Polis

In the exhibition Polis, MFA graduate, Helen de Main presents a new body of work in printmaking and sculpture. The works appear as fragments and remnants of objects, building encounters between real or fictive events that have either just happened or are about to take place. These images and texts continue de Main’s concern with questioning power, movement and control through a series of dysfunctional calls to action.

Saturday 4 February - Saturday 18 February 2012

11:00am - 6:00pm

Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow

How to make a delicious tea

Current MFA student Federico del Vecchio (flip) has co-curated a new show in Toronto.

how to make a delicious tea II

flip presents a project in collaboration with:
Eloise Hawser (UK) Martin Soto Climent (Mexico)

Patrick Tuttofuoco (Italy) Per-Oskar Leu (Norway)
Lena Henke (Germany) Andrea Sala (Italy/Canada)

ART METROPOLE. Toronto. 18.02.2012 - 16.03.2012.

Opening Saturday Feb.18.
6:30pm - 9:30pm.
788 King St W.
Toronto, Canada

New shows at the CCA, Glasgow

On Wednesday 15 February CCA will be hosting the previews for the last exhibition in their series of shorter projects, Underside, backside, inside, even by Laura Aldridge (MFA 2006) and the penultimate exhibition in the Vanguard series, Thinking Ourselves into Existence, curated by Psykick Dancehall.

6 - 8pm on Wednesday 15 February for drinks and a sneak peek.

Underside, backside, inside, even is a new series of fabric sculptures, depicting oversized
pockets found on a variety of clothing, from pinafore dresses to the back pockets of jeans.
Rendered and hand-stitched in great detail, larger than human scale and cut-out from their
original context, these pockets become ‘things’, emphasising their potential to hold other
objects or even the body.

Psykick Dancehall is Hannah Ellul (MFA 2010) and Ben Knight. They will use the Vanguard space to continue their ongoing discussions with musician, musicologist and record label founder Jon Marshall. What are the politics of experimental music and how can they be explored through interdisciplinary means? What new forms of collaboration might this provoke?

Centre for Contemporary Arts,
350 Sauchiehall Street,
Glasgow, G2 3JD

Oliver Braid - My Five New Friends

Recent MFA graduate Oliver Braid has a new show opening in Liverpool.

//My Five New Friends//

With It’s Our Playground

Featuring new commissions by: David Hoyle & Lee Baxter, Maayke Schurer, Patrick Staff, Roxy Topia & Paddy Gould, Tether

Private View: Friday 3^rd February 6.00pm-9.00pm

Exhibition runs: Saturday 4^th February – Saturday 3^rd March 2012.

Exhibition open: Wednesday - Sunday 12-6.00pm

The Royal Standard, Liverpool

MFA students - Zurich show

Two current MFA students, Rachal Bradley and Matthew Richardson, are in a group show at Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich which opens very soon.

Manufacture

Manufacture 5.2.2012 - 18.3.2012

Current MFA student Dunja Herzog will show work in the group show 'Manufacture' at the Centre Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. Other artists include Michael Beutler, Vanessa Billy, Dewar & Gicquel, Ida Ekblad, Vincent Ganivet, Hedwig Houben, Brian Jungen, Emmanuelle Lainé, Charles Mason, Vik Muniz, Kilian Rüthemann, Zin Taylor

The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World

A new collaborative show by three MFA graduates -

+44 141 Gallery is pleased to present ‘The Beast That Shouted Love At
The Heart Of The World’, showcasing the result of a collaboration
between Glasgow-based artists Mark Briggs, Jim Colquhoun and Conor
Kelly.

Drawing from deviant histories within Ovidean mythology, 19th Century
Romanticism, and slapstick, the exhibition will act as an invitation
to worry the inherited tropes that grope towards the notion of a
contemporary sublime. The collaboration will play with states of
chaos, terror and deviant behaviour, neo-paganism, and arcane
revivalism through suppressed and unconscious histories.

04.02.12 — 25.02.12
Weds — Sat
12:00 — 18:00

+44 141 Gallery
SWG3
100 Eastvale Place
Glasgow
G3 8QG