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Angelica Mesiti: In the Round

24 February 2022

We’re back! Finally for in-person visits to galleries in Edinburgh. This month, we are heading along to the Talbot Rice Gallery for their current exhibition In the Round, where we will be joined by curator James Clegg. This visit will hopefully mark the return of physical visits for 2022. 

In the Round is the first major exhibition in the UK of Angelica Mesiti, one of the leading Australian artists of her generation. Building upon her practice, it takes a dynamic journey that extends through historical painting, ancient musical notation, geological specimens and musical instruments. Mesiti consistently returns to communication and translation in her sound, performance and video installations, reflecting the struggle of communities to co-exist. Taking this unique opportunity to combine present concerns with historical research, Mesiti allows her artworks to echo through ancient objects and to materialise in new works made for this expansive exhibition.  

 

WASPS Artists’ Studios Visit: Louise Fraser, Jenny Pope and Carrie Fertig

25 May 2017

This month, we will be visiting three artists who each have a studio at WASPS on Albion Road. Artists include Louise Fraser, Jenny Pope and Carrie Fertig.

Louise Fraser’s practice incorporates drawing, printmaking and sculpture and is a response to the environment she inhabits. Her work draws people’s attention to the space they are in, the space they consume and the space they leave their imprint on.

Jenny Pope creates sculptural pieces inspired by beach-combing, collecting, bone structures and geology working with a range of materials including porcelain, limecrete and found materials. Through her work she explores the changes that happen in our internal lives and externally in the natural environment. Recently, Jenny has been working within a hospital, creating large drawings and wearable sculptures which explore personal space.

Carrie Fertig uses borosilicate glass as the main material in her practice of performance, film, installation, sound and sculpture. From the 20 May-2 July 2017, she will be exhibiting as part of Summa at the Royal Scottish Academy with an installation, sound and performance based on the physical, social and metaphysical events of death. The work she will be showing us concentrates on sound, including work from her group Torcher Chamber Arkestra, which features live music, fire, and digital manipulation of sound on glass instruments that she designs, makes, and repurposes.

This is a great opportunity to meet artists living and working in Edinburgh and to find out more about their working methods and approaches to their art-making

Workshopshop

26 November 2015

For our final meeting of 2015, Spin will visit Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. ESW’s Curator, Dan Brown will join us to discuss Concrete Antenna, a sound work in the tower created by Tommy Perman, Professor Simon Kirby and Rob St John. Concrete Antenna explores, through audio archives and specially made field recordings, the past, present and future of the ESW’s site.

Also on show will be Workshopshop – part-shop, part-exhibition, which includes a range of affordable contemporary artworks and commissions from Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s studio holders, programme artists and members including the following artists:

Catherine Aitken and David Murphy | Elaine Allison | Miranda Blennerhassett | Amy Boulton | Simon Burns-cox | Hans Clausen | Concrete Antenna | Covered In Toner | Sarah Dale | Jean Philippe Dordolo | Keith Farquhar | Alec Finlay | Clare Flatley | Andrew Gannon | Jessica Harrison | Christine Heughan | Kate Ive | Alejandro Lopez | Ian McPhail | John Mooney | Chris Muirhead | Despina Nissiriou | Jonathan Owen | Toby Paterson | Tommy Perman | Emma Pratt | Maja Quille | Jessica Ramm | Brodie Sim | Kjersti Sletteland and Tone Boska | Hanna Tuulikki.

The shop aims to support artists who work at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Artists will benefit directly from all sales made

Peter McCaughey

21 September 2011 at 6.30pm

Peter McCaughey is an artist based in Glasgow, who works internationally with a practice focused on the local. He describes his practice as people-centred, ideas-based work. His research is currently focused on landscape and memory, ritual, exchange, and how art and the artist might operate in relation to people in the public realm. His work is often site-related and time-specific. Sometimes the work is transient, involving film, video, outdoor projection, sound and light and storytelling; on other occasions the work is permanent, using more traditional materials and processes to explore experiential and conceptual ideas.

Through his recent work, he has been testing the contested role of the artist in the process of regenerating place. He regularly collaborates with artists, architects, engineers, writers, and community activists. To do this as effectively as possible, he established Wave, a small organisation set up five years ago to support and direct a team approach to large urban regeneration arts projects, public art commissions and various levels of consultation.

Currently, Peter is beginning the second half of a one-year residency at the Glasgow Housing Association as their Creative Advisor. He has also started his first project as an art commissioner for the urban regeneration company, Clyde Gateway.

Peter hopes to use Trongate 103 as both a traditional studio for testing and developing ideas, and a meeting place to test some of the models he is currently trying to develop that aim to bridge the lack of opportunities for artists working in the city.

