Exhibitions

Warehouse of Horrors

ContemporaryArtETC… attended the opening of the Warehouse of Horrors at the ++44 141 Gallery in Glasgow on Saturday night and encountered a number of familiar and in some cases rather spooky faces.

The exhibition, curated by ex Telford Fine Art student and ContemporayArtETC… visiting lecturer Benjamin Fallon, brings together a range of artists who share a common interest in horror. Newly commissioned works by  Chris Walker, Catherine Street and our very own Alan Holligan sit confidently in the company of international art stars such as Mike Kelly, Paul McCarthy and Olaf Breuning.

‘Warehouse of Horrors’ is one half of an innovative exchange project between the Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh and +44 141 Gallery, which sees the Glasgow based gallery bring ‘Way Out is The Way Out’ featuring seven artists, predominantly painters, curated by Jamie Kenyon.

Warehouse of Horrors @ ++44 141 Gallery, Glasgow.

Features:

Marc Bijl, Beagles and Ramsay, Olaf Breuning, Neil Clements, Alexander Hetherington, Alan Holligan, Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Lyndsay Mann, Jon Owen, Emma Pratt, Aida Ruilova, Catherine Street, Chris Walker

A publication featuring images of the artists work and newly commissioned essay’s by John Beagles, Neil Clements and Norman James Hogg accompanies the Exhibition.

Wednesday – Sunday 12:00 – 18:00

until 15th November

Way Out is The Way Out @ the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh.

Features:

Alan Stanners, Benny Merris, Christian Newby, Dan Miller, Ragnar Jonasson, Sandy Smith, Sophie Mackfall

Thursday – Sunday 12:00 – 18:00

until 15th November

DIALOGUES 2010: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Call for Artists

2010 Dialogues

Call for artists

Deadline for completed applications:  Friday 27 November 2009

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop invites applications from artists for the 2010 exhibition, Dialogues, at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.

1 to 21 April 2010 at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh

The aim of the Dialogues programme is to support the production and presentation of new work, broadening the perception and understanding of contemporary sculpture practice. Through the juxtaposition of conflicting or complementary artworks, a catalyst is created to spark unexpected, innovative or new developments between the artists.

A fee of £400 is available per artist, and ESW staff will provide support and practical assistance throughout.

The Artistic Programme Committee (APC) selects the artists and is made up of artist members of ESW elected by ESW’s membership. The APC comprises: Ailsa Lochhead, Ian Scott, Duncan Robertson and Derek Sutherland, and is chaired by ESW Assistant Director, Gordon Munro.

For full information and an application form, please e-mail admin@edinburghsculpture.org or phone 0131 551 4490

www.edinburghsculpture.org

Embassy Graduate Show Curated by Alan Holligan with Exhibition Text by Jennie Temple

CUT?PASTE

CUT/PASTE

ContemporaryArtETC are delighted to be supporting CUT/PASTE a show of recent graduates at the Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh.

The exhibition which is centered around the theme of collage and assemblage was conceived and selected by ContemporatArtETC course leader Alan Holligan after his voyage around the degree shows for Art World magazine.

In the most important times in our existence we try to make sense of our place and time by cutting up the past and re-ordering the future.

At the turn of the 20th century collage and assemblage came to the fore as a legitimate means of visual and cultural expression. The lineage of this act of creative destruction can be traced to the invention of paper in China in 200BC but it was the rise of Modernism that necessitated a technique, which took the pre-existing: the already, and tore, cut and slashed it before it was re-proposed giving rise to new understanding and meaning.

The artists who feature in CUT/PASTE have graduated during the most turbulent and uncertain of times. Nearly a full century since Picasso and Braque re-defined collage by taking the subject of the café and colliding it with the surface of the painting they are acutely aware of the contextual past & present and do not shy away or hide from it.

Alan Holligan 2009

CUT / PASTE

Embassy graduates show 2009

19th September – 11th October

Thurs – Sun 12-6pm

Katherine Gallacher, Johnathan Long, Travis Souza, Diane Edwards, Thomas Nolan, Omar Z. Bhatia, Mikhak Mirmahmoudi

Selected by Alan Holligan

Occupied: ContemporaryArtETC students hold festival exhibition.

Occupied

“Occupied” is an exhibition featuring  work by 3 of ContemporaryArtETC’s current students. The exhibition will feature new and recent work produced during their first year on the ground breaking course at Edinburgh’s Telford College.

The work covers a range of themes including;  journey, protection and the notion of celebrity. Alongside these will be new works by the artists inspired by the current economic climate and associated difficulties of occupation, appropriation and negotiation.

Alan Holligan Curriculum Leader for the Contemporay Art Practice Course at Telford said “I am delighted that the students have shown such initiative and determination to get their work and ideas out in the public domain during their summer break. It takes a great deal of confidence and organisational skill to pull of an entirely self initiated project like this and it is testiment to the callibre of student and to their learnig over the last year.”

The art works will occupy the un-let retail space for 1 week between 18th-22nd of August at the height of the Edinburgh Festival season. The work will cover a broad range of disciplines including, drawing, painting, sculpture and film.

A private view of the work will be held on Monday the 17th August 7pm – 9pm.

Exhibitors:

Gordon Douglas
Lauren McLaughlin
Carrie Gooch

Location: 9 Gillespie Place in Bruntsfield MAP

Times: Tues – Sat  10am and 6pm

ContemporaryArtETC…to report on Degree Shows for Art World Magazine

After a successful 2008 round up ContemporaryArtETC… will once again be adorning the Deerstalker and heading for the richest of hunting grounds to report on this years emerging talent for Art World Magazine.

This year we are casting our gaze a little further by adding Newcastle, where we are today and Dundee, covered last week, to our hit list.

In the next 7 days we will visit:

Newcastle University, Cumbria University, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and Glasgow School of Art.