Gordon Foundation MFA Graduate Fellowship 2011

We are delighted to announce that this year’s Gordon Foundation MFA Graduate Fellowship has been awarded to Alex Impey.

The announcement was made public on Wednesday, 08 June 2011 at The Glasgow School of Art’s Master of Fine Art (MFA) Degree Show preview by the Head of the Programme, John Calcutt.

Impey's work spans across drawing, sculpture, sound and writing. He'll begin his fellowship in November 2011and we look forward to working with him over the coming year.

'A tick can stay dormant for eighteen years when isolated from the conditions that trigger its behaviour. My work attempts to appropriate something of this inscrutable poise, in a set of figurations as pauses in habits around the use of languages and objects, which simultaneously seek to refer to their own consumption.' Alex Impey

If you would like to catch Alex’s work and the rest of the MFA Degree Show it runs until Saturday 18 June 2011. Opening Times 11am-6pm Tuesday - Saturday at The Glue Factory 15 Burns Street Speirs Locks Glasgow G4.

MFA Degree Show

The MFA Degree Show is now open.

The exhibition is at The Glue Factory this year and runs until Saturday 18th June from 11am - 6pm each day.

The Glue Factory, 15 Burns Street, Spiers Locks, Glasgow

New Work Scotland 2011

Some further MFA graduate successes to report.......the list of artists who will be taking part in this years New Work Scotland Programme has just been announced and Oliver Braid, Amelia Bywater, Christian Newby and Joey Villemont are amongst those to be slected. Congratulations to them.

2011 saw the introduction of a theme, Mining the Horizon, and more critical discourse. All selected practitioners will now take part in a weekend retreat together with Collective, the selectors and invited guests, at Hospitalfield House. Participants will also undertake a residency at Studio Voltaire, London or MAP, Glasgow.

NWSP is a Collective initiative recognised as giving Scottish based graduates their first significant visual art project or commission. Through an annual open application NWSP identifies and supports some of the most promising new practitioners working in the visual arts in Scotland - providing them with the opportunity to make new work and bring it to the attention of a wider public.

MFA Interim Show 2011

The annual MFA Interim Show opens on Friday 6th May, 6.00 to 8.00pm, and continues until Saturday 14th May.

The exhibition is open from 12 - 5pm each day, excluding Sunday.

MFA Graduates nominated for Turner Prize 2011

Two Glasgow School of Art MFA graduates, Karla Black and Martin Boyce, have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2011.

Karla has been shortlisted for work shown at Berlin's Galerie Capitain Petzel, while Martin has been singled out for his solo exhibition at the Garleie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich.

The other two artists nominated this year are George Shaw and Hilary Lloyd. Works by each artist will be exhibited in Gateshead from October, with the winner to be announced on 5 December at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

The Gordon Foundation Graduate Fellow 2010-11

Sarah Forrest was selected as the Gordon Foundation Graduate Fellow in June 2010. This is an annual award for graduating MFA students that is offered by the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Since last November, Sarah has been based at GSS, working alongside professional artists researching and developing new work for exhibitions that has included Days a group exhibition at Transmission Gallery Glasgow in November 2010.

Six months into her Fellowship and Sarah has her first solo show in Glasgow at Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art. For this exhibition she will be presenting The Spectator, an installation that combines new video, sculpture and spoken word narration. Sarah’s new work draws upon the image of the UFO, taking this recognizable object as her point of departure for her first solo exhibition.

Previous winners of this award have included Risa Tsunegi and Carla Scott Fullerton.

Open Day and MFA Auction 2010

The Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Open Day, and the annual MFA auction, will both take place on Satuday 4th December 2010. The auction will take place in the evening in the McLellan Galleries, Renfrew Street.

Please check the GSA website for further details on the Open Day and follow the link from this blog to the MFA Auction website.

More details will follow soon on this blog soon......