Moyra Davey

Moyra Davey is a photographer, writer and filmmaker, born in Toronto in 1958 and currently lives and works in New York. She earned a B.F.A. from Concordia University in Montreal in 1982 and an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1988. In 2004 she was awarded the Anonymous Was a Woman Award.

Moyra Davey has exhibited from 1994-2003 with Colin de Land’s legendary gallery American Fine Arts, Co., and, from 2005-2008, she was a partner in the collaborative, artist-run gallery Orchard. Her works are in the collections of numerous institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2008-2009, Davey was a resident at the Canada Council studio at the Cité des Arts in Paris, where she produced the video My Necropolis. 
Davey’s solo and two-person exhibitions include Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2010); My Necropolis, Murray Guy, New York (2009); Long Life Cool White, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge (2008); Fifty Minutes, Gallery Goodwater, Toronto (2007); Monologues, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2006); Moyra Davey, American Fine Arts Co., New York (2003); and Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (1994).

Group exhibitions include Mixed Use, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2010); White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York (2009); Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008); L’Argent, Le Plateau, Paris (2008); When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York (2006); and Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. (2004).
Davey is also the author of Long Life Cool White (2008) and The Problem of Reading (2003), as well as the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (2001).

Susannah Stark

Scottish printmaker/visual artist. Susannah Stark studied Printmaking at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen (2006-11) which included a study period abroad at Athens School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece (2010).  Since graduating this year she has completed the RSA John Kinross scholarship to Florence, Italy and a short residency in Slovenia.

The focus of Susannah’s work is sound made visual, elemental processes and phenomena, extracts of language represented through image; the nature of which is informed greatly by printmaking processes, music and poetry. She has worked with the gaelic and greek languages among others, taking words or sounds and, in the case of greek words, symbols that she manipulates to create her own visual language. She is influenced by Arte Povera thought-, inspired by ‘arte povera’ thought

“...a life felt as a moment of ‘expectant anxiety’ in which the objects accomplished do not present themselves as inert things but as stimulating subject matter…”
Germano Celant

It is with this spirit that she creates prints, drawings and objects [‘object-poems’] that, although technically static, vibrate with meaning and spirituality.

Jonathan Owen

Referencing British suburbia and time-consuming hobbyist pursuits, Jonathan Owen’s drawings and sculptures are worked from found images and objects. Painstakingly erased, Owens’ ongoing series of desecrated book pages are representative of both the artist’s interest in self-taught crafts, and the occasions when the desire for control becomes ruinous or absurd.

Forthcoming exhibitions include: The Sculpture Show, National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2011) and 140sqm Gallery, Shanghai (2012).

Recent Solo Exhibitions include: Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2011); doggerfisher, Edinburgh (2009); Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (2005); Uncle Judge, Graves Gallery, Sheffield (2003). Recent group exhibitions include: Warehouse of Horrors, +44 141 Gallery, SWG3, Glasgow (presented by Embassy) (2009); The Reckoning, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Australia & Sierra Metro, Edinburgh (presented by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop) (2009); Group, doggerfisher, Edinburgh (2009); Working Things Out, Spike Island, Bristol (2007); Rockridge, Embassy, Edinburgh (2006).
Born 1973 in Liverpool. Lives and works in Edinburgh.

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Baldvin Ringstead

Often taking the form of sculptural installations, sound pieces, or works on paper, Baldvin Ringsted’s artworks forever draw upon his experience as a musician. His practice explores the relationship between the formal properties of this discipline, and its cultural history and development. Moving between image and sound, his pieces often focus on points of transition or translation.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Low Growl, +44 141 Gallery, SWG3, Glasgow (2010); BPM, Martos Gallery, New York (2010); Baldvin Ringsted and Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir: The Raw and the Cooked, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow (2009); National Anthems, Akureyi, Iceland (2007); xenochrony, Populus Tremula, Iceland (2007). Recent group exhibitions include: Die Die Die, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2009); DER AUTORITAT, Arnheim Kunstverein (2008); The State, A.Vermin, for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (2008); The New World, ArtNews Projects, Berlin.

Born in Akureyi, Iceland in 1974. Lives and works in Glasgow.

Ringsted also participated in the 2010 edition of the festival

Richard Healy

Richard Healy’s works often take the form of prototypes or blueprints. Embodied through simulations of design, they frequently engage with the digital realm as a means for artistic production, and the acts of labour that are obscured beneath the computer’s programmed facade. An artist engaged with a search for new possibilities for the object, Healy displays an interest in the exhaustion of form, bringing together design pragmatics with conceptual play.

Healy graduated from The Royal College of Art in 2008. Forthcoming exhibitions include: ‘Virtual Space/Digital Trace’ as part of ‘Open File’, Grand Union, Birmingham (2011) and ‘Richard Healy, Jiri Maha & Richard Nikl’, The Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic (2012).

Recent exhibitions include: Maquettes (curated by M. Ashfaq, R. Bevan and T. Clark), Furnished Space, London (2011); The Supernormal Picture Show, Apiary Projects, London (2011); The Creekside 2011 (selected by Phyllida Barlow), APT, London (2011); Young British Art (curated by Ryan Gander), Limoncello, London (2011); Strategies for Building, Outpost, Norwich (2010); Shapes and Things, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh (2010); And then Again, Museu Da Cidade, Lisbon, Spain (2010); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester & A-Foundation, London (2009).

Born 1980 in London, where he currently lives and works.

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Ilana Halperin

Ilana Halperin’s work explores the relationship between geological phenomena and daily life. Whether boiling milk in a 100 degree Celsius sulphur spring in the crater of an active volcano, or celebrating her birthday with a landmass of the same age, her work allows for a space to think about our place within the geological time continuum from a more intimate perspective.

Forthcoming solo exhibitions include: Steine, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité  (Berlin Medical History Museum), Hand Held Lava, Schering Foundation Project Space, Berlin (2012) and a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland (2013).

Recent exhibitions include: Physical Geology (slow time), Spring Exhibitions, three solo projects, Artists Space, New York (2009); An Entangled Bank, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2009); Portscapes, Latitudes, Rotterdam (2009); The Audio Show (curated by Seth Kelly), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2009); Physical Geology. Alchemy Project, Manchester Museum, Manchester (2008); Estratos, (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), Murcia, Spain (2008); Experimental Geography (curated by Nato Thompson), ICI, New York (2008); Towards Heilprin Land, doggerfisher, Edinburgh (2007); It Starts From Here, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2007); and Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah, U.A.E (2007).

Born 1973 in New York. Lives and works in Glasgow.

Kari Le Riche Robertson

Robertson’s work deals with layers of reality and fiction, probing the boundaries where the two meet. The artist’s interest is rooted in empirical reality with a curiosity as to how fact can be warped and shaped through systemisation and subjectivity.

Robertson was part of the original committee who set up The Pipe Factory.

Recent exhibitions include: Group Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2011.

Fortcoming: Group show with Criag Mulholland, Carrie Skinner and others, The Arches, Glasgow. Kari Le Riche Robertson is shortlisted for the ‘They Had Four Years’ exhibition, GENERATORprojects, Dundee (announced December 2011).

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Virginia Hutchison

Virginia Hutchison is an artist based at Glasgow Sculpture Studios who has worked with sculpture, text, performance and digital media.

Recent projects include: Mo ghraidh / My love (WISP commissions, Benbecula), 7 sunsets (Re-Imagining the Centre, Inverness), Geez a hand (Pitscurry Environment Project, Garioch), a Town for Tomorrow (Cumbernauld), The Turra Coo Sculpture Projects (Aberdeenshire), Westhill Heart Project (Aberdeen), Divine Close (The Art of Regeneration, Peterhead), Memorial to a gate (Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis).

For GI 2012, Hutchison will be collaborating with artist Sarah Forrest. Within both of their creative practices their position, as artist, is often brought into play as a question. Whether this is via a fictional narrative or through the blatant appropriation of another’s words, both Forrest and Hutchison scrutinize their own position as maker in relation to a viewer in relation to their ‘work’ be it sculptural or time based; site, context or community specific.

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Oliver Pitt

With an education in design Oliver utilizes a strong graphic sensibility throughout his work. Playing the role of both an artist and illustrator, his practise is not restrained to any particular contextual parameter.

His work often follows an archaic aesthetic tradition, drawing influence from the early graphic arts of illuminated manuscripts, medieval iconography, and alchemy. Through a scrutinised distillation and abstraction, these historic traditions are transformed through processes of recollection, creating images saturated with both historic and contemporary symbolism.

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Roos Dijkhuizen

Roos Marie Dijkhuizen was born in London, 1989. She studied at Grays School of Art between the years of 2007 – 2011. She completed an exchange at AKI Institute of Art and Design Esnchede, The Netherlands in 2010. Graduated with a BA(Hons) in Printmaking she is now living and working in Glasgow.

Exhibitions include THIS IS IT/Project Slogan/Aberdeen/2011; Aberdeen Art Fair/Music Hall/Aberdeen/2011; PaperGirl Istanbul/Milk Gallery/Istanbul/2011; Aberdeen Artists Scoiety Annual/Aberdeen Art Gallery/Aberdeen/2011; WORK/Peacock Visual Arts Centre/Aberdeen/2011; Haphazzard Accumulation/Strag Dog group exhibition/Bar 99/Aberdeen/2011; Memento/Broekhuis/Enschede/2010

Dijkhuizen participated in Extreme Event One with Craig Barrowman and the National Theatre of Scotland/Aberdeen/2010

Upcoming Nov – March 2011-2012/New Graduate Exchange Project/Market Gallery Glasgow and Volume London

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G.O.D.S - Glasgow Open Dance School

Glasgow Open Dance School provides a space where people can learn, teach and partake in movement related workshops for free. For G.O.D.S’ movement begins with the body, to de intellectualise by listening acutely to the body; the collective body and your (my) individual body. (YES) Following feeling rather than style or technique and attempting to move from the gut, we learn together. Allowing our instinct to be our nose, leading us towards what is attractive to us and away from what is not. It is integral that GODS is physical and holistic; valuing shared learning and collective movement above individual excellence. We (you) move as a group in continual process without pressure to ever perform or finalise. (YES)

Everyone (you) is equally welcome to contribute to the content of the workshops. All forms of movement and methods of teaching are encouraged. G.O.D.S is a non- fixed group with an intentionally non-thematic style. Our intention is to move. (YES) At current G.O.D.S is primarily facilitated by Romany Dear and Julia Scott. To get down and get the body of a GOD! Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and include (YES) in the subject box to receive irregular event updates.

