20 July 2011 at 6.30pm
A visit to Tramway who are participants in British Art Show 7.
Spread over three of Glasgows key contemporary arts venues, CCA, GOMA and Tramway, British Art Show 7 comes to Glasgow with new works created especially for the city at each of the venues.
Occurring once every five years, British Art Show is recognised as the most ambitious exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, and comes to Glasgow for the first time since 1990. Organised by Hayward Touring and curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, nine of the 39 artists selected for the show have a special relationship with Glasgow, having been trained or still based in the city. Artists at Tramway are Karla Black, Roger Hiorns, David Noonan, Steven Claydon, Emily Wardill, Duncan Campbell, Luke Fowler, Sarah Lucas, Maaike Schoorel, Karin Rugaber, Keith Wilson, Edgar Schmitz, Matt Darbyshire, Cullinan Richards, Mick Peter and Spartacus Chetwynd.
15 July 2009 at 6.30pm
Rob Churm‘s monochromatic drawings are composed with equal parts energy and discipline: densely worked cross-hatching and detailed expressionistic forms are anchored by blank space and crisp graphics. The scenes detailed by his pen are various and often surreal: a giant rose crying in the rain, a Japanese symbol being interrogated under a bare bulb, the words ‘lightning bolt’ buoyed up by a knitted Op Art cloud. Most of all, Churm’s work reverberates with the night atmospheres of the Glasgow bars and clubs where he plays a three stringed guitar and sings in an inimitable style for the band Park Attack. Churm includes intricately drawn posters for dates played by various local bands as part of his oeuvre.
Churm was born In Epping Forest in 1979 and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2001. Selected exhibitions include a solo at Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, and group shows at Broadway 1602, NY (If Not Now), Whitechapel Project Space, London (with SeriPop), The Changing Room, Stirling (DIY:Design it Yourself), Alt Gallery, Newcastle / Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (Harry Smith Anthology Remixed), Collins Gallery, Glasgow (run run), and Glasgow Print Studio (To Bring Forth and Give). Discography, Park Attack: Half Past Human’, (2006), released on Textile Records and Ba-Da-Bing! ‘Last Drop at Hideout’, (2004)
18 March 2009 at 6.30pm
This months Spin: Glasgow travels to Stirling to see a solo exhibition of work by Graham Fagen.
Born in Glasgow in 1966, Graham Fagen lives and works in Scotland. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Kent Institute of Art and Design. Fagen’s work focuses on the means of communication within a culture, and how it is compromised or transformed when taken out of context. Many of his projects have explored the notion of cultural identity and meaning. In 2007, Fagen was commissioned by Glasgow Museums to present downpresser, a major solo exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) for the commemoration of the abolition of slavery. He gained great critical acclaim for Killing Time, his collaborative project with Graham Eatough of Suspect Culture at DCA, Dundee. Fagen has previously exhibited at London’s Imperial War Museum, including Theatre (2000), the ICA and V&A as well as extensively throughhout the world.
somebodyelse is a solo exhibition of portraits by Fagen including a newly commissioned work. The portraits in somebodyelse combine real and imagined figures in order to explore Scotland’s contemporary and historic culture. Works from previous photographic series by Fagen are also on show.
