20 July 2011 at 6.30pm
A visit to Tramway who are participants in British Art Show 7.
Spread over three of Glasgows key contemporary arts venues, CCA, GOMA and Tramway, British Art Show 7 comes to Glasgow with new works created especially for the city at each of the venues.
Occurring once every five years, British Art Show is recognised as the most ambitious exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, and comes to Glasgow for the first time since 1990. Organised by Hayward Touring and curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, nine of the 39 artists selected for the show have a special relationship with Glasgow, having been trained or still based in the city. Artists at Tramway are Karla Black, Roger Hiorns, David Noonan, Steven Claydon, Emily Wardill, Duncan Campbell, Luke Fowler, Sarah Lucas, Maaike Schoorel, Karin Rugaber, Keith Wilson, Edgar Schmitz, Matt Darbyshire, Cullinan Richards, Mick Peter and Spartacus Chetwynd.
20 April 2011 at 6.30pm
A visit to The Modern Institutes new gallery space in Osborne Street, to discuss the work of Glasgow-based artists, Hayley Tompkins and Luke Fowler.
For her latest show, Tompkins will exhibit a floor-based installation including colour photographs, plants, clay objects, watercolour paintings and other collected material. The work’s title, A Piece of Eight, refers to the silver Spanish coin, an early form of currency now often associated with piracy and lawlessness. Tompkins is interested in the cultural value of objects and their mutability. The use of plants and photographs within the work provide a tangible expression of the progression of time and the opportunity to imagine multiple realities.
Tompkins’ new work seeks to reproduce everyday sensory experience; replicating and heightening the visual and physical interactions we have with the world around us. Her work is an attempt to structure the objects, choices and ideas we encounter in our everyday life, and describe the slippage between our imagination, our perceptions and the reality we inhabit.
Also on show is self-with-other by Luke Fowler. The photographic works exhibited are part of Fowler’s ongoing photo archive. For five years, Fowler has been working with a half-frame camera to document his daily life, including events, friends, family and work. Due to the camera’s unusual frame size being obsolete – when printed within a standard 35mm frame – an accidental pairing of two images is created. In the group of works titled All Day Monday and Tuesday, Fowler presents new collages drawing on his photo archive, creating compositions covering an expanded time frame and canvas.
The sound piece Familial Readings by Luke Fowler & Toshiya Tsunoda was part of a work made at the 2008 Yokohama Triennale. Fowler asked his family and close friends to just read out a paragraph from whatever book you’re reading right now. These readings were then incorporated into a soundtrack for a film. A version of this can be heard here at The Modern Institute, and taken away on CD. Toshiya Tsunoda is respected in Japan as a field recording sensei, his work is widely known in the area of experimental music. Luke Fowler and Toshiya Tsunoda have collaborated on works including Composition For Flutter Screen and A Grammar For Listening Part 3.
Luke Fowler is known for his film portraits of socially radical figures; from the avant-garde composer turned political activist Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) to the Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing (1927-1989).
28 October 2010 at 6pm
Our Spin event will be split over the two modern art galleries to see the work of Turner prize winner Richard Wright who was commissioned by The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to make a major wall-painting in one of the public stairwells of the Dean Gallery; and Part 3 of the rehang What you see is where you’re at featuring the work of Luke Fowler.
Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright is best known for painting on walls, where the context and architecture of the space are the content of the work. Believing that ‘there’s already too much stuff in the world’ Wright describes his work as having similar qualities to a musical performance in that it exists in the memory of the creator and the audience, but can’t be owned, sold, or carried around.
The title of the rehang What you see is where you’re at comes from the film on display by award winning Glasgow-based artist Luke Fowler. Fowler’s film documents and explores the Kingsley Hall social experiment carried out in the 60s by the Scottish psychiatrist and writer R. D. Laing and is part of his ongoing investigation into radical thinkers and those responsible for the development of progressive ideas.
We look forward to you joining us in discussion to uncover how the Dean building’s architecture, history and present function have all informed Richard Wright’s work and how the medium of film has provided Luke Fowler with the unique ability to facilitate access to such a sensitive subject. This will also be a chance for us to see some of the new contemporary works on display as part of the re-hang including Robert Therrien and Gilbert and George.