Emily Ilett

Emily Ilett is an artist and writer born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and is now living and working in Glasgow after graduating from The Glasgow School of Art in 2011. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Ilett’s work arises from simple curiousity and the intrigue of edge. In text, intervention, sculpture and performance she makes work in both the public realm and in galleries that explores the perception of absence and the boundary between visibility and invisibility. 

Exhibitions include: ‘Ex’ - BlipBlipBlip Gallery, Leeds (2011); ‘A Cinematic Space: New Territories’ - The Arches, Glasgow (2011); ‘Poles’ - Platform, Glasgow (2011); ‘Touching the Void’ - Italienska Palatset, Sweden (2011); ‘The Space Between’ - Galleri Fisk, Bergen (2010); and ‘Speedwork Symposium’ - House for an Art Lover, Glasgow (2010).

As part of the artist-led events within The Pipe Factory, Ilett will be collaborating with Ashanti Harris to curate the event ok-yuh-pahy, a programme of durational, absurdist and spectacular performance and performative sculpture by international and Glasgow-based artists.

Beth Dynowski

Beth Dynowski is an artist living and working in Glasgow. Beth’s practice is often process based and performative, exploring the idea of the artist as a site of action in ongoing material processes. Alongside her studio practice, current areas of research include artistic labour & Post-Fordism and the politics of self-organised education. She has recently undertaken the Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Scholarship and was Visiting Artist at the Siena Art Institute Autumn 2011. She co-founded The Pipe Factory, an artist’s run workspace in Glasgow Barrowlands and will be running a temporary art school in Aberdeen Spring 2012 involving Scottish art schools and independent galleries in the North East including Limousine Bull, Project Slogan and Peacock Visual Arts, and academic staff from Gray’s School of Art and Glasgow School of Art.

Ashanti Harris

Ashanti Harris is a Glasgow-based sculptor and performance artist whose work is centred on the movement of the body. Drawing inspiration from the Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer she focuses on the mechanical qualities of movement, experimenting with control, manipulation, abstraction and unfamiliarity. As part of the artist led events within The Pipe Factory, Ashanti Harris will be collaborating with Emily Ilett to curate the event ok-yuh-pahy, a programme of durational, absurdist and spectacular performance and performative sculpture by international and Glasgow-based artists.

Alexander Storey Gordon

Alexander Storey Gordon’s practice explores the idea that art is marked by its ability to disturb the historical and make it political. His interest in history revolves around the structure of the Myth, not simply as a literary framework but as a human construct to not only better understand each other but also highlight the operations of power structures, and changing technologies on an individual and a society, and attempt to challenge them.

Alexander Storey Gordon has shown at Limousine Bull (2008), Project Slogan,  Embassy Gallery, RSA New Contemporaries 2011, and the Venice Biennale 2011. Alexander is a Co founder of the Pipe Factory and Joint head of exhibitions & events. He is also the Programme Coordinator for The Pipe Factory during GI.

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Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich

Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich pursue an ambitious collaborative practice that crosses over between the gallery space and the public realm. They use installation, public sculpture and performance as tools through which to protest and dream, inviting their audience to engage in participatory events where the possible and the actual come together. Responding to specific sites and communities, their work questions the limits of society and imagines better worlds.
Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich are an established collaborative artist duo, their work has been presented at Tate Britain, South London Gallery, the ICA, London; The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Modern Art Oxford; The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany, Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece and other international venues in Europe, Asia and the Pacific region. A monograph on their work is published by John Hansard Gallery and is available through Cornerhouse Publishing.

Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich have received numerous awards including, AHRC and Wellcome Trust, major production award, they have been nominated for the prestigious Paul Hamlin Award and the Arts Mundi Award. Forthcoming projects in 2012 include; A Solo Exhibition, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead as part of Baltic ten year celebrations; Celestial Radio at MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney to celebrate the re-opening of the MCA. Camouflage Kiasma, Helsinki Finland .

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The artists’ are represented by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

Sophie Dyer & Sebastian Gorton Kalvik

Sophie Dyer (b. Bristol, 1986) and Sebastian Gorton Kalvik (b. Oslo, 1988) both graduated from the department of Visual Communication at The Glasgow School of Art in 2011.

Since graduation Sebastian has worked for London design studio Graphic Thought Facility and Sophie for the London based collective Troika.

They are both excited to work alongside Walker & Bromwich in developing the Art Lending Library with Market Gallery for GI2012.

http://www.sophiedyer.net
http://www.digitalmojo.net

Michelle Hannah

Michelle Hannah’s practice as both artist and curator is concerned with the recesses of the human imagination, gothic art and metaphysics to convey terse, stylistic and morally ambiguous works. Hannah’s practice and involvement in various collectives have informed her interest in diverse modes of address; sound, photography, text, video and performance. Combining them with the modern propaganda techniques of a digital fragmenting age, the work exists as a critique of society’s obsession with alternative therapies, brands, institutions, politics, religion and perpetual fame while addressing our innate longing for resolving existential questions of individuality, lack of faith and purposeful meaning.

Michelle Hannah (born in Alexandria, Scotland), is based in Glasgow and graduated from MFA Program at Glasgow School of Art in 2009. Hannah has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions at The Briggait, Glasgow 2011 and group exhibitions including Catalyst Arts Belfast 2008, MFA Degree Show Tramway Glasgow 2009, Washington Garcia (with Erica Eyres) Glasgow 2010, CCA Creative Labs Residency Glasgow 2010, The Elevator Gallery London 2010,  The Embassy Gallery Edinburgh (performance) 2010, ‘Neon John 3’ (with Alex Hetherington) Publication 2010, The London Art Fair (with GHost) 2011, The Dresden Film Festival 2011, Generator Gallery Dundee 2011, The Northern Gallery of Contemporary Arts Sunderland 2011 and CGP London/Dilston Grove London 2011.

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Raydale Dower

Raydale Dower is an artist and musician, often initiating collaborations that combine both disciplines. His work continues to explore sound and sculpture, anarchic ideas and the influence of the 20th century avant-garde.

Dower co-founded the band Uncle John & Whitelock and G.F.M. Productions (2001-2006) in collaboration with Jacob Lovatt.  The group organised and performed in a number of live installations and released a series of vinyl recordings on the independent music label G.F.M. Productions.  He currently plays in Tut Vu Vu.

For GI 2008 Raydale adapted and performed Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent in collaboration with Judd Brucke and Lowsalt gallery.  In 2009 he exhibited in the 10-year anniversary group show The Associates at DCA. For GI 2010 Raydale programed Le Drapeau Noir, a temporary artist’s cafe and programme of events for the duration of the festival, he performed later that year at Art Basel Miami. Most recently Raydale presented Piano Drop at Tramway, November 2011 as part of a Vital Spark award from Creative Scotland.

Rob Churm

Rob Churm is an internationally recognised artist and musician.  Working mostly with ink on paper and producing intricate wall drawings, Rob’s ‘automatic’ drawing technique references graphic comic art and underground music artwork. He has recorded and performed a number of vinyl releases on various independent European labels, he has also provided the artwork for these releases and produced a prolific number of music event posters.

A original member of Park Attack and now performs as a member of the Gummy Stumps who released three 7 inch vinyl singles earlier this year, notably on the Scottish independent label Watts of Good Will.

Solo shows include Ethanol Buzzgrid at the GOMA in May 2009 and Chocolatier at the Chert Gallery in Berlin, November 2009.

Rob Churm also participated in the 2010 edition of the festival.

Rachel Adams

Rachel Adams is an Edinburgh based artist whose practice is rooted in an exploration of domestic material, looking at the balance between the functional and the decorative and investigating the position that such material holds within a culture of mass production. Drawing on myths and traditional motifs, Adams plays with the identity of a sculpture and its relationship to both traditional materials and museum structures. In her practice the plinth is developed well beyond being a mere support and becomes integral to the work being crafted to the same extent as the sculpture – fudging this loaded art–historical hierarchical relationship. Drawing, craft and furniture materials, paper, yarn, tubular aluminium, fabric, ink and starch are used to make associations with traditional sculptural techniques such as modelling and casting. Ink–saturated and hardened paper folds suggest classical marble drapery, striped fabric becomes the columnar fluting and crumbling ruins are conjured up by crumpled paper forms. Her choice of materials, subverting their intended office, domestic, DIY or industrial origins, whether they form a lumpen bust–form sitting atop a wonky, legged plinth or a shiny metal structure bedecked with pompoms lend the work a surrealist sensibil

Recent exhibitions include Look with all your eyes, look, Frith Street Gallery London, Cut From Whole Cloth Domobaal London, Marble Mouthed the duchy Glasgow, The Compleat Lounger The Shop Cambridge and Bold Tendencies, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park.

John Shankie

John Shankie is a Glasgow based artist who works with food, text, sculpture, video, film, photography and drawing. He is particularly interested in creating installations and works that take their point of origin and departure from routine or mundane activities in the home or the domestic setting.

