20 February 2008 at 5.45pm
Spin: Glasgow’s next event will be a visit to Glasgow School of Art to view a new exhibition by Craig Mulholland. Members will also have the chance to attend a special screening of his new film and a talk by Craig at the GFT as part of the Glasgow Film Festival. We will meet the exhibitions curator, Grainne Rice.
Grandes Et Petites Machines refers to the Grande Machines of the French salon, large-scale history paintings, which focus on the physical mechanics of human struggle or violent revolution usually set against the crumbling architecture of authority.
This exhibition will endeavour to dramatically highlight the ethical issues raised by various information theories and their related technologies, focusing on their contribution to ideas of progress, entropy and their social, cultural and legal impact. In particular it will seek to expose the coercive role of such technologies in representations of sensationalism, secrecy and encoding in art along with the expansion of governing institutions and patterns of detection and surveillance. An installation of paintings, sculpture and video (spanning the Mackintosh Gallery at Glasgow School of Art and Sorcha Dallas Gallery) will reflect on the changing ubiquity of digital zones, where the virtual and physical coexist, whilst exploring concepts of the artist/creator/viewer as being complicit in the surveillance and division of objects. The concrete artworks in Grandes Et Petites Machines also function virtually as animated components in the accompanying video work Peer to Peer, to be screened during the exhibition period. Peer to Peer is an Artists Film and Video production supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen.
Craig Mulholland was born in Glasgow in 1969. He studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1991. Solo exhibitions include Hyperinflation, Tate Lightbox, London; Bearer on Demand, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; RFID, Changing Rooms, Stirling touring to the Whitechapel Project Space, London, all 2005. Recent group exhibitions include Blackberrying, Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, 2007 and The Metal Bridge, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, 2006. Mulholland was a recent recipient of the Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Artists Film and Video Award. Mulholland lives and works in Glasgow.
30 April 2005 at 10.30am
2005 marked the inaugural year of Glasgow International (GI) and Francis McKee did a tremendous job creating a dialogue between the international and the local, and between stars and up-and-coming artists. From site-specific installations and artists showing in Dennistoun flats, to studios and specially curated shows – there was so much going on that it would have taken three tours to cover everything. Spin members and their guests had an exclusive ‘highlights’ tour with free entry to the Glasgow Art Fair in the afternoon.
Spin visited two major group shows Campbell’s Soup curated by Neil Mulholland at the Glasgow School of Art, and This Peaceful War: Works from the Jumex Collection curated by Francis McKee at Tramway, as well as site-specific installations by Smith/Stewart at 64 Osborne Street, and solo shows by Michael Stumpf and Craig Mulholland at Sorcha Dallas, Tobias Buche and Nick Evans at Mary Mary and Will Duke and Elin Jacobsdottir at Market Gallery.
26 February 2004 at 6pm
We will be screening a specially selected programme of artists films, and offering some seriously substantial goody bags for all Spin members old and new. You will also be issued with your new, deeply desirable, Spin membership card. We are very proud of the new Spin identity, particularly as it has been designed by one of our original Spin members – Edinburgh designer Lucy Richards, who was just this week nominated for Scottish Designer of the Year 2004. Lucy has designed books for artist Callum Innes, architect Richard Murphy, pocketbooks publisher Alec Finlay and Tate Publishing among many others, and is currently working on a book about the New Scottish Parliament Building and a series of public art installations with PACE (Public Art Commissions and Exhibitions).
We are also delighted to be holding this event at the new Hallion Club – a private members club that prides itself on providing beautiful surroundings, good company and informal, friendly service – just like us!
SPIN CYCLE
SHOUT OUT Stephen Sutcliffe and El Hombre Trajeado
LIFT Duncan Rennie and Will Andrews
PITILLO DE LA RISA Suzanne Martin
QUARTET Duncan Campbell and Mary Hill
MUSIC FOR OTHER PEOPLE Daniel Warren
FANTASTIC CHICKEN Bronagh Keegan
MOTORHEAD Katy Dove and Devotone
ANNOTATE Cameron Duguid
HOTEL CENTRAL Matt Hulse
VENTURESOME ROCKETS G.F.M. and Hassle Hound
SMILE IN THE CROWD Craig Mulholland
