29 November 2012 at 6pm
This month, we will be going to Dovecot Studios to view Carpets of Distinction, a collection of new works that explores the connections between art and craft and mass-produced industrial design.
Curated by Panel (Glasgow School of Art graduates, Lucy McGeachan and Catriona Duffy), the exhibition pairs the traditional, specialist skills of the Dovecot Studio weavers with six contemporary Scottish artists: John Byrne, Alasdair Gray, Ruth Ewan, Nick Evans, Nicholas Party and Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan. The artists have been asked to make new designs for rugs in response to the Stoddard-Templeton archive, examples of which are also shown in this exhibition.
Panel are also exhibiting at Glasgow’s People’s Palace in Scotland Can Make It (until Jan 2013). Here, they have paired artists, designers and musicians with Scottish heritage brands such as Highland Stoneware, Tunnocks and Johnstone’s of Paisley, to make souvenirs of quality. The collaboration results in objects with an art aesthetic or sensibility.
In previous projects, as well as in the Dovecot exhibition, they have used archives as inspiration for new works, asking artists and designers to respond to historic material.
Lucy McGeachan and Catriona Duffy, rug commissioners and curators of the exhibition, will be joining us to discuss the work on show.
17 February 2010 at 6.30pm
A visit to the curated group exhibition LOVE at the Sorcha Dallas Gallery. The exhibition celebrates artists working in partnership, from long-term collaborators such as Gilbert and George and local duo, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan to Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton – two independent artists whose marriage has forged a common concern over the years in their artistic subject matter. The exhibitions title is an ironic take on the idea of respect or ‘love’ in some way assisting in the formation of the work and a contradiction to the political subtext and criticality inherent in each of the artists practice.
For LOVE, Hamilton and Donagh exhibit works from their Northern Ireland conflict series. Gilbert and George exhibit two video works from 1972, A Portrait of the Artists as Young Men and In the Bush. Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan exhibit two sculptures alongside four new drawings made for their Artists Taking the Lead Olympic bid, titled An unsuccessful proposal for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, The experience being an experience like an experience you just had.
We will be joined in discussion by gallerist and curator, Sorcha Dallas.
Sorcha Dallas graduated from the Painting Department at Glasgow School of Art in 1998. Between 1999-2004 she co-founded and curated the moving gallery Switchspace, which delivered a programme of exhibitions showcasing Glasgow-based artists, at varying stages in their careers, in ever-changing unused spaces throughout Glasgow. The support and interest Switchspace generated, evolved into the establishment of a permanent gallery space by Sorcha Dallas, to offer a sustainable support structure for a new generation of emerging artists based in the city. The gallery currently represents fourteen artists on a local, national and international level, in commissioning, exhibiting and purchasing opportunities.
During the five years since its inception, the gallery has shown new and innovative work from the very best emerging Glasgow based artists as well as showcasing the most exciting emerging and established international talent. The gallery is also committed to supporting artists books, having made ten publications over the last five years, with two retrospective monographs on the artists Kate Davis and Alan Michael planned for 2010.