Selected solo exhibtion include Open Sea, Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem, 2008 and There is no need for you to leave the house; Tramway, Glasgow 1995. Selected group exhibtions include Industrial Aesthetics: Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, NYC2011, Wave-Cut Platform @ 83 Hill Street, Glasgow 2011, On the Shelf, Compartment Gallery, Manchester 2005,  Dream Machines; Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition: DCA, Dundee 2000 and Skimming Stones; Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden 1999.

Rob Kennedy

Rob Kennedy lives and works in Glasgow, UK. He makes videos and objects on his own and often in collaboration with others. His work has been exhibited internationally and recent projects include: ‘What are we doing here?’, Transmission Gallery, ReMap3, Athens, 2011 and (n)either use (n)or ornament, Sunbear Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010. Previous work has been exhibited at Venice Biennale, Tate Britain, BBC Scotland and the British Council.

Selected exhibtions include ‘open studio’  solo show, Transmission Gallery, ReMap, Athens, Greece 2011, ‘(n)either use (n)or ornament’ solo show, Sunbear Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 2010, ‘Another Opening’  group show Nomi’s Kitchen, Glasgow, UK 2010, ‘Artist Film & Video at BBC Scotland’ group show, BBC Scotland, Glasgow, UK 2010, ‘Videonale’  group show, GOMA, Glasgow, UK   2010, ‘LOOP’  festival screening of ‘Hapless, Helpless & Hopeless’ 2010,‘Running Time’  National Galleries of Scotland , Edinburgh 2009, ‘Videonale’  groupshow, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany 2009, ‘H,H&H’  Video installation, Market Gallery, Glasgow 2009, ‘Trilogy’  Video installation & peformance, NMS, CCA, Glasgow 2008, ‘I love your balderdash’  screening & performance, Location One, NY, USA 2008.”

José Eduardo (Yaque) Llorente

José Eduardo Yaque studied at the Instituto Superior del Arte in Havana and graduated in 2010. In 2010 Yaque also took part in a residency in Glasgow and exhibited in the group show Parabolas del Agua, organised by Tengo Frio. Yaque has also exhibited at the bienale de Havana in 2009 and the 1st Biennale in Portugal. Other recent shows include Hogar Provisional at the Galería Habana;  Referencias territoriales in an old port; and Crudo,his most recent solo exhibition in a disused church in Havana.

Max Prus

Max Prus was born in Reading on Christmas day 1987. It was never his intention to be an artist and he is not a real artist. He is an actor and a human, just like everybody else.

Selected group exhibtions include 2011 Hotel Gilchrist, 49 West Princes Street, 2011,Resonance FM booth,  Frieze Art Fair,London, 2010 Glasgow, Homemade Universe, 23 Duke Street, Glasgow,Surrogate, disused shop unit, the Triangle Shopping Centre, Manchester Caca Building, 174 Hyndland Road, Glasgow (all 2009).

Vassilis H

The work of Vassilis H combines sculpture with painting and photography, exploring the philosophy and formalism of the Modern movement. His work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Athens, Miami, Berlin and Vienna.

Selected solo exhibitions include Black and Tan Fantasy (2person show with artist George Theodorides), curated by Galini Notti, ReMap2, Athens and Iconomachia, Michael Steinberg Fine Art Project Space, New York, 2007. Selected group exhibtions include Distorted Viewport, Forgotten Bar, curated by Spyros Hadjidjanos, Berlin, 2010, Forschungsbericht, Coco, curated by Severin Dunsen, Vienna,
and Rooms, Kappatos gallery @St George Lycabetus Hotel, curated by Maria Maragou, Athens (both 2009)”

TS Beall

T S Beall is an artist who works with a variety of media to examine how landscape and place are both imaged and imagined.

Recent public artworks experiment with different models of collaboration, and how community action can offer playful counterpoint to gentrification and development. Her moving image work explores how the camera and digital media have shifted our notions of place, and how inaccessible landscapes are imaged by modern technology.

Recent exhibitions include A Stone’s Throw Away as part of Atypical Root and Glasgow International (2010), Here be dragons at The Colby Museum, Maine, USA (2008/9), Beyond Visibility at the St. Mungo Museum, Glasgow (2008), and Untitled Horses at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2007), the latter two in collaboration with new music composer Mary Bellamy.  Beall recently completed a residency at Standpoint Gallery in London (May-June 2011), and in Oct began a practice-based PhD at the University of Glasgow Theatre Studies, in collaboration with the Riverside Museum.

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www.astonesthrowaway.co.uk

Tobias Yves Zintel

Tobias Yves Zintel’s films interpret notions of hell and satanism, instruments of the Catholic Church used to punish and brand deviant behavior and to exclude people who think differently. In surreal settings, Zintel films in his own unconventional visual language using the writings of Aleister Crowley, the founder of modern satanism, perfume advertisements, Japanese haiku, the texts of Jean Paul Sartre, songs by the Beach Boys, Zintel’s own texts, quotes from Adolf Loos, Shakespeare, and songs by bands such as the Velvet Underground and Happy Mondays, all of which refer to ornamentation, mental illness, ideology, isolation, love, and death as different kinds of hell.

Recent shows include; Acid and Ice Cream, Video Roam Curated by Paul Young, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2010); Breed and Educate, X-Schulen Festival Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany (2010); Open Space 44th Art Cologne, Hosted by Barbara Gross, Cologne Germany (2010); Performance, Interesting Productions, The Office, Berlin, Germany (2009); Hauptschule der Freiheit, Project der Muenchner Kammerspiele, München, Germany (2009)

Teresa Margolles

Teresa Margolles (b. 1963 Culiacán, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. Her work has a very powerful and strong message on morality stemming from the horrific murders that have been taking place in Mexico.

Her exploration of death as a subject has been related to an ever deepening research on issues of economic and political inequalities, social exploitation and the process of historical mourning. SEMEFO, whose name is derived from the forensic medical service, Margolles has chosen as her atelier, first the morgue and the dissecting room, and more recently, the violence streets of Mexico.

These are places of death but also places which bear witness to social unrest. For the past two decades, Margolles has not so much worked directly with the remains of bodies but rather with the traces of life, with shrouds, burial and memory, and with the way a violent act shatters human networks and affects them in various levels.

Sarah Forrest

For GI 2012, Sarah Forrest will be collaborating with artist Virginia Hutchison. Within both of their creative practices their position, as artist, is often brought into play as a question. Whether this is via a fictional narrative or through the blatant appropriation of another’s words, both Forrest and Hutchison scrutinize their own position as maker in relation to a viewer in relation to their ‘work’ be it sculptural or time based; site, context or community
specific.

As part of this collaborative project, the artists will be individually making objects and text based works developed in response to their on-going discourse over the coming months. These objects will be cast in lead and exchanged. Once exchanged the lead objects are to be melted down to their liquid form and recast into lead letters with the artists responding, using text as they see fit, to the other’s object - an objective call inviting its subjective response.

Forrest recently completed her MFA with distinction at the Glasgow School of Art (2010) and on the strength of her MFA degree show was awarded a year-long fellowship at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. This fellowship will culminate in November 2011 with a solo exhibition and publication. Recent exhibitions include The Spectator, solo show at Intermedia, Glasgow, Days, group show at Transmission, Glasgow, L.P.Hendriks, group show, Rotterdam and Hands Across the Fire with her collaborative partners GANGHUT at the DCA, Dundee.
 

Sandra Ormiston

Sandra Ormiston’s main interests are drawing and writing with paint to create images that portray her home life, holidays and travels. Ormiston’s imagery seems to scuttle and dash across the pictorial plane and is not always represented by image; she also fills the blanks with text, often words that she has invented to sound like the object she is trying to portray. Figures and objects recall everyday life, yet all remain whimsically illustrative, creating a narrative account of her life through a unique visual onomatopoeia.

Ruth Ewan

Ruth Ewan is interested in the dissemination and control of ideas. Her ‘Jukebox of People Trying to change the World’, a collection of politically and socially engaged songs, exemplifies her method of researching and assembling strands of history and presenting them in ways that highlight their continued relevance. Working across a range of forms from the organisation of events to printed and oral history, Ruth Ewan’s projects are grounded in immersive and context specific research. Her primary interests lie in how individuals, organisations and groups have utilised creative and unconventional means for progressive modes of expression.

Ruth Ewan (born Aberdeen) lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include ‘Brank and Heckle’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, ‘The Ephemeral Past’, CAAC, Seville, and ‘A Lock is Gate’ Art on the Underground, London (all 2011). Group exhibitions include, ‘A Million Miles from Home’, at the Folkestone Triennial (2010), ‘Altermodern’, Tate Triennial, Tate Britian 2009, and ‘Younger Than Jesus’, New Museum in New York, 2009. Ruth Ewan is represented by Rob Tufnell, London.

Rose Ruane

Rose Ruane is an artist based in Glasgow. Ruane’s practice is performance-to-camera based and is driven by an interest in self mythology, emotional manipulation & the indestructible teenager within the adult.

Rose Ruane graduated from the Sculpture department of GSA in 2007 and has exhibited widely with exhibtions at the Lacan School in Geneva, GENERATORprojects in Dundee and The Nunnery Gallery, London.

Rosalind Nashashibi

Nashashibi (born in Croydon, 1973) works in 16 mm film and often engaging with ritual and performance, her works are often understood in terms of documentary or anthropological study.Now based in Italy, this will be her first major work in Scotland for several years and her first show since her very well received exhibition at the ICA in 2009. The Observer has described her as, ‘One of the best film artists working in Britain today’.

Nashashibi’s career began in Glasgow, where she worked for some time after graduating with an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. In 2003 the first major solo exhibitions of Rosalind Nashashibi’s work in the UK took place at the CCA in Glasgow and at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh.

