19 October 2011 at 6.30pm
Spin: Glasgow visit the artist-run gallery and studios, the duchy. Master Slice is a group show of new work by three Glasgow-based artists whose work examines the linguistic nature of an artworks presentation.
Neil Clements‘ work in this exhibition explores how an artwork could be argued to function as a barrier between artist and audience, occluding meaning as much as communicating it. Glasgow School of Art recent graduate Sam Derounian‘s work is founded upon collaged sculptural forms and compositions using screenprinting, painting, and drawing processes. George Ziffo‘s paintings investigate and challenge the boundaries between portraiture and abstraction.
Founded in June of 2009, the duchy is a new non-profit, artist-run gallery and studio space located in two adjoining shop-fronts on Duke Street, Glasgow. Their intention is to support emerging and early career artists committed to their practice, providing space to create and show work.
17 March 2010 at 6.30pm
We will be visiting the newly established artist-run gallery and studios – the duchy – to view their latest exhibition by emerging artist, Lauren Gault, who will personally walk us through her exhibition of new works and talk to us about her practice.
The Dundee-based artist focuses her practice on an interest in the realm beyond instinct, investigating both Lacan’s attack on the flaws in the nature of understanding and Girard’s focus on the mimesis of desire: a study that combines the impotency of meaning with the self-unfulfilling agency of desire.
For her solo show at the duchy, Gault will exhibit video sequences, sculpture and carefully hand-wrought objects. Gault explores desire as a spacial metaphor, using objects as tools and props relating to each other in sculptural parable. The work is unapologetic and often irreverent and always referencing the notion that metaphor brings about a new configuration of thoughts.
Founded in June of 2009, the duchy is a new non-profit, artist-run gallery and studio space located in two adjoining shop-fronts on Duke Street, Glasgow. Their intention is to support emerging and early career artists committed to their practice, providing space to create and show work.
