Small Things That Make Up a Big Thing

Back To Glasgow....

2011-03-20T22:23:00.000Z

Back in Glasgow after a long Friday evening train journey, stuck sitting next to some rowdie drunken nurses from Aberdeen. I met John Binnie at the train station, the writer who I have worked with on a couple of projects, but unfortunately couldn't get a seat with him. Managed to have half a conversation where we discussed our shared interest in working with 'the community'. We recently worked on a project together for the 'Aye Write' festival with recovering alcoholics from AIS, GEAPP, and Milestone in the East of Glasgow, and we both found it very rewarding. The project culminated in performances at the Mitchell library, and at Platform Theatre Space, Easterhouse. John has a knack for getting people to write about things they might not normally talk about, so the works the group produced were gritty, universal and deeply moving.
Yesterday I met up with Liz Rowe, Ellie Harrison and the http://extraspecialpeople.org group from Eastside Projects, Birmingham www.eastsideprojects.org who had been having a whistle-stop two day tour of the Glasgow Artscene. They came to my studio at the Briggait, and there were about 18 of them so they filled the studio! I also talked to them about the Scottish Artists Union www.sau.org.uk, as I am on the executive.
I met them later on in the evening at the Intermedia Gallery opening of Sarah Forrester, and they were all starting to look a bit exhausted... apparently they had walked everywhere, and not used any public transport!
It was good to hook up with Liz Rowe again as I have known her for a few years. We met at the Shining Cliff Residency, in Ambergate, near Nottingham, hosted by My House Projects. We have kept in touch and i showed Liz's works in both of my Hallelujah exhibitions, (http://smallthingsthatmakeupabigthing.blogspot.com...)
I had some interesting conversations with artists Ruth Claxton, and Nathaniel Pitt an artist who I previously met at the "Winner Takes It All" conference, Liverpool Biennial 08. Inevitably we ended up talking about artists survival strategies and ways of operating, "How to survive in this business" seems to be a recurring topic.

First few days...

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So it's Day 2 of the project and I've had a hectic couple of days in Mortlach Primary School. Ken Cockburn (the poet) and I launched the project by giving presentations to the Infant School and then the Upper School, and then we worked with different classes over the two days. I managed to squeeze in a visit to the Tourist Office where we will be sighting one of the works, with the P5's; and then a visit to the Hospital/Doctor's surgery with the P1's who are a very lively bunch to say the least. There are 19 boys and only 4 girls which seems to create chaos no matter what they are doing. All in all its a nice school with friendly, helpful staff and its all going well.
This evening I went with Mary Bourne to Deveron Art's Empty Shop (www.deveron-arts.com) where a talk was given by Georg Deutsch, at lecturer from Oxford University on West African History in conjunction with the artist residency by photographer Baudouin Mouanda from Congo- Brazzaville. Apparently Baudouin had to leave a few days ago prematurely, due to problems renewing his visa. Glasgow based Artist Anthony Shrag will be in residence there next month.
We drove back to Dufftown through snow covered hills and fields, illuminated by a huge silver moon, and with Orion shining brightly. Its very, very quiet in Dufftown at night-time, remarkably quiet.

Mortlach Story Walks Project

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I am getting organised to head North tomorrow, to start the project on Wednesday morning at Mortlach Primary School in Dufftown. Dufftown is in a very rural location and pretty high up so the weather can be quite severe. It's a four hour train journey via Aberdeen and Huntly so the tricky part seems to be getting there. The materials have been ordered and hopefully will be delivered before Wednesday, along with a '3 in one' printer. Then its time to launch the project and meet the children and staff. We had a meeting a month ago to plan the project, so this will be the third time I have been there. The poet Ken Cockburn had his first sessions with the kids last week, and I am wondering how he got on. The plan had been to take the children out on some of the 'Walks' but i think the weather was pretty bad, there was snow and various roads closed so I'm not sure if they would have stuck to the plan. I suppose the point here is to remain flexible.
My role is to work with the school children to create artworks for the library, the tourist information office and the doctors surgery and a map/poster, and to work collaboratively with Ken to produce Story Walk leaflets. I'll be working with all the children in the school, so that's 150!
Last time I was there we did some of the walks with artist/sculptor Mary Bourne, who is coordinating the project. I took a lot of photographs as it was a fine day, and there's lots of beautiful scenery, ancient woodlands and interesting stories about the area. I'm looking forward to going over things with the children and getting things from their perspective.

Banners, works on paper 2010

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Banner works and new works on paper, all photographs Alan Dimmick

New works 2010

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"Keep The Faith", "The Torch", "Trojan", "Fragile Dollar Sign" all parcel tape on perspex
"We are monkeys..." Digital prints & sale banners.

All photographs Alan Dimmick.

Creative Scotland Dialogue Event, The Briggait, Glasgow 25.05.10

2010-07-07T19:06:00.002+01:00

An article commissioned for publication in a-n Magazine July/August 2010 issue and on www.a-n.co.uk/publications

Creative Scotland Dialogue Event, The Briggait, Glasgow 25.05.10

The forth and final Creative Scotland Dialogue Event was held at the impressively refurbished Briggait building, originally a nineteenth century fishmarket, on the banks of the River Clyde, in Glasgow. This was a high profile showcase event to introduce Creative Scotland to the arts communities of Scotland, giving a platform for Culture Minister, Fiona Hyslop and Chief Executive Designate of CS, Andrew Dixon, to outline the progress made towards establishing the new organization that will replace the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, with Creative Scotland set to be in charge of 30% of the Scottish cultural budget.

Fiona Hyslop began the proceedings by highlighted the strengths and achievements of what has gone before, commending the high levels of innovation, creative genius and contemporary nature of the art scene in Scotland, calling Creative Scotland “a great opportunity for a fresh agenda for culture and the arts, and for creativity and innovation to become a key focus for the economy and society across Scotland”. She was keen to emphasize Scotland’s role as a modern, ambitious, progressive nation, and how she sees creativity and innovation as a key to its continuing success, with the ability to benefit health, education and the economy.

Amongst a list of credits she thanked the SAC and SS for their “patience and perseverance” over the past year, “in being asked to do the impossible”, I presume by this she meant merging together as one organization, with a smaller overall budget but with a far wider remit.

Next up was Andrew Dixon, describing the new organization as a “rallying call” to Scotland’s creative community rather than an institution, assuring us we would start to “notice a change in pace, language and culture”.

He also outlined the achievements of Scotland, the need to champion everything that is good in the sector; to build on the strengths of both organizations, considering the SAC and SS as the most innovative organizations of their kind in Europe, seeing Scotland as a creative nation that punches well above its weight, whose position is currently ranked 18th out of 60 countries, in a cultural branding list.

