Map Magazine News Bulletins

Three Blows

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Curator Sarah Lowndes highlights the work of Richard Youngs, Sarah Kenchington, Luke Fowler, Tony Swain, Stephen Jones, Danny Saunders and Richard Wright in a very unusual performance at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh. 5/6 July

Paulina Olowska

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Featured in the latest issue of MAP, Polish artist Paulina Olowska opens an exhibition of new work, 'Zofia Stryjenska', at the Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin. 12 - 29 June.

Edinburgh Art Festival

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The EAF opens this year on 31 July and includes work by Tracey Emin (Gallery of Modern Art), Richard Hamilton (Inverleith House) and Kay Rosen, whose texts will be written on the walls of the new and very much expanded Ingleby Gallery.

VISIBLE CINEMA

12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

MAP presents artists' films
18.30 CCA CINEMA, Sauchiehall Street
Sunday 17 February

Rosa Barba / Duncan Campbell / Oskar Dawicki /
Duncan Marquiss / Shahryar Nashat / Wilhelm Sasnal / Mark Wallinger / Jane and Louise Wilson / TJ Wilcox

Visible Cinema dispels the impression of filmic reality. It seeks to find new routes to create, challenge and reverse the myth of the cinematic.

Tickets £5/£6 now available from Glasgow Film Festival box office:
Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB, 0141 332 6535

Visible Cinema is part of Glasgow Film Festival and Magic Lantern's shorts series.

RSVP: JIM LAMBIE

16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Straight from a solo show at the Hirshhorn Gallery in Washington DC and a group exhibition at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Jim Lambie continues his US tour this autumn at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, a grand civic museum currently undergoing a transformation. He is the third artist (and first non-American) to be commissioned to participate in the Museum’s acclaimed RSVPmfa series. The series, which began in 2000 with a commission from Jonathon Borofsky, invites artists to produce work in response to the physical presence of the MFA: its public spaces, hidden areas, collections or surrounds.

Lambie’s immersive environments, transformations of familiar objects and those characteristic floor works, manifest his approach to interior space as consistently one of both exposure and exploration. It is this particular concern with the architectural that led RSVPmfa curator, William Stover to believe Lambie was perfectly suited to this project: ‘much of his work is devised in relation to a specific space, changed through improvisatory decisions on site which enable him to point out the parameters
of the existing architecture and the visitor’s direct relationship to it.’

It is this direct, visceral relationship that will be invoked when his commission opens on 10 November. Lambie has created 80 chairs adorned with brilliant colour, shattered mirror pieces and other found materials which will be suspended from one of the walls of the museum’s West Wing Galleria. Within these opulent confines, Lambie’s installation will sensationally transform mundane objects, its promised ‘rhythmic and kaleidoscopic energy’ constituting a visual jolt and an interesting juxtaposition to the concurrent major exhibition, Napoleon’s Symbols of Power.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 10 November 2007 – 25 May 2008

THREE SPACES

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

As the art market continues to grow despite a generally unsettled economic forecast, Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh, set up ten years ago by Richard and Florence Ingleby and now one of Scotland’s leading contemporary art galleries, is moving from its beautiful Georgian ‘gallery within a house’ premises next year. Re-location plans are now underway, with the result that the city centre will have a new, spacious international contemporary art gallery by mid-2008.
As a consequence, the gallery, which currently represents the estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay as well as Sean Scully, Callum Innes and Alison Watt among others, have eschewed the practice of their regular six to seven shows a year, to undertake an ambitious project of specially commissioned collaborative exhibitions, 26 in all. Each lasts only two weeks. Each shows work by two artists sharing an intimate back room space. This experiment, with its fast turnover and open brief, has allowed the gallery to flex a curatorial ingeniousness in preparation for widening its remit when establishing the new space. Unusual partnerships such as Marine Hugonnier and Matthias Fayos, Richard Wright and Samuel Beckett, have
been forged.

And in a fortuitous collision of commissions, Richard Forster, who chose to show alongside Richard Artschwager at this Ingleby initiative in September, is Map’s commissioned artist this issue.
Another organisation in the city, the Dovecot Tapestry Studios, renowned internationally since the 1960s, are moving next year from temporary accommodation into a grand renovation designed
by Edinburgh architect Malcolm Fraser. The spacious and elegant Victorian Infirmary Street Baths is a building at the heart of the city’s university area and a stone’s throw from Edinburgh College of Art. While the main dramatic, vaulted and roof lit space, once the swimming pool and changing room area, will now accommodate looms, designers and all projects connected to this contemporary art weaving business, there will also be room in the complex for two large gallery spaces.

London’s Riflemaker specialises in unusual haunts. While Tot Taylor and Virginia Damtsa continue to trade from the ex-gunshop in Soho (represented artists include Gavin Turk, and Francesca Low, who recently collaborated in the gallery with Glasgow based artist Alasdair Gray), they are expanding in December into St Barnabas House. On Soho Square, it opened as a refuge for the homeless in 1746, and more recently acting as a a concert venue, this stylish building, complete with its own chapel, has a new role as palace for contemporary art. Riflemaker responds to the building’s former use with an inaugural exhibition of work by Marta Marcé, an artist who explores ideas of destiny, chance and games, as metaphors for life.

www.inglebygallery.com
www.riflemakergallery.org
www.dovecotstudios.com

PAVEL ALTHAMER

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan explains the gallery’s acquisition of the stunning work by Pavel Althamer at the Foksal Gallery Foundation stand at this year’s Frieze Art Fair.

‘He’s definitely an artist we have identified for the collection. This piece in particular we found compelling because, in the way Pavel’s work does so often, it looks at a multiplicity of concepts within one work, in this case, the role of the Foksal gallery, which has a very particular history within Warsaw, Poland and other former eastern block countries – it is a place which has been such an important focal point for so many artists. So on the one hand it serves as a homage to what the gallery has been, then looks at its present and its future. It is a play on the mobile unit. And there is something close to discomfort as well in what the artists might feel, at times, participating in art fairs. This gallery has a not for profit practice – the money all goes back to funding what they do, the studios, the publications. It’s sort of an anomaly in the art fair context. Pavel’s piece is partly pointing to the irony of going on the road with the gallery, while at the same time is very much about the artist’s practice and the collective nature of that group of artists.’

Pavel Althamer’s work will be on show at Tate Modern some time in 2008.

LANDMASS

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Ilana Halperin’s ongoing project Towards Heilprin Land explores geological shifts. Halperin presents drawings and photographs from recent field trips to Greenland at doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Her practice is rooted in personal, rather than political, experience and this work is inspired by the chance discovery of American volcanologist Angelo Heilprin, also an artist, possibly a relation. Heilprin Land, a small piece of inaccessible landmass in the north of Greenland, was named after him. She explains,

‘Trace memories of being in such a remote and frozen place feature more prominently within the work at doggerfisher. Towards Heilprin Land is an evolving body of work, so different constellations of material from the project can be drawn from, depending on the context. Each incarnation – from the Sharjah Biennial 8, to the lecture commissioned by Tiffin for the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow – attempts to articulate a specific idea, all related but
in slight variations. It’s an ongoing log book.

I’ve been working with the idea of how one might make art within a geological time frame – exploring ways to make corporeal sense of geological phenomena through direct physical contact. I’ve been doing an Alchemy Fellowship at the Manchester Museum, and our first “geological experiment” combines slow time in caves (petrification) to fast time in lava flows. In March I’m doing an exhibition at the museum, of alchemy related work.’