Other recent projects and exhibitions include: (In 2006) Around the world in Eighty Days (Group exhibition), ICA, London; Momemtum 2006 (Group exhibition) Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway; Solo exhibition at Harris Liebermann, New York (In 2005) In Between Times (Group exhibition) Tramway, Glasgow; Eyeballing (Solo exhibition) Counter Gallery, London; (In 2004) Songs for home and economy (Solo exhibition), CCA, Glasgow; Solar Lunar (Group exhibition) doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Nashashibi is one of the recipients of the The deciBel Awards for Artists for 2006.

Robert McKenzie

Robert McKenzie focuses on creating intensive scrolls of letters in rigid patterns contained within notebooks and diaries. Words and phrases appear through these intricate text works and project dramatic and thought-provoking messages reflecting the artist’s surroundings.

Rebecca Wilcox

Rebecca Wilcox is a Glasgow based artist, working mainly with text and video. She often works collaboratively with artist and curator Laura Smith.

Wilcox has contributed to several publications including Victor and Hester, Gnommero and 2HB, and is exhibiting in shows at Generator Projects, Dundee and CCA, Glasgow, in 2011, along with a collaborative project with Laura Smith at Leeds College of Art. Past screenings and projects have included Snowballing, Glasgow Project Room, 2011, Showreel, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009, and a screening of Powder Room, SpaceX, Exeter, 2009. Wilcox is a past Transmission Committee member, and gained her BA (Hons) in Sculpture and Environmental Art, and her M(Res) at Glasgow School of Art.

Richard Wright

Richard Wright creates intricate and detailed drawings ranging in scale from small framed works on paper and poster prints, to large architectural pieces painted directly onto walls and ceilings, often consisting of thousands of hand-painted marks.

His painted works often respond to overlooked architectural features and allow the viewer to experience the space in which he / she encounters them quite differently. These works last only for the duration of the exhibition before being painted over, heightening the sense that the works must be experienced only in the present.

Wright is interested in the idea of ‘the machine’, seeking to emulate a mechanism through reducing, controlling and simplifying his means of painterly application. Each mark is hand-made, the laborious production methods distancing the ultra-flat, planar works from the mechanised means of production they may at first suggest. The work is created using traditional methods of application, often using of gold leaf and paint to create the subtle marks and repeated pattern. These images often converge at the viewers ‘ideal’ standpoint, recalling the works of the Renaissance painters in their use of geometry.

In parallel with his large-scale temporary painted works, Wright produces remarkable works on paper, work that he first began to exhibit in the late 1990s. These rare and distinctive works are now held by museums and private collectors across the globe and are gathered here for the first time.

Richard Wright ( born in London, 1960) lives and works in Glasgow.

Wright has exhibited nationally and internationally since his first solo show at the Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 1994. Wright’s recent solo exhibitions have included Richard Wright The Gagosian Gallery, London 2009 and New York 2005, and DCA, Dundee, 2004.  In 2010 he realised his first permanent work in Scotland for the Dean Gallery, the Scottish National gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

Group exhibitions include ‘The Sleeping Congregation’, Tate Britain, London 2010, Votive, CCA Glasgow, 2009 and ‘Draw a Straight Line and Follow it’, Tate Modern London, 2008. In 2009 Richard Wright won the Turner Prize.

Richard Wright studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Glasgow School of Art where he attained an MA. He is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow; Gagosian Gallery and BQ, Berlin.

Richard Wright is represented by The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd.

Image information:
Untitled (08.06.09), 2009, Watercolour and gouache on paper, 25 5/8 x 29 5/16 inches, 65 x 74.5cm, (C) Richard Wright. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

(detail),Untitled (08.06.09), 2009, Watercolour and gouache on paper, 25 5/8 x 29 5/16 inches, 65 x 74.5cm, (C) Richard Wright. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

(detail)Untitled (08.06.09), 2009, Watercolour and gouache on paper, 25 5/8 x 29 5/16 inches, 65 x 74.5cm (C) Richard Wright. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

Untitled (07.04.01), 2001, gouache on linen, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches, 38.7 x 57.2cm (C) Richard Wright. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

Redmond Entwistle

Redmond Entwistle (b. London, 1977) is an artist-filmmaker living in London and New York. Working across a range of film forms from installation to narrative, his work has been shown in both galleries and festivals internationally. Entwistle employs documentary, narrative and abstract modes of filmmaking to investigate histories of social displacement and create portraits of cities anchored on the invisible or the implied. Recent works include Monuments (2010), a narrative exploration of the origins of Post-Minimalist art in the economic and spatial relationship between New York and New Jersey, Skein (2007) a video portrait of migration to the towns that spread out from New York, and Paterson – Lódz (2006), a 16mm expanded film about two towns (Paterson, New Jersey, and Lódz, Poland) and their interrelated history of politics and migration in the early years of the 20th century. He has a degree in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts and was a studio fellow on the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2006-7.

Recent awards and prizes include Best International Film On-Screen, Images Festival 2008 for Paterson – Lódz, and Art in General’s New Commission Award 2008. Recent exhibitions include group shows at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Greater New York, Artists Cinema PS1 MOMA, Frieze Art Fair Artists Cinema, Double-Bill at Art in General, NY and Nought to Sixty, ICA, London. Recent festivals and screenings include Rotterdam International Film Festival, FID Marseilles, National Gallery of Art Washington, Hors Pistes at the Centre Pompidou, Viennale, and Anthology Film Archives. His work is distributed by Lux Artists Film and Video

Rallou Panagiotou

Rallou Panagiotou produces sculptural work characterised by the condensed arrangement of autonomous components poised on the verge of action. In her work, the memory of experienced space vies with staged and virtual environments to explore mechanisms of power, self-presentation and control.  Her structures are in limbo between a stripped off architectonic lingo of Modernist order and the entropic excess of what Rem Koolhaas termed “junk space”, implying psychological tension and fragile balance.

Rallou Panagiotou has exhibited widely including ‘Artists & Engineers’, Ibid Projects@ Remap3, Athens (2011), ‘Exaggerate The Classics’, Ibid Projects, London (2010), ‘Heavy Make Up’, AMP, Athens (2010), 4x4: Rallou Panagiotou, Transmission gallery, Glasgow (2009). Group shows inlude the 3rd Athens Biennale, ‘Monodrome’, Athens (2011), ‘Die Unvollendete’, ACC galerie, Weimar (2010), 6th Deste Prize, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2009).  In 2010, Rallou Panagiotou co-curated the exhibition ‘Supernature, An Exercise In Loads’, AMP, Athens.

Rallou Panagiotou is represented by Ibid Projects, London. and AMP, Athens.

PIPE FACTORY

THE PIPE FACTORY is a new artist run studio, residency and events space situated in the Barras.

As a new organisation THE PIPE FACTORY is committed first and foremost to the revision of current methods of production within arts organisations and artists’ practice, with a particular emphasis on the production of high quality, engaging, and challenging artwork, education and research.
For more information please visit our website or join our mailing list.

CURRENT PIPE FACTORY RESIDENTS
> Romany Dear
> Sinead Dunn
> Beth Dynowski
> Roos Dijkhuizen
> Katie Eyre
> Alexander Storey Gordon
> Steven Granger
> Lorrane Hamilton
> Ashanti Harris
> Verity Hocking
> Emily Ilett
> Euan Ogilvie
> Kari Le Riche Robertson
> Erin Scott
> Susannah Stark
> Sinead Young

Pio Abad

Pio Abad graduated from GSA in 2007 and is now undertaking a postgraduate diploma at the Royal Academy in London. Pio Abad’s work has developed from intricate ink drawings and sculptures exploring the relationships between excess and collapse, ornament and excrement and decadence and delusion, to immaculately produced digital prints,photographs, sculptures and video work. Central to Abad’s practice are the ways in which objects are co-opted and corrupted; his work serves to heighten the absurd relationships between things and events, remaking or re-presenting objects to heighten their complicity to narratives of power: a golden tap as the embodiment of dictatorial excess, a pin-up as a tool for late imperialist adventures, a plastic perfume bottle as a metonym for an entire culture’s reduced identity. Ultimately, Abad’s practice should be seen as a quixotic attempt to understand the ridiculous and unstable networks of power in which everyone and everything is a participant.

Pio has shown widely across the UK and Europe - previous shows include Bad Igloo Lust at The Royal Standard, Liverpool; Self-made Cavalcade, at Art’s Complex, Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival and touring to Academie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich; The Golden Record, at The Collection, Lincoln and the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and Bloomberg New Contemporaries as part of the Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2012 Pio will also be showing at Alptraum, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila and Artstage Singapore, Herdon Contemporary, Singaporea.

Artist Statement
It all started with a jar of Heinz sandwich spread. When Imelda Marcos fled the presidential palace during the 1986 Philippine uprising, she left behind an impressive amount of loot in her haste: the now legendary two thousand pairs of shoes, gallons of French perfume, bullet proof brassieres and – an entire house with every room filled from floor to ceiling with jars of Heinz sandwich spread. This story was told repeatedly when I was growing up, and this image of an entire house of sandwich spread has remained indelible. The lowly condiment elevated to the status of a despot’s ziggurat serves as a rather peculiar illustration of Walter Benjamin’s claim that all documents of civilisation are also manifestations of barbarism.

Pio Abad

Paul Thek

The work of Paul Thek occupies a place between high and low art, between the epic and the everyday. Unlike that of his contemporaries in the 1960s who were making work regarded as minimalism, Thek’s work was messy, representational and auto-biographical and involved the often unfashionable characteristics of humour and spirituality. A sculptor, painter, and one of the first artists to create environments or installations, Thek came to recognition showing his sculpture in New York galleries in the 1960s. The first works exhibited, which he began making in 1964 and called “meat pieces” as they were meant to resemble flesh. At the end of the sixties, Thek left for Europe, where he created extraordinary environments, incorporating elements from art, literature, theatre, and religion, often employing fragile and ephemeral substances, including wax and latex.

