Generation - TG Leaflet - The Travelling Gallery

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INTRODUCTION
During the past 25 years the Travelling Gallery has played an active
part in exhibiting and promoting the work of many Scottish artists –
so we are delighted to be a part of GENERATION – which is a nationwide
celebration of contemporary art in Scotland, taking place in over
60 venues throughout the country this year. See the back page for
more information on GENERATION and before you leave the Travelling
Gallery today pick up a leaflet showing the locations of all the other
exhibitions taking part – they are all free and come with lots of
events and learning opportunities.
Got a question?
– Ask the Travelling
Gallery staff onboard!
GENERATION: TG
Touring throughout Scotland in the Travelling Gallery, GENERATION: TG
is a group exhibition including 5 artists working in a range of
media. Combining new commissions as well as developments of
existing works, the GENERATION: TG exhibition will include ceramics,
textile wall hangings, digital animations, drawings, sculptures,
film, performance and song. A hand-made, craft element to all the
works make the exhibition really accessible whilst giving space to
appreciate the skill, ingenuity and passion of each of the artists.
GENERATION: TG – The Film
The exhibition includes a short film of the artists talking about
their work to pupils from three Edinburgh schools in collaboration
with SEE (Screen Education Edinburgh). The schools involved were
Craigroyston, Holy Rood RC and Portobello High Schools. All the
pupils met with the artists, often in their studios, and asked them
questions about their art and life as an artist. A programme of
workshops run by SEE, introduced the pupils to the film equipment,
interviewing techniques, and editing skills. The film is available on
YouTube and from www.travellinggallery.com.
Photos:
Yutsil Hoyo Diaz Martinez
Laura: Aldridge
Laura Aldridge’s work moves freely
between wall-based reliefs and
sculptural installations, playing on
the abilities of ‘collage’ to operate in
two and three-dimensions. Her works
use fabric, images (both photographic
and silk-screened) and found objects
to create installations that the artist
describes as ‘expanded collage’. She
often arranges elements of her works
upon tables, low plinths or across
gallery walls to bring ‘things’ together
so that they might coalesce as a
whole.
I have a predominantly studio based
practice - I work with materials,
thoughts and feelings to develop
works, trying to draw out relationships
between these things as I recognize
them in external sources and processes
of making. There is always a push and
pull for me between clarity, realization
and material. I tend to gather, and look
and gather and look, then filter, then
add things, take away things, move
things about–the work often has an air
of lightness–this is important–but its
hard fought, and works can take many
months before they become something.
Laura Aldridge was born in Frimley
and now lives and works in Glasgow.
Have you done other jobs
to give you money to be
an artist?
Yes. I run sensory
workshops for people with
learning difficulties, I love
it. I’ve also worked in bars,
galleries, restaurants,
schools, hospitals,
hairdressers, picture
framers…...
Mean (mean), 2013
She studied at Wimbledon School of Art
in London and then Master of Fine Arts
at Glasgow School of Art including the
Academic Exchange (MFA Programme),
California Institute for the Arts (Calarts),
Los Angeles in 2005. Laura works
with a variety of materials including
photography, screenprint, ceramics,
fabric and cement depending on the
space she is working in.
www.lauraaldridge.co.uk
www.kendallkoppe.com
CRAIG: COULTHARD
I have created a series of new works for
the Travelling Gallery exhibition.
All of these works continue my interest
in connecting overlooked visual and
cultural symbols and methods to
the wider history of visual arts and
traditions. These include a series of
hand-painted ceramic plates decorated
with pre-1975 arms of Scottish County
Councils, all of which contain a dense
heraldic and local symbology that has
largely been lost with the increase
in corporate style branding for
contemporary Scottish councils.
Born in Rinteln, West Germany,
Craig lives and works in Scotland
and London. He studied to MFA at
Edinburgh College of Art and from
2009 – 2012 he produced Forest Pitch,
the Scottish commission for Artists
taking the lead, part of the London
2012 Festival & Cultural Olympiad.
www.craigcoulthard.com
www.thecurseandthecure.co.uk
Were you good at art in
school?
I was pretty good at
drawing, which I practised
a lot by drawing footballers
from magazines.
I have also made wall hangings from
craft felt which are based on late
19th/early 20th century encaustic tile
designs found in doorways throughout
Edinburgh. These designs were in turn
influenced by Islamic mosaic art made
popular by the likes of Owen Jones, and
were adapted to the specific needs of
commercial and residential entrances.