The quantitative approach is obviously important to AD, seemingly picked up during his six years with a marketing company, as he was proud to recount that in his previous position at the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, he apparently visited 100 artists in 100 days. Similarly he was eager to list the places, arts organizations, and numbers of artists he had encountered in his three weeks in post, brandishing a couple of artist’s postcards as if to prove the genuine nature of his involvement.

He emphasized the need to focus on a few priorities, to set targets, and objectives. Those priorities have already been identified as “Internationalism and Traditional Arts ”, obviously extending the idea of cultural branding and cultural tourism. “Creative Scotland will be testing a new language, not of funding and subsidy but of investment.”

A chance for the assembled audience to ‘participate’ came in the form of round table discussions of three prescribed questions on the subject of new models of support for investing in the arts; of how to encourage the Scottish people to champion their culture and how to promote these successes internationally. These collective responses were read out from six selected tables with further responses from Dixon and Hyslop.

During these discussions Hyslop and Dixon mingled briefly with the audience in order to show that they were genuinely getting involved in discussion. Andrew Dixon sat at our table and we took the chance to remind him that different areas of the arts need different types of funding, that one size does not necessarily fit all and that organizations need a degree of stability and security in order to create innovative high quality projects. We remonstrated that private sector intervention and philanthropic investments are not always going to have the best interests of the cultural sector at heart, with contributors inevitably expecting a return on their investment. We voiced concerns that there has so far been no Visual Arts Reference group, with what seems like no demarcation of departments within the new organization.

While promising to focus not on organizations but on artists, recognizing creative practice, valuing artists, his outpourings seemed strangely contradictory and misguided. The notion of partnership funding and philanthropy was repeatedly mentioned as a good thing, with Dixon citing examples of his own donations, and how good he felt being able to watch his investment grow etc. This proved to be incredibly bad timing with press coverage the same day of Dixon’s support for Sir John Wood’s proposal to create a shopping centre and car-park in place of Aberdeen’s much loved Union Terrace Gardens. This puts the kai bosch on agreed SAC funding for the development of a new Art Centre for Peacock Visual Arts, with Aberdeen Council cow-towing to Wood’s £50 million investment in his own proposal, despite a public consultation to the contrary.

Obviously aiming to give a positive spin to the whole proceedings, Richard Holloway, Chair of the joint Board of SAC and SS, managed to give a spectacularly misjudged performance in the form of a speech that encouraged us “to play more”, to “have more fun” and “to do more skipping”. This seemed a shockingly inappropriate approach to take in the light of the package of sweeping cuts to the arts sector, announced the day before by Jeremy Hunt, at Westminster.

Initial comments by Dixon about inheriting the current incarnation of Creative Scotland from a banker and a bishop so “it couldn’t have been in safer hands” and a throwaway comment as he left our table “Its always the Visual Artists.....”, later referring to us as the visual arts table, as if we were the trouble makers, left us in varying levels of disbelief. Having witnessed the spin, and what seemed like fairly predictable political maneuverings, I was left feeling short changed and wondering where was the real chance for dialogue, who is the captain of this ship, and how rough is the voyage ahead.

HaLLelujah 2 Documentation

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Image of text work by Alex Hetherington.
Phil Kay with Sparky, making a video for the Central Station team during the opening.

HALLelujah 2 Documentation

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Photographs by Alan Dimmick.

HALLelujah 2 Install

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Alex and Oliver have been round to install their artworks.

Collage installation by Oliver Braid work in progress.

Images of text work by Alex Hetherington.

HALLelujah 2 Information

2010-04-14T14:00:00.009+01:00

HALLelujah 2
A group exhibition curated by Janie Nicoll, featuring artworks by:
Alex Hetherington
Amy Marletta
Anna Francis
Hanneline Visnes
Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir
Janie Nicoll
Jim Colquhoun
Karen Vaughan
Kenny Hunter
Kevin Hutcheson
Krisdy Shindler
Elizabeth Rowe
Neil Coombs
Oliver Braid
Rachel Mimiec

Opening event Saturday 17th April 2-4 pm

Venue: 212 West Princes Street, Woodlands, Glasgow G4 9DL
Contact no. 00 44 141 575 9773 mob. 07971 602270
Opening times 17th - 24th April 11-5pm (not Sunday 18th)
25th - 2nd May by appointment.

HALLelujah 2 brings together the work of fifteen artists from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. All the artists are loosely linked by an interest in drawing, print and collage in all their various forms. The work will be displayed within a domestic setting, in the hallway of a Westend tenement flat.

HALLelujah 2 came about as a follow up to ‘HALLelujah !’ a group show in 2009, and other curatorial projects, The Consequence Video Screenings, (screened at Lowsalt, Glasgow, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and the Deviant Art Festival, Trolhattan, Sweden); and The TWINS Calendar Project, where artists were invited to make artworks for specific flats in Callendar Park High Flats, Falkirk during a residency undertaken by Janie Nicoll and Alex Hetherington at Callendar House, Falkirk.

The work in this exhibition illustrates a diversity of approach ranging from vinyl lettering text-work by Alex Hetherington; poster-works by Kenny Hunter and Kridsy Shindler; drawings by Amy Marletta, Hrafinhildur Halldórsdóttir, Hanneline Visnes and Jim Colquhoun; embroidered text work by Karen Vaughan; Anna Francis decoupage homage to the 1986 Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival, surreal photomontage works by Neil Coombs, paintings by Rachel Mimiec, to the collage works in different forms by Oliver Braid, Janie Nicoll, Kevin Hutcheson and Elizabeth Rowe.

Info on featured artists

Alex Hetherington is a performance-based visual artist, curator and writer. Recent work includes: the Alt-W funded A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death (Triangle of Need) developed during a Creative Lab residency at CCA, presented at Reveal/Reset, Inspace August 2009, Edinburgh Art Festival and at Signal and Noise, Vancouver, May 2010; and Heavy Influence presented at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, August 2009, Edinburgh Art Festival. Other recent shows include Warehouse of Horrors, The Embassy Gallery at Swg3, Glasgow, Embassy Screen, The Embassy, Edinburgh; I Am Kurious Orange, at David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA; The Colony Room, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA and House/Lights at OPA 0.2 On Performance Art Festival at Bios, Athens, Greece.

www.alexhetherington.net

Amy Marletta graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone Art College, Dundee in 2002, before undertaking the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Recent exhibitions include ‘Self-Made Cavalcade’, Arts Complex, Edinburgh/ Akademie Galerie, Munich; ‘Don’t Cry It’s Only a Rhythm’, Generator Projects, Dundee. Amy is also part of artist collective GANGHUT, recent exhibitions/projects include, ‘Hands Across the Fire’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee and ‘Ganghut Gala Day’, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire.
For more info www.ganghut.co.uk

Marletta’s work for this exhibition is part of a larger series of drawings that relate to video and performance work stemming from ‘Dance Troupe’, an ongoing project, which is a hangover from the artist’s disco dancing youth. Always roping in friends and other artists she is the only constant, making up music, routines, t-shirts, props etc. Having repressed this need for group dance activity for many years, she feels that she doesn’t yet have it out of her system, as she continues to feel more and more ridiculous. The drawings form a set of ambiguous instructions for movement alongside advice for everyday life.

