MFA AUCTION - SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER!

Save this Date!

Come join us Saturday 6 December at 6PM

For the Glasgow School of Art's annual event:
The Golden Fleece: An auction to support the MFA

Look forward to performances, raffles, music & refreshments.
The majority of works starting at just £20

Info & auction preview at: www.thegoldenfleece-auction.co.uk

The auction includes the works of nearly 100 of Glasgow and the UK's
leading artists, including:

Sam Ainsley
Ross Birrell
Beagles & Ramsay
David Bellingham
Jacqueline Donachie
Katy Dove
Erica Eyres
Graham Fagen
Alasdair Gray
David Harding
Jim Lambie
Dani Marti
Craig Mulholland
Toby Paterson
Dave Sherry
David Shrigley
Ross Sinclair
Diane Torr

Where: McLELLAN GALLERIES
Entrance on Renfrew St. between Dalhousie & Rose

When: Saturday 6 December
6:00PM – Preview & Silent Auction begins
8:00PM – Live Auction begins

Entrance is free –– £5 to bid*
* Includes hand-made, limited edition bid card good for both Silent & Live auctions, and one free raffle voucher.

Funds raised will go toward an overseas exhibition & catalogue of the work of this year's graduating class.

For details, directions, and an online preview visit:
www.thegoldenfleece-auction.co.uk

MFA AUCTION - SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER!

Save this Date!

Come join us Saturday 6 December at 6PM

For the Glasgow School of Art's annual event:
The Golden Fleece: An auction to support the MFA

Look forward to performances, raffles, music & refreshments.
The majority of works starting at just £20

Info & auction preview at: www.thegoldenfleece-auction.co.uk

The auction includes the works of nearly 100 of Glasgow and the UK's
leading artists, including:

Sam Ainsley
Ross Birrell
Beagles & Ramsay
David Bellingham
Jacqueline Donachie
Katy Dove
Erica Eyres
Graham Fagen
Alasdair Gray
David Harding
Jim Lambie
Dani Marti
Craig Mulholland
Toby Paterson
Dave Sherry
David Shrigley
Ross Sinclair
Diane Torr

Where: McLELLAN GALLERIES
Entrance on Renfrew St. between Dalhousie & Rose

When: Saturday 6 December
6:00PM – Preview & Silent Auction begins
8:00PM – Live Auction begins

Entrance is free –– £5 to bid*
* Includes hand-made, limited edition bid card good for both Silent & Live auctions, and one free raffle voucher.

Funds raised will go toward an overseas exhibition & catalogue of the work of this year's graduating class.

For details, directions, and an online preview visit:
www.thegoldenfleece-auction.co.uk

MFA AUCTION 2008

SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER - CHECK OUT THE FULL DETAILS HERE
http://thegoldenfleece-auction.blogspot.com

MFA Degree Show 2008 at Tramway

General views of the 2008 MFA Degree Show at Tramway

further images and info at the new MFA website www.gsamfa.com

Interim Show 2008

Top image - Or Kadar, Hirofumi Suda, Ian Ramsay, Alexis Dirks and Jack McLean
Middle image - Xupeng Zheng, Ian Ramsay and Ufuk Gueray
Bottom image - Jenny Hogarth, Fiona Short, Christian Newby and Ben Rush

Not Your Average Evening Event pictures

Better late than never.....a few pictures of the Not Your Average Evening Event organised by MFA students as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art 2008.

MFA DEGREE SHOW 2008

The MFA Degree Show 2008 will open at Tramway on the evening of June 11th. The exhibition will run until June 22nd, open Tuesday to Sunday. Further details to follow.

MFA Interim Show 2008 - Opening

Interim Show 2008 - Performances

Performances by Jim Colquhoun, Jack McLean, Shelly Nadashi and Michelle Hannah

OPEN STUDIOS AND EVENING EVENT

Saturday 19th April
MFA Open Studios 3:30-8:30PM
NotYourAverageEveningEvent 8:30-11-00PM

SEE BELOW HOW YOU COULD PARTICIPATE AND NOT EVEN SHOW UP!