Paul Thek’s posthumous exhibitions include Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2010; Paul Thek, Luzern 1973/2005, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 2005; Paul Thek, Camden Arts Centre, London, 1999; and Paul Thek: The wonderful world that almost was, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 1995. While alive his work was show extensively, and was included in the 1976 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Documenta 4 and 5, Kassel (1968 & 1973) and The Obsessive Image 1960-1968, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

Paul Knight

Paul Knight works with the photographic image, sculpture, video and sound. His work is concerned with the abilities and failings of the photographic image, intimacy and its’ relationship to society and the notions of soft politics, bond structures and simulation.

Selected exhibitions include; Without Words: Photography and Emotion, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia 2011; I’ll Sit Slightly Behind You, ACME Project Space, London 2011; Open Space, 44th Art Cologne, hosted by Neon Parc Germany 2010, Germany; New Contemporaries, A Foundation, London 2009

Patricia Fleming Projects

Patricia Fleming is a freelance curator based in Glasgow who works creatively with a wide range of local, national and international artists and organisations. She has established many significant initiatives in Scotland including Fly, 1996 - 1999 (now Market Gallery), Fuse (1992-1999) and Satellite (1997- 1999). She was curator at the Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow (1999 – 2001) and was the first curator for Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Past projects include; ‘The Local’ launch event and social hub for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2008; Producer of ‘A Gathering Space’ with The Lighthouse for Scotland at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2008.

Patricia is currently Curator for Channel 4’s Big Art Project creating a public art commission on the Island of Mull. She is also Curator for a new Health and Social Care Centre in Barrhead with East Renfrewshire Council and NHS Glasgow and Curatorial Adviser for the creative social network, Central Station, with ISO in partnership with SAC, Inspire and 4iP. As part of European Cities on the Atlantic Arc, La Criee Centre D’Art Contemporain Rennes launched a new period of collaboration with European curators - Patricia was the first curator to be invited to lead the European Cross-Curating Initiative. This saw two international residencies (Glasgow & Rennes) and events at Les Ateliers De Rennes Biennale D’Art Contemporain and events for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010 (Social Landscape).

Patricia regularly engages in professional development activity such as talks, teaching and workshops, including projects with MA students at Salford University, Midwest, Cultural Enterprise Unit (Glasgow) DJCAD (Dundee) Bergen National Academy of the Arts (Norway) and at Ecole Regionale Des Beaux Arts Rennes. She is a founding director of Volume in London, sits on the board of Studio Warehouse Glasgow, and has been an active Director at WASPs artist’s studios since 1992.

Most recently, Patricia is a founding director of Vault Art Glasgow, a new contemporary art fair for the city.

Patricia Fleming Projects Website

Patricia Fleming Projects also participated in the 2010 edition of the festival.

Nicolas Party

Painting is the starting point for all Nicolas Party’s works. Applying colour to different surfaces - paper, canvas, walls and objects - allows him to produce a range of work from paintings to site-specific installations. Typically producing still-life and landscape paintings, Party utilises a regular vocabulary of figurative elements - pots, food, mountains and trees - interpreted using the tropes of cubes, cylinders, cones, spheres and pyramids. Using this consistent formal language, he makes a hierarchy of decorative patterns, resulting in frieze-like paintings, which are concurrently representational and fantastical. These works repeatedly interrogate the language of forms central to his practice.

Party’s solo exhibitions include, ‘Elephants at the Woodmill’, The Woodmill, London, 2011; ‘Elephants, spoons and sausage rolls’, Le Rez de Chaussee, Glasgow, 2010; and ‘New Work Scotland’ Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010. Also in 2010 he collaborated with Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan on the screen-printed publication, ‘DUST’. In September 2011 Nicolas Party hosted ‘Dinner for 24 Elephants’ at The Modern Institute, and the evidence of this performance was exhibited afterwards. A new book about Nicolas Party’s work including a text by Naomi Pearce has been produced to coincide with ReMap3.”

Nicholas Party is represented by The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd.

Nichola Scrutton

Nichola Scrutton is a composer, sound artist, performer and facilitator. Her work ranges from live vocal performance and studio compositions to collaborations in theatre and visual arts, from writing and performing with experimental music groups to a variety of education outreach projects. For the last two years she also worked part-time as a Teaching Fellow in the Music Department at University of Glasgow, having gained a PhD in electroacoustic composition there in 2009.  Nichola intends to draw on the contradictions of the tidal river - regularity/irregularity, inward/outward flow, single moving mass/multiple cross currents - as conceptual inspiration for an amplified multi-part vocal work.

Recent performance projects include: Songs for a Stranger (vocal performance/fixed medium) Arches Live! 2011; Panic Patterns (sound design for theatre) Citizens Theatre 2010; Sim-po-zeum (music for live performance with visual artist Sarah Tripp) GI Festival 2010; The Garden of Adrian (sound Installation for performance by artist Adrian Howells) 2009; Move Mood (music for a short film by Sarah Tripp) Edinburgh, Glasgow, London 2009. Other selected performances include ‘Elektramusic’ web radio 2011; ‘Soundgate’, Aalborg, Denmark 2010, Festival Futura ‘Nuits blanches,’ (Crest, Drôme, France) 2009. Recent education and outreach projects include ‘All We’re Skilled In’ with GFT, Scottish Screen Archive and Plantation Productions 2011, and GLOW Co-Create ‘Hooks + Bites’ for Curriculum of Excellence 2010

Artist’s Website

Niall Macdonald

Niall Macdonald’s work uses mould making and casting as a way to sample and reconfigure objects and surfaces. This sculptural approach also extends to different forms of image making often involving the direct manipulation of prints and photographs.

Selected exhibitions include Petrosphere, Remap Athens Greece (2011), UNCUT/Normal Time at the 75th Meridian (with Rallou Panagiotou), + 44 141 Gallery, Glasgow (2011), Levi Hanes/Passenger, La Bete, Glasgow, (curated by Niall Macdonald, 2010), Near no Ritual, Washington Garcia Gallery, Glasgow (2009), Roar, Bargehouse, London (2009)Things worth knowing, Enderz, London (2009) Salem,  Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2008) and And so it goes, Artnews Projects, Berlin (2008).

Niall Macdonald is represented by Kendall Koppe.

Nairy Baghramian

Nairy Baghramian is a Berlin-based artist known for her sculptural installations and photographs. Well represented in Europe, she had her first exhibition in a major public institution in the UK in 2010 with Phyllida Barlow at the Serpentine Gallery.

Key to Baghramian’s work is how theoretical concepts, drawn from art historical debates around Minimalism, literature and design history, are translated into specific decisions about materiality, manufacture and display. Nairy’s work exhibited at the Venice Biennale as part of ““ILLUMInations”“, 2011, continues this complex questioning as she references interior design, architecture and sculpture and creates a tension between materiality and form.

In 2008, Baghramian began an ongoing conversation with Swiss designer Janette Laverriere (1909-2011), on an installation at the Schinkel Pavillion as part of the Berlin Biennale, collaborating again in 2009 with Entre deux actes - Loge de comédienne at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. These collaborations exemplify the importance of questioning the boundaries between design and art as well as the importance of a specific site and/or interior.  Selected solo exhibitions include: Formage de tête, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2011); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2010); Butcher, Barber, Angler & others, Studio Voltaire, London (2009); The Walker’s Day Off, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2008), Affairen. Ein semiotisches Haus, das nie gebaut wurde, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2008); Es ist ausser Haus, Kunsthalle Basel (2006). She has also taken part in group exhibitions at Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2011); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (2010); Museum Ludwig, Köln (2010); Tate Modern, London (2008) and at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2008).

Nairy Baghramian is represented by Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne.

Minty Donald

Minty Donald is a Glasgow-based artist and lecturer/researcher in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow. Her cross-disciplinary practice is intended to make an intervention into our uses and perceptions of the spaces and places we build and inhabit. Frequently using performance, projected imagery, sound, and sculptural objects, her work invites audiences to re-imagine and re-negotiate their relationships with spaces/places where competing memories and histories reside, where diverse interests and investments remain contested and unresolved.

Minty will use graphic representations of the Clyde’s tide tables, and records of the river’s historic floods to generate a discrete yet ambitious site-specific vocal work for performance in the city centre.

Recent and current work includes a public art commission for the Merchant City, Glasgow (working title Urban Boreholes), 2011; Bridging Part 1, a large-scale, site-specific performance/installation on the River Clyde commissioned by the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM), 2010; Façade Fruitmachine, a site-specific video projection, Britannia Panopticon Building, Trongate, commissioned by Glasgow Life,  2010; Glimmers in Limbo: Tramway, four site-responsive artworks commissioned by Tramway, 2008.

Michael White

Made with a commitment to energetic, intuitive decision-making, White’s practice has recently been characterised by amorphous, mixed-media sculptures set in relation to other found materials and well-crafted geometric forms. A materially engaged, studio-based approach is motivated by an interest in how the artefacts and ideologies of certain pre-historic or polytheistic societies can be related to contemporary popular culture, humour and notions of taste. The socially cohesive function suggested by such ‘primitive arts’ is something alluded to in the sculptures which aim to create a dynamic relationship between the object, theatre and sociability. Here the forms of presentation favoured by ethnographic museum exhibits are subverted to function as active stages where the act of viewing is itself shown to be culturally generative. In purposefully redirecting an anthropological model of interpretation –in which objects of varied worth and meaning interact with ritual and performance to illustrate shared systems of belief- onto the formal processes and framing conventions of artistic production it is the artist’s intention to investigate how we conceive of ourselves as historically reflexive individuals in the present.

Recent exhibitions include Premier Man at Rez-de-Chaussée Glasgow 2011 and So Miami!!! at The Duchy, 2011. Future exhibitions include Talbot Rice Edinburgh and a solo show at Hannah Barry Gallery, London 2012.