Anna Francis is an artist, based in Stoke-on-Trent. Her work examines private histories, public space and civic languages; using forms of intervention, mapping and photography to investigates the impact of art and culture on the regeneration of cities. The decoupage kit is part of her investigations into the 1986 Garden Festival for the first time. Francis is interested in excavating the site as it is today, uncovering the physical remnants of the Festival, as well as probing the impact and legacy in other ways. How does this piece, specific and relevant to one city instigate conversations in another?

www.annafrancis.blogspot.com

Elizabeth Rowe, has recently completed residencies at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, NL, 2009, and Dudley Library, UK 2009. Solo exhibitons include If Distance was an Object Between Us, HWW, Rotterdam, 2009; Tiny Details, Grotesque Proportions, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK, 2008; My Sponsor is the Leader of the Country, MAC, Birmingham, 2006. She lives and works in Birmingham, UK.

Rowe makes work from material she accumulates. Things that are given to her, objects she finds in the streets or buys from 2nd hand shops, newspapers, magazines and free advertising. Through a range of processes such as cutting up, reassembling or drawing over, she attempts to control the mass of stuff she gathers and to edit her self into the work
With an interest in questioning the nature of different ‘realities’ while realising that the only one she will ever know is her own, she mashes up and reinterprets different sources, histories and ideas. The results are overlaps, ruptures and spillages of meaning that open spaces between public and private experience and make connections between the global and the local.

www.elrowe.com

Hanneline Visnes, orginally from Norway, is a painter who lives and works in Glasgow. She completed a BA at Glasgow School of Art in 1997 and the MFA at GSA in 2002. In 2005 she undertook the SAC Amsterdam Residency and has exhibited nationally and internationally. She currently exhibits with doggerfisher Gallery, Edinburgh.

http://www.doggerfisher.com/

Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, spent parts of her childhood in Denmark and has since 1998 lived and worked in Glasgow. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2001 (BA Hons) and 2007 (MFA). In her sculptures and installations the psychological nature of the negotiation of circumstance and contradictory forces of chaos and control are combined with the formal concerns of negotiating form and space. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally including recent solo shows in Overgaden-Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen and Galleri Box, Gothenburg and group shows in Artnews Projects, Berlin, Glasgow International, Intermedia/Glasgow and Galerie LHK, Paris.
www.artnews.org/hrafnhildurhalldorsdottir

Janie Nicoll is a visual artist based in Glasgow, who originally trained in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated from the Master of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art in 1997. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, most recently in the "Getting Up -Windows In the City", Inverness Old Town Art Project; Scottish National Portrait Gallery in ‘Rough Cut Nation’; ‘Heavy Influence’, Magazine 09 at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop: Jamie Radcliffe Exhibition at SWG3; ‘Meddle With the Devil’ and ‘Garlands’ at The Park Gallery, Falkirk; Magazine 07, ESW; ‘Associates’ at the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh; ‘The Consequence’ at Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow; the Deviant Arts Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden; Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool; Generator Projects, Dundee; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Lowsalt Gallery and EmergeD VSF Gallery, Glasgow; The Waygood Gallery, Newcastle; The Changing Room, Stirling; the Crawford Gallery, Cork and the Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany amongst others. Her video works have been shown internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Nicoll's work generally takes the form of site-specific installation often involving multiple digital images, collage techniques, drawing, painting, and assemblage that allow a process of translation.

http://www.axisweb.org/artist/janienicoll

Jim Colquhoun is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. His work seeks to negotiate the boundaries between art and life, waking and dreaming, fiction and fact. To this end he produces drawings, installations, performances and texts. Colquhoun is a recent graduate from the Environmental Art Department and Master of Fine Art Course at Glasgow School of Art. He has shown recently in Edinburgh, Copenhagen, New York, Stockholm and Glasgow.

Karen Vaughan graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1991, and from the Master of Fine Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast 1992. She was a founding member of Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
Much of her work deals in minutiae: from cracks in the pavement to graffiti on the wall and often combines technology - the camera, with labour-intensive processes that include stitching, embroidery and knitting.

Kenny Hunter studied sculpture at GSA, graduating in 1987, lives and works in the Glasgow.
The winner of the Benno and Millie Schotz Award in 1991, he has exhibited widely in the UK, France and Scandinavia, including the major shows Hyperboreans, Glasgow (1992) and Work 1995-98, Bristol (1998), and has won several prestigious commissions for public sculpture in Scotland.
His work in Glasgow includes the Cherub and Skull, Tron Theatre (1999), The Calf, Graham Square (1999), The Castlemilk Dome, Castlemilk (1999) and Citizen Firefighter, Gordon Street (2001). Outwith Glasgow, he has executed public work at Hamilton, Four Youths (1998), and Sunderland, Interalia Stevenson Trail (1995). One of his most recent commissions, Man Walks Amongst Us (2000), a statue of Christ, was awarded by Glasgow City Council to mark the Christian Millennium.
His work is represented in the Scottish Arts Council, the British School in Athens, SNPG and GOMA.

Kevin Hutcheson was born in 1971 and currently lives and works in Glasgow. Hutcheson graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2002 and has since exhibited in a number of group shows including a solo exhibitions at Jack Strenz Gallery, Frankfurt, Alexandre Pollazzon, London, and The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and group exhibitions at LEARN TO READ Tate Modern, London, Transmission, Glasgow; Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin; EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco; f a projects, London; Country Grammer at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow and The Birthday Party at the Collective Gallery in Edinburgh.

Krisdy Shindler is a visual artist from Vancouver (Canada). Krisdy completed her ‘Masters of Fine Arts’ degree at The Glasgow School of Art in 2006. Her work in painting and animation has been exhibited in Canada, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Wales, Puerto Rico, Columbia, and across Spain, the UK and Scotland. Recent exhibitions: When a Painting Moves… Something Must be Rotten, curated by Paco Barragan, exhibited at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota (Colombia), and Fundacion Godia (Barcelona); Listening to Silent Propaganda at Candyland Gallery in Stockholm a solo show featuring new works made on a residency at the Malongen Guest studio in 2008; International video art: Two-sidedness curated by Sandra Weil at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm 2008; Video Killed the Painting Star curated by Paco Barragan and Javier Panera at DA2 Salamanca Spain.