Ilana Halperin, Towards Heilprin Land, doggerfisher, Edinburgh,
26 October - 21 December

ONE MILE

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

In summer 2008, Collective Gallery’s One Mile project, lead by artist Kate Gray, will complete a three year programme of exhibitions, publications and events that has connected this contemporary art space with its local area in Edinburgh. Since summer 2005, artists, community groups and institutions including N55, Spartacus Chetwynd, Move On, David Sherry, Mark Neville, Freee, Ellen Munro, Space 44, Johanna Billing and Scottish Widows have collaborated on projects within a mile radius of the gallery, exploring the role of public art as well as creating a significant body of new work.

Johanna Billing’s film of local (non-seafaring) musicians on the Firth of Forth, This is How We Walk on The Moon, was screened in June 2007 in Edinburgh and then shown at documenta 12, Germany. David Sherry is working with homeless group Move On in an exploration of shopping and social interaction – themes common to the artist’s previous work. This project culminates in a publication out early 2008. Spartacus Chetwynd’s 16mm film, The Call of the Wild, shot on location on the Isle of Lewis with a cast of pattern cutters and knitters from Edinburgh, will premier at a secret location on 30 November, 2007.

Now on the final lap, Kate Gray says, ‘One Mile
has given myself and other artists a different method to work with. It challenges what we do by allowing us to work in an organic way with others. It’s great the way the many different works have involved many different types of people, artists and locals alike, on their own terms.’ Her own contribution, a film made in collaboration with staff at Scottish Widows, will be shown next year.

LOVE AND FEAR

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

French artist Claude Closky’s newly commissioned work ‘Love and Fear’, 2007, joins the rapidly growing permanent collection at Threshold Art Space, Perth. Forming the centrepiece of the exhibition Body Language, it deepens Closky’s exploration of language and social satire, inventing words in a colourful blaze. Engaging with our collective understanding of signage and communication, ‘Love and Fear’ is displayed over the 22 monitors in the Perth Concert Hall foyer which constitute the Wave.

Much of Closky’s practice is characterised by similar themes. In 1997 he made ‘Do You Want Love or Lust?’ (www.diacenter.org/closky). This web-based work, commissioned by the Dia Center for the Arts, explores isolated moments and social situations, asking the viewer to reconsider them from different perspectives through process and repetition, a seemingly endless list of pop culture propositions.

Closky’s work is included in private and public collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis. An extensive back catalogue of his web-based pieces can be viewed on www.sittes.net.

Other new works included in this summer showing have been made by Matt Hulse, Su Grierson, Kosta Tonev, Sam Spreckley and Dan Perjovschi, whose Map Commission, Issue 2, 2005, was translated into a screen-based work, entitled ‘My World’.

Body Language, Threshold Artspace, Perth 12 May – 4 October
www.horsecross.co.uk

Beautiful People, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
16 September 2007– 6 January 2008
www.friesmuseum.nl

KRIS MARTIN

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Since Belgian artist Kris Martin’s appearance in of mice and men, the 2006 Berlin Biennale, with his impressive ‘Mandi III’, 2003 (a black departures board absent of characters or numerical data, first exhibited at SMAK, Ghent, 2003), his practice has gained considerable international recognition.

Martin exhibited as ‘My Private’ artist, for three days at the 52nd Venice Biennale. ‘My Private’, now in its fifth year, is a project conceived by Barbara Casavecchia, Anna Daneri and Paola Manfrin. Its aim is to challenge the notion of the collector and collecting. Value and phenomenological questions of duration and preservation are all addressed in Martin’s work which re-evaluates the way artists interact with the art they produce. ‘Vase’, 2005, an over-sized Chinese artifact, is smashed and then systematically reassembled by Martin each time its location is changed. These actions directly questions the responsibility of the collector.

Martin’s future projects are numerous – he has been selected, along with Chris Evans, Lara Favaretto, Eli?n Hansdo?ttir, Janice Kerbel, Renata Lucas, Gianni Motti and Richard Prince to contribute to the much anticipated Frieze Commissions event, one of the highlights of the Frieze Art Fair 2007, 11 – 14 October.

This year he is also exhibiting alongside Carol Bove, Peter Coffin and Jordan Wolfson among others, in Tate Modern’s Learn to Read exhibition 19 June – 2 September (see review page 52). His first solo show with an American museum opens in October at PS1, New York – it will include many of his well known pieces.

An exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris is scheduled for 2008.

www.ps1.org
www.tate.org.uk
www.cnac-gp.fr

EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

At the very outset of life, key dichotomies are laid down: art and nature, picturesque and sublime, garden and wilderness.

How we relate to these propositions is a concern of Richard Long. His long-standing artistic practice has been to walk in the wilderness. Sometimes he leaves works there – a circle of stones, a trodden path, unseen by anyone but himself. At other times, he takes photographs, documents the facts of a walk in sparse poetry, or takes the raw materials of wilderness – stone, mud, driftwood – to make art.

Long’s influence is profound. He is of a generation of artists trained in the 1960s who helped change the perception of what art could be. When he walked up and down in a field until his footsteps had worked a path, he changed the understanding of the artistic line. Idea and realisation, process and finished work, became
intertwined.

Thanks to him, walking became part of the artist’s lexicon. Drawing on the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord and Iain Sinclair, artists, writers, musicians, film-makers have become
psychogeographers, following ancient maps or making their own, walking and looking, reading the traces human beings leave behind.

Typically, they walk in cities – living, dynamic organisms which are more than the sum of their parts. Francis Alys, on a project with Artangel in 2005, made seven walks across London. Some explored specific themes, others were freestyle improvisations within highly structured spaces, subverting the rules.

Just as Alys put stones in his shoes to make him walk – and therefore see – differently, so David Sherry, whilst on the MFA course at Glasgow School of Art, chose to go about his business for a week carrying a bucket of water, finding that he saw his familiar environment in a new way.

Free-climbing – without ropes, and mostly without permission – is Alex Hartley’s way of navigating the urban environment. It informs his work, which shows this summer at the Fruitmarket Gallery, while Richard Long shows at the SNGMA, both part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, now in its fourth year and continuing to gather pace. A generation separates them but both, in their different ways, are artist/explorers, probing mankind’s relationship with his environment.

Urban can be wilderness too – a concrete jungle as dramatic and as alienating as the natural version. Polymath and visionary town planner Patrick Geddes (1854 – 1932) knew this, and tried to develop a network of green spaces across Edinburgh’s crowded Old Town. A remnant of these remain, and one will be reimagined as part of the Jardins Publics project for the Edinburgh International Festival’s new visual arts commission, this year realised by curator Katrina Brown.

Three international artists, Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright are creating work in urban spaces, work that questions what such places do and our relationship to them. At festival time, when the city is at its busiest, these will create sanctuaries for thought and the rooting of ideas.

But they are not retreats. The great garden-builder and ideas man of Scottish art, Ian Hamilton Finlay, had that right: ‘Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.’

Susan Mansfield

The fourth Edinburgh Art Festival 26 July – 2 September brings together exhibitions over 35 venues to celebrate a rich visual art contribution to the world’s largest arts festival.

Richard Long: Walking and Marking, SNGMA, 30 June – 21 October.

Alex Hartley at the Fruitmarket, 27 July – 21 October.

Jardins Publics, 10 August – 2 September is showing as part of
the EIF in four different venues across Edinburgh’s city centre.

www.eif.co.uk
www.edinburghartfestival.co.uk
www.nationalgalleries.org

BIENNIALE DE LYON

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Defined by curators Ste?phanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist as an ‘archaeology of the present’, the 2007 Lyon Biennial rounds off a trilogy dedicated to the broad notion of time. After It Happened Tomorrow, 2003, and Experiencing Duration, 2005, curated by Le Consortium and Nicolas Bourriaud/Je?rome Sans respectively, the 2007 edition is like a book penned by several hands, attempting to write the history of the current decade. The starting point is an invitation to 66 ‘players’ to take part in a ‘game’.

