Charlotte Prodger wins Turner Prize 2018

Huge congratulations to GSA MFA graduate Charlotte Prodger who wins the 2018 Turner Prize for her video Bridgit. A well deserved win!

Lars Karl Becker & Simon Buckley – BALK

Lars Karl Becker & Simon Buckley – BALK

For 'BALK' Lars Karl Becker and Simon Buckley have developed a combination of individual contributions exploring the boundaries between sculpture, writing and obliteration. The works on show turn to a shared practice that renders these means uncomfortably visible. In a typically uncompromising approach you as visitors are invited to feel the ghostly presence of an abandoned visual language; the spooky echoes of a conceptual framework encompassing the history of art in the west and our notion of culture itself.

Friday 7th December, 7pm - 9pm

GPS (https://www.govanprojectspace.co.uk)

249 Govan Road

Glasgow

with the kind support of Goethe Institut Glasgow

MFA Degree Show 2018

The MFA Degree Show 2018 opens Wednesday 30th May 6 - 9pm. The show continues at The Glue Factory each day from 11am - 6pm until 10th June. All welcome.

Fishes out of water

Fishes out of water featuring new work by four current MFA students

Last Futures

Lots of current MFA students are taking part in Last Futures at Tramway, Glasgow.

https://www.lastfutures.com/

MFA Interim Show 2018

MFA Interim Show 2018

Reid Gallery and Ground Floor Corridor, Reid Building, 
The Glasgow School of Art 
164 Renfrew Street Glasgow G3 6RF

17 Mar 2018 - 25 Mar 2018

Preview: Friday, 16 March, 6-8pm
 
The annual exhibition of new work by 26 students in the first year of the Master of Fine Art programme. It comprises a broad range of works across a wide range of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, performance and installation.

Featuring work by: Justin Apperley, Darae Baek, Renèe Helèna Browne, Bobbi Cameron, Emily Chudnovsky, Michael Collazo, Jeanne Constantin, Samuel De Lange, Sam Dransfield, Ben Duax, Maria Filippou, Alistair Grant, Sam Hewland, Zoe Kirkwood, Lauren La Rose, Sunhwa Lee, Hio Lei, Rachel McBrinn, Jack McCombe, McGilvary/White, M.E. Smit-Dicks, Mikhail Sokovikov, Chu Chu Tang, Jing Xie, Desuo Xuan.

Nils Guadagnin EVERYDAY MIRACLES

Nils Guadagnin (MFA 2012) new solo show EVERYDAY MIRACLES from 17 March to 21 April 2018 at Galerie Derouillon, Paris.

Opening Saturday 17 from 5pm.

Alberta Whittle wins Margaret Tait Award.

Alberta Whittle (MFA 2011) wins the Margaret Tait Award. Here's an article by Chris Sharratt on her future plans and her current practice.

https://frieze.com/article/alberta-whittles-decolonizing-impulse

MFA graduate Hardeep Pandhal in the New Museum 2018 Triennial, NYC

https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/2018-triennial-songs-for-sabotage

Congratulations to MFA graduate Hardeep Pandhal who is included in the prestigious New Museum 2018 Triennial, taking place now in New York.

Chloë Reid curates 'To see this story better, close your eyes'

To see this story better, close your eyes

Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art
 
17 February - 7 March 2018
Preview: Friday, 16 February, 5-7pm

Curated by Chloë Reid (MFA 2017)

An exhibition of film and writing by Thabo Jijana, Jemma Kahn, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Rosa Lyster, Mitchell Gilbert Messina, Njabulo Ndebele, Sean O'Toole, Pravasan Pillay, Chad Rossouw, Penny Siopis, Helen Sullivan and Marianne Thesen Law.
The exhibition title is taken from Banana Moon by Thabo Jijana, 2017.

To see this story better, close your eyes gathers the work of twelve artists and writers currently exhibiting and publishing in South Africa. Each of the films, audio recordings and texts featured in the exhibition employ narrative as a technique, subject or medium. The work is deliberately positioned in the gallery to prompt multiple and overlapping readings.
In Kiluanji Kia Henda's film, Havemos de Voltar (We Shall Return), Amélia Capomba, a stuffed sable antelope, plans her escape from the Archive Centre where she refuses to serve as a historical prop. Through found footage, text and music, Penny Siopis' film, The New Parthenon merges the mediations of an ordinary man's modern Greek history of war, globalization and migration. Helen Sullivan's poem, Mendi, describes the sinking of the British troopship in 1917 that killed 616 South Africans (most of them black South African troops). In Pravasan Pillay's Crooks, sixty-eight year old Kamla reflects on her life as she bathes and washes her adult daughter, Ambi. In Death of a Son by Njabulo Ndebele, a mother narrates the thorny process of grieving the death of her son under the apartheid regime. Thabo Jijana's Banana Moon is apprehensive of the festive character that accompanies a funeral.
Mitchell Gilbert Messina reveals the dark undercurrent of the commercial art world involving the ritual sacrifice of young artists in Detective Tales. Messina and Marianne Thesen Law collaboratively illustrate a clumsy and competitive dialogue of sexual fetish in the film, Fantasies Vol. 1. Sean O'Toole provides A Short History of Pleasure. Rosa Lyster delivers the commission, The People's Bird. Chad Rossouw considers the history of the appearance of the parrot in Western Literature, twice, in relation to Jemma Kahn's Somebody You've Already Painted Many Times from Memory. In Kahn's film, actors mimic an interview between David Sylvester and Francis Bacon.
This exhibition is curated by Chloë Reid, who has been generously assisted by Helen Sullivan in her capacity as editor of Prufrock magazine.