Artist’s Website

Michael Mcdonough

Michael McDonough is a director of photography who studied fine art Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art and at The Royal College of Art in London. He then moved to the US and received a Master’s from NYU’s film program in 1998.  His work as cinematographer includes Winter’s Bone, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2010 and Down to the Bone, which won the Dramatic Directing Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and Bowling for Columbine with Michael Moore, winning the 2003 Academy Award for Best Documentary. 

His artist film collaborations have included Douglas Gordon’s Zidane A 21st Century Portrait, This Way;That Way, Feature Film and Making Eyes with Rufus Wainwright, as well as work for Gerard Byrne, The McCoys, Mark Orange, Corin Sworn and Stephen Sutcliffe.

Matt Baker

Matt Baker makes artworks in the public domain, developing participatory and collaborative techniques through projects ranging from temporary events/installations to large-scale permanent artworks and cultural strategies for programmes of urban change.

In 2011, Baker was awarded the Saltire Society Award for Art in Architecture. From 2006-2010 he was the Resident Artist to the City of Inverness – his work there placed the creative community at the centre of a dialogue about the contemporary identity of the Highland capital. Temporary artwork interventions, public debates and unlikely partnerships were the hallmark of the residency, which ultimately evolved into acclaimed public art organisation IOTA (now core funded by Highland Council). Baker was also Lead Artist from 2000-2005 for the award-winning regeneration of the iconic Gorbals neighbourhood in Glasgow. The project is widely recognised for its pioneering work in applying a socially-engaged art methodology to a large scale public art programme. More than 30 local, national and international artists were commissioned to work within the context of a place undergoing wholescale re-construction. Major sculpture projects include: Shinglehook- Scottish Borders, Cultivated Wilderness- Glasgow, Three Virtues.

Artist’s Website

Mary Redmond

Mary Redmond lives and works in Glasgow having graduated from the MFA course at Glasgow School of Art in 1998. Redmond works in the medium of sculpture, using a mixture of found objects and raw materials which are altered, shaped, bent, bashed or painted and then meticulously placed together, making it difficult for the viewer to distinguish between the found object and the hand-made sculptured by the artist.  These intricately placed pieces play with balance, solidity and space.

Redmond has exhibtied nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions including Dundee Contemporary Arts (2010),  Juno and the Stallion, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2005), Galerie Christian Drantman, Brussels (2004) and Alona Kagan Gallery, New York (2003). Recent group exhibitions have included ‘Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2010) and ‘I Must Say That At First it Was Difficult Work’, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo (2010).  Redmond completed a major public art commission at the Centre for Health and Science, Inverness in 2008.

Mary Redmond is represented by The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd.

Marjolaine Ryley

Marjolaine Ryley graduated from the Royal college of Art in 2000 and has since regularly exhibited and published her work both nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibition Residence Astral was exhibited at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, Street Level Photoworks Glasgow and Harbourfront Arts centre Toronto. This ambitious show went on to be shown in the Victoria and Albert museum for a one-year period alongside works by Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Thomas Ruff and Diane Arbus. Seven works from Residence Astral are now in their permanent collection.

Ryley has recently exhibited at the Palacio des Artes, Porto as part of the group exhibition Like Tears in Rain that included artists Damian Ortega, Cildo Miereles and Nedko Salakov. Work form this exhibition is now in the collection of the Serralves Museum Porto.

Growing up in the New Age is a major new body of work and will be show at Street Level Photoworks during GI, touring on to Wolverhampton Art gallery. Work from this series is currently on show as part of Civic - International Festival of Billboard Art at the Vaux site in Sunderland as a10x20ft billboard. Ryley is currently collaborating with Curator Val Williams and Photographer Dave Walkling on a publication of work from Growing up in the New Age. The work will also be featured in Alternative Worlds a forthcoming publication edited by Ricarda Vidal at IGRS, London.

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Marieta Chirulescu

Marieta Chirulescu’s practice concentrates on image-based two-dimensional pieces. Looking like they have been painted, they are mostly printed, realised in myriad, often mixed techniques that involve printing and copying. These include inkjet images printed on canvas, photocopies mounted on canvas, prints from scanned black & white archival photographs and negatives, as well as a variety of digital prints from Photoshop-manipulated digital files. Often looking to a personal photographic archive, Chirulescu removes the ‘subject’ and context of these images and instead concentrates on technical and compositional imperfections of the original prints and negatives. Within this she is “taking” pictures and presenting them as readymades.

Chirulescu (born 1974, Romania), lives & works in Berlin, having exhibited widely internationally with solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Nuremberg (2011); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel and Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin both in 2010 and Kunsthalle Mainz in 2009. Selected group exhibitions include ‘Ein psycho-geographischer Plan’, Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (2011);  ‘Back to the old House’, Clifton Benevento, New York and ‘Fade into You’, Herald St, London both in 2010.

Supported by Geothe Institut

Margarita Myrogianni

Margarita Myrogianni is a photographer who gains inspiration from a variety of sources including fairy-tales, magic and dreams. She uses autobiographical elements in order to examine contemporary life as a game. As light is used in order to define features, characteristics and presence, black dominates as the essential impression in her images.

Margarita Myrogianni, born in Athens, Greece in 1974. She lives and works in Athens. Studied at Vakalo School of Art & Design, Athens, at the University of Barcelona Faculty of Fine Arts (UB) at the Athens School of Fine Art, Greece and Slade School of Fine Art, U.C.L., UK. She has taken part in several exhibitions, including Illumination, at the Service Point Building, Manchester, Sinning, at DIVUS gallery, London, Reflections on the passing of a spectacular event, Wolstenh Projects, Liverpool, Wohniador, Friedrichshain, Berlin. The Voice and Nothing More, Woburn Research Centre, London, Setting the scene, Gallerie Bafa Foto, Geneva, Switzerland, 100 The Highway, Maritime Printing Co. IRP, Nomad Gallery, London, Damsel in Distress, Artis Causa Gallery, Thessaloniki, art by genève Art Fair, Gallerie Bafa Foto, Geneva, Switzerland, I like to be Adorned, Museum of Contemporary Art, Crete, Greece, PETROSPHERE, ReMap 3, Athens, as well as Henji 痕迹, Sanhe Museum, Hangzhou, China. 
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Lorna Macintyre

Lorna Macintyre uses a broad spectrum of reference points (including literature, psychology, Greek mythology and alchemical symbolism) as sources of inspiration for photographic and sculptural works which retain a level of intuitive decision making in their form. An element of chance, or a lack of conscious control over her materials along with an attempt to transcend their everyday quality have become essential tools within her methodology.

Lorna Macintyre has exhibited widely including ‘A Tree of Night’, at Galerie Kamm, Berlin (2011), ‘Granite and Rainbow’ at Wiels, Brussels and ‘Form and Freedom’ at Kunsthaus Baselland (both 2010). In 2010 she carried out a residency at CCA Andratx, Mallorca. Group exhibitions include ’You, Me, Something Else’, GoMA, Glasgow (2011), ‘Neuglerig?, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, ‘Better Living With’ at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2010) and ‘They Do Things Differently There’ at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2010), Sentences Not Only Words, Mary Mary, Glasgow (solo) 2009.

Lorna Macintyre is represented by Mary Mary. and Galerie Kamm, Berlin.

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Lorna Macintyre at Mary Mary.

Lesley Punton

Lesley Punton is an artist who works primarily with drawing. She is interested in how physical experiences and encounters with place might enable deeper understandings of landscape and ontology. “Time spent in remote places is, through necessity, extended, and my non-passive participation through climbing/walking allows me a shift away from romantic and idealised notions of ‘sublime landscape’ to one that recognises and acknowledges the prosaic but, significantly, is also deeper and more full.”

Recently, she travelled to Australia to be co-Artist in Residence at Sydney College of the Arts with Jim Hamlyn, accompanied by their young son, Angus. They also co-authored a paper presented at the National Institute of Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales.

She has had major solo exhibitions in the UK and USA at, respectively, R O O M, London, and at Miller Geisler Gallery and 511 Gallery in New York.

She has also shown widely in the UK and Europe. Venues include The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Modern Art, London; CCA, Glasgow; Tramway, Glasgow; The Showroom, London; Tatranska Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy; Gallivare & Malmberget Museum, Sweden; and at Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich, Germany.
She has been a lecturer in Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art since 2000.

Lesley Punton is represented by R O O M, London

Laura Yuile

Broadly speaking, Laura Yuile’s work is about the body; the spaces around and within it; the movement of the body within and around these spaces; and the obstacles that present themselves within these spaces – in particular, the spectacle as obstacle. She is interested in how material excess can occupy space, and how it helps shape meaning, order and the everyday rituals in our lives.

Yuile’s installations often combine assemblages and arrangements of commercially manufactured objects that have been altered, with collage, sculpture, video, photography and sound; and serve to investigate both the physical and architectural space around us, and the psychological space in which individual expression confronts social constraint. The work examines how these spaces can control, contain, and shape ‘objects’, movements, impulses and desires.

Yuile often employs time consuming and repetitive methods of working – a deliberate fetishization of labour – as an exploration into notions of contemporary artistic labour. By encouraging all aspects of method, production, perception and experience to form the meaning of the artwork, fragments of the an internal dialogue are exposed, and a tension between conceptual and emotional forces is created.

Yuile is undertaking a residency at The Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. Recent exhibitions include By-Product Nettie Horn London, Rhizomatic Departure Gallery London, How to win when you love to lose at The Duchy, 2011.

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Kostas Sahpazis

Κostas Sahpazis’ work is based on the performativity of materials as physical essence and mental constructs.

