Ten years on The other day I received an email from Glasgow School of Art asking alumni who had graduated ten years ago what they were doing now. It stopped me in my tracks. Was it really ten years since […]
This month sees the culmination of a two-year project at Siobhan Davies Dance, one of the country’s most distinctive dance companies. Choreographer Davies has paired dance artists with visual and applied artists to bring their creative practices together and create new works ranging from performance to film and installation. The commissioned dance artists are Henry Montes, Sarah Warsop, Gill Clarke and Deborah Saxon who are partnered respectively with Marcus Coates, Tracey Rowledge and Lucy Skaer. Henry Montes and Deborah Saxon have also made a piece together with Bruce Sharp. Here, three of the visual artists relate their experiences.
I used to work on The Herald newspaper in Glasgow many years ago – before I took redundancy to go to Glasgow School of Art- I was one of the writers for the Women’s page (OMG! that sounds so sexist…). […]
Elizabeth Wewiora looks at allotment-based practice among contemporary artists.
I am always curious to see how galleries hang my ipad work. Now for the second time recently two galleries (Delta Studios and Transmission) have chosen not to mention that the work is created on an ipad using Brushes app. […]
Now that Forth Valley Open Studios is over we can all relax for a while. However we had a committee meeting earlier this week and we have decided that we are only going to allow ourselves a short break before […]
I had intended to keep a running blog on the Open Studios only it turned out to be too hectic. As soon as the studio closed there were special events and private viewings to go to plus Glasgow School of […]
Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow
26 May 2011
Blogger Ann Shaw talks to Andrew Bryant about working in the virtual realm, her career development from journalist to artist, and current concerns.
Time of our Lives…challenging perceptions of older people We were just about to start filming the soft rock group Steamer Lane on Saturday in the middle of Stirling when they started: the South American pan pipers with all their amplifiers […]
“Listen to your tutors”. That was the advise from an artist whose workshop I attended before going to art college as a mature student. Of course I didn’t! And I regret it. Now ten years later words from some tutors […]
The weeks and months after graduation can be a daunting time. After three years or more of support and guidance suddenly it’s time to go it alone. There are many different ways to pursue your career as a professional artist and no two people will follow the same path. Here, four recent art graduates describe their journeys: from joining a peer-led network to working as an artist’s assistant, they each have a different story to tell.
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
15 March – 9 April 2011
I am interested in how we communicate in the digital age when everything is free and instant. So, during a recent visit to the Caribbean I kept a travel blog and discovered a whole new sub-culture- on the internet: an […]
?Start with something organic!?said my tutor in Glasgow School of Art’s portfolio class. I thought of that this morning when I photographed this spider made during my second year at college as part of my first public art project (disastrous […]
The embellishment of international study resounds with the affect of writing and the scripture of applied materials to define a multidisciplinary art practice: but how do you pull yourself away from the developed peer structure of art school?
Francis Alys It is always a delight and a surprise to discover an artist for the first time- so it was with Francis Alys’ current exhibition at Tate Modern. Born in Belgian and now living in Mexico his work resonates […]
Graphic design supplied an impetus, as skateboarding provided public space for experimentation. Soon to be in his final year at Birmingham City University, Ryan Hughes continues to transform public sites with the durable object alongside textual intervention.
Richard Taylor finds out how three artist groups are re-vamping their structures as established organisations, to support new talent and promote a variety graduate activity.
Sogol Mabadi, Belt (Unbelt), performance, 2010.
Striving and surviving in the do it yourself art world; curating, managing members, self-publishing. Richard Taylor talks to three recently founded artists’ groups about doing it ‘DIY’, progress so far and what the future holds.
Pots of Liquid Flesh It was a Friday evening. Mike and Bill were playing chess and I was surfing the internet searching for images of Lucian Freud’s paintings. Suddenly I stumbled across a painting by Jenny Saville, and the hairs […]
Richard Taylor talks to Michelle Rowley about her career, practice and collaborative thirst for ideas.
