26 January 2023
We start the new year with a visit to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery for the second iteration of their colleague exhibition, Artists at Work 2. The exhibition was co-curated by artists Aitor Moncho Tudanca, Darren Duddy, Silvia Barlaam and Victoria Gazeley.
Artists at Work 2 is an exhibition of art created by staff who work at the National Galleries of Scotland. Many talented artists work across the organisation and this exhibition celebrates their creativity. Following the popularity of the first Artists at Work exhibition in 2018, the exhibition highlights a wide range of artistic disciplines, from painting, drawing, illustration and photography to sculpture and jewellery making. The artists introduce their own work and share insights into their creative process through varied perspectives.
16 February 2011 at 6.30pm
A chance to learn about the work of the collective PANEL and visit their current show, The Innovators of Tradition.
The Inventors of Tradition is an exhibition, film screening and publication conceived by Beca Lipscombe and Lucy McKenzie (Atelier) and Panel, in partnership with the Scottish Screen Archive at National Library of Scotland and exhibition designers Martha.
At the intersection between art, design and social history, The Inventors of Tradition is a subjective study of the history of the Scottish textiles industry since the 1930s. It brings together samples of world-class design, the archive material of individuals and companies and a series of short documentary films sourced from the Scottish Screen Archive. In response to this material, the artist Lucy McKenzie and designer Beca Lipscombe, have produced a series of new works including clothing, furniture, painting and accessories.
Atelier’s new collection has been produced in collaboration with Begg Scotland, Caerlee Mills, Hawick Cashmere, Mackintosh, Muehlbauer, Janette Murray, Steven Purvis and Elizabeth Radcliffe.
Panel is led by design curators, Catriona Duffy and Lucy McEachan. Based in Glasgow, Panel promotes design and craft locally and internationally through exhibitions, events and cultural projects. By animating spaces beyond the gallery, the organisation is committed to creating environments that give audiences and designers the opportunity to engage with design and craft in imaginative and experiential ways. It also collaborates with a network of creative individuals and organisations, nationally and internationally, providing a unique and creative approach to curating and producing exhibitions and events, project development and management.
26 November 2004 at 6pm
Some of you may have heard Ed Ruscha speak with his old friend Janet Street Porter earlier in the month about his artistic practice and life in LA. We now have a chance to look at selected works in more depth, in the company of Glasgow-based artist, Ross Birrell.
Ruscha is a (anti-)hero of American art, and the exhibition at the SNGMA is a thrillingly comprehensive survey, starting with his very early pieces from 1961-2, and going right the way through to some great new works from this year. He was one of the first artists to combine word and image, popular material and philosophical concerns. Less widely known than the East coast Pop artists, Ruscha’s profile has been slow-burning, but his influence has been huge amongst designers, artists and filmmakers. Ruscha is the original and quintessential recorder of roadside signs and highway petrol stations – the current fad for books of Boring Postcards would not exist without him – but he is far from glib. With sustained viewing, elements of lyricism and compassion emerge from underneath his wryly observed phrases.
Like Ruscha, Ross Birrell explores, re-uses (and sometimes abuses) texts. His sources are more overtly literary and theoretical, but he nevertheless navigates the weirdness of human culture and experience in similar ways to Ruscha. He makes films, photographs, and text pieces based on his travels around the globe. He was co-editor of Justified Sinners, a survey of Scottish counter-culture. Ross won the Absolut Open at Inverleith House in 1999 and has shown recently in Amsterdam and Graz.