The Glasgow School of Art, Masters of Fine Art Programme, in participation
with the Glasgow International Festival [Gi], presents a day of open studios
and an evening event.

Come join us on Saturday 19th April from 3:30-8:30 PM for a unique glimpse
inside the MFA studios and meet with the artists in their natural habitat.
The event will feature screening of videos and performance works throughout
the day.

Following these events from 8:30 - 11:00 PM the public is invited to
NotYourAverageEveningEvent, an evening of interventions, interruptions and
interferences presented by the greater community of the Glasgow School of
Art.

NotYourAverageEveningEvent is free but ticketed - visit Blog below for details:
For directions and ticketing information visit -

www.mfagsa-OpenStudios.blogspot.com

Glasgow International [Gi]:
www.glasgowinternational.org

PARTICIPATION
NotYourAverageEveningEvent asks what would you do with an audience?
No props, no complicated installations - just a suggestion submitted by you
to be performed by an anonymous, randomly selected member of the audience,
YOU don't even have to show up. Curious? Follow this link to learn more and
participate.
http://mfagsa-openstudios.blogspot.com/2008/02/from-afar.html

Open Studios:
Barnes Building - 9-11 West Graham St.
McLellan Galleries - Renfrew St. REAR ENTRANCE!! (between Dalhousie St and Rose St)

NotYourAverageEveningEvent:
McLellan Galleries - Renfrew St. REAR ENTRANCE!! (between Dalhousie St and Rose St)

Tragic Magic Show - Shelly Nadashi & Christian Newby

CAST SOME LIGHT

Cast Some Light
a private view in a public sphere
Glasgow international Festival of Contemporary Visual Art
11 – 27 April 2008

Anna Bokström, Katie Davies, Shahram Entekhabi, Johanna Fjaestad, Freee, Tamar Guimarães & Nanna Debois Buhl, Narve Hovdenakk, Henrik Lund Jørgensen, Jesper Just, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Jenni Leskinen, Sladjan Nedeljkovic, Jon E Nyholm, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Tova Mozard, Asaf Yosef Shani, Cheryl Sourkes, Stina Wirfelt.

Cast Some Light is a programme of artists’ film and video curated by Helen de Main (Glasgow) and Maj Hasager (Copenhagen). 18 works by international artist's will be screened at Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT), Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) and on the internet. Individual works will be shown between the commercials and the main feature at the GFT, CCA will screen the complete programme of works consecutively and the full selection of works will be available to be viewed on the Cast Some Light website.
www.castsomelight.net

Katharina Kiebacher and T. A. Straub at the Goethe Institute

Katharina Kiebacher and T. A. Straub

At the beginning there is darkness

Exhibition
21.02.2008 - 20.03.2008
Goethe-Institut Glasgow
Free Admission
The exhibition will be opened on Thursday, 21 February, 7pm.
This exhibition presents works by Katharina Kiebacher and T.A. Straub who have received scholarships by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and are currently students on the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art.

Image credits: Kiebacher "Wirthe", 2005 and Straub "Hundekampfszene" (Dog Fight Scene), 2007

Katharina Kiebacher is interested in the essence of photography as a medium that creates universal visual conventions and contributes to the collective memory of images in society. In her work she presents basic and specific images that are familiar to all of us. Kiebacher questions visual conventions as well as typical and ideal representations of important issues. The reduction of the composition makes it possible to express universal statements about visual phenomena and to show the potential of photography to transform reality into an image. The character of photography allows information to be included that strongly refers to the time in which the picture was taken. This may not be the intention of the photographer in the moment of exposure but can nevertheless become relevant to a documentary approach in the future. What will turn out to be evidence for a certain period of time is beyond the control of the photographic practice today. Kiebacher connects the typical and the exemplary with the present time and aims to find a contemporary visual approach for the overall important and essential issues.

