ArtisanCam – Turner Prize 2011.
Five films about the Turner Prize 2011 made by young people as part of Arts Award Bronze. The nominated artists are: George Shaw, Martin Boyce, Karla Black and Hilary Lloyd.
ArtisanCam – Turner Prize 2011
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Category Archives: Glasgow Artists
Lorraine Lamond – Stained Glass, Glasgow 2009
http://lorrainelamond.wordpress.com
Had the pleasure of filming Lorraine Lamond a few weeks ago, on the completion of her latest stained glass commission for St Alphonsus Church, Calton, Glasgow. We filmed on five levels of scaffolding as far as we could go, luckily we didn’t have an aversion to heights. Mark Campbell (http://whitehouseglasgow.blogspot.com/) was instrumental in arranging this opportunity as well as assisting in the interview. I’ve edited about 15 minutes of film of Lorraine explaining the background to this commission, which spans approx 23 years, going back to the first section – The Beatitudes ‘Rose Window’ from 1996.
The opportunity to view Lorraine’s work close up was a real treat which I made the most of, taking as many close up photographs as possible (approx 300). This work, which is truly stunning in my opinion, will be unveiled to the public in November. We’re also working on a collaboration with Glasgow Museums – St Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art for 2010 to increase awareness of Lorraine’s work.
JF
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Scottish musician and blogger Momus provides interesting cultural critiques and other thoughts. Aka Nick Currie.
http://imomus.livejournal.com/
Exhibition: Gordon Picken, New Paintings
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/picken/index.html
http://pentagongalleries.blogspot.com/2008/10/gordon-picken.html
New Paintings
6th Oct – 7thNov
Although a figurative artist, this exhibition of new work by Gordon Picken has him depicting buildings in the urban landscape. His out buildings, shacks, apartment blocks and pavilions are weathered and scarred by the vagaries of life. The passage of time is apparent in them. At first the buildings appear banal but the artist here imbues them with symbolic significance.
There are no human figures in this series but their influence is there throughout. Having been drawn to these buildings, the artist has come to see them as something akin to “ready made ” monuments. For him, they become metaphors, not just for social themes, but personal and artistic themes too.
In the process of painting this work the artist has become aware of the paradox of paint as illusion and actuality. By depicting markings, designs and paint surfaces made by others, he’s had to confront the problem of “a painting within a painting”. For instance, to portray the graffiti in these pictures he found the only solution was to actually mimic it in paint himself.
For Gordon each individual panel is a fragment of time and all of these paintings can be assembled and viewed as built pieces.
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