Resistance to Israeli occupation of Palestine, how
social media is helping women deal with harassment, questions of identity in
the context of the independence referendum, computer driven musical
instruments, developments in designs for medicine and medical visualisations
are among the many subjects addressed by over 200 international Masters
Graduates in Architecture; Digital, Product, Fashion and Interior Design,
Design Innovation, and Creative Practice from The Glasgow School of Art which
are presented in the GSA Graduate Degree Show. The show opens at The Lighthouse
in Mitchell Lane Glasgow on Saturday 14 September. It runs until Saturday 28th
and includes the annual MDes Fashion Promenades on the evening of 26th
September.
The GSA has one of the UK’s largest
postgraduate communities in the creative arts and architecture. It has grown
considerably in recent years reflecting the GSA’s international standing and
research excellence, and now comprises nearly 300 Doctoral and Masters
students. The 2013 Graduate Degree Show feature work by graduates
across a wide variety of disciplines from Design Innovation to Photography,
Architecture and Medical Visualisation and more.
|
| Image: one of Andrew Welsby’s (MRes in Creative Practice) programmed drawing machines |
In the FIRST
FLOOR GALLERY graduates in Architecture, Design and Creative Practices
show the outcomes of their research projects. The graduates on the Masters of Research in Creative Practices programme have explored a
wide range of issues. Following visits to Bethlehem and the West Bank Sinead O’Donnell Dunn has looked at how
creativity has been used historically as a form of resistance to occupation,
and continues to be so. In contrast to the violent forms of resistance to
Israeli occupation most often portrayed in the media, Dunn’s work explores how
embroidery has been used to hide and communicate messages, and dance to express
cultural identity. Maggie Laidlaw’s
research focused on five young women, their experiences of street harassment
and one online organisation, ‘Hollaback!’, which uses collective online
storytelling as a form on activism and social movement. It investigated the
purpose of collective online storytelling; the ‘pros and cons’ involved, and
explored whether stories shared had influence on participants and readers in
their understanding of public harassment. Her work is presented in the
form of a book of poems and beautifully engraved glass panels. Andrew Welsby, meanwhile, has combined
an interest in the field of Cybernetics with an exploration of Scottish
identity and its relationship to the English. A Scot with an English father,
Welsby has a very particular interest in the Independence debate. His work examined
Scottish cultural identity as the nation approaches a choice over its own
autonomy. Featured in the exhibition are works made by drawing machine which
was programmed to randomly bounce about within a confined space. As it reacted
to its environment it sought stability, in which action Welsby saw parallel’s
with how Scottish culture has developed since the union with England.
|
|
Image: from Kim Seong Jae’s (MDes in Communication Design) 24 Elizabeth Street, Glasgow
|
Issues of identity also resonate in work by Masters of Design in Communication Design.
Born in China, Wenjia Chen has lived
in Glasgow for six years both as undergraduate and a postgraduate student. Her
own child was born in Glasgow to Chinese parents and from this starting point
she has explored the issue of identity looking specifically at Glasgow’s
Chinese community. She interviewed students at The Glasgow Chinese School,
based in Stow College in Glasgow’s Chinatown looking at how children perceived
themselves and dealt with issues of identity and belonging. Many of the
children are from racially mixed marriages, while others are second or third
generation Chinese raised in Glasgow, dealing with a duality of a distinct
Chinese and Scottish cultural backgrounds. Her a resulting short film The British Chinese shows how when asked
about their nationality older children tend to say “dual”, with some torn
between respecting their parents’ Chinese identity and what they felt. Younger
children tended to say both or pick a side dependent on if they had been raised
in Scotland or were recently from China. South Korean graduate Kim Seong Jae also explored in
identity. In 24 Elizabeth Street, Glasgow he has created a series of
intriguing and sometimes eccentric ‘self’ portraits portraying fictional
characters who live as neighbours in a generic Glasgow tenement. Using latex
masks and a good deal of post-production, his work is inspired by the
photographers Ralph Eugene Meatyard, August Sander and Cindy Sherman. His photographic
portraits, created in his own flat, are playful composites, based on his observations
of people in the city – a reflection of how, as a South Korean, he sees the
world around him.