Katharina Kiebacher, born 1974 in Freising, Germany, studied photography at the Folkwangschule Essen. In 2007 she received a postgraduate scholarship from the DAAD at the Glasgow School of Art.

T.A. Straub’s current work combines elements of sculpture, installation, concept art as well as graphic designs. Terms like Requisite, Inventory, Ritual, Plot, Scenography and Theatre accompany his work process. Straub’s practice, which is highly characteristic of the creative process, includes turning concerns, concepts and values, mostly associated to the occident, either into something profane or sacred. The resultant ambivalence habitually shows caricature-like streaks that are often critical of our civilisation or culture, even if the attempt of an analysis or a positioning seems to be of higher importance than a distinct educational approach.

T.A. Straub, born 1976 in Villingen, Germany, studied wooden sculpture in Oberammergau and fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, where he graduated in 2007 as Masterstudent by Prof. H.Klingelhöller. In 2007 he received a DAAD scholarship for a one-year post graduate study at the Glasgow School of Art.

MFA OPEN STUDIO EVENT 19th APRIL 2008

Saturday 19, April
MFA Open Studios 3:00-9:00PM
NotYourAverageEveningEvent 9:00-11-00PM

The Glasgow School of Art Master of Fine Art Programme, in participation with the Glasgow international Festival [Gi], presents a day of open studios and an evening event.

Come join us on Saturday 19, April from 3:00-9:00 PM for a unique glimpse inside the Master of Fine Art studios. The event will feature screening of videos and performance works throughout the day.

Following these events from 9:00 - 11:00 PM the public is invited to NotYourAverageEveningEvent, an evening of interventions, interruptions and interferences presented by the greater community of the Glasgow School of Art.

NotSoAverageEveningEvent is free but ticketed.
For directions and ticketing information visit: www.mfagsa-OpenStudios.blogspot.com

Glasgow International [Gi]: www.glasgowinternational.org/

NotYourAverageEveningEvent

GSA: NotYourAverageEveningEvent
The deadline for POST DELIVERY is 27, February, 2007

The Glasgow School of Art, School of Fine Art, presents an evening of performance, intervention, sculpture and music hosted by the Master of Fine Art Programme. Following MFA Open Studios on 19th April from 9-11PM the public is invited for refreshments and temporal interventions in the McLellan Galleries. The event will feature time, space and audience intervention works submitted from the greater community of The Glasgow School of Art. All members of the GSA community including students and alumni from all departments, as well as staff are encouraged to submit to this Juried event. From the Jury's selections an event score will be composed, with an effort to conduct an evening experience that reflects the diversity and exuberance of GSA's artistic community and showcase its contribution to the grist of Glasgow's thriving artistic community.

PARTICIPATION FROM AFAR-EMAIL SUBMISSIONS:
In addition the committee will also consider small-scale email proposals for actions to be performed by volunteers members of the audience. This is intended to extend the opportunity for participation to individuals who will not be able to attend the evening – for example alumni living overseas. To learn how to submit visit: http://mfagsa-openstudios.blogspot.com/

The event will be held in the McLellan Galleries, using the rear entrance located on Renfrew Street between Dalhousie and Rose Streets.

* The event is free and open to the public but ticketed.
* Tickets can be obtained on the day of the event during the mfaOpenStudios.

For important dates and Application Guidelines please visit:
http://mfagsa-OpenStudios.blogspot.com/

For information, announcements, directions & ticketing please visit:
http://mfagsa-OpenStudios.blogspot.com/

For further activities of the GSA MFA visit:
www.mfagsa.blogspot.com/

Glasgow School of Art: www.gsa.ac.uk/
Glasgow International [Gi]: www.glasgowinternational.org/

Mair Hughes and Katie McGown

You are warmly welcomed to CAKED ON: New work by Mair Hughes and Katie McGown.
(MFA graduates 2007)

Project Room
64 Osborne Street

17th - 24th February
Preview Saturday 16th 7-9pm
Open Thurs - Sun 1pm to 6pm

If you should happen to find yourself in Glasgow on the 16th, and would like to join us, I can promise you the following:

