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Torsten Lauschmann

20 September 2006 at 6.30pm

Mary Mary is a small, artist-run commercial gallery in the city, following in the footsteps of The Modern Institute and Sorcha Dallas, which provides support for young artists at an early stage in their career. As well as a gallery, it provides a small amount of studio spaces for artists, produces publications and represents artists at international art fairs.

Torsten Lauschmann is one of Glasgow’s most interesting contemporary artists. As an artist, filmmaker and live performer, Lauschmann celebrates glitches and out-takes, bits in between and images that might be easy to ignore.

Born in Bad Soden, Germany (1970), and now based in Glasgow, over the past decade his work has evolved beyond straight photography and film works to investigate the mechanics of digital processes, software creation, experimental editing, approaches to performance and the sculptural potential of video installation. He creates new software for mixing AV freely available to all, holds workshops and screenings on video art practices, and produces sites specifically for other new media practices. This exhibition features new photographic works and film/video projections.

Group Show at doggerfisher

24 February 2006 at 6pm

This month presents an opportunity to see and discuss work by a group of young artists in one of Edinburgh’s most ambitious commercial galleries, doggerfisher.

doggerfisher opened in 2001 with a solo show of new work by Edinburgh College of Art graduate, Jonathan Owen. In a four-star feature in The Guardian, Elizabeth Mahoney wrote: ‘If it was in London, New York or Berlin, Edinburgh’s new contemporary art gallery doggerfisher, wouldn’t make headlines. But in Scotland, where an art scene flourishes without a network of commercial galleries supporting work other than painting, it is causing something of a stir.’

Five years on from this article, doggerfisher’s Director, Susanna Beaumont, is taking the gallery and its artists across the globe from Europe to the States. Not only is Beaumont promoting a high calibre of innovative practitioners, but she is still one of the leaders of this field.

There will be an opportunity to talk to Jonathan about his work in the show and reconsider Susanna Beaumont’s fascination for artists working in the medium of paper.