Tag Archives: Tramway

British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet

20 July 2011 at 6.30pm

A visit to Tramway who are participants in British Art Show 7.

Spread over three of Glasgows key contemporary arts venues, CCA, GOMA and Tramway, British Art Show 7 comes to Glasgow with new works created especially for the city at each of the venues.

Occurring once every five years, British Art Show is recognised as the most ambitious exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, and comes to Glasgow for the first time since 1990. Organised by Hayward Touring and curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, nine of the 39 artists selected for the show have a special relationship with Glasgow, having been trained or still based in the city. Artists at Tramway are Karla Black, Roger Hiorns, David Noonan, Steven Claydon, Emily Wardill, Duncan Campbell, Luke Fowler, Sarah Lucas, Maaike Schoorel, Karin Rugaber, Keith Wilson, Edgar Schmitz, Matt Darbyshire, Cullinan Richards, Mick Peter and Spartacus Chetwynd.

Phil Collins – the world won’t listen

20 May 2009 at 6.30pm

Please join our host Alhena Katsof and curator Claire Jackson to view and discuss Phil Collins’ current solo exhibition, the world wont listen at Tramway.

Phil Collins uses video and photography to negotiate problems of representation by underlining the complex and unpredictable transferences that occur between the producer, the subject and the viewer. He often works in socially and politically contested regions, employing elements of popular culture, low-budget television and reportage-style documentary to articulate a form of critical proximity to contemporary media – both a fascination with and wariness of the ways in which they structure the lived experience itself.

For the exhibition at Tramway, Collins will present the European premiere of his acclaimed three-part video installation the world won’t listen. Filmed in Colombia, Turkey and Indonesia, the trilogy features fans of the influential indie-rock band The Smiths performing karaoke versions of tracks from their 1987 compilation album of the same name. The work has been generously loaned to Tramway by the Dallas Museum of Art, where it premiered in November 2007.

MFA Degree Show

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.

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).

Hiscox MFA Degree Show 2006

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.

Barbara Kruger

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.

Spin Around the City 2005

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.

Spin Around the City 2004

17 April 2004

Spin was invited by the Scottish Arts Council and UZ Events to organise talks, informal discussions and bus tours for the public at the Glasgow Art Fair. Spin used the opportunity to organise an exclusive bus tour for Spin members, which took in the highlights of RAW (Real Art Weeknd) and included a brunch reception (courtesy of Spins sponsor at the Glasgow Art Fair, the City Inn on Finnieston Quay).

Accompanied by artist and gallerist, Sorcha Dallas, we visited:
Tramway’s Hidden Garden, with works by Alec Finlay and others
Glasgow Sculpture Studios: Daria Martin and Sophie Macpherson
Glasgow Project Room: Torsten Lauschmann
Street Level Photoworks: Beverley Hood
Switchspace: Jane Topping and Lynn Hand
Glasgow Art Fair

Along the way we met artists Torsten Lauschmann, Beverley Hood, Marianne Greated (co-curator of Switchspace) and Jane Topping.