Lunchtime Talks Continue
Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GSS) are delighted to be continuing the FREE Lunchtime Talks Series due to recent success.
Talks will be delivered by national and international speakers every Thursday between 1-2pm in Gallery 2. Forthcoming talks will introduce a number of artists and practitioners to the community at GSS, and the city.
Booking is essential due to limited capacity. To book email info@glasgowsculpturestudios.org
21 April 2011
John Vella
1-2pm Gallery 2
At Glasgow Sculpture Studios
Artist John Vella will deliver a talk introducing his art practice as well as providing an insight into the Tasmanian art scene and spaces. This event was initiated by Artist Member Stephen Hurrel. Hurrel and Vella collaborated on a permanent public art commission in Tasmania in 2008 (SCAPE). The process of developing this piece via Skype and email will be discussed as part of Vella’s talk. They will work together again later this year in Italy.
John Vella (b. Sydney Australia) lives and works in Tasmania. He is currently the Head of Sculpture at the Tasmanian School of Art. Disloyal to studio disciplines, Vella's practice has developed across suburban commissions and historic contexts. Vella commits acts of physical and conceptual frottage on communities, objects and systems; producing 'rubbings' that recycle the act and artefact of lived experience, as a (sub)perversion of itself. Mediating status, value and 'damage by design' Vella develops diverse testimonies to the epic and incidental aspects of our personal and material histories.
28 April 2011
Sarah Forrest
1-2pm Gallery 2
At Glasgow Sculpture Studios
Sarah Forrest is currently The GSS Gordon Foundation MFA Graduate Fellow 2010-11 at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Forrest will discuss the developments in her practice over the past six months, reflecting on her recent exhibitions at Intermedia and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
Forrest’s recent practice has explored the potential within language to shape her own and other people’s perception of things – be this a place, person, object or artwork. During the MFA programme, Forrest created a series of works that position her voice, as the artist, in relation to a number of sculptural objects she creates and exhibits, the work hovering somewhere between fact and fiction.
Forrest (b. Dundee Scotland) received BA Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone Art College, Dundee in 2003.Since then she has lived and worked in Glasgow, completing her MFA in Fine Art in June 2010. As part of her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art Sarah spent one term at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Recent exhibitions include The Spectator, Intermedia Gallery Glasgow, Days, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Hands Across the Fire (GANGHUT) DCA Dundee, L.P. Hendriks Rotterdam, The Space We Made La Vitrine Quebec, Don’t Cry It’s Only a Rhythm, Generator Projects Dundee.
06 May 2011
Dr Peter Hill
1-2pm Gallery 2
At Glasgow Sculpture Studios
*NOTE THIS TALK IS ON A FRIDAY NOT A THURSDAY
Over the past month Dr Peter Hill has been running How To Build Your Own Superfiction lectures and workshops in Melbourne, Hong Kong, London, Edinburgh and Dublin. In his lecture he looks at a range of artists including Macrel Broodthaers, Nathan Coley, Seymour Likely, Alexa Wright, BHQF University, Joan Fontcuberta, Ingold Airlines, the Museum of Jurassic Technology and his own Museum of Contemporary Ideas.
Dr Peter Hill is a Scottish born Australian with dual nationality. After graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, he won a Latimer Award for painting at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1983 and between 1985 and 1990 he was publisher and editor of ALBA magazine. Throughout the 1990s he coordinated a residency programme for the Scottish Arts Council which brought Scottish artists to Hobart in Tasmania, and to Canberra, the Australian capital. As an artist he has exhibited his work Superfictions in the 2002 Biennale of Sydney at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and as a writer his book Stargazing: memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper (Canongate) won a Saltire Award for First Book of the Year in 2004.
He has written for Frieze magazine, Artmonthly, Artmonthly Australia, Studio International, Artscribe, Art + Text, AN, Neue Bildende Kunst, ARTnews, and Artpress. He is compiling a book of his selected writings called Curious About Art: Why Do Art Movements Change? and is currently Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at RMIT University, Melbourne.
For more information please visit http://www.superfictions.com/
12 May 2011
Mary Somerville & Colin Greenslade
1-2pm Gallery 2
At Glasgow Sculpture Studios
Mary Somerville was selected as the recipient of The Royal Scottish Academy Residencies for Scotland artist for GSS by a panel of judges from the RSA. Mary will be working at GSS throughout May and June on a body of new sculptural work. Her lunchtime talk will introduce us to her work and her plans for the coming months.
Mary will be joined by Colin Greenslade RSA Programme Director who will shed light on the award, the recipients and host organisations.
Somerville is interested in exploring our relationship with our surroundings and considering the ways we see our place in the world. She creates animated films that contain mini narratives exploring themes relating to ongoing journeys in which the viewer is left to question the characters’ various interactions. The results are films that are played continuously without beginning middle or end, displaying a magical realism that explores various emotions and feelings, such as indecision, empathy and solitude.
Somerville graduated with a BA Hons Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2010 and a BSc Architecture Strathclyde University 2005. She was the recipient of the John Kinross Scholarship and WASPS Studio Prize in 2010. Recent exhibitions include SSA New Graduate Show, Royal Scottish Academy 2011, RSA New Contemporaries 2011, FLIP Animation Festival Wolverhampton 2010 and RE-animate Oriel Davis Gallery, Powyss Wales 2010.
17 May 2011
Raúl Ortega Ayala*
1-2pm Gallery 2
At Glasgow Sculpture Studios
*NOTE THIS TALK IS ON A TUESDAY NOT A THURSDAY
Raúl Ortega Ayala's work is the result of immersions into different environments, which he purposefully seeks to experience through research or observation for an extended period of time. He approaches a context with as little predetermined knowledge of its 'craft' as possible and seeks to learn it by taking employment and training in the field in question, or by means of research. Ortega Ayala will be speaking about the methodology behind his practice, his new projects and about SOMA, a contemporary art space based in Mexico whose aim is to counterpoint the prevailing dynamics in schools, museums and galleries in Mexico City.
Raúl Ortega Ayala (b. Mexico City) studied at The Glasgow School of Art and at the Hunter College in New York. He also studied Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Ortega Ayala's projects have been shown worldwide: 2008/09 Una Etnografia sobre la Jardinaeria, Mexico City 2010 a project at Kowalsky Gallery, DACS, London curated by Gilane Tawadros, selcted by Francis Alys. His recent solo show was at Stroom The Hague, Netherlands 2010. Ortega Ayala is represented by Rokeby, London.
26 May 2011
Dr Dominic Paterson
1-2pm Gallery 2
At Glasgow Sculpture Studios
Dr Dominic Paterson teaches modern and contemporary art and theory at the University of Glasgow. Amongst his publications are essays on artists such as Christine Borland, Lucy Gunning, Claire Barclay, Martin Soto Climent, Kate Davis and Faith Wilding. He is a regular contributor to MAP magazine and in 2010 organised a series of film screenings and talks for Glasgow International.
Paterson will introduce the work Quarry by the artist Lucy Gunning from research undertaken as part of his residency at Picture This, Bristol 2010. Paterson will use the work as an example from which to discuss issues relating to the encounter between art history and contemporary art.
Contact Louise Briggs, Programme Coordinator via louise@glasgowsculpturestudios.org if you wish to find out more about any of the above.
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