Chloë Reid was born in 1989 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a bachelor in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT (2011) and a Master of Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art (2017). She is an artist and writer and is currently on a Fellowship at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

Margaret Tait Shortlist announced

Three MFA alumni are on the shortlist for the 2018 Margaret Tait Award
Aideen Doran
Alberta Whittle
Corin Sworn
along with regular MFA visiting lecturer

Rob Kennedy
The recipient of the award will be announced at Glasgow Film Festival 2018.
The Margaret Tait Award is a Glasgow Film Festival commission supported by Creative Scotland and LUX, inspired by the celebrated Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait (1918 – 1999), a filmmaker and writer whose film poems, hand-painted animations and documentaries were pioneering in the field of experimental filmmaking.
Inspired by the wealth of talent emerging from Scotland, the Margaret Tait Award was founded in 2010 to support experimental and innovative artists working within the field of experimental filmmaking. The award aims to provide a high-profile platform for the winning artist to exhibit their work and engage with a wider audience: the winner will have the opportunity to showcase their work at Glasgow Film Festival 2019.

Maria Gondek in Pharos

An exhibition featuring new work by current MFA student Maria Gondek opens in Manchester this evening.

Pharos
Private View: 14th Dec 6-9pm
Exhibition: 14.12.17- 13.01.18

Pharos brings together the work of Rebecca Ackroyd, Jesse Darling, Maria Gondek and Mary Hurrell.
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Beacons is a programme of 3 exhibitions, talks, workshops and an accompanying publication with interconnecting threads and tangents exploring our relationships with ourselves and each other within the framework of non-linear intergenerational time and feminist legacies.

The exhibitions seek to communicate our experiences of time, existence and our bodies through various means such as empathetic exchanges with objects, emotional archives, traces left in artefacts; imagining futures and resurfacing histories.
Beacons is supported by Arts Council England curated by Rebecca Halliwell Sutton
 Caustic Coastal

Unit 2, Regents Trading Estate, Oldfield Road, M5 4DE City of Salford

Caustic Coastal is supported by Islington Mill & Salford City Council.

Open Thursdays & Saturdays 1-5pm
Closed for Christmas 22nd December - 3rd January

Tatham and O'Sullivan new commission unveiled

Tatham and O'Sullivan (both MFA 1994) unveil a new commission at Granary Square, London.

Sofia Sefraoui at Celine, Glasgow

 
Let The Dust Settle. A new two person show opening at Celine, Glasgow.

Sofia Sefraoui (MFA 2016) is based in Glasgow. She was born in Paris, from a Moroccan father and a Brazilian mother. Her practice is strongly influenced by her international background. She therefore developed a strong interest for multiculturalism and hybridity. Her work is material based. She always links materials and objects that belong to different realms in order to create tensions and leave the visitors with a feeling of uncanniness. She exhibited her work in France and Scotland and she recently came back from the 2017 Graduate Residency at Hospitalfield.

Stéfan Tulepo is a sculptor and photographer working between France and Scotland and has been involved for three years at The Project Café in Glasgow. He recieved his MFA from L'Ecole des Beaux Arts d'Angers in 2013. Stefan bases his practice on exploring, picking, harvesting; investigating the notion of memory in his own approach to contemporary archaeology. Stefan has been involved in various solo and group exhibitions including; The Carnival Gallery, Glasgow (2017) Passerelle CAC, Brest, France, (2014 & 2016) Common Ground, Glasgow (2016), CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2015), Maison PaiPai, Angers, France (2014).

The exhibition will run until the 5th December 2017 and is open by appointment. 
Please contact the gallery via facebook,
or email; s.tulepo@gmail.com or sofiasefraoui@gmail.com
or phone; 07787464118(sofia) or +33688348137 (stefan)
to arrange a viewing.

