Nick Evans Archives

Carpets of Distinction

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.

Spin Around the City 2005

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.