Forty-nine international curators have been asked to choose an artist who, in their opinion, ‘has a vital place in this decade’, which has resulted in curator/guest artist teams as varied as Daniel Birnbaum/ Tomas Saraceno, Francesco Manacorda/Armando Andrade Tudela, Tom Morton/Charles Avery and Francesca Grassi/ Ryan Gander. Seventeen other personalities from different fields – including artists Willem de Rooij, Claire Fontaine, Josh Smith, choreographer Je?rome Bel, architect Rem Koolhaas and writer Michel Houellebecq – have been invited to give their personal vision of the ‘00s’ by imagining what the two curators might name a ‘sequence’ in the exhibition.

The metaphor of a game with many players emphasises the curators’ will to visualise the heterogeneity that characterises art today in terms of geography and practices, and to approach the Bienniale as a network, avoiding the imposition of a single, hierarchical point of view on a history that has not yet been written. This choice also reflects a wish to reconsider the model of biennials, establishing a distinction between the present and the topical, between the critical potential of the works and the frenetic pace of these large scale events.

Christophe Gallois

‘The 00s – The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named’, Lyon Biennial 2007, 19 Sepember 2007 – 6 January 2008

www.biennale-de-lyon.org

PIER ARTS CENTRE

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Following a three year closure, Margaret Gardiner’s ‘gift’ to Orkney was re-opened this July sporting a £4.5 million refurbishment. Established in 1979, the centre continues to showcase Gardiner’s (1904 – 2005), collection of work by great British artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron, Alfred Wallis and Terry Frost, many of whom were close friends and part of the celebrated St Ives’ group. As well as enhancing this permanent collection, the building has been expanded by Edinburgh architects Reiach and Hall, to make room for new acquisitions and temporary installations.

‘Colour Spectrum Series’, 2005 by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is one of the newly purchased works. This artist, best known for his ‘The Weather Project’, 2003, in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, experiments with the colour spectrum in the Pier work – 48 framed photogravures depicting the full colour range. This compliments the current exhibition, a north light ~ cynosure, which explores colour
and light and also includes work by Katy Dove, Christine Borland, Douglas Gordon and Anish Kapoor.

Garry Fabian Miller and Callum Innes now also have work in the growing collection, while Icelandic artist Ragna Ro?bertsdo?ttir’s new work, entirely made of pebbles from the active volcano, Helka, was commissioned especially for this northern space.

a north light ~ cynosure 7 July – 10 November

www.pierartscentre.com

a north light ~ cynosure, installation view, 2007, Peir Arts Centre, Orkney

DOUBLE A-SIDE

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Art and music developed a historic bond in the 20th century. Since Yves Klein’s famous ‘Monotone Symphony’, 1960, which bridged the divide between the two – in one of the first works of the post- modern era – the inclusiveness of both practices in any cross- disciplinary undertaking has been commonplace.

Double A-Side curator Ken Pratt has selected a number of artists who are recognised as fulfilling both criteria but who distinguish a division between the two areas.

The project culminates in an exhibition spread across three separate Dutch venues in August, featuring work by Steven Claydon, whose work is also included in the Pale Carnage exhibition at the Arnolfini, Bristol and DCA, Dundee.

Claydon, ex-member of British electro band, the experimental Add (n) to X, separated from the group to concentrate on his independent art practice. Glasgow-based Rob Churm also features in the review – his illustrative poster works often advertise his own, and other bands on the fertile Glasgow music scene.

On the other hand, Heidi Kilpelainen, whose video works, often short music videos or sound works, are more closely related to her music career, signed to Bjork’s One Little Indian Records.

The range of artists in this survey, whose two practices meet and diverge at different points, provide topical contrasts in the field of art and music.

Double A-Side takes place at ARTIS, Centre for Fine Art, Hertogenbosch and Stedelijk Museum Hertogenbosch 4 August – 16 September

www.sm-s.nl
www.artisdenbosch.nl
www.cbks-hertogenbosch.nl

NATIONAL TREASURES

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

With Venice now underway along with a number of other new biennals, national identity is increasingly visible and represented, with regards to art. Geographical boundaries are set, then realigned, twisted and manipulated, some often being the subject of artists’ work, particularly those on whom social change impacted. Even Northern Ireland – who for the first time exhibit at the Venice Biennale in the same building as Ireland – and Wales, make independent statements only to select artists with ‘flexible’ national identities. These selections offer statements of culturally rich origins rather than those of a conformist stereotypical nature, highlighting each nation’s social and political ramifications.

The extensive review of art, Made in Germany, is a three part exhibition that simultaneously asserts and denies its nationhood. With an ever changing socio- political climate and an increasingly globalised ‘art world’, identity is very often brought into question, especially when groups of artists are defined by area, the Leipzig painters for example. Featuring 52 artists including Bjorn Dahlem, Jonathan Monk and Peter Piller, who have all indeed made these works in Germany although are not necessarily German, this show creates a nationalism from the international.

As Made in Germany closes, Destroy Athens, the Mediterranean city’s first biennale opens. Aiming to re-assess the perceptions of the Greek capital both inside and out, it seeks to ‘destroy’ the ancient stereotypes by placing itself within the global art ‘economy’. Meanwhile, the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art completes its four month run on 30 September. This new Greek event is based around a very different set of objectives. Nationhood and all of its contradictions are currently firmly in the art circuit’s spotlight.

Destroy Athens 10 September – 18 November
www.athensbiennial.org

Made in Germany, Kunstverein and Sprengel Museum, Hannover 25 May – 26 August
www.hannover.de

MONUMENTA

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra and Christian Boltanski are the first three artists to take part in Monumenta, a new annual contemporary art event providing international artists with the opportunity to engage with the steel and glass nave of the Grand Palais, Paris. Keifer, who has lived in France for ten years reveals his work on 31 May 2007, Serra in 2008 and Boltanski
in 2009.
www.monumenta.com

MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This brand new festival includes an unusual visual arts element. Il Tempo del Postino, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno, brings together artists such as Douglas Gordon, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Matthew Barney, who will each present a short work at Manchester’s Opera House on 12 July.
www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright are making work for August’s Edinburgh International Festival with the shared title Jardins Publics. Curated by Katrina Brown, the project explores the idea of the public garden in sites around the city, home to the father of town planning, Patrick Geddes, whose mantra was, ‘By leaves we live’. Now in its fourth year, the Edinburgh Art Festival runs concurrently.
10 Aug – 2 Sep
www.eif.co.uk
www.edinburghartfestival.org

PERFORMA07

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

PERFORMA07 is the second biennial of visual art performance at PS1, New York, showing new work by established and emerging artists, including Issac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Francesco Vezzoli and Daria Martin.
1 – 20 Nov
www.performa-arts.org

YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HONEST

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HONEST, a major exhibition of recent British film and video, opens at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli. The survey show of British film and video is based around new interpretations of documentary and narrative forms, many of the artists working from archival material, found image or relating to past cinema technique. It features work by Phil Collins, Luke Fowler, Cathy Wilkes,
Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer, among others.
24 May – 24 Sep
www.museomadre.it

Turner prize

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This year’s prize is to be presented out of London for the first time since it began in 1984. Work by the four shortlisted artists, Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger, will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Liverpool which opens on 19 October. Britain’s most prestigious art prize will be announced on 3 December
www.tate.org.uk

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL were the visual artists chosen to receive a Creative Scotland Award this year. Each receive £30,000 to develop proposed projects. Coombes begins a feature length screen play and a short film this year. ‘The Lady and the Lady’, is showing at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany.
www.kurzfilmtage.de
www.creativescotland.org.uk

