Click on the link below to see the final post by last terms AIRetc Lauren McLaughlin. Lauren has posted images of her excellent exhibition at Creative Exchange in Leith, Edinburgh.
Everyone on HND CAP would like to thank Lauren for her wonderful contribution to the course over the course of 5 months. Her contribution to crits and discussions was invaluable as were her talks and the fantastic collage workshops she led.
The Art Team at Edinburgh College Granton are delighted to announce our call for applications for our 2014-15 Artist in Residence (AIRetc) programme.
We are looking for 2 visual artists to contribute to one of the countries most successful and dynamic Art Department.
Now in its 4th year the Artist in Residence programme (AIRetc…) is an innovative scheme which provides recently graduated / professional artist who have previously studied one of our Art courses at Edinburgh College Granton (formerly Edinburgh’s Telford College) with the opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills and experience in Art education while developing their creative practice in a dedicated studio space.
If you would like to be considered for the residencies please download the information below and the application form.
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PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE LOOKING FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING PERIODS:
SEPT 2014 – JANUARY 2015 AND FEBRUARY 2015 – JUNE 2015 INCLUSIVE
PLEASE NOTE: THE APPLICATION DEADLINE OF 26TH JUNE 2014 IS FOR BOTH RESIDENCY PERIODS
Our current AIR and former student Lauren is preparing for her solo show ‘Site-Seeing’ at Creative Exchange Gallery in Leith on June 20th!
See how Lauren’s preparations for the show are going in her latest post on the AIRetc website
It has been a busy few days with CAP2 assessment in the studio and out! Here are some snippets of the work. Look out for announcement of the diploma show at ESW where you can see many of these works in full.
AIRetc Lauren McLaughlin is currently running a series of workshop looking at the history and development of collage in contemporary art practice since its early beginning in Cubism, Dada through Surrealism and Pop to the work of current artist. In her latest posting on the AIRetc blog Lauren discusses the workshops and presents some of the work she has shared with the CAP1 students.
Art gives voice to the voiceless:
A wonderfully simple and articulate case for Art education in schools & colleges by Bob & Roberta Smith.
#exCAPer delivers model making workshop to 3D Design students.
HND 3D Design (Interior Design) students were joined last week by ex Edinburgh College Artist In Residence #AIRetc Paul Diamond who gave a presentation and led a discussion on model making. Paul, who studied on the HND Contemporary Practice/Public Art Course at Edinburgh College 2006-2008 before studying sculpture at Newcastle University now works in the Architecture Dept workshops at Edinburgh University shared a range of examples of sketch and completed models with the students
See recent studio images and find out about a busy week ahead for current AIRetc…. Lauren McLaughlin in her latest blog post on AIRetc… Blog
http://airetc.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/a-few-snaps-from-the-studio/
Annuale 2014 / 20 June – 6 July
Annuale 2014 / 20 June – 6 July
open call submit by 4 May to participate in annuale 2014.
Annuale is an annual festival of independent and grassroots activity co-ordinated by Embassy in Edinburgh.
Embassy provides a promotional platform for events that take place as part of annuale. We also offer what help we can to make it possible for your project to take place, although we cannot provide financial support for projects.
Past annuale events have included exhibitions, one night events, screenings, workshops and trips out of the city,
Please get in touch at annuale@embassygallery.org if you have any queries or would like more information.
Annuale welcome proposals from artists based out of town as well as local groups
Scottish artist collective 2|1|4|1 presents Draw In, an exhibition exploring the role of drawing in emerging contemporary art practice.
Read more…
Taking inspiration from and responding to such sources as The Fruitmarket Gallery’s 2009 Exhibition “The end of the line: Attitudes in Drawing”, publications such as “Vitamin D : New Perspectives in Drawing” and David Shrigley’s 2013 Turner Prize installation, 2|1|4|1 invites participants to consider the role of drawing in their own contemporary art practice.
We wish to explore the transformation of the medium of drawing within the quotidian workings of early career artists today. In a time when numerous artists are subverting the traditional concept of drawing and/or its role to serve their practices, we wish to conduct a critical examination of the expanded medium of drawing in its widest sense. The programme will showcase a diverse range of early career artists’ practice-based productions and specific reactions to this theme.
