30 July 2014, 6-7.30pm
Our July Spin event will be a visit to the Academy Building at the Scottish National Gallery for our first foray into GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. We will be joined by Keith Hartley, Chief Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art who will join us to discuss the work on show.
GENERATION is a ground-breaking multi-venue exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Scottish National Gallery and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and features landmark artworks from the last 25 years. It is part of the nationwide programme of exhibitions which takes place in over 60 venues across Scotland.
We will be focusing on the work on show at the Academy which includes new and existing works by Karla Black, Callum Innes, Rosalind Nashashibi, David Shrigley and Christine Borland, alongside the restaging of several significant exhibitions of the period by Steven Campbell and Martin Boyce. GENERATION celebrates the diversity, richness and power of the work that artists have made during the period, and which continues to be produced today.
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.