Born in China, Wenjia Chen has lived
in Glasgow for six years both as undergraduate and a postgraduate student. Her
own child was born in Glasgow to Chinese parents and from this starting point
she has explored the issue of identity looking specifically at Glasgow’s
Chinese community. She interviewed students at The Glasgow Chinese School,
based in Stow College in Glasgow’s Chinatown looking at how children perceived
themselves and dealt with issues of identity and belonging. Many of the
children are from racially mixed marriages, while others are second or third
generation Chinese raised in Glasgow, dealing with a duality of a distinct
Chinese and Scottish cultural backgrounds. Her a resulting short film The British Chinese shows how when asked
about their nationality older children tend to say “dual”, with some torn
between respecting their parents’ Chinese identity and what they felt. Younger
children tended to say both or pick a side dependent on if they had been raised
in Scotland or were recently from China. South Korean graduate Kim Seong Jae also explored in
identity. In 24 Elizabeth Street, Glasgow he has created a series of
intriguing and sometimes eccentric ‘self’ portraits portraying fictional
characters who live as neighbours in a generic Glasgow tenement. Using latex
masks and a good deal of post-production, his work is inspired by the
photographers Ralph Eugene Meatyard, August Sander and Cindy Sherman. His photographic
portraits, created in his own flat, are playful composites, based on his observations
of people in the city – a reflection of how, as a South Korean, he sees the
world around him.
|
| Image: Philip Matthews’ (MSc in Product Design Engineering) Superb Cycle Security system |
Graduates
from the GSA’s Product Design Engineering courses are leaders in many of the world’s major companies
including Jaguar-Landrover, Apple, Kindle and Dyson. Six MSc graduates present
designs developed to meet needs in a variety of different spheres from a shoe atomiser
to counteract germs being brought into hospitals to a Cycle Locker that provides
secure permanent parking for cyclists living in residential areas, and an eye
relaxing devise.
from the GSA’s Product Design Engineering courses are leaders in many of the world’s major companies
including Jaguar-Landrover, Apple, Kindle and Dyson. Six MSc graduates present
designs developed to meet needs in a variety of different spheres from a shoe atomiser
to counteract germs being brought into hospitals to a Cycle Locker that provides
secure permanent parking for cyclists living in residential areas, and an eye
relaxing devise.
In the first floor REVIEW GALLERY 10 MDes graduates from the Textiles and
Fashion programme present portfolios of their collections. Ranging from designs
inspired by Art Deco style and 1970s hip to sustainable textiles, heavy crochet
and black on black embroidery, the collections will be unveiled in three public
Promenades on the evening of 26 September.
Fashion programme present portfolios of their collections. Ranging from designs
inspired by Art Deco style and 1970s hip to sustainable textiles, heavy crochet
and black on black embroidery, the collections will be unveiled in three public
Promenades on the evening of 26 September.
|
| Image: Endothelian Cells in Lauren Clunie’s medical visualisation research |
Projects from the cutting edge Digital Design
Studio are showcased in the FIFTH
FLOOR GALLERY. Among the programmes featured are Medical Visualisation,
Sound for the Moving Image and Animation. Already established as a leading
centre of medical visualisation through its world leading 3D Digital Head and
Neck platform, the research being undertaken at the DDS is enabling new
generations of medical students and practitioners to benefit from the latest developments
in digital technology. Lauren Clunie’s project showcased in
the Graduate Degree Show addresses the lack of understanding of anatomy and
physiology at molecular level as a consequence of current 2D teaching methods.
Her research work takes the accuracy of microscopic data and represents it in
an interactive, educational, easy-to-understand format that can support the
teaching of future generations of medical students. Other acclaimed programmes
at the DDS include Sound for the Moving Image. Among this year’s graduate
projects is a series of musical instruments which are played via specially
developed computer programmes devised by Graeme Roland and a method for
enabling musicians to conduct live music in the same way as live music which came
out of designer Joe Howe’s
experience of working with director Santiago Blaum integrating a pre-recorded electronic
elements into a work with live performers.
Entry to the Graduate Degree Show is free.
Tickets for the Fashion Promenades, priced £10,
are available from the GSA shop, Dalhousie Street, Glasgow, G3.
are available from the GSA shop, Dalhousie Street, Glasgow, G3.
Ends
13
September 2013
September 2013
Notes
for Editors
Graduates from the following programme are
featured in the Graduate Degree Show.
featured in the Graduate Degree Show.
·
M.Arch in Architectural Studies
M.Arch in Architectural Studies
·
MDes in Communication Design
MDes in Communication Design
·
MRres in Creative Practices
MRres in Creative Practices
·
MDes in Design Innovation and
Citizenship
MDes in Design Innovation and
Citizenship
·
MDes in Design Innovation and
Environmental Design
MDes in Design Innovation and
Environmental Design
·
MDes in Design Innovation and Service
Design
MDes in Design Innovation and Service
Design
·
MDes in Fashion and Textiles
MDes in Fashion and Textiles
·
MLitt in Fine Art Practice (represented
by a film)
MLitt in Fine Art Practice (represented
by a film)
·
MFA (represented by a film)
MFA (represented by a film)
·
MDes in Graphics and Illustration
MDes in Graphics and Illustration
·
MDes in Interior Design
MDes in Interior Design
·
Mdes in Medical Visualisation and
Human Anatomy
Mdes in Medical Visualisation and
Human Anatomy
·
MSc in Product Design Engineering
MSc in Product Design Engineering
·
Mdes in Sound and the Moving Image
Mdes in Sound and the Moving Image
GSA press office. For further information contact: