18 June 2008 at 6.30pm
Tramway continues its relationship with the MFA (Master of Fine Art) postgraduate fine art course at The Glasgow School of Art, by hosting the MFAs annual degree show.
Many of Scotland’s most successful contemporary artists have completed this course including 2005 Turner Prize winner Simon Starling, Claire Barclay, Louise Hopkins and Rosalind Nashashibi.
We will have a tour of the show and speak to a couple of the artists about their work and their plans for the future in the big wide world after art school.
19 March 2008 at 5.45pm
A visit to Kenny Hunter’s artist studio. We are really lucky to be able to gain access to Kenny’s private studio.
Kenny Hunter is one of Scotland’s foremost contemporary artists, graduating in Sculpture from The Glasgow School of Art in 1987. Well known for his sculpture in the public realm, works in Glasgow include Citizen Firefighter, outside Glasgow’s Central Station, and the commission for to celebrate the Christian Millennium, Man Walks Among Us for Glasgow Museums. He has also exhibited internationally including Feedback Loop (CCA Glasgow, 2004) and Natural Selection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2006. He will have a solo show at Tramway in July 2008.
It will also be our first visit with new SPIN:Glasgow host, Alhena Katsoff. Alhena is practising artist, graduating from The Glasgow School of Art’s MFA in June last year.
20 February 2008 at 5.45pm
Spin: Glasgow’s next event will be a visit to Glasgow School of Art to view a new exhibition by Craig Mulholland. Members will also have the chance to attend a special screening of his new film and a talk by Craig at the GFT as part of the Glasgow Film Festival. We will meet the exhibitions curator, Grainne Rice.
Grandes Et Petites Machines refers to the Grande Machines of the French salon, large-scale history paintings, which focus on the physical mechanics of human struggle or violent revolution usually set against the crumbling architecture of authority.
This exhibition will endeavour to dramatically highlight the ethical issues raised by various information theories and their related technologies, focusing on their contribution to ideas of progress, entropy and their social, cultural and legal impact. In particular it will seek to expose the coercive role of such technologies in representations of sensationalism, secrecy and encoding in art along with the expansion of governing institutions and patterns of detection and surveillance. An installation of paintings, sculpture and video (spanning the Mackintosh Gallery at Glasgow School of Art and Sorcha Dallas Gallery) will reflect on the changing ubiquity of digital zones, where the virtual and physical coexist, whilst exploring concepts of the artist/creator/viewer as being complicit in the surveillance and division of objects. The concrete artworks in Grandes Et Petites Machines also function virtually as animated components in the accompanying video work Peer to Peer, to be screened during the exhibition period. Peer to Peer is an Artists Film and Video production supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen.
Craig Mulholland was born in Glasgow in 1969. He studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1991. Solo exhibitions include Hyperinflation, Tate Lightbox, London; Bearer on Demand, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; RFID, Changing Rooms, Stirling touring to the Whitechapel Project Space, London, all 2005. Recent group exhibitions include Blackberrying, Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, 2007 and The Metal Bridge, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, 2006. Mulholland was a recent recipient of the Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Artists Film and Video Award. Mulholland lives and works in Glasgow.
19 September 2007 at 6.30pm
Dani Marti’s practice is stimulated by what we perceive as challenges within the act of portrayal. He is fascinated by what lies behind the surface of the subject as an essence to be grasped or sought after through attempting to represent it. The dialectic between the possibility and simultaneous hopelessness of this endeavour emerges in the abstraction of large-scale woven works, and videos that borrow from the language of documentary.
For Marti, both weaving and (video) taping represent an act of bondage, a ritual which enables the artist to possess the person that is portrayed. The works become representational, not only of states of feelings, but also of regimes of class and power, and the idiosyncrasies of personal psychosexualities.
Dani Marti studied fine art in Sydney, gaining a Master of Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, in 2000; and in Glasgow, gaining a MFA at the GSA, in 2006.
He will be joining us to talk about his work.
21 June 2006 at 6.30pm
The next Spin: Glasgow event will take place at Tramway. Since its degree show time for all students in the city, Ruth Barker will again host an informal session looking at the Hiscox MFA Glasgow exhibition – the annual degree show of the postgraduate fine art course at Glasgow School of Art.
This course is renowned worldwide for producing graduates who go on to international success – last years Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, is just one of the artists who has completed the course. It also attracts artists from all over the world, so its a great chance to meet some of the most promising artists emerging onto the art scene right now.
Ruth, herself is a graduate of the course, will take you on a tour of the exhibition which is spread throughout all Tramway’s nooks and crannies. Along the way, we will be meeting two of the artists in the show, to talk about their work and their hopes and plans for their future career.
21 September 2005 at 6.30pm
The first pilot event for Spin: Glasgow is a visit to Barbara Kruger’s Tramway exhibition, Twelve.
Discussing the works will be John Calcutt, writer and lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, and Lorraine Wilson, curator at Tramway.
30 April 2005 at 10.30am
2005 marked the inaugural year of Glasgow International (GI) and Francis McKee did a tremendous job creating a dialogue between the international and the local, and between stars and up-and-coming artists. From site-specific installations and artists showing in Dennistoun flats, to studios and specially curated shows – there was so much going on that it would have taken three tours to cover everything. Spin members and their guests had an exclusive ‘highlights’ tour with free entry to the Glasgow Art Fair in the afternoon.
Spin visited two major group shows Campbell’s Soup curated by Neil Mulholland at the Glasgow School of Art, and This Peaceful War: Works from the Jumex Collection curated by Francis McKee at Tramway, as well as site-specific installations by Smith/Stewart at 64 Osborne Street, and solo shows by Michael Stumpf and Craig Mulholland at Sorcha Dallas, Tobias Buche and Nick Evans at Mary Mary and Will Duke and Elin Jacobsdottir at Market Gallery.
