- Venue
- The Briggait Project Spaces
- Starts
- Friday, November 4, 2011
- Ends
- Friday, November 25, 2011
- Address
- 141 Bridgegate Glasgow G1 5HZ
- Location
- Scotland
Glasgow based visual artist Janie Nicoll, transforms the Briggait with an exhibition spanning the two glass box project spaces at the front of the prestigious multi-award winning building that was formerly the fish-market for Glasgow. Nicoll creates new installation works that employ assemblage and collage techniques to create vibrant, eye catching artworks that play with imagery and text thrown up by the process of dredging through her own musical heritage. Nicoll’s work uses an angry, aggressive yet painterly approach to transform the dual spaces playing with imagery associated with various sub-cultural movements such as Northern Soul, Ska and Punk, in a continuation of her exploration of themes to do with the notions of masculinity, fraternity and rebellion. Inevitably these works obliquely reference the socio-economic situation and the feelings of alienation that result. Janie Nicoll originally trained in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated from the Master of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art in 1997. Exhibitions include Vault Art Fair, Glasgow; Warehouse Weekend, Huddersfield; the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh; the Deviant Arts Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden; Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool; Generator Projects, Dundee; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; and the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany. In January she will be undertaking a Creative Lab Residency at CCA, Glasgow.