Lastly I have made a sculpture of
scale model aeroplanes, painted in
a faux anthropomorphic totem pole
style, which attempts to confront
our relationship with destructive
technology and the need to place
those technologies within a structure
of mythology and romantic heroism.
“Dinna think, bonny lassie, I’m gaun to leave you (1519/ unknown)”.
Mandy: MCINTOSH
My animated films aim to document
social reality or relay political fable as
a learning tool. But within that, I want
to push aesthetics and derive pleasure
from the process. Essentially, I am
costuming objects in 3D virtual space or
wrapping sculptural components. Each
arm or head is lathed or extruded, so
there is a maker’s reality there. What
I’m exploring now is the bounce back
into the non virtual using what I’ve
learned from applying skins to digital
forms. I make solid people with a click
and drag of iconic tools, then I step
back towards my roots in cloth and
pattern cutting and make soft people
with a sewing machine. However, the
cloth is digitally printed from abstract
oil paintings scanned at extremely
high resolution and manipulated with
digital drawing so everything is jumping
species. The wings in the film are
inspired by the Coogi sweater worn by
Biggie Smalls.
She went on to complete a
Masters in Design at Glasgow
School of Art. Mandy works
across disciplines in digital film
making, socially engaged art,
fine art textiles and other forms.
The Thunderbird’s Ballad was
commissioned by Random Acts
for Channel Four. Other recent
work includes Yird Muin Starn –
a public art response to Galloway
Forest Dark Sky Park. In July
2014, Mandy will commence a
year long residency at Glasgow
Women’s Library.
What’s the best thing
about being an artist?
Freedom to think and
make what is important
to you.
What’s the worst thing
about being an artist?
It can become quite
lonely sometimes and it’s
also unstable.
www.ham-and-enos.org.uk
www.animateprojects.org/films/by_
date/2013/the_thunderbirds_ballad
Born in Glasgow where she continues
to live and work, Mandy studied
fashion knitwear at Trent Polytechnic
and worked as a studio designer at
KENZO in Paris in the early 90s.
Still from digital animation The Thunderbird’s Ballad, 2013
DAVID: Sherry
David Sherry draws attention both to
the ordinary events of everyday life
and the intricate structures of the
art world, by subtle interventions or
absurd exaggerations. Working mainly
as a performance artist, he takes
a playful approach to his drawing,
painting, photography and video
work too. His work presents social
awkwardness as an important and
often painful part of being human.
My work includes performance,
drawing, video, sculpture, and sound.
I am interested in performative ideas
relating to everyday life. Critical to
my practice is the idea that under the
surface of our lives is a complex world
of real feelings, emotions and opinions.
My work reflects cultural codes, asking
questions of learned behaviors:
What is work? What is success? What
is respect? What is a living? What is
happiness? Etcetera.
Central to my practice are themes
concerning belief, social interaction
and an omnipresent etiquette. Many of
my works counteract an aspirational
philosophy, looking at the rules of the
social mesh, questioning accepted
discourses and embracing other forms
of meaningfulness.
Queens Park
Railway Club
Born in Northern Ireland, David
Sherry lives and works in Glasgow
He graduated with an MFA from
Glasgow School of Art in 2000. He
has had solo exhibitions in Mother’s
tankstation, Dublin; Catalyst Arts,
Belfast; Villa Concordia, Germany;
Glasgow Museum of Modern Art and
Tramway’s project space, Glasgow.
Selected group exhibitions include
Film and Video at BBC Scotland,
Glasgow; Grin and Bear It at the
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
and One fine morning in May, at GAK
Bremen. In 2003, he was selected to
represent Scotland at the 50th Venice
Biennale and his work is held in many
collections including the Glasgow
Museums Collection.
www.dave-sherry.com
Represented by Mother’s tankstation Dublin and
Patricia Fleming Projects Glasgow
If you weren’t an artist what would you
be?
I like painting and decorating and
making sandwiches so a ‘painting
sandwiches’ firm.