Shelly Nadashi

15 December 2010 at 6.30pm

Acclaimed emerging artist Shelly Nadashi will personally screen her short films, show slides and talk to us about her emerging practice.

Nadashi is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Glasgow, having graduated from The School for Visual Theatre in Jerusalem and from the MFA programme at the Glasgow School of Art. Her practice encompasses a variety of media such as performance, video, puppetry, text, sound and object-making.

Nadashi’s work is simultaneously autobiographical and surreal, presenting narratives that examine the way in which personal situations are constructed from broader social contexts. This strategy emotionally engages and entertains the audience whilst concurrently creating a space for them to reflect on the wider themes inherent in these narratives, such as voyeurism, social pressure to conform and the effect of our immediate environment on our mental state. A sophisticated comic exaggeration in both her speech and gesture accentuate the pathos of her situation but also contradicts the melodrama by undercutting the seriousness of whats at stake.

Nadashi has sustained interest in working with inanimate objects. This performative mechanism mimics the relationship between the puppet and puppeteer, setting up a symbolic, fetishistic (mystical and sexual) rapport with these objects and attributing to them particular powers. This technique allows a forensic examination of lifes intimate moments that is incisive but dreamlike. The objects exist as documents of a performance but are also imbued with a votive quality independent of the text.

Nadashi has exhibited and performed internationally, participated in numerous group exhibitions, and produced an award-winning film. She is currently working towards two solo exhibitions.

Studio Visit: Raydale Dower

15 September 2010 at 6.30pm

Spin: Glasgow will be visiting the Trongate 103 Visiting Artist Studio to see the work of emerging artist, Raydale Dower, who will be talking about his practice.

During his residency, Raydale has been investigating new sound and sculptural composition. Interested in exploring chance and logic within electronic and concrete composition, the outcome will be located somewhere between the two art forms.

This artist residency is an opportunity for the artist to develop new work for a solo exhibition at the Changing Room, Stirling and engage in conversations within Trongate 103. A self-published musician, Raydale was a founding member of the band Uncle John & Whitelock and now plays in the instrumental Tut Vu Vu.

Often collaborating to realise projects, for Gi (Glasgow International Festival for Visual Art) in 2008, he directed and performed an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent, with Judd Brucke and produced by Lowsalt. More recently at this years Gi, he created Le Drapeau Noir, a temporary artist cafe installation and programme of events. The programme referenced Dada performance, underground culture, avant-garde and experimental music.

Dower is working on the first issue of Vexillology, a publication documenting the installation and performance programme at Le Drapeau Noir.

Torsten Lauschmann

23 June 2010 at 6pm

This month we will be revisiting the Collective Gallery to view Patchwork Cinema, a new body of work by Torsten Lauschmann which deconstructs the experience of time and cinema through the projected image.

As an artist, filmmaker and live performer, Lauschmann celebrates glitches and out-takes, bits in between and images that might be easy to ignore. Born in Germany and based in Glasgow, Lauschmann’s work has evolved beyond straight photography and film works to investigate the mechanics of digital processes, software creation, experimental editing, approaches to performance and the sculptural potential of video installation.

In Patchwork Cinema, Compilation 1, Lauschmann questions the formalised cinema experience and highlights the pivotal point in early cinema when film presentation was not prescribed in the same way. This work is an alternative cinema experience with an assemblage of found film footage with the addition of sound and lighting effects which have been programmed to trigger a further reimagining of how we view film.

Prior to entering Patchwork Cinema, visitors can view Digital Clock (Growing Zeros) 2010 consisting of a looped 24-hour projection of a digital clock with the red numerals changed manually by visible hands. This less formal digital time matches correct time local time. We will also be able to see Lauschmanns experiment with pre-cinema optics which transforms one of Collectives gallery spaces into a camera obscura.

Katy Dove

19 November 2008 at 6.30pm

Join our SPIN host Alhena Katsof and the artist Katy Dove for a discussion about Katy’s solo exhibition Rhythm Section.

Rhythm Section is the culmination of Katy’s two-year residency at Platform. Working in collaboration with musicians, architects, a choreographer and artist Simon Yuill, she has produced a body of new work that includes an animated film exhibited alongside watercolours, drawings and paintings. These works exemplify her ongoing approach to slowing down time and concentrating the viewer’s attention through colour shifts, sound, simple forms and shapes that build into immersive environments. The exhibition reflects the diversity of opportunity open to Katy during her PARTners residency and combines both Katy’s own studio-based practice and work made through community projects.

