- Programme in the Reid Building begins with work by painter and GSA tutor, Michael Stubbs, and ends with a show of work by the first GSA graduate in Drawing and Painting from Asia (1974), Hock-Aun Teh
- Off-site shows including Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation (The Lighthouse) and the GSA’s GI 2020 show, Kameelah Janan Rasheed(5 Florence Street)
- Degree Show 2020 runs from 30 May – 7 June with Graduate Degree Show opening at the end of August
- Twenty years of the Centre for Advanced Textiles marked in autumn exhibition
The Glasgow School of Art has released the first details of its 2020 exhibition programme today 17 December 2019. Combining shows on the Garnethill campus with off-site exhibitions, the programme celebrates the GSA as a local and international force.
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| Image: Michael Stubbs: Fresh Info Connect(2019) |
The year begins with a showcase of work by painter and GSA tutor, Michael Stubbs. Stubbs’s paintings, which operate at the interface of abstraction and pop, are constructed by combining poured, abstract configurations of transparent varnishes and opaque household paints with ready-made graphic stencils. Opening on 10 January the show runs until 2 February in the Reid Building.
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| Image: Alan Currall Four Polls, Wanlock Dod, (2019 |
Later in the month a group show Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation will open at The Lighthouse. Running until 22 March, the exhibition brings together the work of sixteen researchers from The Glasgow School of Art, who are part of the Reading Landscape research group.
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| Image: Kameelah Janan Rasheed How to Suffer Politely (and other Etiquette),(2016, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow) |
For GI 2020(23 April – 24 May) the GSA is delighted to present a solo show of new work by New York-based artist, writer, and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Rasheed often conceives exhibitions as teaching and learning experiences with the power to explore conflicting histories, hidden narratives, archives, memory, and public space. Reflecting this educational element in the artist’s work, the exhibition will be staged at 5 Florence Street, an old Victorian school building.
The annual Degree Showof work by students graduating from undergraduate programmes at The Glasgow School of Art will be staged in a number of venues on the Garnethill campus from 30 May – 7 June. The exhibition features work by students from across the globe currently studying in the Mackintosh school of Architecture (Bourdon Building), School of Design (Reid Building), School of Fine Art (Stow Building) and Innovation School (Haldane Building). The MFA show will be staged at the Glue Factory (28 May – 7 June). Graduate Degree Show, in which students studying on taught Masters programmes across all five Schools of the GSA, will be staged on the campus in late August / early September.
The autumn programme will begin in September with a show in which the GSA marks 20 years of the Centre for Advanced Textiles. The exhibition, which runs in the Reid Building from 12 – 27 September, will focus on 10 designers who have made work through CAT over this period.
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| Image: Hock-Aun Teh A mating frog |
The year ends with Leaping across the world(3 October – 1 November, Reid Building), an exhibition showcasing the work of Hock-Aun The, the first graduate from Asia on the GSA’s Painting and Drawing programme (1974). The considers his work contains four different cultural elements: his sense of colour which is bright and strong, and is unmistakably tropical; the calligraphic effect, which is Chinese; the materials, which are Western; and his techniques, which are unique and personal to his ways of working. The exhibition is curated by Clare Cannon from the GSA’s School of Design.
Further details of the programme will be announced in the coming weeks.
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07799414474
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Note for Editors
Renfrew Street is currently closed to vehicles and pedestrians between Dalhousie Street and Scott Street. Access to the Reid Building until further notice will be from the corner of Scott Street and Renfrew Street.
Listings
10 January 2020 – 2 February 2020
Reid Building, 162 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3
Michael Stubbs – Small Scale works
Michael Stubbs’s paintings, which operate at the interface of abstraction and pop, are constructed by combining poured, abstract configurations of transparent varnishes and opaque household paints with ready-made graphic stencils. The repeated pouring, in conjunction with the pop signs, form a physical process of sensual flat-on-flat layering that reveals multiple perspectives and optical depths. Stubbs is a lecturer in Painting and Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art.
Entry free
25 January – 22 March 2020
Gallery 1, The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU
Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation
This group exhibition brings together the work of sixteen researchers from The Glasgow School of Art, who are part of the research group: Reading Landscape. Artists include Nicky Bird, Susan Brind, Justin Carter, Alan Currall, Marianne Greated, Michail Mersinis, Christine McBride, Shauna McMullan, Lesley Punton, Ross Sinclair, Michael Stumpf, Amanda Thomson, Gina Wall, Hugh Watt.
Entry free
23 April – 24 May 2020
5 Florence Street, Glasgow, G5 0YX
The GSA at Glasgow International 2020: Kameelah Janan Rasheed
New York-based artist, writer, and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed is known for work that takes an experimental approach to narrating Black experience. Working across a range of media, Rasheed often conceives exhibitions as pedagogical experiences with the power to explore conflicting histories, hidden narratives, archives, memory, and public space. Rasheed is showing newly developed work in 5 Florence Street, an old Victorian school building.
Supported by: Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art,and Urban Office, Venue Partner
Entry free
30 May – 7 June 2020
Across the Garnethill campus
2020 Degree Show / MFA
The annual showcase of work by students graduating from undergraduate programmes at The Glasgow School of Art will be staged in venues across the Garnethill campus. Features work by students from the Mackintosh school of Architecture (Bourdon Building), School of Design (Reid Building), School of Fine Art (Stow Building) and Innovation School (Haldane Building). The MFA show will be staged at the Glue Factory (28 May – 7 June)
Entry free
Late August / Early September
Across the Garnethill campus
2020 Graduate Degree Show
The showcase of work by students graduating from taught Masters programmes in all five schools at the GSA – Mackintosh School of architecture, School of Design, School of Fine Art, Innovation School and the School of Simulation and Visualisation – will be shown in venues across the Garnhethill campus with the MDes Fashion Promenades staged during the run of the show.
Entry free
12 – 27 September 2020
Reid Building, 162 Renfrew Street
Centre for Advanced Textiles 20thanniversary
This exhibition celebrates 20 years of Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT). . , featuring a length of fabric for each designer, with a possible product.
CATwas established in 2000 with a Research and Development Grant from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. The remit of the centre is to provide cutting edge facilities for textile design education; investigate the aesthetic, technical and commercial opportunities presented by digital textile printing, and; and operate a commercial service bureau for industry and individuals. The original team was Alan Shaw, Lindsay Taylor, Alison Harley and Sarah Hall. Shaw remains, working with Vicky Begg.
Entry free
Hock-Aun Teh Leaping across the world
Reid Building, 162 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3
3 October – 1 November 2020
Teh (b.1950, Malaysia), was the first graduate of The Glasgow School of Art’s Drawing and Painting Department from Asia, (studying 1970-1974). Hock Aun was born and grew up in a remote Jungle village in Malaysia and therefore did not know where Glasgow was, originally thinking it was in Russia, until he applied for a visa! He was training originally in Malaysia focusing in traditional Chinese ink painting, focusing on birds, bamboo, flowers and landscapes with waterfalls. The considers his work contains four different cultural elements: his sense of colour which is bright and strong, and is unmistakably tropical; the calligraphic effect, which is Chinese; the materials, which are Western and his techniques, which are unique and personal to his ways of working. His works are in collections including GOMA and The National Art Gallery of Malaysia. He holds Black Belt 6thDan in Taekwon-Do and is the Grandmaster and Founder of Tukido.
This exhibition is curated by Clare Cannon, who works in School or Design at the GSA and has attended Teh’s classes for 20 years.
Entry free