Krisdy is also co-founder and Co-Director of Lowsalt, an artist-run initiative and gallery that has delivered over 30 gallery exhibitions and site-specific art shows in Glasgow Scotland since inception in 2006. Positioned at the crossing of ‘DIY’ gallery culture and institutional networks, Lowsalt provides a platform for creative and cross-disciplinary practitioners to collaboratively produce and exhibit their work, www.lowsalt.org.uk. Her practices are now based both in Vancouver and Glasgow.
http://www.krisdyshindler.com/

Neil Coombs is an artist and writer based in North Wales. He is a lecturer in Art and Media at Coleg Llandrillo, Colwyn Bay and is currently researching Humphrey Jennings and British Surrealism for a PhD with Liverpool JMU.

The work in this exhibition is taken from the ongoing photomontage series The Phantoms of the Places that I Haunt. Each work in the series consists of photographs taken during micro-dérives in places that Neil visits regularly. The photographs are then placed in a repeated formal arrangement creating a sequence of faces, each one a phantom figure from the location visited. The Phantoms of the Places that I Haunt series takes its inspiration from the paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the work of the Czech and Slovak surrealist group, particularly the photographs of Emilia Medkova and the animations of Jan Svankmajer.

www.ncoo.co.uk

Oliver Braid graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2006 and is currently working towards his Master of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art.
Selected exhibitions include You're A Voigin Who Can't Droive (Film Screening), CCA Glasgow 2009, Jamie Radcliffe: The Exhibition, SWG3 Glasgow 2009, Frieze Art Fair, London 2009, Climate for Change, FACT Liverpool 2009, Next Up, the Bluecoat Liverpool 2008.

Rachel Mimiec studied at The Glasgow School of Art, graduating from the Master of Fine Art department in 2000. She lives and works in Glasgow.
Rachel’s work is as varied as the contexts she responds to but can be linked as explorations of public/ private dialogue and exchange. She recently spent eighteen months as artist in residence in The Hidden Gardens at Tramway culminating in the exhibition Looking Out, Lookin In, as part of GI 2008.
www.rachelmimiec.com

HALLelujah 2 works arriving..

2010-04-03T17:01:00.006+01:00

Artworks have begun to arrive for the exhibition in the shape of Decoupage packs from Anna Francis (Stoke-on-Trent) , and surreal Photo-montages from Neil Coombs (North Wales).

In addition to this I have selected intricately constructed collage works by Oliver Braid, and Alex Hetherington will be creating a white on white text work using vinyl lettering. Kenny Hunter will be dropping off a posterwork, and we'll be receiving a black on black drawing by Rafla, Kevin Hutcheson is making a new collage work, Krisdy is creating a new animation. Looking forward to seeing the other works as they arrive next week.

HAllelujah 2 !! On its way...

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Last year's exhibition was so much fun I've decided to do another one. Watch this space for more info...

Here is a list of the artists to be featured. They are all loosely linked by an interest in drawing, print and collage in all the various forms. Hopefully it will make for an interesting show !! I think so !!

Artists confirmed are as follows

Alex Hetherington
Amy Marletta
Anna Francis
Hanneline Visnes
Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir
Janie Nicoll
Jim Colquhoun
Karen Vaughan
Kenny Hunter
Kevin Hutcheson
Krisdy Shindler
Elizabeth Rowe
Neil Coombs
Oliver Braid
Rachel Mimiec

Venue: 212 West Princes Street, Woodlands, Glasgow G4 9DL
Contact no. 00 44 141 575 9773 mob. 07971 602270
opening times 17th-24th April 11-5pm (not Sunday 18th)
25th - 2nd May by appointment.
opening event Saturday 17th April 2-4 pm

Its gonna be beautiful!!

For images of the first HALLelujah! exhibition check earlier posts on this blog .. March, April 2009.

New Images for Print 2

2010-02-25T12:01:00.000Z

Freudian Slip for Patricide publication, colour version

New images for print

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Freud's Dollar Blue

Freud's Dollar Black for NEON JOHN Queerzine by Alex Hetherington

FOREVER Documentation closeups

2010-02-22T22:46:00.001Z

Strawberry Fields Installation and Print

2010-02-19T23:31:00.003Z

Fragile Dollar Sign

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A small version of "Fragile Dollar Sign" on show at Embassy gallery, Edinburgh 'Salon Show'. 23.01.10 – 07.02.10

Other images of the show are on their website //www.embassygallery.org/previous/salon/

Getting Up, Windows In the City, Inverness Installation Shots

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Installation images Janie Nicoll at ex-Harry Gow's shop unit, 14 Union St, Inverness.

Fragile Dollar Sign in Rose Street Car Park.

Map and list of locations

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I'm at no. 3.

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Check out Getting Up website for more info. www.gettingup.co.uk/

Retail AGoGo, Work in Progress for Getting Up, Inverness

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I have finally been getting my ideas together for the shop unit, here's a couple of images, an Andy Warhol Dollar sign turned fragile, and some sale streamers re-appropriated from the RETIF catalogue, a marvelous shop supplies store in Admiral Street, Glasgow via a quote from Tom Wait's Twitter. A big thank you to Lynne O'Neil for shining her light, ( you know what I mean) !
I am going to do some more site specific works in the car park and if I get it together, a projection for the opening event. I'm on a roll and it feels GOOOOOOD!!!

The Getting Up Launch Party is this coming Saturday 19th featuring live music from Withered Hand, 28 Jacks and the Mississippi Hoodoo Man.
Free Soup and crusty bread, live art and projections. From 6.30 pm - 8th floor Rose Street Carpark, Inverness.
Double up on socks!

Getting Up, Windows In the City, Inverness 18th December 2009

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This is for Inverness Old Town Art Project.
Here's my shop front. Its getting a make over !! At the moment it looks very "Street of Crocodiles", I'm meaning to transform it somehow..

The website will be up and running soon with more info of locations, artists involved etc.

Images for www.shoutdocuments.com

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"DISCOINFERNO" digital collage from found images.

"Shout Collage", digital collage.

Part of the web project for Sh[out] at GOMA, Glasgow.

HEAVY INFLUENCE @ ESW, Edinburgh.

2009-08-28T22:41:00.000+01:00

"Heavy Influence" , curated by Alex Hetherington, at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 15 -30th August 2009
featuring works by:
Jim Colquhoun, Ben Schaffer, Ben Fallon, Lyndsay Mann, Lewis Holleran,
Janie Nicoll, Simon Gowing, Karla Milosovich, Richard T Walker, and
Victoria Skogsberg, and references material from the 1980 motion picture
Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato, and contributions from
anonymous, Ulrike Müller and Pete Nelson.

