25 September 2014
Our September Spin event will meet at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One for the second part of our discussion of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. We will be joined by Lucy Askew and Julie-Ann Delaney, curators at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art who will join us to discuss the works on show.
The extensive exhibition, presented across three venues, celebrates the richness and diversity of contemporary art that has developed in Scotland over the last 25 years. Artists working in Scotland have achieved international acclaim and the vibrant art scene in this country continues to flourish. Over 30 artists will be represented, with significant works made at key moments in the last quarter-century shown alongside new pieces and installations.
At the Gallery of Modern Art, there are new installations by Claire Barclay, Ciara Phillips and Alex Dordoy as well as immersive large-scale works re-visited by artists including Ross Sinclair, Graham Fagen, Torsten Lauschmann and Simon Starling. The continued vitality of painting and drawing will be seen in the work of Victoria Morton, Lucy McKenzie and Charles Avery. Douglas Gordon’s celebrated 24 Hour Psycho will be among the video installations on show, as well as Smith/Stewart’s Breathing Space and Roderick Buchanan’s Sodastream.
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.
27 March 2014
Our March Spin event will be a discussion of Jonathan Owen’s new solo exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery. We will be joined by Jonathan Owen and Ingleby staff to discuss this new work.
Owen’s work, in both two- and three-dimensions, involves reducing and rethinking existing objects and images. In this exhibition he has employed a kind of elegant vandalism to reconstruct and reinvent his ‘material’, transforming something found into something new. His sculptures begin as relics of another time: 19th-century marble statues that he re-carves into disjointed, re-invigorated versions of their original selves.
Similarly, the ‘drawings’ begin as photographs found in the pages of books. Working very slowly, Owen erases layers of ink, gently removing elements of the original to leave a ghostly trace of what was there before and creating a new narrative within the pre-existing image.
Owen was born in Liverpool in 1973 and graduated from Edinburgh College of Art MFA in 2000. He currently lives and works in Edinburgh. His work will be presented at The Briggait as part of GI: Glasgow International in April 2014 and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in the summer of 2014 as part of the nationwide exhibition GENERATION.