* Many, many stairs to climb
* Sponges, egg yolks and pearls in innovative combinations and shocking configurations
* A variety of cheap beers for sale
* Cakes of many colours

Artist talks

Artist talks during this term have included Aaron Williamson and Martin Boyce. Next up is Adam Sutherland, curator and director of Grizedale Arts on Monday 18th February at 2.30pm. More info at www.grizedale.org

FLOCK GLASGOW - some images

FLOCK GLASGOW-TLV - A RESPONSE

MFA TEL AVIV
FLOCK

The Glasgow MFA programme took part in a joint exhibition with the Bezalel MFA programme in Tel Aviv. Entitled Flock, the exhibition was conceived and organised by students from the two schools. Among its principle aims was to find and investigate commonalities between the participating artists and to consider the variety of work being produced internationally by students undertaking their Masters’ studies.

Five students from GSA travelled with the artworks to help with the installation of the exhibition, which consisted of work in various mediums; time based photography and film, drawing, painting and sculptural work. With over fifty students represented, the curatorial ambition was strictly limited. Formal decisions of display were at the forefront, and care was taken not to use or apply themes with the installation or between artworks. Works between artists of the respective institutions were deliberately inter-dispersed. To think about the exhibition in terms of success or failure was not regarded as essential. The exhibition was a framework around which to begin a process of dialogue. To conclude, Flock set out a blue-print for further projects and to formulate questions for further exchanges; what should be the framework for exchange? What is to be achieved and how can we evaluate the success or quantify the idea of a successful exchange?

IMAGES TO FOLLOW SOON.....

FLOCK GLASGOW-TLV

Flock
GLASGOW-TLV
12.1.08-26.1.08

Opening: Saturday, January 12 2008, 20:00

Glasgow: Jung Ki Beak, Mark Briggs, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Michael Coppelov, Pete Corrie, Helen de Main, Jana Euler, Carla Scott Fullerton, Salomeh Grace, Levi Hanes, Maj Hasager, Heike Kabisch, Conor Kelly, Mian Tze Kng, Mairi Lafferty, Niall Macdonald, Nina Nordbo, Rallou Panagiotou, Jennipher Satterly,Tomoko Seino, Kari Stewart, Atsushi Tawa, Emmett Walsh

TLV: Guy Avital, Gili Avissar, Yael Balaban, Avital Cnaani, Dror Daum, Oren Eliav, Uri Gershuni, Stephan Goldrajch, Sivan Gross, Youval Hai, Tamar Harpaz, Roey Heifetz, Maya Israel, Efrat Kedem, Jenni Leskinen, Dana-Lev Levnat, Liav Mizrahi, Hilla-Toony Navok, Alona Rodeh, Ella Amitay-Sadovsky, Hagai Shaked, Ester Schneider, Rotem Tashach, Jonathan Tuitu, Aviram Valdman, Lior Waterman, Anna Yam

Flock is an exhibition of work by 50 students from the MFA programmes at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem and Glasgow School of Art. The exhibition developed out of a collaboration between the two schools and the groups of students at each of them, and has been made possible by the exchange students traveling between the two cities.

Students from Glasgow have sent works on paper and video to Tel Aviv, whereas students from Bezalel have been open to present works of their choosing. This concept will be reversed later in the year, when the show travels to Glasgow.
Works in the exhibition are presented under no specific theme, but simply reflect a selection of works coming out of each of the schools, and through being presented together ask us to consider the mix of work being produced internationally by students undertaking their Masters’ studies. Students in the exhibition are originating from Israel and Scotland, but also Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Norway, Russia, Singapore and the United States.

Bezalel Gallery Tel Aviv: 60 Salame St, Tel Aviv
Tel. 03-6824082 Fax. 03-5187979
Email: mfa@bezalel.ac.il // www.bezalel.ac.il
Opening hours:
Friday-Saturday 10:00-16:00