He has recently exhibited at Alpha Exotica (Hydra School Project), Sculptural Narration (Museum Alex Mylona – Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens). Selected exhibtions include Drawing in Sculpture, Kappatos Gallery, Athens 2010, Konteiner 009, Six D.O.G.S, Athens. 2010, Late Summer Spectres, Kokino Limanaki, Rafina, Athens 2010, (cur. D.Dokatzis). When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog, Six D.O.G.S, Athens 2010, Alpha Exotica, Hydra School Project, Hydra, 2009, (cur. D.Antonitsis)., Permutations, Living-room, Project Space, Athens 2009, (cur. Christoforos Marinos) and Digital Romance / Aris Stoidis collection, Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2008.

Kitty Wingate

Kitty Wingate’s work often takes the form of drawings or print editions, engaging in a dialogue between image, found or taken at chance, and a laborious and detailed approach to object. Her practice is informed by an interest in a contemporary idea of escapism, suggested in re-occurring imagery of palm trees, neo-classical columns and Post-war architecture, all of which draw on notions of lost ideals or ambitions. Recently, the artist has turned to ideas of lost and dying crafts, taking an interest in the figure of the craftsman, who elicits a commitment to skills and ‘the time it takes’.

Born 1974 in Bournemouth. Lives and works in Edinburgh.

Kilian Rüthemann

Kilian Rüthemann creates site-specific sculptural interventions, which work in direct response to the architectectonic properties of the gallery space. Through Rüthemann’s manipulation of the structural elements of the space, such as the flooring or ceiling, he brings attention to the functionality of these structures, and also the limitations. Utilising basic materials such as salt, sugar, bitumen or cement Rüthemann creates a form of contemplative equilibrium between the space and the intervention, allowing the structures to illustrate their function. Informed by minimalism, process art and land art, Rüthemann’s work is inherently temporal. Using brute force to expose fragility, he creates seemingly fixed structures as a result of action. Rüthemann’s work draws the viewer in through an altered perception of space and follows a narrative of dissolution that underpins the transience of construction.

Kilian Rüthemann studied stone sculpting at Zuzwil, St. Gallen (1997–2001) and Fine Arts and Media Art at the Academy of Art and Design, Basel (2002–2005). Selected solo exhibitions include: Anchor of Hope, Meyer Riegger, Berlin. 2011; Target as Frontside, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich, 2011; Walking Distance, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, 2010; Attacca, Manor Art Award Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 2010; Double Rich, Instituto Svizzero di Roma, 2009; and Sooner Rather than Later, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, 2009.

Selected group exhibitions include: Valentine, with Manuel Scheiwiller, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, 2011; Displaced Fracures, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, 2010; 5th Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin,2008; and Poor Thing, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 2007.

Selected Awards: Kilian Rüthemann was the recipient of the Manor Art Award, Basel in 2010, the Swiss Art Award and the Swiss Exhibition Award in 2009.

Kilian Rüthemann is based in Basel and Berlin.

Supported by Pro Helvetia

Kelly Nipper

Kelly Nipper (b. Edina, MN, 1971) is a media artist based in Los Angeles who explores the concepts and physical dynamics of time, space, and motion within the context of communication studies and technology.

Drawing inspiration from the artistic practices of Merce Cunningham, Janet Frame, Rudolph Laban, and Ayn Rand, Nipper often reinvents her works in different media or time continuums, using the layering and expansion of materials and forms to contextualize, address, and frame her ideas.

Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy among others.  Selected exhibitions include Danser Sa Vie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2011); While Bodies Get Mirrored - An Exhibition about Movement, Formalism and Space, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland (2010); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2010); Dance with Camera, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA (2009); Kelly Nipper, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2008); Floyd on the Floor, PERFORMA07, New York, NY (2007).  Nipper received her MFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts in 1995 and received her BFA in Media Arts from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1993.

Katri Walker

Katri Walker’s moving image works investigate and celebrate the fertile space between contemporary art, portraiture and documentary-making.Walker is currently undertaking a year-long residency at Stills Edinburgh and is based in Scotland and Mexico.

Recent exhibitions include North West, at the Edinburgh Art Festival, Write Me at Galería Arte TalCual, Mexico City and a solo project at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Artist Statement
Through my work I investigate and celebrate the fertile space between contemporary art and documentary filmmaking.Subject matters vary widely but the common thread throughout is always the desire to explore new modes of reflection in a world in which reality is never a static given, but a complex set of relations.

I look to capture the nuances between the ordinary and the extraordinary in the everyday, actively turning one into the other and vice-versa, be they embedded in passing moments, individuals or whole communities.

Katri Walker

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Kate V Robertson

Kate V Robertson works in a diverse range of media, encompassing sculpture, site-specific installation, public interventions, sound and images. Her work deals with ideas of failure, dysfunction and miscommunication. Robertson tends to use materials in their found state, and possesses an uncanny way of stimulating materials and bringing them into another existence. She investigates structure through an unwieldiness of application. This agitates the nature of the space and its functionality, and excites the need for comprehension. Her utilisation of materiality and historical reference convey multiple concepts, which are suggestive rather than didactic. Frequently requiring interaction or participation from the viewer, and a desire to engage or surprise, underlies Robertson’s approach.

Kate V Robertson graduated in 2009 from The Glasgow School of Art with a Masters of Fine Art. Selected solo exhibitions include: Pieces, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin, 2010; and To Be Continued…, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, 2010.

Selected recent group exhibitions include: Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on recent art from Scotland, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York, 2011; During Office Hours, Galerie Feinkost, hosted by VGF Verband Geschlossene Fonds e.V Berlin, 2010; Running Time, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2009; and Rubble Stir, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, 2010.

Selected public art projects: Atypical Root Public Art Trail, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2010; and Notices, featured in Edinburgh Art Festival, 2009.
Selected residencies include: Creative Lab, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 2011; and Studio Project # 23, Market Gallery, Glasgow, 2010.

In 2009 Kate V Robertson was shortlisted for the ‘Artists Taking the Lead’ London 2012 Cultural Olympiad commission.

Kate V Robertson lives and works in Glasgow.

Judy Spark

Judy Spark maintains a research based visual art practice and lives in Glasgow. She employs the processes of object construction, photography, drawing and the written word to test or interrogate phenomenologically flavoured accounts of human experience of the natural world. For the artist, this enquiry seems to require a parallel reappraisal of technology, its relation to the natural, and whether or not it can be accounted for as some form of ‘natural’ process. The technologies of energy creation, storage and transmission; telecommunications, radio, sound and electromagnetic fields are particularly relevant within the scope of this enquiry. Recently, intensive periods of drawing have formed a major part of the artist’s practice, exploring the activity itself as a meditative process and considering the notion of ‘human as receiver’.

Spark studied Fine Art Sculpture at Glasgow School of Art from 1989 – 1993 since when she has exhibited her work and undertaken residencies regularly in the UK in venues including CCA Glasgow, Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh and the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney, and abroad in Sweden, Enschede and New Zealand. She currently holds the post of Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practices at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.

Over the course of the last five years Spark has tended to show her work with developing local arts organisations and through artist led or interdisciplinary partnerships centred throughout Scotland. In 2011 she undertook the first artist in residence post with Cupar Visual Arts in Fife supported by Creative Scotland and has also undertaken residencies with the Pier Arts Centre (supported by the Scottish Arts Council) and in Sweden with Lapplands Konstnarskoloni. She has received artists awards from the Scottish Arts Council and the Millennium Foundation.

In 2006 Spark completed an MA in Environmental Philosophy at Lancaster University with assistance from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). She became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in 2010.

Jonathan Barr

Jonathan Barr has an inherent interest in text, letters and words and his work often involves the manipulation of his own name to ‘JHorrible’ and ‘Jonathan Boy’ portraying the artist in various different disguises and characters through word play. 

John Cavanagh

John Cavanagh is a musician, broadcaster and writer. Cavanagh intends to experiment with raw data from the Clyde’s tide tables to programme and compose on the classic analogue oscillators that he collects and plays.

Cavanagh is one of very few people to have broadcast for all five BBC UK radio networks since 1990. His experience covers a highly eclectic range of material including his own Songlines and Original Masters programmes and presenting across genres from The Radio 1 Rockshow to Radio 3’s Music Machine. He has made programmes on travel (in Hanoi, Singapore and Bermuda) and space exploration (at NASA, Florida). He worked as a continuity announcer/newsreader for several years which included providing the voice-over for the Classified Football Results on BBC1’s Afternoon Sportscene, extending his connection to the famous “pools check” by collaborating with Turner Prize nominee Simon Patterson on Colour Match for Tate Modern, London. John is the author of a book on Syd Barrett, the early days of Pink Floyd and the emergent counter-culture of the 1960s.
He makes music as part of Electroscope and under his solo moniker Phosphene collaborating with, among others, Bridget St. John, Lol Coxhill, Isobel Campbell, Jackie McKeown, Nalle and members of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. He has produced albums for artists including Nalle, Lol Coxhill & Raymond MacDonald, Mount Vernon Arts Lab and Trembling Bells.
Since the opening of the Trongate 103, John has chaired a series of public discussions with speakers including Andrew Loog Oldham, John “Hoppy” Hopkins, Barry Miles and Jenny Fabian. He curates live music events for the Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery and is guest curator for the Sound Lab series of events at the City Halls in Glasgow.

As a collector of mechanical music, John lives with well over a century of recorded sound and contributes to the ongoing process by running a small record label. In addition to producing new music, his recent projects have included the release of rare albums by Delia Derbyshire and Ron Geesin.

John has presented the weekly Soundwave radio show since 2004.

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John Beaton

John Beaton makes text based work that features recurrent motifs of crosses and circles. This mark making process appears sporadic at first but with every finished piece, Beaton asserts an order and clarity to these unruly sequences by completing with a ‘John Beaton’ signature amongst the marks and shapes.

James McLardy

James McLardy’s sculptures embrace, appropriate and misdirect the use of traditional skills such as marquetry, cornicing and faux marbling alongside contemporary materials like MDF and rubber. In a peacock-like way McLardy’s work subverts perceptions of quality, grandeur and value by dressing up objects through a system of fake façades and fragmented arrangements.

