The Glasgow School of Art’s Communication Design Work In Progress Show will open on 10 February at The Whisky Bond. The exhibition
will showcase the creative practice and developing portfolios of final year
students from the specialisms of Graphics, Illustration and Photography, ahead
of their Degree Show later this year.
The opening night is on 10 February from 18:00 to 21:00, at The Whisky Bond, Glasgow with refreshments kindly provided
by Spey Valley Brewery and Sipsmith Distillery.
Work In Progress will run from 10 – 13 February in the studio spaces on the 6th floor of The Whisky Bond.
For more information please visit the website an-attempt-to-articulate.info or contact the GSA press office: press@gsa.ac.uk
Some of the work which will be showcased –
Emma Levy Photography
Emma Levy traveled to Kosovo in November to document the people and landscape of the Šar national park, one of the most ecologically diverse natural environments in the region, if not in Europe. After sustained ethnic conflict throughout its complex history, and most recently as part of the Yugoslav War of the nineties, Kosovo as a landscape has suffered greatly and the ecological management of the region is facing a series of difficulties, the root cause of which is in unresolved ethnic tension and a lack of expertise after the war. While the people of Kosovo clash over the rights to the landscape, the physical ecology continues to degenerate with the threat of pollution, illegal logging and over development.
Supported by GSA’s sustainability society, Emma explores issues of identity, history and reconciliation in an increasingly volatile environment, and how unsustainable practices can contribute to the current political flux. She explores her own role as a photographer – the ethics of photography, its partial viewpoint and its power to influence perception and understanding.
Maurice Andresen Graphics
Maurice’s work is concerned with the characteristics of corporeal and virtual reality, exploring boundaries within both through video games and animation.
Laura Glennie Illustration
4 x A4 Framed sketchbook pages exploring ‘emulation’ and ‘idolisation’ from someone experiencing a journey of Coming of Age. Where research becomes the process Laura investigates everything from avant-garde jazz music to teenagers choice in shoes.
Mari Campistron Illustration
The starting point of this project was the Spanish civil war. Mari collected narratives by researching the posters, books and interviews from the time and ended up focusing upon the fratricidal acts (Abel & Cain; Remus & Romulus,etc).
Mari is interested in the borders created by wars and the continuous movement of goods and persons accross these borders. These observations led her to use a rotating platform that casts the shadows of characters present in the narratives collected on a wall.
Rachele Dunn Graphics
A card game with a typographic twist. “O Snap” uses the subtle differences of the letter O in the different weights of typeface Univers to create a fun way to learn typography.
Tom Joyes Graphics
Uncertainmedia.com is part of a series of online works by Tom Joyes proposing alternative critical ways of consuming digital content in an uncertain society.
By collecting the top Youtube results from a keyword search, this site creates densely layered overviews of culture, presented in a comparative and non-hierarchal form. Traversing the high and low, factual and misleading, sublime and banal, it mirrors the accelerated pace at which we absorb visual content and asks to what extent we manifest truth in what we see online.
Lucy Payne Illustration
Lucy Payne explores the combination of play and art, that is concerned with utility and interaction. Initially designing and making a small set of stairs that were stereotypically geometrical and hard to focus on the polar opposite, for an external competition, she translated them into this larger than life set which can be interacted with.
Tiernan Crilley Graphics
This project was inspired by the writings of Pauline Oliveros’ and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on deep listening and the voice. It is a critical response to the one sided conversation between artist/designer and audience. It aims to build a discursive space in which meaningful relations can grow between people. Tieran believes that we can understand each other through the collective construction of meaning. In order to avoid alienating gestures we must listening to people on their own terms, without judgment. These sculptures are tools to empower the voice and will eventually have an interactive framework where people can add their own sonic content through email to a playlist.
Our Identity
Tiernan Crilley, Megan Watkins, Theo Ford, Jack Greenwell, Josh Nuttall, Tom Joyes
An Attempt to Articulate (AATA) is a research based identity project for our 2016 degree show, born out of the need to discuss the position of our varying practices within the institutional and business models in which Communication Design operates. The notion of constraints and limitations became a recurring theme throughout this project, and resulted in a metaphor within the identity for our Work in Progress Show.
The posters are strictly composed of two typefaces – Times and Helvetica – with just a photocopier used to create an image. It was important the identity appeared honest and accessible, using everyday ubiquitous tools, as we wanted to foreground our research and experiments and highlight our discursive approach.
Over the course of a few months, we have conducted group discussions, workshops, experiments, performances, interviews and pieces of writing. These projects include a manifesto written (and rewritten) by the team, equations and programming languages that define our process, interviews with students and staff within GSA, a series of outsourced £5 logos for our degree show and a 24 hour ‘Design on Demand’ studio performed live via web streaming.
The project is ongoing, and work thus far can be viewed at an-attempt-to-articulate.info
The project was recently featured online on It’s Nice That-