"Erase" a video projection by Janie Nicoll

HALLelujah! Documentation Video Works

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Stills from Video Works by Jean McEwan “reprise” and Rebecca Wilcox “Staging”.

HALLelujah! Documentation Video Works

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Stills from video works by Richard Higlett "A Song For Jack";
Catherine Weir “Re.Real Life Suicide Suicidio Selbe Morde Do Not Watch”; Hondartza Fraga “Visions III”.

HALLelujah! Documentation

2009-04-24T13:10:00.000+01:00

Artworks by Olivia Irvine “Farewell Suite”- 'Looking North', 'Looking South', 'Looking East' and 'Looking West', Oil paint and egg tempera on canvas; Ellen Burroughs “Petty Criminals” showing 4 of 12 Framed drawings ; Hondartza Fraga “As It Falls”, “Sperm Whale”, “Adrift” Framed drawings on paper.

HALLelujah! Documentation

2009-04-21T23:48:00.000+01:00

Saturday's Performance Event

Mikaela Skogsberg performs songs including "Email Scam Popsong" : Alex Hetherington performs "Jonathon Monk Made Me Hardcore".

HALLelujah! Documentation

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In the kitchen a projection by 'Milk, Two Sugars'
Janie Nicoll "Disfunctional Stars: Girl with Lotus Shoes"; Elizabeth Rowe “Raise Your Eyes” and “Home Town Jump Plan” .

HALLelujah! Documentation

2009-04-21T23:01:00.000+01:00

GOD DOG by Laurence Payot

Anna Francis Participatory artworks "create a sculpture from the HALLelujah Gallery cutlery drawer" by Raymond.

HALLelujah! Documentation

2009-04-21T22:53:00.000+01:00

Andrew Reynolds drawing "Growth".
Alex Hetherington installation, "Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore" with LCD Screen, Free Posterwork and Neanderthal drawing by J. Nicoll; Alice Bradshaw "Refuse"; Bootsie with new "girlfriends' Rebecca and Roisin, (Anna Francis assignment Documentation).

HALLelujah! Documentation

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Anna Francis assignments documentation, Raymond and random guy 'being Boyfriends'; drawings by Stevie Hurrell of Ellen Burrough's Petty Criminal exhibits; playing cards sculpture; fixed item using repair kit by Rachel Mimiec;
Self Portrait using bits and bobs, by Paul aged 10.

HALLelujah! Documentation

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Anna Francis assignments went down a storm at the opening along with the Fridge Gallery exhibits.

Here we have assignments to: 'make a sixties intervention out of string' by Margarete Skinner, 'make a flock of birds out of today's newspaper' by Fran Schoppler. The Fridge with poster and 2 participatory artworks, by Nolan Love and Paul. The Headless Rabbit Sculpture and mini viewers in the Fridge Gallery.

HALLelujah! Artworks

2009-04-15T12:29:00.000+01:00

Richard Higlett will be showing the 15 minute video of "A Song For Jack" canine choir event that took place in Swansea last year.

A Canine Choir tribute to Dog Hero Swansea Jack from Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Between 1930 and 1937 Jack rescued 27 people from drowning in Swansea docks. This film is by the artist Richard Higlett for Locws International 08. Recorded at the Swansea Metropolitan University on 8th September 2008 following auditions on 17th August. A Live One -off Concert was performed at the National Waterfont Museum, Swansea on October 5th 2008.
For further information visit: www.artacrossthecity.com or www.richardhiglett.com

Studio Recording version can be seen at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24_oXJvWPA

Paintjob

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Meanwhile back at 212, the HALL gets a paintjob... Lookin' good!!

Jamie Radcliffe Exhibition Artwork

2009-04-14T12:34:00.000+01:00

Here's my artwork for the Jamie Radcliffe exhibition, by Oliver Braid at SWG3 details below. "Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Daisy chain Medallions". Its a large scale installation containing several hundred Jamie R. medallions.. If you look closely, that's a medallion made up of 57 images of Jamie's head... Obsessive, Yah??!!

Still haven't decided on an artwork for HALLelujah!. It will probably be a wall drawing, from a projected image, but not exactly sure at this stage, taking it to the wire as usual.....

Jamie Radcliffe Exhibition by Oliver Braid opens Saturday 18th

2009-04-13T11:04:00.000+01:00

Also as part of Glasgow Gallery Weekend, Lowsalt is pleased to announce:

Oliver Braid Presents Jamie Radcliffe: The Exhibition The Ultimate Romantic Gesture for One Night Only._
Saturday 18th April 2009, 6pm – 10pm
Studio Warehouse: 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow

"Thanks for sending me the PP. Good luck with it. I still cannot understand you tho!! When all the world is racked with war and terror and hope for change, Why would you choose such a subject matter… You baffle me…do keep in touch tho." Tim Chamberlain, Invited Artist

This is an exhibition dedicated to Jamie Radcliffe, an upholsterer and part time footballer that I have been secretly in love with since I met him in a local pub when I was seventeen. Although we have rarely spoken, every time I go back to my home town at Christmas I think maybe this will be the time. I still can’t imagine that we won’t get married one day.

Whenever I was away from home I used to search MySpace and Facebook trying to find him and last August he finally appeared. I added him as a friend and waited for our virtual connection to blossom. Not only did he deny me, but he blocked me as well. I think he may have deciphered my not so subtle glances over the last seven years.

Luckily he didn’t deny or block my friend Sally and so it was with her login details that I began to be able to regularly visit his profile and keep watch on his life.

In January 2009 I produced a Power-Point presentation consisting of images and information I had taken from Facebook. I sent the Power-Point to 100 artists and asked them if they would be interested in producing an artwork based on Jamie, his life or my unrequited longing. Presented here are the works from all the artists who responded positively.

Artists Included: Simon Bayliss, Julie Burrows, Jon Burgerman, Aagje Buzink, Amelia Bywter, Celeste Carballo, Cordelia Cembrowicz, Kaifeng Chun, Matthew Collier, Alexis Dirks, Claire Dorsett, Caroline Douglas, Solveig Einarsdottir, Hannah Ellul and Ben Knight, Marc Elsner, Erica Eyres, Kitty Finer, Leo Fitzmaurice, Sarah Forrest, Patrick Gantert, Claire Greenshaw, Michelle Hannah and The Kingdom of Perpetual Muin, Ellie Harrison, Tom Harrup, Sean Hawkridge, Lena Henke, Anna Henson, Katharina Kiebacher, Paul Knight, Harry Lawson, Alice Maplesden, Amy Marletta/Patty Melt, Jack McLean, Alison Mellor, Jenny Moore Koslowsky, Shelly Nadashi, Christian Newby, Janie Nicoll, Sally Noall, Laurence Payot, James Price, Charlotte Prodger/Sophie MacPherson/Brina Thurston/ Kate Roberston, Paul Sammut, Rosemary Scanlon and Tytus Hardy, Peter Schoeffer, Maayke Schurer, Cheyenne Seeley, Anna Louise Shipley AKA Miss Shippers, Fiona Short, JP Somerville, Theodoris Stamatogiannis, Anna Tanner, Daren Tesar, Nancy Tomkins, Sally Tarbutt, Deniz Uster, Leah Watt, Daniel Simpkins and Penny Whitehead, Alberta Whittle, Emily Womack, Tobias Wootton, Jamie Wright, Burcu Yagcioglu.

