SEA Masters Students Exhibition at the Whisky Bond

Private view 24 January, 6 – 9pm

Exhibition continues 25 - 27 January, 12 – 5pm or by appointment

The Whisky Bond, 5th Floor, Dawson Road, Glasgow G4 9SS

Featuring Ary Cahyono, Conor Cooke, Birthe Jorgensen, Jeemin Lee, Emil Lillo, Steff Norwood, Joanna Peace and Iede Reckman.

The Stick Behind The Door is an exhibition of new work from the Masters of Letters in Fine Art Practice Sculpture programme at the Glasgow School of Art.Using sound, installation, video and object, these eight international artists have converged in Glasgow to explore what it means to work within the expanded field of sculpture today. 

The Stick Behind the Door has been realised through dialogue with Kitty Anderson, The Common Guild, and with kind support from The Whisky Bond.

Edinburgh Art Festival Submission Deadline 11/02/13

Edinburgh Art Festival is pleased to announce the open call for submissions for the 10th edition of the festival, which will run from 1 August to 1 September 2013. Edinburgh Art Festival is Scotland's largest annual celebration of visual art and attracts over 250,000 visitors each year. more

In The Studio: Douglas Gordon

"I wonder what to do with the stuff I am digging up through my psychoanalysis. What do you do when you dig something up – do you put it back, or do you display it? Because if you display it, there would be a hole where it has been" more

GSA Grad: Simon Starling will create the Tate Britain Commission 2013

Leading British artist and Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling (b 1967), will create a major new project for the Tate Britain Commission 2013, supported by Sotheby’s. The annual commission invites artists to make work in response to Tate’s collection of British and international art. Starling’s ambitious new installation, developed especially for the neoclassical Duveen galleries at the heart of Tate Britain, will be unveiled on 11 March 2013. more

Claire Biddles:Glasgow art galleries: a multi-tiered model for other cultural cities

The city's art scene still operates on a system of mutual support between artists at different career stages, says Claire Biddles more here

Anthony Schrag, Occupy The Future:The Prospect of a Utopian Scotland

1st Year SEA working out with Henry Coombes

Cheryl Field selected as one of Axis Web MAstars

MAstars is an annual online selection of the most promising artists from the UK's leading MA courses.

Selected by influential artists, curators, academics and arts professionals, MAstars keeps you up to date with the artists to watch and gives you an insight into the future of the UK art scene. Use MAstars to find comprehensive information and images for each selected artist.

SEA Grad Artist Cheryl’s work has a ‘tech’ appeal, whilst being firmly rooted in an existential framework. Her showing embraced the rectangular space in an exhibition of three parts. The most eye-catching piece was the large wall-based installation ‘Fellows of the Royal Society,’ which shows the very early beginnings of the Higgs Boson. The three figures are shown in individual ‘particles’ of coloured mirrors. more

David Sherry, Bear Theory, 2012

SEA Grad Artist David Sherry celebrates Axisweb's 21st birthday with a specially commissioned comic strip.

FROM ROOTS TO RHYZOMES: POST-FOLK. NEO-FOLK. ANTI-FOLK. PUNK-FOLK. SUR-FOLK. DE-FOLK. NON-FOLK. PSYCHO-FOLK. ANY-FOLK. and THE ISLAND.

Call for screen based works exploring Folklore and Tradition as a place-specific dynamic repetition, where through increasingly complex mutations (or transmogrifications) past and future are overlayering and creating an increasingly abstract present.

We know the story, shape and rules of traditional games – “the overall effect**”, but also we’d like to see “a disequilibrium …, an instability, dissymmetry or gap of some kind… **“.

Selected works will be screened at unconventional locations around the island Papa Westray (Papay), Orkney and included into Papay Gyro Nights Touring programme. more

Sculpture making its mark transforming the cityscape of Glasgow

New sculptures crop up in urban areas all the time, often under the banner of regeneration, but the people behind the artworks and those who study them seem to have conflicting views of what matters most – for art to be pleasing to the eye, or to pose questions to the viewer? As Glasgow City Council plans the best way to commemorate victims of the potato famine in a public memorial, it is a question that it is worth considering. more

Graduate Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva to represent Macedonia at 55. Venice Biennale

Skopje, 12 November 2012 (MIA) - Project "Skin is Identity and Surface for Projection, Representation of the Soul" by author Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, submitted by the National Gallery of Macedonia (NGM), will represent Republic of Macedonia at the 55. International Art Exhibition "Venice Biennale", held 1 June - 24 November 2013 on theme "The Encyclopedic Palace". more

From Ai Weiwei to Anish Kapoor: the art world's love affair with pop

Top British artists are going Gangnam Style in support of Ai Weiwei. Alex Needham on what happens when artists dabble in pop music. guardian

Ai Weiwei does Gangnam Style

Chinese dissident activist and artist Ai Weiwei shows off his moves to the worldwide music phenomenon that is Gangnam style. The 55-year-old adds an element of his own when he appears handcuffed to a fellow dancer in one scene.

