we spoke to Karla Black. Artinfo

David Shrigley: 'With a cookery show I can deal with eating and killing'

"It's weird, really weird actually," says David Shrigley, sitting in his studio at home in Glasgow. The 43-year-old artist is attempting to explain a recent trend where people are having his crudely rendered, darkly funny drawings tattooed on their bodies and sending him pictures. He uploaded some on to his website, only for more snaps to come in. Then, earlier this month, he spent a day in a shop window in Liverpool scribbling directly on willing subjects with a sterile pen – free of charge, no design repeated. They could then cross the road to a tattoo parlour and have it inked in for good. The Guardian

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: A Feast for the Eyes: Food as Fine Art

London’s swanky Pied à Terre restaurant is notable for many reasons - namely the food, which has been the toast-of-the-town for twenty years, with a variety of gourmet dishes that are works of art (and taste) themselves. But some of the most unique culinary creations aren’t relegated only to the table: glance up at the walls, and you’ll see a month’s worth of fish dinners arranged into artful sculptures and installations adorning the dining room, and cleverly ensconced elsewhere throughout the venue. The staircase is lined with scallop corals, quail carcases embellish the walls of the upstairs bar, and those captivating white orbs arrayed on the skylight just happen to be sheep testicles. MutualArt

IT WRITHES: This weekend @ The Glue Factory!

Join us at the Glue Factory for a Hallowe’en party that damns your soul and burns your sorry remains in the bowels of our infernal warehouse! We have summoned the dead nags of Glue Factory past to help us brew a boiling cabaret hoof vat with live performance, installation and other inhumane activity taking place throughout the building. From the firey voodoo swamp of gut churning blues and hell leather rockabilly to the slashfest techno prison and (just a)live music throughout the night we’ll have something depraved in every sordid corner! Produced in association with our friends at 85A.

ARTISTS & PERFORMERS:

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James Stephen Wright

Jamie Clements

Jim Colquhoun

Drew Taylor

Anna Tanner, Jamie Bolland & Louisa Thornton

Michelle Hannah

Spudd

Dominic Samsworth

Robbie Thomson

Sven Werner + Graeme Miller

The evening's festivities are produced in collaboration with 85A

INFO:

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Doors: 9pm

Tickets : £5 Advance (available Art School union)

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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