www.swg3.tv
www.lowsalt.org.uk
co-production

To download the Glasgow Gallery Weekend program of exhibitions and events happening across Glasgow April 16- 19th 2009, go to http://lowsalt.org.uk/Gallery_Weekend_program.pdf

HALLelujah! Artworks

2009-04-11T22:56:00.000+01:00

Artworks from Ellen Burroughs "Bus Fare Evaders" part of a series of mugshots of petty criminals; and Alice Bradshaw, "Refuse".

Work arriving

2009-04-11T15:44:00.000+01:00

Yesterday was a bit like Christmas as I received five packages containing artworks from various locations; Hondartza Fraga's drawings from Sheffield, Alice Bradshaw's sculpture form Halifax, Andrew Reynolds drawing from Birmingham, Ellen Burroughs small etched drawings from Leeds, and Olivia Irving's paintings from Edinburgh. Bootsie (my cat) did his best to sleep through the whole proceedings.... I've already received the panels for 'Milk Two Sugars', projection and all the video works. Other works are more site specific, so still to come are Alex Hetherington's LCD screen, Anna Francis 's assignment packs and fridge sculpture, Elizabeth Rowes collage works, Laurence Payot's interaction with Sparky, and my own piece which is still at the planning stages.. I think I will be making an artwork that reacts to the exhibition as a whole, last minute as ever......

HALLelujah! images

2009-04-09T22:10:00.000+01:00

Images from Alex Hetherington "Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore" poster work installation piece, "A Funny Little Dance" Video projection by 'Milk, Two Sugars' and "Growth" a drawing by Andrew Reynolds.

More images relating to HALLelujah!

2009-04-07T23:11:00.000+01:00

Dramatically detailed drawings by Hondartza Fraga "Grounded" and "Sperm Whale"; photo image by Laurence Payot "Rouge Blanc Bleu".

Images from artists relating to HALLelujah!

2009-04-07T23:03:00.000+01:00

Some of these images will be in the show, some wont. Richard Higlett's dog orchestra print that accompanies the video "Song For Jack"; Olivia Irvine's beautifully renderred oil paintings on egg tempera on canvas; Elizabeth Rowe's marvelously complex collage works.

DOG-GOD

2009-04-03T21:30:00.000+01:00

Laurence Payot (www.laurencepayot.com) came up to Glasgow for the 'Make It Break It' exhibition (www.nownowprojects.wordpress.com/). She came and visited the flat and was quite taken with Sparky, here's a photograph she took.

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Front door

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HALLelujah!

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HALLelujah! A group exhibition curated by Janie Nicoll

Opening Friday 17th April, 6pm– 9pm
212 West Princes Street, Woodlands, Glasgow G4 9DL, Scotland
Tel 0141 5757 9773
Featuring artwork by :

Alice Bradshaw, Halifax
Ellen Burroughs, Leeds
Hondartza Fraga, Sheffield
Anna Francis, Stoke on Trent
Alex Hetherington, Glasgow
Robert Hope, Keighley
Richard Higlett, Cardiff
Olivia Irvine, Edinburgh
Jean McEwan, Keighley
Milk, Two Sugars, Huddersfield
Janie Nicoll, Glasgow
Laurence Payot, Liverpool
Andrew Reynolds, Birmingham
Elizabeth Rowe, Birmingham
Catherine Weir, Glasgow
Rebecca Wilcox, Glasgow

With a performance event, Saturday 18th April at 4pm:
“Jonathan Monk Made Me Hardcore, with Jack Daniels and Ms Happiness Amah” by Alex Hetherington and “Email Scam Popsong” by Mikaela Skogsberg.
These performances form elements of “A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death (Triangle of Need)/Sarah Winchester Made Me Hardcore”, funded by Alt-W, New Media Scotland and developed at a Creative Lab, CCA, April 2009 (www.alt-w.com)

Exhibition will be open 2-6pm Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th April, and by appointment. All welcome.

For more details, images or information please contact Janie Nicoll, 0141 575 9773 or on 07971602270 or janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk.
HALLelujah! A group exhibition curated by Janie Nicoll

The exhibition “HALLelujah!” has come about partly as an open call for artworks but also as a result of connections made by Nicoll at various networking events and artists residencies in the last couple of years. She has attended NAN networking events in Liverpool, Cardiff, Bristol, Newcastle and most recently in October “The Winner Takes It All” symposium in Liverpool during the Capital of Culture. Connections have also been made through other artists led initiatives such as Ayling and Conroy’s Shining Cliff Residency (My House Projects) and the Deviant Art Festival in Sweden. This exhibition exemplifies the Do-It-Yourself ethos intrinsic to these endeavors and actively brings together a selection of artists who are dynamically involved in grassroots artist-led initiatives and projects in a variety of locations nationally.

Held within the curators own flat resolutely out-with the white cube gallery space, the artworks on show explore and interrogate the notion of the domestic setting and the possibilities and limitations that this inevitably creates.

The exhibition aims to showcase the diversity of approaches of these artists across a range of media including Alice Bradshaw’s dysfunctional household objects, Ellen Burrough’s drawings of petty criminals, Elizabeth Rowe’s thought provoking collage works, and Anna Francis participatory assignments. Alex Hetherington has created a provocative LCD text and poster work, while a sound work by Robert Hope explores the more holistic nature of the domestic space. Hondartza Fraga uses the dolls’ house as an analogy for a darker domestic malaise, while video works by Richard Higlett, Jean McEwan, ‘Milk, Two Sugars’, Catherine Weir and Rebecca Wilcox work to engage the viewer in a variety of different ways, either semi-abstract, shocking, inane or surreally comical. Contemplative works in the shape of beautifully rendered paintings by Olivia Irvine, and the other worldly drawings of Andrew Reynolds contrast with the site specific works of Laurence Payot and Janie Nicoll.

In addition to the exhibition artworks there will be a one-off performance event where Mikaela Skogsbers (Fool For a Pretty Face) collaborates with artist Alex Hetherington in “Email Scam Pop Song” and “Jonathon Monk Made Me Hardcore, with Jack Daniels and Ms Happiness Amah” as part of Hetherington’s Alt-W commission and Creative Lab residency at CCA, Glasgow.