PETER DOIG

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

PETER DOIG’s painting ‘White Canoe’, 1991, sold at Sotheby’s London for £5.7m, a dramatic increase on his previous record of £1.2m for ‘Iron Hill’. It becomes the most expensive work by a living European painter.
www.sothebys.com

KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, Glasgow, is one of four short-listed museums and galleries in this year’s Gulbenkian Prize, the UK’s largest, worth £100,000. Kew Palace, Historic Royal Palaces, London, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester and Weston Park Museum, Sheffield are also listed. The prize is awarded annually to an institution that demonstrates excellence regardless of scale or budget. The winner will be announced 24 May.
www.thegulbenkianprize.org.uk

JACKIE ANDERSON

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JACKIE ANDERSON is this year’s RSA Alastair Salvesen Scholar. She will use the £10,000 prize, towards travel to Trinidad and Tobago in search of her heritage.
www.jackieanderson.co.uk

SIMON STARLING

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

SIMON STARLING’s newly commissioned work, ‘Particle Projection (Loop)’, was shown at Weils, Brussels from dusk till midnight in the brewery room of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens breweries, which are in the final stages of renovation into a new centre for contemporary art. The work was commissioned in 2005. The newly refurbished building opens 25 – 28 May.
www.wiels.org

TATE MODERN

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

TATE MODERN plans for a £215m extension have been approved. Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the former power station will expand its gallery space by 60%. The 11 storey glass structure will open in 2012, coinciding with the London Olympics.
Meanwhile, Doris Salcedo is the next artist to participate in the Tate’s Unilever Series in the Turbine Hall. Colombian-born Salcedo exhibits for six months.
www.tate.org.uk

Dalziel + scullion

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Dalziel + scullion have been commissioned to make a new work by An Tobar on the Isle of Mull as part of the art centre’s tenth anniversary celebrations. The work responds to the centre’s name, Gaelic for ‘source’. The pair have shown recently at both Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow and Aberdeen Art Gallery.
18 May – 13 Jun
www.antobar.co.uk

GANGHUT

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

GANGHUT are on a six-month residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, working with the village to reinstate the gala day this summer. The art collective have revitalised the village hall where they now hold free workshops and events. They have also been working with the ‘GANGHUT Young Team’, at Lumsden Primary School which has its own blog on the SSW website.
www.ssw.org.uk

MOYNA FLANNIGAN

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MOYNA FLANNIGAN exhibits new and existing work at the annual Mount Stuart exhibition, on the Isle of Bute. Footprint in the Hall will be shown within the context of the historic mansion, responding to the histories of portraiture in domestic settings – an intervention in the form of drawings and paintings.
13 May – 30 Sep
www.mountstuart.com

JOHN CAGE (1912 ? 1992) and MERCE CUNNINGHAM

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JOHN CAGE (1912 – 1992) and MERCE CUNNINGHAM
A rare opportunity to see drawings by this great composer and ground-breaking choreographer. Works by the pair, who collaborated on numerous occasions since 1942, are shown together at Inverleith House, Edinburgh. Cage’s drawings open the show, gradually being replaced by Cunningham’s over the course of the exhibition, using the ‘chance’ operations beloved of them both. An all-day programme of Cage’s music is held on 24 June, with a programme of film screenings from 21 to 24 June at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
1 May – 24 Jun
www.rbge.org.uk

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI selected a series of films and performances for Lux and Tate Britain’s Select night, 4 May 2007, programming works that reflect and influence her own practice. The evening of moving images included Thomas Bayrle’s ‘Sunbeam’, 1993-94, Bonnie Camplin’s ‘Get Me A Mirror’, 2004, and Morgan Fisher’s ‘Projection Instructions’, 1976. Nashashibi is currently working on her Bookworks publication, Proximity Machine, which will be published July 2007, while her solo show Bachelor Machines Part 1 runs at Chisenhale, London, 13 April to 27 May 2007.
www.chisenhale.org.uk

AERNOUT MIK

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

AERNOUT MIK (see feature) is making new work for one of three Dutch contributions at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Focusing on issues of migration and national security, the Netherlands’ artist’s work will be accompanied by collected critical texts edited by Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova and philsopher Rosi Braidotti.
10 Jun – 11 Nov
www.bak-utrecht.nl

TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN has been awarded two UK residencies. The Glasgow-based artist will spend three summer months at Cove Park in the west of Scotland, and will take up a residency jointly hosted by Bristol’s art centres Spike Island and Arnolfini later in the year, with the intention of presenting a project at Arnolfini in 2008.
www.lauschmann.com

KARLA BLACK

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

KARLA BLACK is presenting new site specific works alongside Ian Kiaer and Knut Henrik at Poor Thing, a group show at Kunsthalle Basel.
9 Jun – 26 Aug
www.kunsthallebasel.ch

THE ART EXTRAORDINARY TRUST

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

THE ART EXTRAORDINARY TRUST opens for its summer season with a new exhibiton by David Mackie Cook (5 May – 1 July). This gallery holds an important and unique collection of outsider art dating from the early 19th century. The Trust adds new work by contemporary artists regularly.
5 May – 28 Oct (weekends only)
artextraordinarytrust
@yahoo.co.uk

MALCY DUFF

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MALCY DUFF has self-produced more than 30 publications, latterly with his own Missing Twin imprint, and has been described as ‘Scotland’s greatest living cartoonist’. He has also played with Pizza Boy Delivery, Gilded Lil, Giant Tank, and is currently one half of Usurper, the Edinburgh-based improv duo working with ‘disabled instruments’. He has provided cover art for Muscletusk, and for the latest release by former Wolf Eyes member, Aaron Dilloway. A selection from this new set of Duff originals will be published in the next four issues of Map. Duff’s most recent publications, The Blackest Gnome and the brand new A 52 Second Silence For Topsy (based on the 1903 film, Electrocuting An Elephant), are available to buy at
www.missingtwin.net.

ICC + S-AIR 2007 EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ICC + S-AIR 2007 EXCHANGE PROGRAMME is a three month residency in Sapporo, Japan aimed at artists/curators. Candidates will be asked to engage in a cultural exchange in the form of lectures and talks with the arts community in Sapporo.
Closing date 7 Jun
www.s-air.org

JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2007

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2007 is one of the UK’s most prestigious. Entrants must be in UK residence and have graduated with a visual arts degree in the past three years. Five winners will each receive £2,500, take part in a group exhibition, and will be published in the highly regarded Edinburgh-based, PortfolioMagazine, out June and December.
Registration deadline 13 Aug
www.portfoliocatalogue.com

NEW WRITING SCOTLAND PROJECT

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

NEW WRITING SCOTLAND PROJECT, a Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, initiative, promotes new art writers in Scotland. Selected by a panel of professionals, four writers will be commissioned to produce a text to accompany one of the four artists selected for New Work Scotland, 2007. Entrants must be based in Scotland and up to three years out of college.
Closing date 21 May
www.collectivegallery.net

MOVING IMAGES

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MOVING IMAGES East Ayrshire invites artists working in film, animation or video to apply for two residencies, both of which contain an educational element. Studio space will be offered in Kirkaldy’s museum and access to the rich museum collections will be offered.
Closing date 29 Jun
Arabella.Harvey@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

MISS MO TAYLOR?S TRUST

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MISS MO TAYLOR’S TRUST is a fund for impoverished artists, worth £800.
Closing date 1 Jun
www.royalscottishacademy.org

COLLECTIVE MYSTERY SCREENING

31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

EXCLUSIVE EVENT - SATURDAY 31st MARCH
6 - 9:30pm (including travel time)

With the support of Visiting Arts, The Collective presents the first UK exhibition featuring Egyptian artist, Wael Shawky. A solo show comprising selected video works by the emergent international artist will include a one off exclusive screening of “Al Aqsa Park” at a secret location, outside Edinburgh, Saturday 31st March, to coincide with the Collective’s re-opening.

