A new site-specific work by Mick Peter created by in partnership with young people on the GSA’s
Widening Participation programme will be part of the Director’s Programme for the 2018 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art is was announced today, 15 February 2018.
Widening Participation programme will be part of the Director’s Programme for the 2018 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art is was announced today, 15 February 2018.
Images: Work created
during a programme of workshops led by Mick Peter and supported by Sally
Hackett, Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir and the GSA’s Widening Participation team;
some of the young people on a site visit to the Gas Purifier shed
during a programme of workshops led by Mick Peter and supported by Sally
Hackett, Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir and the GSA’s Widening Participation team;
some of the young people on a site visit to the Gas Purifier shed
Mick
Peter’s work will be installed on the empty
façade of the historic Dalmarnock Gas Purifier shed in the East End of Glasgow.
Together with young people from across the West of Scotland Peter is creating a
76m long ‘billboard’ depicting crumbling buildings from different eras,
including a medieval castle, tenement housing as well as modern flats in the
process of being demolished in in drawings which are reminiscent of a newspaper
strip cartoon,. The work will also see a solitary piece of ‘public sculpture’
wheeled out ceremoniously each day before being returned to its lockup behind
the newly drawn façade. The project invites us to consider hoardings that
surround building sites across the city, Glasgow’s architectural history and
the loaded nature of the transformation of its industrial built heritage. The
young people’s participation in the project is being led by a core curatorial
group of students engaging with the GSA’s Widening Participation and Associate
Student programme activities. They have been involved in creative workshops on the
GSA campus since December 2017.
Peter’s work will be installed on the empty
façade of the historic Dalmarnock Gas Purifier shed in the East End of Glasgow.
Together with young people from across the West of Scotland Peter is creating a
76m long ‘billboard’ depicting crumbling buildings from different eras,
including a medieval castle, tenement housing as well as modern flats in the
process of being demolished in in drawings which are reminiscent of a newspaper
strip cartoon,. The work will also see a solitary piece of ‘public sculpture’
wheeled out ceremoniously each day before being returned to its lockup behind
the newly drawn façade. The project invites us to consider hoardings that
surround building sites across the city, Glasgow’s architectural history and
the loaded nature of the transformation of its industrial built heritage. The
young people’s participation in the project is being led by a core curatorial
group of students engaging with the GSA’s Widening Participation and Associate
Student programme activities. They have been involved in creative workshops on the
GSA campus since December 2017.
New work specially commissioned by the GSA from Torsten Lauschmann will be on show in the Reid Gallery as part of Supported Programme and specially commissioned work by and Susanne Nørregård Nielsen will be on show in the Reid corridor as part of the wider programme for GI.
“The
GSA’s Widening Participation team works with young people from across the west
of Scotland enabling them to access a broad range of creative opportunities. We
are delighted that their project with GSA MFA graduate, Mick Peter, will be
part of the 2018 GI Festival especially in this Year of Young People,” says Professor Tom Inns, Director of The Glasgow
School of Art. “The GSA is
particularly pleased that the young people’s contribution will be part of a
broad programme of GSA projects featured in GI alongside major new commissions
from GSA alumni Torsten Lauschmann and Susanne Nørregård Nielsen.”
GSA’s Widening Participation team works with young people from across the west
of Scotland enabling them to access a broad range of creative opportunities. We
are delighted that their project with GSA MFA graduate, Mick Peter, will be
part of the 2018 GI Festival especially in this Year of Young People,” says Professor Tom Inns, Director of The Glasgow
School of Art. “The GSA is
particularly pleased that the young people’s contribution will be part of a
broad programme of GSA projects featured in GI alongside major new commissions
from GSA alumni Torsten Lauschmann and Susanne Nørregård Nielsen.”
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