Nicoll sees her role as more of a chef than a curator, bringing together in one place a mixed assortment of surprising works deliberately sited within a domestic rather than a gallery setting. None of the work has been shown in Glasgow before and an interesting concoction is predicted…

For more details, images or information please contact Janie Nicoll, 0141 575 9773 or on 07971602270 or janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk.

Artists Information
Alice Bradshaw is one of the founders of ‘CONTENTS MAY VARY’, a Manchester based artists collective, and also a co-director of Temporary Art Space, Halifax. She works with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials.
www.alicebradshaw.co.uk/
www.contentsmayvary.org/
www.temporaryartspace.co.uk/

Ellen Burroughs works drawings into paper and card with scalpel scratches and white ink marks, then polishes with wood dye to create a smooth print like finish. Peculiar and miserable grimacing faces appear labelled with their curious selection of petty crimes. The imaginary mug shots, reminiscent of the odd caricatures that illustrated the quack physiognomy theories of the 19th century, are a reminder of what it takes to commit a crime in a country overwhelmed with CCTV.

Hondartza Fraga works with video, photography and drawing. Her work researches the emotional dependency relation between person, object and image. Interested in tensions between different image-making systems, analogue and digital technologies and how they affect the way we understand images; her work seeks to create a space where to question our individual and collective notions of loss and displacement, representation and communication. Originally from Catalonia, she is now based in Sheffield having completed a MA Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2007. She has exhibited nationally (Liverpool, London, Sheffield) and internationally (Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands) and has collaborated in several occasions with HAG (Host Artists Group).
www.hondartzafraga.com

Anna Francis examines private histories and narrative using forms of mapping, photography and action to investigate the city. Recent practice saw 2008 becoming The Year of Finding Spaces in the City for Art. The project examines the impact that art and cultural activity are having on our cities, and the problematic nature of finding adequate and appropriate research methodologies which can measure that impact. This has lead to the recent projects, What This City Really Needs, a public consultation which involves finding out what the people of a city feel about their environment, and the recent Official Tour Guide project, in which Francis becomes an ambassador for a city. Francis is interested in initiating projects that allow opportunities for others to participate, question and comment on their surroundings.
www.annafrancis.blogspot.com/
www.annafrancis.com

Alex Hetherington is a performance-based visual artist and writer. He is currently producing a performance work developed as a result of an Alt-W Award from New Media Scotland, which includes a workshop project with Franko B at Tramway, Glasgow and a residency at Creative Lab, CCA. Future presentations include I Am Curious Oranj, DCP, San Francisco, USA, Edinburgh International Festival 2009 and Edinburgh Art Festival 2009. Recent exhibitions and work include The Colony Room, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Skank Bloc Bologna, Tart, San Francisco, Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria, Fools in Print, Edinburgh and a year-long residency at Callendar House, Falkirk.

www.alexhetherington.com

Robert Hope is an artists based in Keighley, Yorkshire and graduated from Bradford College and Leeds Metroplitan University, He is one half of Popup Films.

www.myspace.com/popupfilms

Richard Higlett has exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently presenting a sound work through the International SoundLAB Project. Selected exhibitions include; Winner of the Oriel Davies Open, Newtown, Wales / Anima at Gallerie B-312 Montreal, Canada / Rotate at Contemporary Art Society, London and Flourish at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic. He is also a curator and co-founder of Mermaid and Monster, Librarian of ARC Artists Resource Cardiff and a nominator for Axis' Open Frequency Programme.

Higlett's work involves actions that on the surface could be viewed as acts of folly. Previously he has photographed planets with a low resolution digital camera, reducing huge masses into single pixels, recreated notice boards with the information rendered unreadable and sited a mirror surfaced signs deep in a wooded areas awaiting for discovery. He is increasing working in sound and moving image, looking at the moments before an idea exists, presenting this as a creative act, as the process of creative is embedded within the nature world on every level and nothing ever beginnings for its own sake.
www.mermaidandmonster.com
www.richardhiglett.com

Olivia Irvine graduated in Drawing and Painting, from Edinburgh College of Art BA Honours. She creates beautifully rendered paintings in oil or egg tempera, of figures, objects and interiors that are of a fantastical nature. She is interested in the depiction of space as well as surface qualities, and her works often have a theatrical feel to them.

www.axisweb.org/artist/oliviairvine

Jean McEwan is a West Yorkshire-based artist filmmaker and curator. Jean gained a First Class Honours degree in Fine art from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2005, and was awarded the Esmee Fairbarn Foundation Emerging Artist Bursary at South Square Gallery, Bradford in 2006. She was recently commissioned by B r a d f o r d C i t y o f F i l m to make a short film based in the city. Jean’s practice ranges from documentary to experimental film, to music video, to creating film for live performance. Her work has been shown in and at a wide range of exhibitions, screenings, and events nationally.

Jean also practices as a curator. With 'popup' films she produces and curates projects and events to showcase moving image, sound, performance and multi-media work by Bradford based artists and filmmakers - recent projects include STIR, Bradford's arts festival in 2007, and The Saltaire Arts Trail. She is now currently one of the curatorial team organising "Hatch", a new arts showcase event at Bradford Playhouse.

www.myspace.com/jeanmcewan
www.myspace.com/popupfilms
www.myspace.com/popupandtribeofone

‘Milk, Two Sugars’ is two people. They write, paint and draw, brew beer and make films and create galleries. They live, work and play in Yorkshire. One day, they might take this ‘art’ thing more seriously. Selling work, networking, applying for funding and being po-faced about their vision is a concern they leave for other people with plenty of time on their hands. They have fun, as they believe, “We are all flecks of dandruff on the shoulders of eternity”. Think on that and sleep well.

www.milktwosugars.org

Janie Nicoll is an artist based in Glasgow, she makes installation works often with mutiple repeated images and a low tech punk aesthetic. Alongside artists Alex Hetherington she has curated a number of video screenings, ‘The Consequence’ at Low Salt and Edinburgh Sculpture Worskhop, ‘High Rise Cinema’ at Callendar Park high Flats during Big In Falkirk 2008.

http://www.axisweb.org/artist/janienicoll
http://www.consequencescreening.org/

Laurence Payot is a French artist based in the North West of England who works with with local, national and international artist groups, galleries and cultural organisations, and Co-Directs The Royal Standard, Liverpool, where she also has a studio. She has exhibited in a number of successful group and solo exhibitions in England, Scotland, Wales and France, with a recent award from the Arts Council of England, and a residency in Libya with the British Council and Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.