You will be taken to the event by coach for which a LIMITED number of tickets are available (£3 only -sold on a first-come first-served basis). For tickets and more information please contact the gallery.

www.collectivegallery.net

CREATIVE SCOTLAND AWARDS

14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL were all recipients of the generous Creative Scotland Award 2007, which was established in 2000 to raise the profile of the arts in Scotland. Each artist, among 20 creatives, recived £30,000 to fund ambitious future projects in the coming year and beyond.

WILHELM SASNAL

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

WILHELM SASNAL has won the 'Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe 2006, one of Europe's most prestigious art prizes. Others short-listed were Urs Fischer, Andrei Monastyrski, Dan Perjovschi and Cerith Wyn Evans. Perjovschi was Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery artist in residence in 2004 and Map Commission artist summer 2005.
www.thevincentaward.eu

ARTANGEL OPEN 2007

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

RONI HORN, PENNY WOOLCOCK, PAUL PFEIFFER, CLIO BARNARD and ROGER HIORNS are the first recipients of the contemporary art award Jerwood/Artangel Open 2007, generator of almost 1000 proposals since it was launched last year. The £1million initiative was set up to enable artists to realise ambitious projects at home and abroad.
www.thejerwoodartangelopen.org.uk

JANICE MCNAB

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JANICE MCNAB's painting, 'The Philosopher's Ridge' was recently acquired by the Fleming Collection, London. The world's largest private collection of Scottish works aims to promote Scottish Art to a wider audience. The collection holds many historical works and has an ever-growing contemporary collection. See McNab review page 58.
www.flemingcollection.co.uk

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY returns to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where he first completed a residency in 1987. This major exhibition marks YSP’s 30th anniversary and is their most ambitious to date. 31 Mar 2007 – 6 Jan 2008
www.ysp.co.uk

RICHARD CALVOCORESSI

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

RICHARD CALVOCORESSI has been appointed director of the Henry Moore Foundation, which holds the greatest collection of works by the British sculptor. His predecessor Tim Llewellyn retires in May after 13 years in post. Calvocoressi will leave the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh where he has been director since 1987.
www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk

FRUITMARKET GALLERY

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

FRUITMARKET GALLERY, Edinburgh was runner up in the fifth annual Art Newspaper & AXA Art Prize for best exhibition catalogue of the year. First and second prize went to Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, The Hayward Gallery, and Modernism: Designing A New World, Victoria and Albert Museum.
www.fruitmarket.co.uk

KEVIN REID

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

KEVIN REID, nominated by Bedwyre Williams, was selected for Axis' Open Frequency. The on-line portfolio, nominated by a panel of artists and curators, showcases a selection of emerging and established UK talent. An on-line archive also profiles previously selected artists since 2004 and is a resource for artists and curators alike.
www.axisweb.org

ALEX POLLARD, CAROL RHODES, KARLA BLACK and KATE DAVIS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ALEX POLLARD, CAROL RHODES, KARLA BLACK and KATE DAVIS have each been awarded £15,000 by the Scottish Arts Council to support research, experimentation and the development of new and significant projects. The award aims to provide a resource for the artists to make national and internationally visible works. Kate Davis' solo show, Your Body is a Battleground Still, is part of the Art Now series at Tate Britain 3 Feb – 25 Mar
www.tate.org.uk

MARTIN BOYCE, JEREMY DELLER and SUSAN PHILIPSZ

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MARTIN BOYCE, JEREMY DELLER and SUSAN PHILIPSZ all feature in Sculpture Projects Munster 07. The review of contemporary sculpture is hosted every ten years by the city of Munster, Germany. Installed throughout the city the invited artists' works will integrate and respond to the public space, Sculpture Projects will be accompanied by a programme of lectures, readings, film screenings, and artist talks. 16 Jun – 30 Sept
www.skulptur-projekte.de

VICTORIA MORTON and KATY DOVE

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

VICTORIA MORTON and KATY DOVE show together for the first time in Sun by Ear at Tramway, Glasgow in March. The exhibition of new work explores the commonalities and differences between both artists practices, developing themes of engagement, experience and the constructs of space.
2 Mar – 1 Apr
www.tramway.org

HAYLEY and SUE TOMPKINS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

HAYLEY and SUE TOMPKINS are exhibiting in the newly refurbished Spike Island, Bristol. The artists’ complex reopened on 3 Feb after a £2.25million redevelopment. The pair were also commissioned to redesign Spike Island's new café in collaboration with Caruso St John architects.
3 Feb – 18 Mar
www.spikeisland.org.uk

DONALD URQUHART, ALEX FINLAY, THOMAS A CLARK and KEN COCKBURN

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

DONALD URQUHART, ALEX FINLAY, THOMAS A CLARK and KEN COCKBURN have all completed newly commissioned public artworks in Dysart, Fife, encompassing its harbour and surrounding area. The new site specific works hope to engage with the local community.

ILANA HALPERIN

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ILANA HALPERIN participates in the Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates, which focuses on art engaging with social, political and cultural dimensions that relate to nature and the environment. Halperin joins a line up of over 70 internationally renowned artists. 4 Apr – 4 Jun
www.sharjahbiennial.org

LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS Will Bradley, Chris Evans, Robert Johnston, and Sue Tompkins are due to release Live at the Annandale Hotel this spring on Gargleblast records. The release will feature live recordings of tracks from their first and only album Any Other City.
www.lifewithoutbuildings.com

NESTA

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

NESTA have launched a new £200,000 fund for research into collaborations between the arts and other disciplines can foster innovation.
www.nesta.org.uk

SCOTLAND AND VENICE 2007

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

CHARLES AVERY, HENRY COOMBES, LOUISE HOPKINS, ROSALIND NASHASHIBI, LUCY SKAER and TONY SWAIN are representing Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Curated by Philip Long, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, this diverse selection of young artists profiles a range of new work from Scotland. Four of the artists are represented by one of Scotland’s most adventurous commercial gallery’s, doggerfisher in Edinburgh. Along with Wales and Northern Island, this selection compliments the British pavilion at the Biennale which will house a solo exhibition of new work by Tracy Emin.
www.scotlandandvenicebiennale.com

ROSS SINCLAIR

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ROSS SINCLAIR exhibits with Victorian painter Sir Edwin Landseer in a project conceived by curator and artist Craig Richardson. Ross Sinclair versus Sir Edwin Landseer pairs Sinclair’s intervention with the painting ‘Flood in the Highlands’ in a traditional gallery setting. This unusual partnership can be seen at Art Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum 13 Jan – 7 Apr.
www.aagm.co.uk

BP PORTRAIT AWARD

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BP PORTRAIT AWARD is now open. In its 18th year, the prize of £25,000, to a single artist, aims to promote the theme of portraiture in contemporary art. Selected competitors will also be included in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Closing date 4 Mar.
www.npg.org.uk

NEW WORK SCOTLAND

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

NEW WORK SCOTLAND programme from the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh promotes recent graduates working in Scotland. Entrants must be either in their final year or up to three years out of art school. Successful applicants will have work included in the NWS exhibition, receive a fee and have a text on their work commissioned for publication. Closing date 1 Mar.
www.collectivegallery.net

COVE PARK

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

COVE PARK This three month residency, running from May – August is open to international professional visual artists. Closing date 23 Feb.

