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.
16 September 2009 at 6.30pm
Trongate 103 is a brand new arts resource for the city of Glasgow and will be the new home for a range of Glasgow-based creative organisations including: Glasgow Independant Studio and Glasgow Project Room, GMAC, Glasgow Print Studio, Project Ability, Russian Cultural Centre/Cafe Cossachok, Street Level Photoworks and Transmission Gallery
Our visit will be hosted by the Glasgow Print Studio with Kerry Paterson, Archive Curator, presenting their celebratory launch exhibition, Past impressions – 30 years in print. The visit will also include a unique opportunity to tour the Glasgow Print Studios new custom-built printmaking workshops and studios.
Past impressions – 30 years in print is a rich and varied exhibition celebrating the art of printmaking as an integral part of contemporary Scottish visual arts. A precis of the fabulous work produced at Glasgow Print Studio over three decades, this exhibition is also the culmination of the initial stages of a larger archive project. Two years of cataloguing and conserving a treasure trove of art works, printing blocks and plates, associated drawings and related objects has ensured the preservation of the largest and most significant collection of printmaking in Scotland from the 1970s to present day; providing a fabulous resource for learning and research.
Bringing together work from the archive by a number of highly-acclaimed international contemporary artists alongside major figures already firmly placed in the canon of Scottish art, this exhibition will feature over 100 works by many of Scotland’s leading artists including John Bellany, Elizabeth Blackadder, Alasdair Gray, Barbara Rae, Christine Borland, Hanneline Visnes, Richard Wright and Martin Boyce. New Glasgow Boys Adrian Wiszniewski, Ken Currie, Peter Howson and Steven Campbell are also well represented in the collection.
GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO
Founded in 1972, The Glasgow Print Studio exists to encourage and promote the art of printmaking in the West of Scotland. Traditionally an original print involves the artist making blocks, plates, stones or stencils which are then hand printed onto handmade paper using non-mechanical methods. Glasgow Print Studio offer world-class facilities and a wide range of services available to the public and artists.
30 June 2005 at 6pm
Situated in Edinburgh’s beautiful botanic gardens, Inverleith House is renowned amongst international artists as one of the foremost contemporary art spaces in Britain. It has undergone extensive refurbishment in the last couple of years, which, as some of you will be aware, has prevented us from having an event there until now.
Director Paul Nesbitt (himself a unique hybrid: passionate botanist, crossed with enthusiastic contemporary art curator) will be talking us through the current show, Evergreen, which brings together eighteen of the artists who have had solo shows at Inverleith in the past couple of decades. In a microcosmic demonstration of the format at Inverleith, Paul has juxtaposed minimalism and conceptualism with beautiful botanical drawings, calling on an extraordinary array of international heavyweights and Scottish stars to contribute works. These include Lawrence Weiner, Agnes Martin, Carl Andre, Richard Wright, Douglas Gordon and Callum Innes to name but a few.
Paul is an inspiring and entertaining speaker, so it will be very rewarding to hear about his vision for Inverleith House and his dealings with these artists over the years.