The main catalysts for her work are patterns found in everyday life. She asks the viewer to question patterns that have become mundane and almost invisible, by altering them slightly and turning them into something uncanny. Her work uses “chameleon techniques”, allowing her to create site-specific work that looks like it has always belonged there. “I don’t intend my work to stand out at a first glance, but when a person discovers it, what is revealed is unexpected and disturbing – a small shock or revelation that something has been altered”.

www.laurencepayot.com

Andrew Reynolds graduated in Fine Art from Staffordshire University in 2007, where he made videos, sculptures, paintings, essays and sounds. He currently lives in Birmingham and his recent practice has been mostly concerned with drawing, exploring the space between visceral, automatic drawing and a preconceived idea. Reynolds chooses the medium of drawing for it seems to him the most honest. Reynolds's work can best be described in one word 'congested'
www.myspace.com/spastiserendipitous

Elizabeth Rowe is originally from Leicester but currently lives and works in Birmingham. Previous group exhibitions include, SALE, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, 2009, ZOO art Fair, Eastside Projects, 2008 and Collage Party by Paul Butler at MOCA, Los Angeles, 2004. She recently had a solo exhibition, Tiny Details Grotesque Proportions, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2008.and was interviewed for This is not a Circular, podcast by Ayling and Conroy, 2009.

www.elrowe.com

Rebecca Wilcox is originally from Manchester and studied at Glasgow School of Art and UDK Berlin, graduating in 2006 and is currently completing a 'Master of Research in Creative Practices'. She has been involved in the ‘Now, Now’ artists initiative and ‘As We Speak’ video Screenings, and has shown her own work in Beck’s Fusions at the Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, Darkspace at the Royal Scottish Academy, and Terra Nova in conjunction with Map magazine, at GSA..

www.nownowprojects.wordpress.com/

Catherine Weir is a recent graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, and is involved in the ‘Now, Now’ artists initiative and ‘As We Speak’ video Screenings. Catherine’s video work "Eles Não Sabem O Que Perderam" uses faux and real suicide footage as a comment on youtube

www.aswespeakglasgow.wordpress.com

HALLelujah! flyer back and front

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This image plays around with the mirror image, echoing some previous works of Laurence Payot, who features in the exhibition. I first saw the work of Laurence at the New Slaughterhouse Gallery in Liverpool, during the Winner Takes It All weekend organized by Red Wire Gallery and Royal Standard, through NAN (Networking Artists Networks). Laurence is one of the Directors of Royal Standard as well as having a studio there.

HAllelujah! Image 2

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HALLelujah! Images

2009-03-22T17:29:00.001Z

HALLelujah

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Open call for submissions of domestic scale artworks in any medium for an exhibition to take place in April in a flat in the Westend of Glasgow. Artworks will be sited in the large hall of a ground floor tenement flat, with an opening on Saturday 18th April.

Artworks in 2D, 3D, installation; film and video will be considered.

Please submit a CD of proposed artworks (maximum 6 jpegs); a current CV, a brief explanation of work or proposal of planned work, together with contact details and a stamped addressed envelope for return of material, if required to:

Janie Nicoll
212 West Princes Street
Glasgow
G4 9DL

Deadline for submissions Monday 3rd March.

Bored With Art - A Journey

2009-02-08T22:22:00.000Z

Bored with Art I want to make music now... any offers.....???
Seriously, anyone out there want to make some music I am up for it...

Save me from a quagmire of art nothingness.....

contact janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk

Thank you

Black Money

2009-02-04T23:03:00.000Z

Banknote of Princess Mariam Faso, one time Magyar heroine and role model for a generation, now by a circuitous and mysterious route finds herself living in abject poverty in Burkina Faso. The tale will unwind as the good lord and time itself allows it.....

Calendar Project

2008-12-16T23:30:00.000Z

I made a slide projection for Isobel, using slides that her husband had taken while he was alive. They are all shots of Isobel with her family, archetypal 'Seventies' shots, and had been sitting in a box for years. I wanted to unearth them for her so she could see them again. I wanted the image to be a projection because that is how they were originally seen, and also because of its transient nature. Its positioning is over the bed and seemed the most poignant place, with the suggestion of intimacy and the idea of the dark and light, the allusion to night time. the finished photo documentation is actually the piece of work, not the projection.

A Triangle of Need Manic Office Combo

2008-10-29T22:33:00.000Z

Manic Digital image

2008-10-28T19:40:00.000Z

Starting to work on images for the "Lottie work" for the Twinning Project, A Calendar for Callendar Park.
Just getting into it with a bit of drawing, with pencil on paper and these digital drawings.... I think this will be a double piece of some sort, with half for Lottie and the other half for her sister who lives in New York.. I like the idea of sending her something across the pond... About time I made some links with New York...

Good Day At The Office

2008-10-22T23:17:00.000+01:00

Combo

2008-10-16T23:10:00.000+01:00

Today we took photographs in Callendar House, which is a fantastic historical setting for a photo-shoot. This image uses Alex photographs of me posing for him, reworked by him and then reworked by me. Which has a nice 'Consequence' type feel to it. The additional imagery is from the Consequence Video screening at Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow and flowers are from the 12" single cover and more directly from the MySpace site of The Vultures, the band I used to be in the late '80's... all very C86.

JFK Water Feature 1985

2008-10-15T23:06:00.000+01:00

Timeline

2008-10-12T22:48:00.000+01:00

Dance Factory, Dundee.

The Hooch, Edinburgh.

Limelight, New York.

Hacienda, Manchester.

Le Grande Zinc, Paris.

Milkweg, Amsterdamn.

Tilos Az A, Budapest

Tresor, Berlin.

Sub Club, Glasgow.

Small Things That Make Up A Big Thing

2008-10-10T14:19:00.000+01:00

New project by Janie Nicoll.....

yes maybe at some point it will all make sense..... I'm looking forward to that day... until then... let's blog..

Small Things That Make Up a Big Thing

Back To Glasgow....

First few days...

Mortlach Story Walks Project

Banners, works on paper 2010

New works 2010

Creative Scotland Dialogue Event, The Briggait, Glasgow 25.05.10

HaLLelujah 2 Documentation

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HAllelujah 2 !! On its way...

New Images for Print 2

New images for print

FOREVER Documentation closeups

Strawberry Fields Installation and Print

Fragile Dollar Sign

Getting Up, Windows In the City, Inverness Installation Shots

Map and list of locations

Retail AGoGo, Work in Progress for Getting Up, Inverness

Getting Up, Windows In the City, Inverness 18th December 2009

Images for www.shoutdocuments.com

HEAVY INFLUENCE @ ESW, Edinburgh.

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DOG-GOD

Front door

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Bored With Art - A Journey

Black Money

Calendar Project

A Triangle of Need Manic Office Combo

Good Day At The Office

Combo

JFK Water Feature 1985

Timeline

Small Things That Make Up A Big Thing