THE FAIRBAIRN PROGRAMME is a new venture at Cove Park, bringing together a group of six professionals from different areas of the visual arts – artists, curators and writers for a six week residency Aug – Sep. It is open to all UK based practitioners who have been working professionally for six years or more. Closing date 16 Apr.
www.covepark.org

RSA JOHN KINROSS SCHOLARSHIP

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

RSA JOHN KINROSS SCHOLARSHIP enables final year students from any of the four Scottish art schools to stay and work in Florence for a period of up to three months. The award is aimed specifically at artists who practice painting, drawing and sculpture. Closing date 5 May.
www.royalscottishacademy.org

KATRINA BROWN

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

KATRINA BROWN is leaving Dundee Contemporary Arts after nine years as curator, during which time she has introduced many important artists to Scotland. Brown moves to become director of The Common Guild, a new arts organisation in Glasgow which aims to establish itself as a champion of new work in Scotland.
www.thecommonguild.org.uk

TOBY PATERSON

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

TOBY PATERSON has been commissioned as lead artist in a project to transform the facade of BBC Scotland's new Pacific Quay building in Glasgow. Collaborating with a team of Glasgow School of Art graduates, he hopes to complete work by autumn 2007.

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR, LUCY SKAER and SIMON YUILL

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR, LUCY SKAER and SIMON YUILL are among the 20 artists/writers/musicians short-listed for this year’s Creative Scotland Awards established in 2002. Up to ten of the selected artists will receive £30,000. Winners will be announced in March 2007.
www.creativescotland.org.uk

ABERDEEN GRANTS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ABERDEEN now has a new visual arts award. With Scottish Arts Council support, Gray’s School of Art will offer grants of up to £1,000 to artists living and working in the city.
www.rgu.ac.uk/grays

JEFF NUTTALL

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JEFF NUTTALL (1933 - 2004) artist, writer and performer – author of the influential, 1960s Bomb Culture – is the subject of a new website. Put together by friend and colleague Robert Bank, the site highlights his many talents. Nuttall’s final book Art And The Degradation Of Culture, was a comment on what he saw as the commodification of art.
www.jeff-nuttall.co.uk

WASPS ARTISTS' STUDIOS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

WASPS ARTISTS’ STUDIOS have been offered a £3m pledge to move out of revenue funding status. The money will be invested in five new buildings, providing 140 new studio spaces for artists.
www.waspsstudios.org.uk

MADE AT DCA

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MARTIN BOYCE, SIMON STARLING and LOUISE HOPKINS, are among many others to feature in Made at DCA, an exhibition at the London Print Studio. The exhibition reviews a wide selection of editioned work produced in the Dundee print studio, including the unique Cove Park Portfolio. 15 Feb - 5 Apr
www.londonprintstudio.org.uk

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI was one of six artists to win the Arts Council England's deciBel Award 2006. One of the UK’s largest prizes for contemporary artists, the controversial award is only open to Black British and Asian British artists and has a total fund of £250,000. Nashashibi, Bernd Behr, Harold Offeh, The Otolith Group, Hiraki Sawa, and Lynette Yiadom Boakye each received a ‘no-strings-attached’ prize of £30,000 to develop and research new areas of artistic work.

www.artscouncil.org.uk

RACHAEL FLYNN and LISA FINDLAY

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

RACHAEL FLYNN and LISA FINDLAY were awarded residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, on the merit of their degree shows. The graduates, from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee and Grays School of Art in Aberdeen respectively, are completing their one-month residency along with other international recipients including Scottish artists Juliana Capes (Edinburgh), Kate Davis (Glasgow), Jacqueline Donachie (Glasgow), Ganghut (Scotland/Netherlands/Australia) and Trevor Gordon (Dundee).
www.ssw.org.uk

WASPS TRUST

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

WASPS TRUST is to establish a new studio complex for Glasgow. Working in partnership with Wasps Artists' Studios, Glasgow Sculpture Studios and Glasgow City Council, the trust has been awarded £1.7 million by the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund towards its £6.5 million redevelopment of Glasgow's historic fish market, The Briggait. The centre will house 71 studios and a 1,200 square meter sculpture workshop. It is expected that the redevelopment will be completed in 2009.

www.scottisharts.org.uk

SMITH/STEWART and DOUGLAS GORDON

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

SMITH/STEWART and DOUGLAS GORDON are included in Into to me / Out of me, an exhibition curated by Klaus Biesenbach at PS1, New York. Featuring 131 international artists, including Vito Acconci, Wim Delvoye, Regina Jose Galindo and Santiago Sierra. The exhibition focuses on the theme of the body’s transgressive relationship to the outside world. Into to me / Out of me moves to Kunst-Werke Berlin in November 2005.

www.ps1.org

www.kw-berlin.de

LAURA AULDRIDGE

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

LAURA AULDRIDGE joins the committee of Transmission, Glasgow, as Iain Hetherinton and Lucy McEachan step down after their two-year tenure. Auldrige graduated this year from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art and now joins current committee members Michael Stumpf, Cara Tolmie and Michael Hill Johnston.

www.transmissiongallery.org

OLIVER GODOW

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

OLIVER GODOW embarks on his one-year residency at Durham Cathedral. Godow graduated from the MFA in Glasgow in 1997, working in Stuttgart, Berlin and Glasgow. The Durham residency has been in place since 1983, and has an alumni of established artists such as Jim Harold, who exhibited at Streetlevel, Glasgow in 2005 and the late Ian Breakwell.

TOBY WEBSTER

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

TOBY WEBSTER curated a group of Modern Institute artists for a show in Israel. Works by Martin Boyce, Richard Hughes, Jim Lambie, Andrew Kerr, Scott Myles, Tony Swain and Hayley Tomkins were exhibited as part of Life’s a Beach at Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (31 Aug – 13 Oct).

www.sommercontemporaryart.com

MARYANNE AMACHER

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

MARYANNE AMACHER appeared at this year’s edition of Instal at the Arches, Glasgow, 15 October. The American sound sculptor is known for her ground-breaking installation work in neurophonic sound – a technique that uses sound waves to make the listener’s ears into instruments themselves, creating the semblance of a third ear. ‘Do not be alarmed!’ said Amacher. ‘Your ears are not behaving strange or being damaged!’

www.instal.org.uk

JENNY SAVILLE

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

JENNY SAVILLE’s early self portrait, formerly bought by Friends of the Glasgow School of Art, has sold at Lyon and Turnbull auctioneers in Edinburgh for £30,000. The pencil drawing was originally bought for £700 in 1992 from Saville's degree show, and was recently sold to contribute to a series of student bursaries and grants. Works by Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas and Sherin Neshat also sold in Lyon and Turnbull's first contemporary art auction.

CHARLOTTE HODES

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

CHARLOTTE HODES was this years recipient of the £6000 Jerwood Drawing Prize. Organised by Wimbledon College of Art, each year the competition receives over 2000 entries annually. The winners were selected by Jason Brooks, Dr Yvonne Crossley and Paul Thomas, artist and co-founder of the awards scheme. Second prize was won by James McLellan and the two student prizes went to Zoe Anderson and James Wright. Coinciding with the annual prize is Drawing Breath, an exhibition featuring work by award winners from the past ten years, 2004-2005. It is not due to visit Scotland but can be seen in Durham.

10 March – 22 April

ALEC FINLAY

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

ALEC FINLAY's publications are on view at The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. This survey examines the work of the artist, poet and publisher over the last decade, and includes the Morning Star folios established in 1990, the Pocket Book series in 1999 and most recently the Small Press series in 2002. Finlay is artist, poet and publisher.

