Hayward Gallery presents first major United Kingdom survey of works by David Shrigley

LONDON.- This Hayward Gallery exhibition is the first major survey in the UK of works by David Shrigley. Spanning the upper galleries, David Shrigley: Brain Activity, covers the full range of Shrigley’s diverse practice from the past two decades of the artist’s career, including drawing, animation, painting, photography, taxidermy and sculpture. The exhibition features some 240 works, the majority of which are new or never before shown in the UK. David Shrigley is best known for his pared down drawings and animations that [...]

Portraits of Scottish Artists from the Prints and Drawings Collection

EDINBURGH.- This spring The Artist Up Close brings together a broad range of portraits of some of Scotland’s most admired artists created by themselves, their friends or family. The display includes prints and drawings from the National collection spanning the last 300 years. Portraits of Sir Henry Raeburn, Allan Ramsay and Sir David Wilkie are shown alongside modern artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, Anne Redpath, and Alan Davie. Whilst these artists’ names and work may be familiar, this display will [...]

Steven Holl to Receive Jencks Award: Visions Built 2010 at the RIBA

LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce that American architect Steven Holl is to receive the 2010 Jencks Award: Visions Built. The Jencks Award is given annually to an individual (or practice) that has recently made a major contribution simultaneously to the theory and practice of architecture internationally. The presentation of the award will take place at the RIBA on 30 November 2010, followed by a public lecture by Steven Holl, chaired by Charles Jencks. [...]

Marlborough in London Presents the Work of Caroline Walker

LONDON.- Marlborough presents the work of Caroline Walker, winner of The Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Prize 2009. The charity was established in 2006 to support artists at the beginning of their careers. Miss Beston, a former Director of the gallery, provided help to many artists during the course of her work. The charity is collaborating with the Royal College of Art to award an annual prize to a postgraduate student on graduating. This comprises a studio for a year at [...]

Scotland’s Answer to the Turner Prize Announces Shortlist

PAISLEY, UK.- A former chart-topping recording artist has been chosen as one of four finalists in Scotland’s answer to the Turner Prize. Steven Lindsay found fame as the lead singer of Glasgow-based band, The Big Dish, whose best known single was Miss America. Now the singer, who attended Glasgow School of Art in the early 1980s, along with Scottish contemporary art stars, Steven Conroy and Alison Watt, has been short listed for one of the art word’s biggest privately funded [...]

The Glasgow School of Art Announces New Chairman of the Board of Governors

GLASGOW.- The Glasgow School of Art announced the appointment of Philip Rodney, Partner and Chairman of Burness Solicitors, as the new Chairman of its Board of Governors. He will succeed leading international businessman Professor Nick Kuenssberg OBE, who stands down as Chairman in June 2010 after nine years. Philip Rodney is one of Scotland’s leading lawyers. Specialising in media and entertainment law, product liability and dispute resolution, he brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and networks in a number of [...]

Alice Channer Shows First Solo Scottish Exhibition at the Mackintosh Gallery

GLASGOW.- For GI Festival 2010, The Glasgow School of Art is showing Inhale, Exhale – the first Scottish solo exhibition of London based artist Alice Channer whose work has been created to fit the Mackintosh Gallery, aiming to clothe the physical space as if it were a person. Channer’s works often take the form of concentrations of material, particularly fabric, which she pleats, stretches and folds. Through exhibitions, she explores the potential for places to have the feeling of being [...]

Glasgow School of Art has Produced 30% of Turner Prize Nominees Since 2005

GLASGOW.- The winner of the Turner Prize 2009 is a 1995 graduate of The Glasgow School of Art’s world renowned MFA program. With another GSA graduate Lucy Skaer, also nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, the School can now claim to have produced 30% of the Turner Prize nominees since 2005. Three of the Turner Prize winners since its inaugural year in 1984 have been graduates of The Glasgow School of Art – Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling and now Richard [...]