Open Day

Exotic Matter Exhibition

Exotic Matter Exhibition from Tim Dalzell on Vimeo.

An Exhibition of Collaborative work by Tim Dalzell and Richard Krantz, displayed in the Barnes Building at the Glasgow School of Art on 19th October 2012.

Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund – round three

The Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund will award five young artists (aged 18-30) £30,000 each to fund their practice for a whole year. Winners willalso be paired with a mentor from Sky to help them to develop their networks,skills and knowledge in the arts and the commercial sector.

The fund is open to applications from the following fields: Visual art: Including fine artists, sculptors, photographers, animators and video artists

Creative producing: Including creative producers and curators working in visual arts, theatre, film and performance/dance

Music: Including musicians,composers, songwriters and conductors

Performing arts: Including theatre-makers including playwrights, spoken word artists, directors, puppeteers and live artists Dance: Including dancers and choreographers

For further information/to apply for free visit here

Insight & outlook

Insight and Outlook is an exhibition of artwork and writing from prisons, secure hospitals, secure children's homes and criminal justice services in Scotland. This inspiring collection of painting, drawing, sculpture and creative writing has been selected from entries to the 2012 Koestler Awards – which has been rewarding artistic achievement in the penal and secure sectors for 50 years.

The exhibition has been curated by young care leavers with guidance from Glasgow artist David Shrigley. The exhibition is kindly supported by The Co-operative and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Exhibition opening

3–5pm | Friday 2 November
Exhibition to be opened by Baroness Linklater with speakers including artist David Shrigley and Colin McConnell, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service.

Research and Residency Opportunity

Accidental Mix - Field-work 1: the participatory maker

This 6-month Artist research and residency opportunity forms part of an innovative collaboration between Queens Cross Housing Association (QCHA) and the Department of Sculpture and Environmental Art (SEA) at The Glasgow School of Art. Accidental Mix is envisaged as an ongoing series of artist opportunities that will explore how a diversity of creative methods might support means of engagement with communities in the development of art in a range of public, urban spaces.

Field-work 1: the participatory maker, is the first in that series and aims to support the artist to explore and test the role of making as a means of communication and engagement with some of the diverse communities that make up QCHA.  Supported by Creative Scotland, Public Art Research and Development investment funding, this 6 month residency will enable an artist-maker to form a key part of the Accidental Mix project team and offers an exciting opportunity to develop working methods through materials and process that test ideas of making as a means of participation in relation to Public Art. The artists’ research in this area will contribute to and support the development of a strategy for public art within QCHA.

A fee of £9,000 will be paid to cover the artist’s input over 6 months between the periods January 2013 to June 2013, with time input to be determined by the artist in negotiation with the project’s partners. Up to £5,000 for materials and community workshops is also available; the allocation will be agreed with the artist and the project team however will include artist’s materials and public presentation of their research and documentation, which is likely to be held in the Accidental Mix base in Queens Cross, Glasgow.

This residency is offered on a self-employed basis.

Applications are due by 9 November 2012 and interviews will be held in Glasgow on Friday 23 November 2012

contact info here

CALL OUT: ARTSTORE FUNDED GROUP EXHBITION

As part of a new initiative to give back to the students of the Glasgow School of Art, the Artstore at the Artschool is pleased to  announce a new range of opportunities to coincide with the end of each term for students at the Glasgow School of Art.

This term, the Artstore will provide ambitious student projects funding and a space to exhibit outside the Glasgow School of Art. Applications are accepted only from registered students at the Glasgow School of Art. Applications for group exhibitions are given priority. Applications for solo exhibitions are generally not accepted but will be taken into consideration. Applications are accepted from any discipline (undergraduate and postgraduate) and we do not set parameters limit on material or method. However, applications with a focus on contemporary art practice are given priority.

Received Applications are selected by a panel of artists and creative practitioners based on the following criteria: the quality of individual work, the quality of the exhibition proposal, and the creative development it enables. The Artstore covers the cost of the gallery, installation equipment, publicity, invigilation, preview night amenities, and provides a small subsidy towards exhibitors’ costs. It is the responsibility of the selected artists to organise, install, and de-install their exhibition, all in line with the venue’s health and safety guidelines. For more information and application guidelines go here

Deadline for applications is 5:30pm on 26^th October 2012