Glasgow Print Studio, first floor gallery Exhibition runs: 29th October - 27th November 2011
A selection of unique and editioned work by a multifarious range of artists including Naomi Bell, Joe Davie, Jo Ganter, Kenny Hunter, Neil MacPherson, David Sherry and Adrian Wiszniewski.
Artists will be exhibiting original prints alongside original artwork produced as their main art practice. This will include screenprints, etchings, sculpture and painting.
"This series of screen prints is a form of fundamental research into labor and colour. By using hand drawn marks, I explored the repetitive exercise as a means of displaying the passing of time. This was then used as a basis to experiment with the three primary colours and how their subtle change in placement can alter how we perceive them."
Above: Alan Cameron, Brown, 2011, 50 x 50cm, screenprint.
Modern and Contemporary Masters
Glasgow Print Studio, first floor gallery Exhibition runs: 24th September - 23rd October 2011
Glasgow Print Studio is pleased to present a selection of original prints by a range of internationally acclaimed and celebrated artists including Josef and Anni Albers, Catherine Yass, Ian Davenport, Julian Opie, Jim Dine, Mimmo Paladino and Michael Craig-Martin.
All prints are courtesy of Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
Glasgow Print Studio, ground floor gallery Exhibition runs: Friday 2nd September - Sunday 2nd October 2011
Glasgow Print Studio Members' selected exhibition. A contemporary perspective on landscape art exploring the Scottish Highlands, where anCnoc Single Malt is produced.
A landscape focused artist competition with the winner selected by two guest judges. As well as getting their work on show the winner will win a trip to the anCnoc distillery, to gain further inspiration from the surrounding landscape and a £500 cash prize, as well as a potential media profile in the List Magazine.
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Above: Ben Nevis III, Marion Ferguson, digital print.
Glasgow Print Studio, ground floor gallery Exhibition runs: 5th August - 28th August 2011
Recent works focusing on the female form, creating "illusionistic" environments from disparate sources. There is often an element of searching for a utopia winding through the work.
The exhibition includes two newly published works by Ashley Cook with the Glasgow Print Studio.
Above: Escape to Paradise , Ashley Cook, screeprint .
Glasgow Print Studio, 1st floor gallery
Exhibition runs: 8th July - 18th September 2011
In memory of John Houston (1930-2008) and to mark the 80th birthday of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Glasgow Print Studio is proud to present Paintings and Prints - Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston.
Paintings and Prints will feature a wide selection from over 120 etchings, screenprints, woodcuts and lithographs by one of Scotland’s best loved and highly regarded artists. Dame Elizabeth Blackadder has been making prints at Glasgow Print Studio since 1985. Also included in the exhibition are several paintings by Elizabeth. Alongside Blackadder’s still life’s, landscapes, interiors, animals and plants Glasgow Print Studio will also be presenting a range of works by her late husband, John Houston.
John Houston produced a significant body of prints throughout the eighties and nineties and many of these will be included in the exhibition. Etchings, woodcuts and monotypes will be shown alongside two of his major oil paintings. Echoing Houston and Blackadder's 1987 show at Glasgow Print Studio this exhibition was due to take place in 2009 as part of the Trongate 103 opening programme. However due to John’s untimely death in 2008 the show was postponed until now.
Paintings and Prints coincides with the retrospective exhibition, Elizabeth Blackadder at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Glasgow Print Studio is lending a number of works to this major retrospective including a new etching, Venice, Salute in a Thunderstorm, which has just been completed at Glasgow Print Studio.
Chris Allan will give a talk on Elizabeth Blackadder's works in print on Saturday 9th July at 2.30pm.
Chris is well known as the former Deputy Director of the Hunterian Art Gallery and as an author and cataloguer of Elizabeth’s graphic works. His book, Elizabeth Blackadder Prints, fully documents and illustrates all of her print editions from 1958 - 2002. He is currently preparing a supplement to bring this catalogue raisonne right up to date and it will be available from Glasgow Print Studio from the opening of the exhibition. Both Chris and Elizabeth will be available to sign books purchased on the day.
