A short film documenting 'The Invigilators,' an exhibition in The Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Museum, 21 - 28 Jan 2012.
An invigilator's job is to sit in the gallery when the exhibition is open. They look after the work, speak to the public about the exhibits and enforce any house rules - 'no photography,' 'no eating in the space,' 'don't touch.' All GSA invigilators are graduates or students who have had much time in this role to consider…
A short film documenting 'The Invigilators,' an exhibition in The Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Museum, 21 - 28 Jan 2012.
An invigilator's job is to sit in the gallery when the exhibition is open. They look after the work, speak to the public about the exhibits and enforce any house rules - 'no photography,' 'no eating in the space,' 'don't touch.' All GSA invigilators are graduates or students who have had much time in this role to consider…
The Nine Trades of Dundee
17 Nov 2010
Wed Night Open Forum
Devised by Exhibitions at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, 'Nine Trades of Dundee' brings art and trade together, overcoming that initial barrier of what art is and preconceptions of who can be an ‘artist.’
Nine artists, with second non-art trades, were commissioned to lead collaborative art projects with workers from their particular trade in workplaces across Dundee from…
Craig Richardson
Landscape as Conceptual Art
31 Oct 2008
Friday Event Lecture
The often controversial, artist John Latham (1921-2006) left an important legacy to Scotland. Latham’s proposal - that the seemingly natural hill sites in Mid-Lothian, in fact a man-made by-product of 19th Century paraffin oil mining, were artworks of the highest quality - was sanctioned in the mid-1970s by the Scottish Development Agency, and has since entered the realm…
Claudia Zeiske with Nuno Sacramento
the town is the venue
26 Jan 2011
Wed Night Open Forum
For this lecture, Claudia Zeiske will talk about a series of projects underpinning Deveron Arts’ the town is the venue strategy of public art in the Aberdeenshire town of Huntly. Here strange things have happened: Barbie amnesties, Music addressing Streetfight, a mass staged funeral parade and a mass cycle ride, to name just a few. The event will reflect…
Professor Roger Wilson is an artist and academic who, until recently, was Head of the Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London where he is now an Emeritus Professor. He is currently acting Head of Fine Art at GSA. Over the last 35 years he has worked in colleges and universities in the UK, America and Europe. He has exhibited extensively over that period and has contributed to international publications on the arts and education. In this…
Stephen Farthing RA, Rootstein Hopkins Professor of Drawing at the University of the Arts London gives a lecture addressing drawing in the expanded field. Given as part of a special event at GSA and held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre, Farthing shows examples of his own drawing and research as well as historic drawings.
The Prinzhorn Collection is famous for its archive of more than 5,000 drawings, paintings, sculptures and textile works, by men and women who were patients in predominantly German psychiatric asylums, between 1850 and 1930. The newer part of the collection, which brings visitors up to the present day, consists of more than 12,000 works. This lecture will give some of the history of the Collection along with information about the museum’s current activities.
SoFA (Glasgow School of Art, School of Fine Art) and Document 3 (International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival) are pleased to present this inaugural public talk by Dr. Robert Fisk, on his new book: 'The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East'
“One of the outstanding reporters of his generation. As a war correspondent he is unrivalled”. Financial TimesRarely have first hand reporting and history been so powerfully combined…
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