Nicolas Party at Modern Art Oxford

A new exhibition by Nicolas Party (MFA 2009) opens at Modern Art Oxford.

https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/event/nicolas-party-speakers/

Speakers
25 November 2017 - 18 February 2018
Preview Party 24 November, 7-8.30pm 

'I'm working with subjects that are not from reality, so I think I have a tendency to love this idea of the gallery wall as a theatre or a set. So the show, for me, is also a little theatre.' Nicolas Party

Party has created a playful theatrical set inhabited by a cast of dramatic larger than life female heads. Speakers incorporates a soundscape of piano, cello and voice arrangements, offering up improvised auditory encounters for visitors.

Kate V Robertson at DCA

Kate V Robertson (MFA 2009) has her first solo exhibition in a UK institution presents a major installation of new sculptural work that draws our attention not only to the walls, but to the floor, ceiling and windows of our most expansive gallery space at DCA.

Robertson is known for creating environments and displays that often transform and shift over time. Rigorously exploring her chosen materials and the ways in which they can change, Robertson revels in the physical characteristics of the objects she creates, testing their structural qualities to their limits and uncovering what lies at their material core. Ideas of instability, dysfunction, waste and decay pervade her work, particularly in relation to how we experience these sensations in urban environments.

In this new body of work Robertson focuses on the use of rectangular shapes across different surfaces, playing with the appearance of depth often created by optical illusions and geometric designs. These formal concepts hint at patterns and configurations associated with city spaces, while also specifically referencing the flatness and groundlessness of our increasingly screen-based lives.

This Mess is Kept Afloat thoughtfully disrupts the ways in which we engage with sculpture, deliberately muddying the waters of the pristine white cube gallery by drawing in and amplifying certain aspects of the outside world. Robertson deftly combines ideas of the external and internal in this exhibition to create a conceptually intricate and sensually rich experience for anyone willing to cross the threshold.

About the artist:

Kate V Robertson (b. 1980, Edinburgh) is based in Glasgow, having studied at Glasgow School of Art completing a MFA there in 2009. Recent exhibitions of her work and projects include: Object(hood), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 2017; Semper Vigilantes, OBJECT / A, Manchester 2016; Semper Solum, Oxford House, as part of Glasgow International 2016;  Adaptive Expectations, BALTIC 39, Newcastle, 2016; In Progress, Patricia Fleming Projects, 2014. She has participated in residencies at Hospitalfield, Arbroath; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; CCA, Glasgow; and Chateau de Sacy, France. She is represented by Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow.

Robertson has also undertaken several public art commissions, including converse for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and a forthcoming permanent work in Peterhead. After co-curating and designing the exhibition Reclaimed: the Second Life of Sculpture, for Glasgow International 2014, she is currently researching new models of commissioning and collecting sculpture, funded by Henry Moore Foundation.

http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/this-mess-is-kept-afloat

Uesung Lee at Insa art Space, Seoul

Uesung Lee (MFA 2016) new works on show at
Insa Art Space
89 Changdeokgung-gill,
Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 03057
Tel. 02-760-4722

http://www.insaartspace.or.kr/nr/?c=1

Rosalind Nashashibi Turner Prize nomination 2017

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/ferens-art-gallery/exhibition/turner-prize-2017

Sarah Rose - two exhibitions of new work

Sarah Rose (MFA 2012) is included in a new show 'Lilt, Twang, Tremor' opening at the CCA, Glasgow on 17th November 7 - 9pm.

'Now' featuring new work by Sarah continues at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern art until 18th February 2018.

Charlotte Prodger receives Paul Hamlyn Award

http://artists.phf.org.uk/artist/charlotte-prodger/

Charlotte Prodger (MFA 2010) is a Glasgow-based artist who works with moving image, writing and performance, exploring the intertextual relationships between each of these materials. Narrative fragments gleaned from different places and points of her life are shown in parallel to reveal ongoing enquiry into the contingency and intimacy of materials. Prodger’s installations and performances look at what happens to speech - and the self for which it is a conduit - as it metamorphoses via time, space and technological systems.

Having moved through various deconstructed modes of presentation including sculptural multi-monitor installations, Prodger is now focusing on single channel, long form videos. In this immersive context she finds possibilities for more complex relationships between image and sound, subject and object. Her recent videos Stoneymollan Trail (2015), BRIDGIT (2017), Passing as a Great Grey Owl (2017) and LHB (2017) explore intertwined relationships between queer bodies, landscape, language, technology and time.

Solo shows include Sculpture Centre, New York; Bergen Kunsthall; Kunstverein Düsseldorf; Glasgow International; Studio Voltaire, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Koppe Astner, Glasgow; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin and Hollybush Gardens, London. Groups shows and screenings include Tate Britain, London; New York Film Festival; Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival; British Art Show 8; Künstlerhaus Graz; Artists Space, New York; Pier Arts, Orkney and Kunsthalle Freiburg. Prodger’s writing has been published in F.R.DAVID, 2HB, Frieze and Happy Hypocrite. She graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2010.