Glasgow International Festival of Art: Better World
There are dozens of exciting shows happening in Glasgow during Gi. Here at The Skinny we're most excited about Sandy Smith offsite for SWG3
Like all good artists Sandy Smith is neither cool nor pretentious. He is more or less the sole inhabitant of a garishly bedecked corner of the Glasgow art scene. Not that he is in any way lonely – he is in fact notorious for his gregarious boozing. He is optimism incarnate and has a matter-of-fact approach to creating art. It’s about making stuff and showing it to people. Simple as.
Colourful, bright and materially eclectic, his practice encompasses sculpture, painting, text, glass, mirror and old VHS copies of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Junior, of which he now owns over 40, and swears is a cinema classic.
Of late he’s been doing some finger painting, building asteroids out of black mirrors and thinking about the nature of desire. What this will come to is anyone’s guess. It will be brash, lack subtlety and be offensively uncool. It will be a breath of fresh air.
To find out for yourself you’ll need to take a peek at his upcoming show as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. An offsite project in association with SWG3, Sandy sets his aspirations at an all time high, titling the show Better World.
As the recent recipient of a Fulbright scholarship this might be one of the last times we get to see Sandy’s work before he goes back into pupation. In the meantime he promises to pummel our sense organs with a barrage of chromatic betterment.