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.
15 June 2011 at 6.30pm
A visit WASPS studios at the Briggait, where we will explore the building, visit some of the artists studios and view the current exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Michelle Hannah.
The Briggait is a beautiful Grade A listed building in Glasgows medieval quarter, the Merchant City. Originally built in 1873, the Briggait was the city’s fish market for over 100 years. It has recently been transformed by WASPS Studios into a vibrant new home for over 80 visual artists and cultural organisations. Since its launch, The Briggait has scoped a series of awards and commendations including the Civic Trusts much coveted Special Award for Scotland.
For our evening event, members will have a tour of the building and an introduction to the organisation itself which supports up to 650 artists each year across Scotland. This is also a great opportunity to see inside two of the studio spaces, meet the artists who work here and talk to them about their work. Artist Michelle Hannah will also be exhibiting new work under the title Who Wants to Live Forever in the front exhibition spaces. Michelle’s work is concerned with the darker recesses of the human imagination and great themes of gothic art and science fiction and the occult.