For more details go to the 2|1|4|1 website: http://2-1-4-1.com/Draw-In-Call-For-Submissions
Artist in residence profile
Lauren McLaughlin
(Original post on Edinburgh College Website: http://www.edinburghcollege.ac.uk/welcome/news_and_events/news.aspx?id=85)
Lauren McLaughlin is the artist in residence at Edinburgh College. The Artist in Residency (AIR) programme welcomes emerging artists and designers who have studied at the college in the past to work in the college’s state-of-the-art studios. The AIR programme gives students the opportunity to work alongside talented artists to develop their own creative practice.
2 new posts on the #AIRetc Lauren McLaughlin on the AIRetc blog now:
http://airetc.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/resurgence/
Images from ‘Resurgence’ a exhibition of new work by Lauren and former colleagues from the #CAPetc course at Edinburgh College:
and “Why I Exhibit” reflections on a question Lauren was asked during her talk to CAP students today.
http://airetc.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/why-do-i-exhibit/
Now that I’m nicely settled into the college and the AIR studio, I guess its about time for my introductory post!
I’ve been here for a few weeks now, taking over from the lovely Hayley Mathers who gave me lots of useful advice and insights into her time as AIR over the past few months. Hayley’s show; ‘SUN’ was held at the Sculpture Workshops a couple of weeks ago and it was great to see the work she produced during her time at the college. I wrote a wee review of the show which you can have a read of here: http://2-1-4-1.com/Exhibition-Review-and-Artist-Interview-SUN-Hayley-Mathers
Having a studio again has been fantastic, since graduating in 2012 I’ve been working from home on my kitchen table which really isn’t ideal when the table has to be used for eating dinner, doing your child’s homework and making art all at the same time. In saying that, the whole process has really informed my practice over the past year or so and my hope is that these ideas and processes of working will be able to be developed in a larger and more coherent scale in the studio – but more on that later.
Read Laurens first post in full here: http://airetc.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/hello-from-the-studio/
Taking inspiration from the work of Henri Matisse the exhibition over 3 days at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop marked the culmination of the highly successful residency at Edinburgh College Granton for ex student Hayley Mathers.
During the residency, Hayley has researched a range of artists from some of the most influential periods in art history. By repeating their actions and replicating their work, she has gained an understanding of their vision and shared their working methods with the creative industry students. The Edinburgh-based artist, who studied HND Public Art at Edinburgh College, also explored how classical artists continue to inspire illustrators, designers and artists today.
“During my residency at Edinburgh College, I have become really interested in the methods and techniques of learning as an artist. I chose Matisse because I love his use of colour and pattern, particularly in his cut-outs. He cut out shapes from coloured paper and pinned them onto paper until he was happy with his composition. I wanted to step into his shoes to an extent and attempt to understand what it would have been like to approach image-making like this.”
Hayley added:
“The artists in residence programme at Edinburgh College has allowed me to immerse myself in my practice and has been an excellent opportunity to work with both the students and the tutors. I feel privileged to be involved in the students’ creative process and I’m really looking forward to seeing what they do in the future.”
The images below are from the exhibition opening:
Catch up with our Artist In Residence Hayley Mather on the AIRetc… Blog
New exhibition curated by CAP guest lecturer Benjamin Fallon opens at IMPAKT Festival in Utrecht.
To the reader is a new exhibition curated by #CAPetc guest lecturer and ex-student Benjamin Fallon. Forming part of the 2013 IMPAKT Festival the exhibition deals with issues around capital and the lack of cohesive responses since the crisis that emerged in 2008. IMPAKT is a major European media art festival, which has taken place annually in Utrect, Netherlands since 1988. Each year IMPAKT deals with a single theme, which is examined through various media, including an extensive film programme, talks, events and exhibition. The theme of this year’s festival is CAPITALISM CATCH-22 posing the question of how to solve the dilemma, which exists between capitalisms place as the dominant and seemingly most workable economic system and its failures and the apparent inevitability of it being a dead end.
“The work in the show understands the limits of a moral critique that suggests that capital should just act nicely. Curator Benjamin Fallon points out that asking an inhuman system that is fundamentally interested in its own progress and growth, to behave in the interest of humans, is ultimately futile.”