Beginning in the gallery, the event will include a visit to the Archive room to view stage proofs, etching plates and other preparatory materials.
Top: Oriental Poppies, screenprint, Elizabeth Blackadder.
Midddle left: Sunset Over Fife, screenprint, John Houston. Midddle right: Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston at GPS
To coincide with the exhibition by Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston, Glasgow Print Studio are pleased to present a small exhibition of new work by print studio member, Chris Allan.
Left: The Pike and Ducks, etching, Chris Allan.
Glasgow Print Studio, first floor gallery
Exhibition runs: 21st May - 3rd July
The technique of monotype, employing a painterly approach to printing to create unique images is one that has recently grown in popularity amongst artists using Glasgow Print Studio.
Artists include:
John Byrne, Lesley Burr, Scott Campbell, Ashley Cook, Eileen Cooper, Ken Currie, Kate Downie, Peter Howson, Marc Jennings, Rosalind Lawless , Joyce Leitch, Bruce McLean, Ian McNicol, Jila Peacock, Ron Pokrasso, Barbara Rae, Philip Reeves, Alasdair Wallace and Adrian Wiszniewski.
Above: Alasdair Wallace, Talking Tree I, 76 x 56 cm, monotype.
To coincide with the Contemporary Monotypes exhibition, a special Glasgow Print Studio marathon printmaking event, the Monathon.
Eleven artists took part with allocated slots in both the etching and screenprint areas to produce monoprints.
The event was open to the public to drop in, watch and question the artists as they produced the prints.
Thanks to everyone who took part and made the whole day such a success!
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Monotypes & Etchings Marion MacPhee
Glasgow Print Studio, ground floor gallery
Exhibition runs: 6th May - 29th May 2011
Glasgow Print Studio, 1st floor gallery
Exhibition runs: 31st March - 15th May 2011
This title of this exhibition is an acknowledgement of the formative and continuing influence of D’Arcy Thompson’s landmark book On Growth and Form that pioneered the science of bio-mathematics and has had a profound influence on art, architecture, engineering and anthropology among others. The revised version of 1942 featured in the writings of the eminent art critic Herbert Read and consequentially came to the attention of artists and art educationalists of that time. Major artists and thinkers from Henry Moore, Le Corbusier and Jackson Pollock to Claude Levi-Strauss, Alan Turing and Stephen Jay Gould have drawn on his work. The book’s imagery has become incorporated into our visual thinking and the morphology of organisms, seen as mathematical models or ‘diagrams of forces’, has found parallels in contemporary creative practices.
Top left: Homage to D’Arcy Thompson, Sam Ainsley, 102 x 102 cm, acrylic paint on digital print.
Top right: Carribea III, Roger Wilson, 35 x 23 cm, acrylic paint on canvas.
D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON
WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM - 'ON GROWTH AND FORM'
Paintings and Drawings 1950-2002
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson had a profound influence on the work of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns_Graham. She remarked in a 1981 exhibition catalogue that, as a child growing up in St Andrews, she knew the professor. Not only was Thompson a prominent figure around town, but he was a friend of the Barns-Graham family. Further to this childhood connection, Barns-Graham added “…very many years later I discovered his wonderful enlightening book 'Growth & Form'.” (Untitled, LYC Press, 1981)
Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's On Growth and Form was a widely influential book, particularly with visual artists. Published first in 1917 and revised in 1942, this volume was taken up by the eminent art critic Herbert Read in the 1940s, and through his writings came to the notice of many leading artists of the period. D'Arcy Thompson's concepts resonated with artists who were seeking to reconcile the new art of abstraction with the natural world. His application of precise mathematical models to the morphology of organisms according to their laws of growth underscores Barns-Graham's own investigations into natural forms and her outwardly abstract imagery. Thompson's ideas on the relation between inner space and outer form were particularly important. These are reflected in the sculptures of Naum Gabo and Barbara Hepworth that Barns_Graham was fully aware of in St Ives. In Barn-Graham's own work, such concerns feature in, for example, her glacier studies of 1949-50 and in the later series of small drawings that explore the visible and invisible energies of sea waves and wind currents. (GLASS CASES)
As part of the discussion on the application of mathematics to organic form, D'Arcy Thompson refers to the proportion of the 'divine' or The Golden Section in nature where a system of numbers, similar to the related Fibonacci series, is applied to the ratio of growth. In terms of art, this system is used to divide space, determining the perfect rectangle with its many and various sub-divisions. This complex set of divisions often lies as the sub-structure in Barns-Graham's paintings.