Living Luggage
Hanna: Tuulikki
“As an artist and composer, my work is largely
inspired by a desire to unearth our relationship
with the lore of places and a wish to dissolve
the dividing line that has been created between
our consciousness and the more-than-human
world. Though my practice crosses over a range
of visual and sound-based forms, I work primarily
with the human voice, to create place-specific
compositions and performances. Drawings and
visual scores extend my work with sound, as a
way to illustrate subject-matter, creative process,
and, sometimes, elements of narrative.”
spinning-in-stereo is a composition for two
voices, presented as a visual score, and vinyl
LP. The piece adopts a traditional Gaelic
spinning song, Oran Snìomhaidh, as the basis
of a circular score. Beginning with elongated
tones and ending with a steady pulse, the
arrangement moves through fourteen
revolutions, each with a different emphasis in
terms of time, rhythm and/or pitch. As it turns
on the record player, spinning-in-stereo echoes
the cyclical, rhythmic nature of working with
wool, from caring for the sheep out on the hill,
to carding, spinning, and the waulking of the
tweed, with it’s renowned song tradition.
The piece was initially commissioned by Screen
Bandita as a live soundtrack to Werner Kissling’s
film ‘Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives’ (1935) for
their Rebel Landscapes tour (2013).
Photo:
Suzy Lee,
Atlas Arts
spinning-in-stereo
visual score detail
Voices: Hanna Tuulikki & Mischa Macpherson
Recorded live at Red October Studios,
Edinburgh, March 2014, by Tim Matthew
Composition by Hanna Tuulikki
Artworking: Frances Davis
Hanna Tuulikki was born in Sussex
and studied at Glasgow School of Art.
Her largest project to date Air falbh leis
na h-eòin | Away with the birds (20102014), is a body of work investigating
the mimesis of birds in Scottish Gaelic
song. Her work has been featured on
BBC Radio 4’s The Echo Chamber and
BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. She lives in
Glasgow where she also plays with
Glasgow-based band Two Wings.
www.hannatuulikki.org
hannatuulikkdiary.tumblr.com
www.awaywiththebirds.co.uk
How old were you
when you decided
to be an artist?
Around fifteen.
I wanted to be a
dancer before that.
Thank You!
To All The Artists!
GENERATION: TG is part of GENERATION: a
major, nation-wide exhibition programme
showcasing some of the best and most
significant artists to have emerged
from Scotland over the last 25 years.
It shows the generation of ideas, of
experiences, and of worldclass art on
an unparalleled scale by over 100 artists
in more than 60 venues. GENERATION is
delivered as a partnership between the
National Galleries of Scotland, Glasgow
Life and Creative Scotland and is part of
Culture 2014, the Glasgow 2014 Cultural
Programme. Full listings and details of
the artists involved can be found at
www.generationartscotland.org
@genartscot
#genartscot
The Travelling Gallery is a mobile,
contemporary art gallery custom-built in
a big beautiful bus. The exhibitions are
curated specifically for the unique space
and are designed to travel the length
and breadth of Scotland visiting schools,
high streets, community centres and
many other venues on the way. Travelling
Gallery staff will be available to give
formal and not so formal presentations
on the exhibitions at every stop.
The Travelling Gallery will be touring
GENERATION: TG to schools and community
venues in the following areas:
JULY
Glasgow: Tramway, Albert Drive
North Lanarkshire: Including Glasgow
2014 Commonwealth Games Triathlon
Event
AUGUST
Edinburgh: As part of Edinburgh Art
Festival
THEN: Inverclyde, North Ayrshire and
West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, Nairn,
Highlands, Western Isles, North Uist,
Moray, Falkirk, South Ayrshire,
Edinburgh Schools
Contact: Alison Chisholm, Travelling Gallery
Curator. alison.chisholm@edinburgh.gov.uk
Travelling Gallery, City Art Centre, 2 Market
Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DE
Tel: 0131 529 3930
Designed by the City of Edinburgh Council • Corporate Governance • 14.172/CG/SR/June 2014
Lorna Simpson and all at
SEE especially Yutsil Hoyo
Diaz Martinez and
Graham Kirkpatrick
The Film Crews:
Roksana Barsan,
Eilish Bowers, Rosa Bell,
Catriona Fraser,
Emma Hill,
Rebecca Hoy,
Fraser Macrae,
Tijkla Metzger,
Taylor Mitchell,
Alexandra Vladescu,
Scott Wilson,
Maureen Cockburn,
Sharon Gallagher,
Alister Hayes,
Martial Le Gall,
Chris Simmonds
Moira Jeffrey
And All The Generation Team
including Patsey Convery,
Jenny Crowe, Lee Haldane,
Iona McCann, Chloe Shipman
Sarah Munro, Chloe Josse
And All At Tramway, Glasgow
Creative Scotland,
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation,
City Of Edinburgh Council
Amanda Catto, June Irvine,
Wendy McMurdo, Jamie
McAteer, Emily Moore,
Alice Ogle, David Stevenson
@ artinabus