To The Reader emerges from the understanding that capitalism is, first and foremost, a social relation that defines our behaviour. The exhibition is grounded in our current historical period. The basis for capitalism as a mode of organization has never been weaker, but paradoxically has seen almost no credible articulations of dissent. Perhaps there have been some fairly weak moral pleas for it to behave more pleasantly, and vague ideas that a return to Fordism and Keynesianism might be a good idea.
The exhibition itself is a tightly packed constellation of existing, newly commissioned and extended works, thinking through some of the contradictions we find ourselves entangled within. Whilst some of the information and ideas dealt with are necessarily complex, the exhibition will maintains a level of humour, understanding the importance for a certain lightness of touch when dealing with complexity.
The exhibition includes works by: Daniel Andújar; Bureau d’études; Liam Gillick; Goldin+Senneby; Hiwa K; Mierle Laderman Ukeles; Learning Site; Huw Lemmey and Ben Vickers; The Bureau of Melodramatic Research; Capital Drawing Group (Andrew Cooper, Enda Deburka, Dean Kenning, and John Russell); Paul Sullivan; and Marika Troili.
http://impakt.nl/headquarters/news/festival-exhibition-to-the-reader/
Opening on Friday 18 October from 17.00 to 20.00 hrs at BAK, with a performance by The Bureau of Melodramatic Research titled Lovegold – Contemporary Alchemy at 18.30 hrs.
On Saturday 2 November 2013 at 15.00 hrs, Fallon and participating artists will introduce the project through a guided tour.
The Impakt Festival takes place from 30 October to 3 November 2013 at various locations throughout Utrecht. For more information on the Impakt Festival exhibition To The Reader, please visit www.impakt.nl.
Benjamin Fallon is an independent curator, writer and designer currently based in Brussels. Since leaving the HND Public Art (now Contemporary Art Practice) at Edinburgh College Granton (formally Edinburgh’s Telford College) he has participated in Curatorlab, Konstfack Stockholm 2012/13, served as co-director of Embassy Gallery between 2008 and 2010 and prior to this he worked in various capacities at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and ONEZERO. Benjamin is visiting lecturer at both Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh College.
Recent projects include You are just in the middle of the beginning various locations around Stockholm, 2013-ongoing; The Exhibition and its Histories the University of Edinburgh, 2013; Banal Inferno CCA Glasgow, 2010; Hello World Embassy Gallery, 2010; Warehouse of Horrors +44 141/ Studio Warehouse, Glasgow, 2009.
Benjamin is instigator of the working group Let’s get together and call ourselves an institute. researching the possibilities for new forms of institutional practice.
AH 18-10-13
‘PARADISE’ is an exhibition of new work by #exCAPer Sofie Fischer-Rasmussen. The exhibition is a presentation of bold, botanically themed, photographic works, fragile sculptures and intricate instillations. These are the result of the artist’s struggle to maintain the necessary balance between economic self sufficiency, and becoming a professional working artist in her first year out of art school.
Sofie graduated from HND Contemporary Art Course at Edinburgh College Granton in 2009 before going directly into year 2 of the highly respected Sculpture and Environmental Art Course at Glasgow School of Art. Since graduating from GSA in summer 2012 Sofie has continued to develop her practice while dealing with the economic realities of life after art school.
Sofie is prolific in her use of social media and internet based research. Some which readers can see from the links below which include an interview on Glasgow based artists collective 2-1-4-1 website.
PARADISE: Opens tonight at 6pm at A.Gallery, 87 Saltmarket Glasgow.
SFR on tumblr:
http://sofiefischerrasmussen.tumblr.com
Full exhibition text:
http://sofiefischerrasmussen.tumblr.com/image/64408284423
Interview with SFR on 2-1-4-1 website:
http://2-1-4-1.com/exhibition-preview-and-artist-interview-sofie-fischer-rasmussen
AH:16-10-13
SERIAL SETTLEMENTS: An exhibition of new work by Edinburgh College Artist In Residence Neil Nodzak. This exhibition of work developed and produced during the residency in the Art & Design dept at Edinburgh College marks the end of a highly successful and productive period in Neil’s emerging career.
OPENING TONIGHT: Friday 26th July 2013 6pm – 8pm Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
Open to public Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th July 11am – 5pm
