Details of the Autumn 2019 exhibitions programme in the Reid Building at the GSA were announced today, Wednesday 31 July 2019. The three shows, which were all postponed from Autumn 2018, will be staged in the Reid Corridor as initially planned.
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| IMAGE: poster from the Art School Film Club archive |
The programme begins in September (14 – 29) with an exhibition of around 50 posters created over the last 12 years by students in the GSA’s Communication Design department to promote screenings organised by the Art School Film Club. Also featured in the exhibition, which is curated by Marc Baines, will be posters from earlier GSA film clubs stretching back to the 1970s that are held in the GSA’s Archives and Collections.
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| IMAGE: the diasonograph, an early ultrasound machine for obstetrics |
In an exhibition running from 5 – 31 October The Glasgow School of Art will pay tribute to the work undertaken, as a GSA student in the early 60’s, by former GSA Director, Professor Dugald Cameron, who was an early pioneer in designing ultrasound machines for medical obstetrics. The story of his designs will be told through archival drawings, photos and witness accounts. Interviews recorded with women and medical staff who were among the first in the world to benefit from this innovative Glasgow technology provide contemporary accounts recalling their experiences. The story of ultrasound will also be brought up to date by showcasing current research in Glasgow and Scotland, and the imaginings of future applications of ultrasound by current GSA Product Design Engineering and School of Simulation and Visualisation students. The exhibition is curated by Professor Alastair Macdonald, senior researcher in Design for Health and Care at the GSA.
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| IMAGE: a work by Claire Paterson to be shown in The Arbitrary Ritual |
From mid-November until Christmas, the space will host an exhibition of work by contemporary painter and graduate of The Glasgow School of Art, Claire Paterson. It will showcase work inspired by collaborations she undertook while on the 2016-17 Steven Campbell New York Scholarship. The exhibition is supported by The Steven Campbell Trust.
For further details on the exhibitions see Notes for Editors.
All the exhibitions will be open seven days a week, 10am – 4.30pm. Entry free.
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Notes for Editors
Autumn 2019 exhibitions programme
14 – 29 September 2019
Art School Film Club
A poster exhibition curated by Marc Baines
Since 2006 Illustration students in the Communication Design department have been meeting up to watch and discuss a diverse and esoteric range of films. They’ve been stretching their narrative muscles by dissecting the work of film makers with all kinds of stories to tell and all manner of ways to tell them. For that same period the 4th Year Illustrators have been trumpeting the screenings with graphic aplomb through a series of screen-printed, etched and lithographed posters. This exhibition, curated by Marc Baines in association with GSA Archives and Collections, features around fifty of the posters from the last twelve years displaying them alongside posters from earlier GSA film clubs stretching back to the 1970s.
Films represented span the years 1924 to 2012 and include work by directors hailing from Greece (Athina Tsangari); Japan (Yasujiro Ozu); the Czech Republic (Jan Svankmajer); Turkey (Nuri Bilge Ceylan); Armenia (Sergei Parajanov) and all points inbetween. US and UK directors as varied and wide ranging as Chris Petit, Shirley Clarke and Buster Keaton feature too.
A fanzine for ‘Art School Film Club’, edited and annotated by lecturer Marc Baines in collaboration with Susannah Waters and the GSA Archives and Collections, will be launched at the opening of the show.
5 – 31 October 2019
Ultrasonic Glasgow
curated by Professor Alastair Macdonald
In the late 50’s and early 60’s Glasgow led the world in the development of medical ultrasound. A unique combination of obstetrics, engineering and design expertise created the production models of ultrasound scanners that enabled the first scanning of pregnant women, in Glasgow hospitals, which has now become standard routine.
Organised and curated by Professor Alastair S Macdonald, (former head of PDE and currently Senior Researcher in the School of Design, at the GSA), this exhibition documents the early pioneers of ultrasound, the imaging of the foetus and the pivotal role of the then young designer, Dugald Cameron in transforming an industrial technology into a design which was usable, acceptable and manufacturable. After a period in Industry, Cameron went on to become the head of Product Design, Head of Design and then Director of the GSA.
The exhibition brings the story of ultrasound up to date by showcasing current research in Glasgow and Scotland, and the imaginings of future applications of ultrasound by GSA’s School of Simulation and Visualisation and current Product Design Engineering students.
15 Nov – 20 December 2019
Claire Paterson: The Arbitrary Ritual
Supported by The Steven Campbell Trust
Contemporary painter and graduate of the Glasgow School of Art Claire Paterson will showcase work inspired by collaborations she undertook while on the 2016-17 Steven Campbell New York Scholarship.
Paterson’s 3 month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme (ISCP) in Brooklyn – which was funded by Creative Scotland, The Saltire Society and The Steven Campbell Trust – provided her with an exciting opportunity to work with other artists from around the world, exploring ideas related to the theatrical language embedded in totems and gestures.. During the residency she hosted a series of experimental collaborations, with participants using costume and installation elements to produce tableaux that have something in common with obscure ritualistic and arcane rites.
In keeping with the aims of The Steven Campbell Trust, Paterson also used her time in New York to promote the legacy of Steven Campbell’s work and the contribution he made to the development of Scottish Art on the international stage.