A series of exhibitions featuring over twenty members of Glasgow Print Studio in four short run exhibitions. The artists have formed themselves into groups revealing the wide-ranging skills, concerns and concepts that are naturally occurring amongst an ever growing membership of Glasgow Print Studio. Since moving to our new premises there has been a tangible escalation in the aspiration of the artists and a drive to make more and better work. Download an illustrated PDF catalogue here.
Poster Club is a group of seven Glasgow-based artists who meet weekly to collaborate on designing and printing posters. Using the poster format as an open-ended starting point for their projects, Poster Club’s primary interest is in using the medium of print as a site for experimental collaborative practice. This exhibition at the Glasgow Print Studio marks the end of Poster Club’s first year of working together and includes a selection of pieces made during this time.
Exhibiting artists:
Laura Aldridge
Anne-Marie Copestake
Kendall Koppe
Tom O’Sullivan
Nicolas Party
Ciara Phillips
Michael Stumpf
Above: Yes, screenprint on paper, 76 x 56cm, Poster Club 2010.
Preview: Tuesday 22nd February 2011, 6-9pm. Glasgow Print Studio, 1st floor gallery
Running: 23rd - 27th February 2011
Six by Six comprises a group of recent graduates from the Glasgow School of Art, several of whom are recipients of the Glasgow Print Studio Prize.
The moment of transition from working within an educational environment to working in a professional printmaking workshop has allowed the artists to re-evaluate and re-contextualize their practice, whilst expanding upon existing concepts.
Drawn together by an integral desire to push the boundaries of printmaking as a contemporary art form, Six by Six presents new work from each artist, which explores the diverse and prospering ways that the very process of printmaking indulges.
Above: Untitled, screenprint, 23 x 70cm, Omercan Crit.
Preview: Tuesday 15th February 2011, 6-9pm. Glasgow Print Studio, 1st floor gallery
Running: 16th - 20th February 2011
This exhibition consists of work by six artists that originate from four countries, spanning two continents. The work is evidence that art and artists care little for boundaries and are comfortable in drawing on one another’s cultures, art histories and iconography. Collectively the work demonstrates a progressive approach to printmaking, employing screen-printing, planographs, monoprints and woodcuts, marrying these traditional techniques with a wide range of non-traditional substrates and contemporary mixed media.
Exhibiting artists:
Jason Mathis
Chris Macfarlane
Robert McSpadyen
Seth Orion Schwaiger
Suzie Smith
Norman Sutton-Hibbert
Above: Red Right Hand, screenprint, 101 x 76cm, Robert McSpadyen.
Preview: Thursday 3rd February 2011, 6-9pm. Glasgow Print Studio, 1st floor gallery
Running: 4th - 13th February 2011
This group exhibition explores a contemporary perspective of landscape art. Through the mediums of printmaking, artist bookmaking, drawing and mixed media sculpture, the exhibition focuses on a personal interaction with the environment, where journeys play an important role in the process of the art work. This exhibition will show the unique approaches of five contemporary artists, showing how they each observe, interact with and creatively interpret the landscape around us.
Exhibiting artists:
Olivia Bliss
Marion Ferguson
Claire Forsyth
Aoife McGarrigle
Mick McGraw Download an illustrated PDF catalogue here.
Above: Earra-Ghàidheal, digital print, 110 x 110cm, Olivia Bliss.