30 Sept - 30 Nov.

www.alecfinlay.com

www.spl.org.uk

KATE DAVIS

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

KATE DAVIS’ book Bread was celebrated with a launch featuring Torsten Lauschmann baking 20 loafs of bread in the garden of Tramway. This is Sorcha Dallas' third publication, following Kate Davis’ previous title Partners and Gary Rough's Take Me With You. Bread was also featured alongside Davis' solo statement installation at the Sorcha Dallas booth at Artforum Berlin fair.

www.sorchadallas.com

SCALO PUBLISHING

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

SCALO PUBLISHING filed for bankruptcy on 19 September. Founded in 1991 by Walter Keller and George Reinhart, Scalo first opened as a bookshop and independent publishing house in Zurich. It opened a Zurich gallery in 1997 and a New York gallery in 1998. Scalo's partner Edition Patrick Frey will not be effected by the bankruptcy.

www.editionpatrickfrey.com

LUCY MCKENZIE

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

LUCY MCKENZIE has sublet part of her exhibition space at Talbot Rice to fashion designer Beca Lipscombe. The show, titled Ten Years of Robotic Mayhem (including sublet), reflects upon commerce and tourism within Scotland, and features McKenzie’s illustration work for Edinburgh periodical The One O’Clock Gun and her record label Decemberism. Lipscombe is based in Edinburgh, while McKenzie has recently moved from Glasgow to Brussels. The show runs 21Oct-9 Dec.

www.trg.ed.ac.uk

NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND and TATE

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND and TATE have formed an ‘alliance’ to acquire the Anthony d’Offay collection. The institutions are receiving the major collection on a part gift, part sale basis. Funds of £10 million are being sought to finance the acquisition which will be shared between Edinburgh and London, as well being made available to other UK galleries and museums through loans and exhibitions. A graduate of Edinburgh University and recent honorary fellow of Edinburgh College of Art, d’Offay has ammassed a huge post-war collection over the past 40 years. The acquisition includes works by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Joseph Beuys, Bill Viola and Diane Arbus, with others yet to be made public. NGS and Tate say they will work as equal partners. A building in Leith is one possible location for housing part of the collection in Scotland.

www.natgalscot.ac.uk

MARK NEVILLE and PAVEL BUCHLER

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

MARK NEVILLE and PAVEL BUCHLER were commissioned by the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, to make a collaborative new film work. The 16mm work The Moth and the Lamp is included in BUCHLER'S solo show at Kunsthalle Bern entitled Absentmindedwindowgazing.

20th Oct - 3rd December

www.kunsthalle-bern.ch

YOUNG ARTISTS' BIENNIAL IN BUCHAREST

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

MIRANDA BLENNERHASSETT, MARCUS COATS, WILL DUKE, STUART MURRAY, OLIVIA PLENDER, LOUISA PRESTON, TOBIAS STERNBERG and GAVIN WADE represent Great Britain in Absent Without Leave, the second Young Artists’ Biennial held in Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Jenny Brownrigg the British line-up will join 51 other international artists in the month long exhibition.
12th of Oct - 16th Nov

www.metacult.ro

BEAGLES AND RAMSEY

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BEAGLES AND RAMSEY are to launch a catalogue of recent work at Tramway. Produced in collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art, the publication is released alongside new books by Henry Coombes, Keith Coventry as well as a catalogue of Tramway’s recent exhibition What Makes You and I Different. The launch takes place 16 Nov at 8pm

www.tramway.org

NICK EVANS

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

NICK EVANS solo show at Tate St Ives reviews work made on his recent residency. The fourth artist in residence since the gallery's opening in 1993, Evans exhibits new sculptural work inside the gallery and on its roof terrace. The exhibition runs alomgside works from the gallery's permanent collection and a Rodger Hilton retrospective.
7 Oct - 21 Jan 2007

www.tate.org.uk

RICHARD DEMARCO

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

RICHARD DEMARCO was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Causa from the Wroclaw Academy of Art, Poland, 18 October. A direct result of Demarco's involvement at the 2004 International Conference of Universities on the occasion of Poland joining the EU, the award coincides with an exhibition of the Demarco archive at the Wroclaw University gallery 17 October – 17 December 2006. Demarco commented “this is a symbol of the strengthening that must take place in the Polish-Scottish cultural dialogue that I have fostered.”

HOSPITALFIELD RESIDENCY

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Artists are once again being invited to apply for the Royal Scottish Academy’s three-month long residency programme at Hospitalfield House. Hospitalfield, on the outskirts of Arbroath, is open to committed early-career artists who are based in Scotland, are Scottish or have studied in Scotland. Closing date for applications: 1 Dec 2006.

More details on the RSA website: www.royalscottishacademy.org

THE ALISTAIR SALVESEN SCHOLARSHIP

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

THE ALISTAIR SALVESEN SCHOLARSHIP offers up to £10,000 for travel. The finalist will have a solo show at the RSA a year after winning the award. The award is granted to painters between 25-35 who have trained at one of the four main Scottish art colleges, worked at least three years outside of the college environment, and are resident in Scotland whilst also having had work exhibited by a recognised gallery in 2006.

Closing date for applications: January 2006.

More details on the RSA website: www.royalscottishacademy.org

EAST INTERNATIONAL 2007

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

EAST international 2007 the annual open call exhibition, held at Norwitch Gallery and Norwich School of Art and Design. Previous recipients of the exhibition have been: Sandy Guy, Kenny Hunter, Lucy McKenzie, Richard Hughes and Ruth Ewan. Selectors this year are Matthew Higgs and Marc Camille Chaimowicz.

Closing date for applications: 24 Nov 2006

www.norwichgallery.co.uk

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI and LUCY SKAER

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI and LUCY SKAER were commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol to create new film work together. Shot while the pair were on the Scottish Arts Council’s New York residency scheme, Nashashibi and Skaer filmed under cover of darkness for ‘Flash in the Metropolitan’, a film which documents the Near Eastern, African and Oceanic collections of the prodigious New York museum. The 16mm film was premiered by doggerfisher gallery at Frieze Art Fair in October. Artist Mark Wallinger told Art Newspaper it was the best thing he’d seen at the fair.

www.doggerfisher.com

KIRSTEN LLOYD and AMY SALES

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

KIRSTEN LLOYD and AMY SALES have commissioned artists Aileen Campbell and Mark Melvin to create new art installations for Traverse Cubed³, the Traverse Theatre's month-long season of cross-disciplinary art. EmergeD curators Lloyd and Sales were asked to curate the visual art element of Traverse Cubed³, while John Harris curates the music programme. Campbell and Melvin's art installations will be accompanied by Martin Parker's sound installation Filament Copperwire.

29 Oct - 25 Nov

www.traverse.co.uk

PRIZES AND OPPORTUNITIES

23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

JERWOOD ARTANGEL OPEN This ambitious newb £1 million commissioning initiative invites artists of all disciplines to propose an exceptional project in relation to specific sites across the UK.
www.jerwoodartangelopen.org.uk

Book Fair at the CCA Open Day

23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

on Saturday 26th August. The Open Day offers tours of the building and exhibition talks, Intermedia Gallery at CCA, film screenings, and a book fair including AK Press, Analogue, Black Dog, Dot Dot Dot, One O'Clock Gun, Something Haptic as well as Map - we will have a stall there from 12 - 4pm so come and say hello. Visit the CCA website for more information.

A PUBLIC ONLINE SURVEY

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been launched on the Scottish Arts Council’s website to assess interest in the formation of a ‘Cultural Academy’. In 2005,
Patricia Ferguson, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, asked
the organisation to consider how Scotland might recognise and
celebrate its artistic achievements. Various proposals, ranging from an academy building to high-profile awards, were put forward.
However, the questionnaire has been criticised by the Scottish
Artists’ Union (SAU), which argues the survey is ‘heavily
weighted in favour of the proposition’ that the academy
should be established, and the online form ‘offers no possibility
for respondents to present an alternative view to what appears to
be a pre-determined course of action’. The SAU has written to
the Arts Council and Creative Services Scotland, warning that
the current plans risk being seen as elitest and ‘against the
egalitarian nature to which Scottish culture aspires’.