Selected recent exhibitions include: Industrial Aesthetics, Hunter Times Square Gallery, New York (2011); You, Me, Something Else, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2011); Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2010); Common Soul, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (2009) and The Façade Within, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (2009).

In 2010 he undertook residencies at Cove Park (Scotland) and The Danish National Workshops

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Ian Giles

Ian Giles is a London based performance artist and filmmaker, whose multi-layered practice reacts to a wide range of happenings.

Solo exhibitions include: A Smaller Sound, A Bigger Crowd, The Floating Cinema, London (commissioned by the Live Art Development Agency) and Blind Alchemy, SWG3, Glasgow. He has exhibited at galleries including: The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Whitstable Biennale 2010; Barbican Art Gallery, London and Silverman Gallery, San Francisco. Residencies include: I-Park, Connecticut, USA.

Artist Statement
My current practice focuses on the sculptural potential within filmmaking. I construct narratives by blending fact and fiction to create films, performances, and installations that represent the world as a source of wonder. Most works engage in someway with sound or, the loss of sound.  I am interested in how we think of silence as a form of sound; it has potential energy and thus a power. Over the last two years I have been exploring language as an object and words as things.

I also work with performance. In a similar way to my films these performances play with language to create new forms. Working with groups of actors I have created improvised poems, which I conduct when performed live. Members of the choir are each given one word, which they must repeat when they are pointed at. Through this process structures emerge in the form of tangible sentences which then fall apart into random words again spoken out of sequence. Often the words selected are mainly unremarkable, I enjoy the clang of a simple words like ‘the’; plain words without containable forms. I have also worked with composers to create musical compositions that use art historical texts as a starting point to create a score.
I am increasingly blending my film and performance works together and expanding into installation. I like how objects can take on new values when they are activated through the narrative of a film. I am increasingly developing sculptures and performances to happen alongside video works.
Ian Giles

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Hole in My Pocket

Hole in my Pocket are a Scottish duo of architects/ artists who have been involved in a number of diverse projects concerning art and architecture since early 2002. The broad interests of the pair are reflected in the diversity of their work which includes exhibition design, painting, video, writing, and performance. They have recently been commissioned to create the trailer for the 2012 Glasgow Film Festival.

Hole in My Pocket projects include Himptology - New Religion, exhibition and performance 2010, Common of Houses - Design competition with Creative Review and AJ 2009,  Storytelling Machine - Knetic sculpture 2006, Small World Experiment - Interactive global project 2006, Pure Passion Short film for Channel 4 2005, Seanchaidh - Exhibition @Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow 2004.

Henry Coombes

Henry Coombes’ work spans the mediums of painting, sculpture, performance and film. Coombes often examines hierarchical roles employing a visual language that explores complex and changing relations between ideas of culture, nature and tradition. The artist’s film works create tense interplays in time, and between ideas of culture and nature, tradition and change through the visuals and narratives used. This can be seen in films such as Gralloch, Laddy and the Lady and the Bedfords, where ‘reinvented worlds’ are staged ‘within real situations’. His current work extends these ideas through new research in a combination of narrative, animation and performance.

Coombes was one of six selected artists to represent Scotland at the The 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice and has a significant international exhibition record. His solo exhibitions include Tramway, Glasgow 2006; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2008; Suzie Q Project Space, Zurich 2008; The Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2009 and the Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 2010. Henry was a recipient of the 2005 Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Film Award, which supported the production of his short film, ‘Laddy and the Lady’, which was screened at film festivals in Oberhausen, Norway, Edinburgh, Stockholm and Nova Scotia. In 2007 he received a Creative Scotland Award, and made one of his most ambitious films to date ‘The Bedfords’ which was screened at the Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, Goss and Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA, as well as at the Sitges Film Festival, Spain, and the London Short film Festival. In 2009 ‘The Bedfords’ was nominated for a Scottish Bafta for best short film.

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Helen de Main

Working in sculpture and printmaking, de Main’s practice is concerned with a questioning of power, movement and control through a series of dysfunctional calls to action. Often drawing initial inspiration from direct observations of her surrounding these objects are then re-interpreted and re-made; altering scale and materiality, bringing in human characteristics to what were once inanimate objects.

Selected exhibtions include:
Polis Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow (solo) 2012, ,  Studio Project 27 Market Gallery, Glasgow (solo), One Over Another Annuale, Edinburgh (both 2011),  Between Here & Somewhere Else Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, which went on to tour to Jerusalem and Palestine (2010),  Unstable Objects SWG3, Glasgow, Laying the Bounds (solo) Northcabin, Bristol The Neutrality of this ReMap 2, Giatrakou 28, Athens (all 2009).

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Hanna Tuulikki

Hanna Tuulikki is a musician, visual artist and illustrator whose primary focus is the human voice. As a vocalist she performs, composes and records solo and group works, as well as fronting Glasgow-based bands Nalle and Two Wings. Tuulikki’s art practice is largely place-specific and uses various forms of performance and installation to respond to both rural and urban settings. She often uses voice as a material to experiment with ways of dissolving language and distinctions between separate phenomena. One aspect of her work stems from an interest in the role of song and sound mimesis as way to engage with environment and the sounds that emanate from landscape. Another aspect grows from an interest in ideas of community and the meaning of song in human relationships. Exploration of folk traditions also runs through her work. Tuulikki makes drawings that parallel her work with sound, illustrating subject, process and narrative.

Hanna is interested in exploring correlations between voice/breath/body and water/tide/land. Drawing upon the horizontal/vertical, inward/outward, rising/falling motions of the tide, she intends to compose a piece for multiple voices and trombones to be performed upon the water. Hanna will also contribute a series of drawings/visual scores/maps for the print publication as part of the GI project High- Slack-Low-Slack-High.

Selected current/recent works and performances include Air falbh leis na h-eòin | Away with the Birds (large-scale site specific vocal composition/performance/installation for a rural environment in the Western Isles, 2011-ongoing); Song as Portrait (performance commissioned by artist/curator Steven Anderson, The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh/ Peacock Arts, Aberdeen 2011-12); Salutation to the Sun (performance of sound work at City Halls, Glasgow 2011); New Music Showcase (SOUND festival, Aberdeen, 2011); Language of the Birds (sound piece commissioned by Ceol’s Craic, Celtic Connections, Glasgow 2011); Stackwalker (film music and performance commissioned by Simon Yuill, CCA, Glasgow 2010);  Wilder Shores of Love (drawings/sound/performance, Welcome Home, Glasgow 2010); Jane Arden Project: Mind-Less-Mind-Ful-Mind (sound/photographs, LCC, London, 2010); Very Cellular Songs (The Barbican, London 2009); The Spirits of Sound at the Teenage Fair (vocal sound library commissioned by Simon Yuill/The Paragon Ensemble, CCA, Glasgow 2009); Abbeyview Note Catcher (site-specific sound work, Fife, 2008); Our Breaths Bellow (video/sound/performance, Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool, 2008).

Selected music releases include Two Wings ‘Love’s Spring’ CD, Tin Angel Records (forthcoming); Nalle ‘Wilder Shores of Love’ CD/LP, Alt Vinyl (2010); Nalle ‘The Sirens Wave’ CD/LP, Locust Music (2008); Nalle ‘By Chance Upon Waking’ CD, Pickled-Egg (2006); Scatter ‘The Mountain Announces’ CD Blank Tapes (2006).

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Graham Fagen

Graham Fagen is a visual artist whose work explores the formation of identity using sculpture, lens based media, text and performance. Graham Fagen is one of the UK’s foremost contemporary artists. In video, performance, photography, sculpture or text, he creates works which explore how identity is both created by, and a response, to its cultural context.Fagen studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1984-1988, BA) and the Kent Institute of Art and Design (1989-1990, MA).

Solo exhibitions include Theatre, Imperial War Museum, London (2000); Love is Lovely, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2002); Clean Hands Pure Heart, Tramway, Glasgow ( 2005); Killing Time with Graham Eatough, DCA, Dundee ( 2006); Downpresser, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2007), and recently was commissioned by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery to make a new work for the re-opening of their building in November 2011 ( Missing, video installation, previewed at Tramway in September 2011).

His international exhibitions including the Busan Biennale, South Korea and the Art and Industry Bienial, New Zealand, as well as being part of Zenomap, Scotland and Venice at the 50th Venice Biennale, all 2004.

In Britain he has exhibited in The Other Flower Show at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Art of the Garden, Tate Britain both 2004. In 1999 he exhibited in Golden Age the Institute of Contemporary Art, London and was invited by the Imperial War Museum, London to work as the Official War Artist for Kosovo.

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Folkert de Jong

Folkert de Jong makes figurative installations that combine a touch of ironic Old Master tableaux vivant-style composition with a strong dose of the macabre and day-glo colour. His mannequins, made out of polyurethane foam, have an arresting life-like quality; the tableaus operate both as ‘historic totems and cautionary tales’. De Jong’s way of working combines traditional sculptural techniques with industrial materials.

Folkert de Jong (born in the Netherlands) studied at the Rijksakademie of Fine Art in Amsterdam. He has had solo shows in the Netherlands, Europe, the US, China, and Mexico – most recently at Brand New gallery in Milan and James Cohen gallery in New York. In 2010 his work was presented at Art Basel Miami Beach with James Cohen gallery and showcased at the 17th Sydney Biennale in Australia. De Jong has received a number of sculpture awards including the Den Haag Sculpture Orange award in 2005. His work is held in public and private collections nationally including the Groninger museum, and internationally in the Saatchi collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal, Canada, Lever House Art Collection New York and others. In 2009 the monograph Circle Of Trust - Folkert de Jong, selected works 2001-2009 was published with texts by S. van der Zijpp, Y. Tsitsovits, and J. Declercq.