28 March 2013 at 6pm
For our March event, we will be back on home territory visiting From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos Collection at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One.
This remarkable exhibition brings together works from one of the foremost private holdings of modern and contemporary art, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, with major works from the Gallery of Modern Art’s collection.
From Death to Death includes a range of works that focus on the body as a theme in 20th and 21st-century art practice, as well as providing a new context for both collections, with artworks often staged in surprising juxtapositions.
Since 1994, private collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos has amassed a body of iconic modern and contemporary artworks that collectively express a personal vision and sensibility. Artists represented within the exhibition include Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy, Ernesto Neto, Mike Kelley and Sarah Lucas.
Keith Hartley, Chief Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art, will join us in to discuss selected works in the exhibition and will give an insight into the process of collaborating with a private collector.
31 July 2009 at 6pm
This month we will be visiting the home of Kirstie Skinner, founder of Spin and Programme Co-ordinator from 2003 until 2005, to see her private collection of contemporary art. Works range from a Jessica Harrison degree show piece from the collection ‘Motor Mouth’, a painting from Edinburgh based artist Andrew McKenzie and a Ruth Claxton postcard; to a baroque inspired painting by Moyna Flannigan, a Craig Mullholland etching from last year’s ‘Grandes et Petites Machines’ exhibition at Glasgow School of Art and a Charles Avery Triptych from ‘The Islanders’.
Kirstie Skinner specialises in the interpretation, mediation and research of contemporary art. She completed her PhD, Spectres of Minimalism, in May 2009 at Edinburgh College of Art, where she also taught for many years. Her articles have been published in books, journals and exhibition catalogues. Since 2000, she has devised conferences and talks programmes for National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow City Council, and regularly organises and leads foreign professional development tours on behalf of the Scottish Arts Council. Recent projects have included the creation of a website for the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland (a catalogue of over 130 acquisitions, accompanied by filmed interviews with participating curators), and Vocal, an action research project at the Collective Gallery focussing on gallery interpretation. From 2005 to 2009, she was a specialist advisor for the Scottish Arts Council.
We will be joining Kirstie in discussions about what draws her to individual works and how she approaches collecting contemporary art for a domestic setting.
24 July 2008 at 6pm
This month we will be visiting the home of Wendy Law to explore her private collection of contemporary art.
Wendy Law is an Art Consultant specialising in artist projects, the art market and collections. Prior to setting up her art consultancy business in 2007, Wendy worked at the Scottish Arts Council as Collections Development Manager, setting up the National Collecting Scheme, Scotland and `Own Art’, Scotland. She was Curator of the Scottish Arts Council art collection from 1995-1998.
Wendy first started collecting in London during the eighties when she worked at GillianJasonGallery which specialised in modern British work and contemporary art. Since then she has built up her collection and now owns examples of work by artists working nationally and internationally such as Toby Paterson, Victoria Morton, Haley Tompkins and Nina Saunders.
We will be joining Wendy Law in discussion about her collection and how it has developed over the years and what factors influence her approach to selecting work. With an emphasise on Scottish and British art we will explore some of the individual works within the collection as well as discussing Scotland’s contemporary art scene. We will also consider how to collect for a domestic setting.
27 February 2003 at 6pm
This month, we look at one of the country’s most famous private collections of contemporary art. Andrew Patrizio, Director of Research at Edinburgh College of Art, will help to explain some of the ideas behind the works.
