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A Parliament of Lines: Aspects of Contemporary Drawing

28 June 2012 at 6pm

Our July event will take place at the City Art Centre to see a survey of contemporary Scottish drawing showcasing fifteen artists work, all of whom use drawing as an important element in their practice. Artists include: Charles Avery, Moyna Flannigan, Nathalie de Briey, Paul Chiappe, Euan Gray, Alan Johnston, Andrew MacKenzie and David Shrigley.

A Parliament Of Lines gets its name from social anthropologist Tim Ingold’s studies of growth and movement, in particular his observation that ‘everything is a parliament of lines .  . . to study both people and things is to study the lines they are made of.’ The exhibition is built around five broad themes: The Body, Architecture/Landscape, Minimal Abstraction, Reproduction/Photography and Sculptural Investigation.

Curated by artist Euan Gray, most of the work has been created specifically for the show and includes Nathalie de Briey’s watercolour drawings of incinerated objects from the Hiroshima bomb site drawn on delicate paper; Paul Chiappe’s extraordinary miniature reproductions of old-school photographs; Shrigley animation entitled Friends; Andrew MacKenzie’s meticulous layered images of landscapes and trees; Moyna Flannigan’s new suite of six drawings in ink and gouache depicting the story of Adam and Eve;  and a site specific wall drawing by Alan Johnston.

Drawing is not, as it once was, the foundation on which everything else is built. It is just one option among many, but it has certain intrinsic characteristics, which make it attractive to artists with very different preoccupations.

Joining us to explore these different areas of enquiry will be one of the exhibiting artists, Andrew MacKenzie. Andrew is a painter and an MFA graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. He lives and works in the Scottish Borders and has exhibited with The Contemporary Art Society, London, The Talbot Rice Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leeds and The Paul Khun Gallery in Calgary, Canada.

The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing

26 November 2009 at 6pm

The Fruitmarket Gallery celebrates the contemporary resurgence in drawing, featuring eleven young international artists including Jan Albers, Michael Borremans, Marc Brandenburg, Fernando Bryce, Kate Davis and David Haines.

In the Western tradition, drawing was the foundation of art education, the essential discipline underlying all others. In the second half of the 20th century, a more academic approach to art-making threatened the authority of drawing as a pure art form; as a result, many schools cast it out as a throwback to past times. Recently drawing has returned to the mainstream as a cheap and autonomous activity, a democratically available form of image making, uniquely capable of intimate, spontaneous self-revelation.

This exhibition of new work by eleven highly acclaimed young international artists includes small, intricately-crafted pencil drawings; large scale installations in which the ‘drawn’ lines are made from masking tape; and drawings that mutate into animation.

Langlands & Bell: Films & Animations 1978-2008

30 October 2008 at 6pm

This month we will be visiting the Talbot Rice Gallery to see the work of Turner Prize 2004 nominees, Langlands & Bell.

Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell have been collaborating since 1978, and exhibiting internationally since the early 1980s. This exhibition marks 30 years of their artistic collaboration and looks to re-assess their early and most recent film works.

Well known for their use of modern technologies employed in the production of their animations, sculpture, object design and interactive artworks, the exhibition includes a new neon sculpture, and 13 films and animations.

Whilst the early works have the patina of age indicative of the now superseded technologies used in their creation, digital media has become an important part of their recent working practice, with interactive works such as the installation The House of Osama bin Laden using the most modern of computer production processes. This work, created in 2003 after their visit to Afghanistan as official war artists, is far removed from the everyday, western televised experience of events in the region.

Joining us in discussion will be Zoe Fothergill, Curator of Education and Development at the Talbot Rice Gallery, to talk about the diverse nature of Langlands & Bell’s output to date.

Katy Dove and Victoria Morton

21 March 2007 at 6.30pm

Sun By Ear is an exhibition of new drawing, painting, print, animation and sound in Tramway’s main gallery space by two of Scotland’s most intriguing contemporary artists, Katy Dove and Victoria Morton, showing together for the first time.

In a stunning installation design by Glasgow-based architects Collective Architecture, Sun By Ear sees the 1030msq gallery transformed to encourage an experience of Katy Dove and Victoria Morton’s artworks as both connected and discrete, retaining the autonomy of each art work, whilst highlighting the artists’ overlapping concerns.

Katy Dove describes experience using animation, sound, drawing and painting. The starting point could be a piece of improvised music made with friends, a walk, or an open-ended drawing. Experiential reference points allow the viewer access to the work through their own experience, in the moment with no prior knowledge necessary.

Victoria Morton’s recent paintings have faces and animated parts, street corners, rooms and activity. They follow impulses of the body and the structures of internal and external spaces. She considers painting a way of registering daily experience in bouts of intense concentration.

Katy Dove (1970) studied Psychology at University of Glasgow and Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. In 2006, she had solo shows at Hales Gallery London and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. In 2003 she was one of the artists selected to represent Scotland in Zenomap at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

Victoria Morton (1971) is based in Glasgow and Fossombrone, Italy and is represented in the UK by The Modern Institute, Glasgow and Sadie Coles HQ, London. She studied painting at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated from the School’s Master of Fine Art (MFA) course in 1995. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2004), and Edge of the Real, (group show), Whitechapel, London ( 2004).

Katy Dove

30 March 2006 at 6pm

A chance for members to explore the ‘psychological possibilities of animation’ through the eyes of Glasgow-based artist Katy Dove.

This month, we are giving you the opportunity to view a new work commissioned by the Talbot Rice Gallery (TRG) and the Pump House Gallery in London. a who? consists of a series of watercolours painted on linen, presented as a large format projection, where forms and colour are interspersed through the ingenious method of animation.

The show also includes two earlier films and an intellectual collection of works on paper which present a truly fascinating perspective on automatic drawing. This is the first time that Spin has visited the Talbot Rice, and we are delighted that the artist will be present to guide us through her exhibition. It promises to be a philosophical trip through the realms of sound, form and colour. Kandinsky or Klee is a good starting point.

Katy Dove was born in Oxford in 1970 and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. She has exhibited in international shows including the Venice Biennale (2003) and the Prague Biennale (2003). She has exhibited at Tate Britain as part of their Lightbox, Art Now series (2003) and has had solo exhibitions at Transmission, Glasgow (2002) and the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2000).