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.
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.
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.
16 September 2009 at 6.30pm
Trongate 103 is a brand new arts resource for the city of Glasgow and will be the new home for a range of Glasgow-based creative organisations including: Glasgow Independant Studio and Glasgow Project Room, GMAC, Glasgow Print Studio, Project Ability, Russian Cultural Centre/Cafe Cossachok, Street Level Photoworks and Transmission Gallery
Our visit will be hosted by the Glasgow Print Studio with Kerry Paterson, Archive Curator, presenting their celebratory launch exhibition, Past impressions – 30 years in print. The visit will also include a unique opportunity to tour the Glasgow Print Studios new custom-built printmaking workshops and studios.
Past impressions – 30 years in print is a rich and varied exhibition celebrating the art of printmaking as an integral part of contemporary Scottish visual arts. A precis of the fabulous work produced at Glasgow Print Studio over three decades, this exhibition is also the culmination of the initial stages of a larger archive project. Two years of cataloguing and conserving a treasure trove of art works, printing blocks and plates, associated drawings and related objects has ensured the preservation of the largest and most significant collection of printmaking in Scotland from the 1970s to present day; providing a fabulous resource for learning and research.
Bringing together work from the archive by a number of highly-acclaimed international contemporary artists alongside major figures already firmly placed in the canon of Scottish art, this exhibition will feature over 100 works by many of Scotland’s leading artists including John Bellany, Elizabeth Blackadder, Alasdair Gray, Barbara Rae, Christine Borland, Hanneline Visnes, Richard Wright and Martin Boyce. New Glasgow Boys Adrian Wiszniewski, Ken Currie, Peter Howson and Steven Campbell are also well represented in the collection.
GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO
Founded in 1972, The Glasgow Print Studio exists to encourage and promote the art of printmaking in the West of Scotland. Traditionally an original print involves the artist making blocks, plates, stones or stencils which are then hand printed onto handmade paper using non-mechanical methods. Glasgow Print Studio offer world-class facilities and a wide range of services available to the public and artists.
