Three GSA exhibitions at The Lighthouse showcase work from the Mackintosh School of Architecture, School of Fine Art and Innovation School
Images: Stage 5 Architecture Antwerp city Study, Marianne Greated, Sunset Song
which will be featured in Practicing Landscape;
Collaborative Futures an Innovation School project with Sustainable Futures in Africa Network
Three exhibitions will be staged in The Lighthouse this month which give an insight into the wide range of work being created by tutors, researchers and students of the Glasgow’s world-famous Art School.
Mackintosh School of Architecture: Antwerp city study
On the fourth floor from 16 January – 9 February an exhibition of work created by 5thyear architecture students will give an introduction to the city which is the focus of this year’s final year theses. Each year the 5thyear architecture students investigate and base their thesis project within a different European city. This year’s city is Antwerp, Belgium.
Following a site visit by 80 students in September 2019 and a thorough investigation, a team of twelve editors (students from within the fifth year) identified key reoccurring themes which they felt best described the work that was produced throughout the year group: Typology and Morphology; Transitions and Edges; Monuments and Landmarks; History and Future; Environment, Green Space and Public Space.
These themes are presented in text and models with the information panels printed on reusable fabric in line with a studio commitment to minimise the use of once-off and non-recyclable materials.
The full city studies will be presented at Degree Show in June 2020.
School of Fine Art: Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation
Running in the main gallery from 25 January – 22 March is a major showcase of work by sixteen artists all of whom are members of the Reading Landscape research group in the School of Fine Art. Among the works on show will be paintings (including works by Marianne Greated that explore human interventions into the environment and how sustainability manifests within the landscape), Photography and Video work (including Exits and Entrances, in which Alan Curral presents a spoken word video and still from a series of photographs of small hill pools in the Southern Uplands; a series of photographs, made by Michael Mersinis during earthquake season; Hugh Watt’s new video work – the result of exploring the relationship between nature, culture and spirituality within the Scottish landscape and Amanda Thomson’s, video ‘Aar’); performance (including Shauna McMullan SITTING – Glasgow –the third in an ongoing series of Sitting performances created for and in response to specific locations on the edges of Europe) and sculpture (Michael Stumpf makes a new sculptural work Waterdrop on hot stone for the exhibition, which considers the Western Industrial world’s relationship to the idea of landscape). An associated symposium will take place on 19 and 20 March
Innovation School: Collaborative Futures/ Future Experiences
In Collaborative Futures/ Future Experiences (Mackintosh Room, 28 – 30 January) the public will get a first view of two of two projects being undertaken in the GSA’s Innovation School.
A work-in-progress exhibition of two future-focused projects currently being undertaken at the Glasgow School of Art’s Innovation School the two projects span the local to the global exploring themes ranging from sustainable citizenship to community participation and the value of collaborative creativity in defining how people might live and work together in the near future.
Future Experiences asked the BDes Product Design cohort to consider the changing relationship between Sustainable Development and the Global South. Working with experts from the Sustainable Futures in Africa Network (the project’s partner), the students explored what might happen in a global landscape ten years from now, where Sustainable Development has evolved to the extent that new forms of work transform how people engage, learn and interact with each other. The display includes the products, services and experiences designed for the people who might live and work within these future contexts.
The Collaborative Futures project brought together The Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow City Council to explore how data could shape the experiences of Glasgow’s citizens in 2030 and envisage what a well governed city might look like moving forwards.
This project has involved the final year Master of European Design (MEDes) students, graduate designers working as professional designers, data experts from the Centre of Civic Innovation, and a variety of civic and academic stakeholders.
For further information contact:
Lesley Booth
0779 941 4474