Rhythm Section will be the first major exhibition at Platform since it opened in 2007. The Bridge, the award-winning building which houses the gallery, was designed by Gareth Hoskins. It has been the recipient of numerous awards to date including the Royal Institute of British Architects National Award (2007), the Scottish Design Awards Best Public Building (2007) and the Scottish Design Awards Architecture Grand Prix 2007.

Today your love, tomorrow the world

16 May 2007 at 6.30pm

For the next SPIN:Glasgow event, we will be visiting Lowsalt, a Glasgow-based, artist-led, not for profit organisation.

Still in its infancy, the organisation was set up in early 2006 with a fundamental focus on creativity and experimentation. Lowsalt aims to promote and facilitate emerging and established artists across a broad range of disciplines, and provides opportunities for artists to produce and exhibit their work within a free and professional environment. Lowsalt does not have a permanent space within the city, and has recently moved to these premises after having successfully exhibited work across the city in a disused shop front in the Saltmarket.

Lowsalt was established, and is run by, practising artists Kristy Schindler and Rebecca Anson-Armstrong, who act as programming and curatorial facilitators. Krisdy Schindler will be joining us to talk about the organisation and the exhibition.

Today your love, tomorrow the world is an exhibition of new work by four artists from around the world who are now based in Glasgow: Benjamin Merris, Hrafnhildur Hallsdottir, Alhena Katsof and Baldvin Ringsted. Loosely inspired by the Ramones song title, the exhibition comprises work that combines visions of post-rock melancholy with the bitter irony of songs of yore, featuring video, collage and drawing.

BENJAMIN MERRIS is an American artist living and working in Glasgow. Ben studied at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and moonlighted as a professional monster wrestler for three years. Romantic, unshakable childhood visions and the Glasgow School of Art MFA Course brought him to a new home. In the past year, he has exhibited and performed at intermedia in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and at CAFA in Beijing.

HRAFNHILDUR HALLSDOTTIR’s work strategically uses and abuses everyday materials. Her affinities lie with the stuff that others discard or disdain – cardboard, thread, string, cheap felt-tip pens and garishly coloured feathers. The many references to music, especially rock music, emphasises the artists desire to lose her self, and us, within the sonic architecture of a thunderous riff designed to obliterate rational thought and collapse the boundaries between art and life.

ALHENA KATSOF was born in Montreal, Canada. Alhena moved to Glasgow in 2005 to do an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art. Alhena’s practice is directly informed by the conceptual and aesthetic sensibilities of collage, which are pertinent both in their visual quality and sociological implications. Embedded within her work is a fractured storytelling and an intimate, melancholic humour. Although not overtly feminist, Alhena’s work is indebted to a feminist dialogue and to all of the confusion and opportunity that it provides. Alhena has exhibited her work in Canada and the US, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Beijing. Alhena has made a new video entitled For Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World.

BALDVIN RINGSTED exploits familiar or historically important found sounds and events in his work. His installations have included sculptures, sound, video, found objects, paintings and written manuscripts. Born in Akureyri in Iceland, he now lives and works in Glasgow. Ringsteds background is in music. He studied jazz theory and also worked as a rock and experimental musician. Baldvin has had several solo shows and taken part in group shows and projects in as diverse places as Finland and New York.

Katy Dove and Victoria Morton

21 March 2007 at 6.30pm

Sun By Ear is an exhibition of new drawing, painting, print, animation and sound in Tramway’s main gallery space by two of Scotland’s most intriguing contemporary artists, Katy Dove and Victoria Morton, showing together for the first time.

In a stunning installation design by Glasgow-based architects Collective Architecture, Sun By Ear sees the 1030msq gallery transformed to encourage an experience of Katy Dove and Victoria Morton’s artworks as both connected and discrete, retaining the autonomy of each art work, whilst highlighting the artists’ overlapping concerns.

Katy Dove describes experience using animation, sound, drawing and painting. The starting point could be a piece of improvised music made with friends, a walk, or an open-ended drawing. Experiential reference points allow the viewer access to the work through their own experience, in the moment with no prior knowledge necessary.

Victoria Morton’s recent paintings have faces and animated parts, street corners, rooms and activity. They follow impulses of the body and the structures of internal and external spaces. She considers painting a way of registering daily experience in bouts of intense concentration.

Katy Dove (1970) studied Psychology at University of Glasgow and Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. In 2006, she had solo shows at Hales Gallery London and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. In 2003 she was one of the artists selected to represent Scotland in Zenomap at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

Victoria Morton (1971) is based in Glasgow and Fossombrone, Italy and is represented in the UK by The Modern Institute, Glasgow and Sadie Coles HQ, London. She studied painting at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated from the School’s Master of Fine Art (MFA) course in 1995. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2004), and Edge of the Real, (group show), Whitechapel, London ( 2004).