Precious Debris, Fresh Air, and Concrete Ribs: This Week in Scottish Art
As well as lots and lots of art in Edinburgh and Glasgow's galleries, there are a number of interesting events to check out this week, spanning Lithuanian harmony singing, conversations about "sovereign lawlessness", and the launch of a new feminist zine.
We start this week's round-up at Glasgow’s 1 Royal Terrace, where the Colloquy programme continues. This time, the theme of dialogue is dealt with head-on with a two-person show of sculptor and jeweller Joy Bonfield Colombara and printmaker Hugh Lyndon Barrell. In Precious Debris, materials have been exchanged almost conversationally between Bonfield Colombara and Lyndon Barrell. Excess printmaking ink and brass plates become works of sculpture, while silver filing and wax offcuts are brought into the print process. The exhibition continues until 24 May, open Saturday and Sunday 12-5pm, and by appointment.
There's more jewellery in the Lighthouse this Thursday from 6pm, as 15 artists in residence from the three Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee art schools present their work. Titled Fresh Air, the exhibition will continue until 14 May.
Throughout this week, there are events taking place in Trongate 103. On Wednesday, Project Ability preview the work of Ewan Malloy between 1-2pm. In his collages, Malloy puts together the leftovers of art workshops loosely and impulsively. On Thursday, from 6-8pm, printmaker Marion MacPhee will open her new exhibition of works inspired by Scottish landscapes and marine life. After this, Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre host a live music event between 8-9pm, featuring Lithuanian harmony singing.
Heading to Edinburgh, on Wednesday the Space Club present 'Wednesday's Girl', the first of their weekly exhibitions which across May will showcase work from female artists across Scotland. The exhibitions are open for one night each week from 6.30-8.30pm. Staying in Edinburgh, this Friday sees the opening for Running Under Bridges at the Talbot Rice gallery from 6-8pm. As part of a multidisciplinary project, visual artist and printmaker Jo Ganter produced a series of collaborative works with Raymond MacDonald. Together they have gone back and forth from from the compositional as visual and as musical. Responses from printmaker Gander to MacDonald’s musical compositions come in the form of grids as well as live animations.
Also this Friday from 6-8pm, but across the M8 in Glasgow, there is the Glasgow School of Art’s annual Master of Fine Art interim show. In the Reid building’s gallery and corridor space, 25 artists present work spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance and installation. On Friday, the preview takes place from 6-8pm and the show continues until 16 May.
Elsewhere in Glasgow, also from 6-8pm, there is the opening for Concrete Ribs in the Govanhill Baths. Prints, sculpture, text and video are displayed by three artists in the former “ladies’ pool”. While Helen de Main produces printed works that explore women’s peace camps, communes and swimming pools, Carla Scott Fullerton employs printmaking apparatuses sculpturally, and Sarah Forrest installs time-based work throughout the pool. Concrete Ribs continues until 23 May.
On Saturday in the CCA, there is the last of the events of The Garden is Our Wall. Glasgow artist Gordon Douglas speaks with politics academic Jake Watts, titling the discussion '800,000+ Neighbours'. This “open research workshop” riffs on “rec-rooms”, “affective economies” and “sovereign lawlessness”.
Next Monday and Tuesday in the Old Hairdressers is The F Word from 6pm ‘til late, a presentation by GSA Feminist Society. As well as music courtesy of “DJs who are girls”, there's the launch of the new zine 'That’s what she said', featuring "short stories, poems, opinion pieces, artwork… from women of Glasgow” as well as artwork and design addressing gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity and class inequality.
Finally this week, and running until 17 May, in Scotland Street School Museum there is The Art of Getting By: Young People Exploring Poverty. In this exhibition, there is an exploration of poverty in Scotland within work completed by young people from Glasgow and Aberdeen.