JENNY BROWNRIGG

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is one of five curators involved in this autumn’s international biennial of young artists, which runs from 14 October to 16 November in
Bucharest, Romania. The Young Artists’ Biennial: Absent Without
Leave will bring together 50 local and international artists to display
work. Organised by META Cultural Institute – a privately run
visual art organisation – and the Goethe-Institut Bukarest, the
event encompasses an exhibition, seminars and portfolio reviews.
Artists will be selected and displayed by Brownrigg, curator at
Dundee University Exhibition Department, Simona Nastac and
Oana Tanase (Romania), Irina Grabovan (Moldavia) and Branko
Franceschi (Croatia).
www.metacult.ro

UBU

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

gallery has sold its entirev inaugural show on its opening
night. Founded by Richard Hopkins, formerly of the Market
Gallery, Ubu is a new commercial space in Glasgow’s East End. On
22 May, Becky Beasley’s Decors Du Silence!, was snapped up by
Nick Giles, a former insurance broker and owner of Arran Art
Gallery. Giles acquired 12 photographic works for his private
collection, which will be reinstalled by Beasley for an Arran
showing in 2007. The two galleries have also created a programme of artists’ residencies as a joint venture on the island.
Oct 2006 – Mar 2007
www.ubuart.org.uk

MOMENTUM

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is the fourth Nordic festival of contemporary art. Featuring work by 28 artists, including Sue Tompkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer,
Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, the festival takes place in a converted beer production plant in Moss, Norway. The old brewery is beingdeveloped as an art and design
centre. 1 Sep – 15 Oct
www.momentum.no

TOTAL KUNST's

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

summer exhibition What Is Lady Cum? (8 – 29 July) focused on themes of female fantasy, masturbation and ejaculation, and featured work by Amy Whiten, Rosie McGurn and Lianne Bryce. Two days after it opened, the provocatively titled Edinburgh show received a complaint from a member of the public – the police responded, and warned the gallery that it may be in breach of obscenity laws, since the work was easily visible from the street. Total Kunst duly
covered the windows and placed warning signs at its entrance.
www.theforest.org.uk

NICOLA ATKINSON-DAVIDSON

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

will be celebrating the short but colourful life of glamrocker Marc Bolan in East Kilbride. As part of her three-month residency, Glasgow-based Atkinson-Davidson is seeking T. Rex enthusiasts to join her in creating Bring the Glam to East Kilbride at East Kilbride Arts Centre. The project will include fan memorabilia, album artwork and – it is hoped – a chance to meet Bolan’s son Rolan. The timing of this public art event is crucial. The show runs 16 – 30 September, and Atkinson-Davidson notes, ‘As true fans will recognise, these dates are significant in the Bolan timeline – he was killed in a car crash on 16 September 1977 and was born on 30 September 1947’.
www.NadFly.com

JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON'S ARTS PRIZE

25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

A major new arts prize, funded by the artist John Lowrie Morrison (who paints under the name Jolomo), has been launched to promote the painting of the Scottish landscape. With a main prize of £20,000 and total prize money of up to £30,000, the Awards constitute one of the most important art prizes in the UK. Closing date for the 2007 Awards is 16 December 2006.

The Jolomo Lloyds TSB Scotland Awards (Lloyds TSB Scotland are providing sponsorship to assist with the running of the Awards) has a judging panel consisting of the artist Jolomo himself, arts journalist Susan Mansfield, gallery owner Geoff Kranenburg, Lloyds TSB Scotland Director Manus Fullerton and arts auctioneer Nick Curnow.

Further information about the Awards, full ENTRY CRITERIA and a downloadable APPLICATION FORM can be found on www.jolomofoundation.org

More details are available from Michael Wheatley: michael.wheatley@thejolomostudio.com

THE SCOTTISH ARTISTS' UNION

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has announced its free public liability insurance cover for all members, in response to artists increasingly working with local authorities, health and education boards. Cover of up to £5 million will be available and the scheme extends to artists holding workshops and open studio events.
www.sau.org.uk

LOUISA PRESTON

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been awarded funding for a month-long research trip to Tokyo. The artist and trainee gallery assistant at Dundee Contemporary Arts received £1500 from the Arts Trust of Scotland to develop video, photography and drawing in the Japanese capital. As a member of the artist-led GENERATOR projects, Preston also features in the Bucharest Biennial, alongside Miranda Blennerhassett and Romanian artist Anca Benera.

AN TUIREANN

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

on Skye is one of four international art galleries working together to create the JIPB Cube Gallery. The dedicated 80cm³ space at the Portree centre is identical to sister spaces in Jarnac (France), Ichinomiya (Japan) and Bøvlingbjerg (Norway).
The micro gallery was initially developed in the French and Japanese locations to raise awareness of rural locations as viable spaces for the display of contemporary art, and has gone on to expand over the last two years. The Portree offshoot opened in May with work by Lisa O’Brian, Ally Wallace and Chris Maginn. Applications for 2007/8 are invited.
www.antuireann.org.uk

RUARI GARDINER

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has unveiled a design for a purpose-built space for the Demarco Archive. Gardiner, a fourth-year architecture student at Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College, showed plans for a building in the Port Dundas area of Glasgow, at the college’s degree show in May. The creation of the Demarco Archive is a three-year Visual Research Centre project to digitise and make accessible Richard Demarco’s vast collection of 40 years of photographs, documents, film and audio recordings.

VARIANT MAGAZINE

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has celebrated its 20th birthday with the launch of a complete online archive. Every issue since its launch in 1986 is available to download from the independent publisher’s website, while subscribers will be treated to a CD-ROM of the archive.
www.variant.org.uk

SCOTT LAVERIE

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been invited to create a large new sculptural work for the Scottish Book Trust’s ‘hidden garden’ in Edinburgh. The invitation came from the artist-led initiative Emerged, which will participate in the Edinburgh Arts Festival (27 Jul – 3 Sep) and Annuale (28 Jul – 3 Sep). Laverie’s monumental artwork will also serve as a pavilion, housing sound and performance pieces curated by Kirsten Lloyd. Emerged has also lined up new residencies in association with Traverse Theatre for the autumn. John Harris will curate music for the project, with further curators to be announced. The residencies have been established to incorporate a wide range of artistic disciplines, where composers, writers and visual artists work together to create new work.
www.annuale.org
www.edinburghartfestival.org
www.emerged.net

SCOTT MYLES'

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

work has been included in Tate Modern’s latest permanent collection re-hang. The Glasgow-based artist’s screenprint ‘Double Exit’, 2004 – one of three works acquired by the Tate – is now on display in the gallery’s 'Idea and Object' area on Level 5. Meanwhile, Myles is continuing work on his artist’s book with Kunsthalle Zurich.
www.tate.org.uk

ALISON DUNLOP

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has become the first artist-in-residence at Limousine Bull in Aberdeen. The Glasgow-based artist was appointed to the new four-week scheme at the artists’ collective, developing and creating a site-specific installation for their project space at the start of July.

RUTH EWAN and KEITH FARQUHAR

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

are among 25 artists selected for the annual East International exhibition. Ewan is one of five to be commissioned to create new work for the show, selected by Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller and Dirk Snauwaert, founding artistic director of Wiels, the new contemporary art centre in Brussels. The non-thematic 16th East International exhibition can be seen at Norwich Gallery until 19 August.
www.eastinternational.net

SYLVIA GRACE BORDA

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is another artist drawing inspiration from East Kilbride. During a year-long project, she has rebuilt the town as an online new media portal. Replete with interactive maps, images and local newspaper clippings, 'EK Modern New Town' documents the urban history of East Kilbride as a modernist town.
www.eknewtown.com