AHM End of Residency Farewell

Habitual escapees Sam, David and Sandy, otherwise known as AHM, move out - and on? Before they go they would like to invite Members to a Farewell Event.

Wednesday 14 December 2011
4pm – 5pm
Research Resource, Glasgow Sculpture Studios

“After three years of getting to know how to get to Kelvinhaugh Street we will have to find another route to somewhere else. The GSS residency has offered us a variously warm and always friendly place. Great staff support, and mingling with a bunch of terrific artists, has meant we couldn’t have had a better place for our weekly ‘thought showers’. And what were they all about? Well nothing less than to change the whole culture of where visual arts stands in Scottish life – for the better of course. Did we achieve this - of course not. But we don’t share the aspiration of the character in an Eric Linklater novel who ‘aimed low and missed’.

We spent a lot of time working to set up an idealistic ‘drawing school’ for ‘disadvantaged’ 16 year-olds but the recession did for that. We worked on our proposal to present an exhibition in Glasgow in 2014 that told the 30 year story of the enormous success of Glasgow artists but national/local cultural politics did for that. (The National Galleries with Glasgow Life and others across Scotland will celebrate contemporary art in 2014 and we await details of that.) Our recorded ‘Conversations’ with artists, critics, writers and, more generally, thinking people, prepared us for the presentation of three symposia over twelve months under the title of State of Play - Art and Culture in Scotland Today. In our view, and that of many others, these have been a great success and to maximise that we have to publish the material that they produced. So we move on to doing that.

We received financial support from a private donor and, for some of our research, from the SAC as was. We also got crucial support for the symposia from Glasgow University, the National Galleries of Scotland, Dundee Contemporary Arts and The Hope Scott Trust.

We had two absolutely brilliant research assistants Naomi Brown and Helen Shaddock who kept us on track and worked way beyond the call of duty.

Our sincere and grateful thanks go to David and Amy who invited us to be part of GSS‘s aspirations and activities, and wish them, and all who work in and support what the Sculpture Studios stands for every success in the fantastic potential of the new home.”

Sam, David and Sandy

Image Credits:-

AHM Portriat (l-r Sandy Moffat, Sam Ainsley & David Harding) 2008 © Alan Dimmick
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Scottish Art since 1960: Historical Reflections and Contemporary Overviews - Craig Richardson in conversation with Dominic Paterson

Scottish Art since 1960: Historical Reflections and Contemporary Overviews provides us with an analysis of the art of this period through a new chronology. The book includes interviews with artists, curators and critics, and provides access to Richardson’s non-catalogued personal archives.

Richardson examines and proposes a sequence of 'exemplary' works that outline a self-conscious definition of the interrogative term 'Scottish art.' Among the artists whose work is discussed are John Latham, Simon Starling, Alan Johnston, Roderick Buchanan, Christine Borland, Joan Eardley, Alexander Moffat, Douglas Gordon, Graham Fagen, and many others.

'This is an important book. It reinvigorates old debates and sets up new ones. It is a well informed, energizing read.'

Murdo Macdonald, University of Dundee, UK

There was virtually a full house at Glasgow Sculpture Studios on Thursday evening 19th of May to hear Craig Richardson talk about his long-awaited book, ‘Scottish Art since 1960’. The sections of the book fall roughly into each of the decades leading up to 2003. In conversation with Dominic Paterson, Craig acknowledged a debt to Sandy Moffat for the extensive writing he had done, for catalogues and magazines, over the period covered in the book. These had offered him a wealth of information especially of the earlier period. He argued that as a history he had, where necessary, gone to great lengths to verify his facts and sources. The work of John Latham on the West Lothian shale bings is dealt with in the book which raised the issue of the title of the book. In the discussion it was suggested that ‘Art from Scotland’ would be a more accurate title but Craig would have none of it.

Getting funding to write and then publish the book had been difficult which meant going to an ‘academic’ publisher with the result that the book price is high - £65 – 00 (fifty if you order it on the web from the publisher ). As Craig said in the pub later it’s what you might ay for a pair of shoes.

Order the book online at www.ashgate.com/history and quote

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Peter Hill to talk at Glasgow Sculpture Studios

On Friday 6th May 2011 Peter Hill will be giving a talk at Glasgow Sculpture Studios as part of their Thursday lunchtime lecture series.

Keep an eye out on the AHM blog for further details.

AHM Symposium Announcement

Newsletter
In this issue

Research Residency Symposium Announcement
Speakers
Further Information

Research Residency Symposium Announcement

Saturday 09 October 10am-5pm 2010
(Registration & refreshments 9.15am)

Gilmorehill Centre University of Glasgow
9 University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tickets £10 Concessions £5

To book a place please contact Glasgow Sculpture Studios on 0141 204 1740 or via info@glasgowsculpturestudios.org

Ainsley, Harding and Moffat, aka AHM are in the second year of their Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GSS) Research Residency.

Symposium Programme Announced

If you have not already purchased your tickets for the AHM symposium on Saturday 9th October, make sure you do now.

To book a place please contact Glasgow Sculpture Studios on 0141 204 1740 or via info@glasgowsculpturestudios.org

Here is the programme for the day:

09-15 – 10-00 Registration and Refreshments

10-00 – 10-45 Manifestos

10-45 – 11-00 Introduction by Chair

11-00 – 11-30 Keynote Lecture - Prof. Philip Schlesinger

11-30 – 12-00 Discussion

12-00 – 12-30 Keynote Lecture - Christine Borland

12-30 – 13-00 Discussion

13-00 - 14-30 Lunch

14-30 - 15-00 Keynote Lecture - Dr. Neil Mulholland

15-00 - 15-30 Discussion

15-30 - 16-00 Keynote Lecture - Sam Ainsley, Sandy Moffat

16-00 - 16-30 Discussion

16-30 - 16-45 Concluding remarks

David attends Gasworks talk at GSS

Yesterday David attended the talk by Catalina Lozano (Residencies Co-ordinator Gasworks Gallery London) about the Gasworks Residency Programme and their principle based on hosting as opposed to commissioning and curating.

Gasworks hosts up to twelve residencies a year, encouraging the exchange of ideas between international and local practitioners.

About Gasworks
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Established in 1994, Gasworks is a contemporary art organisation based in South London, housing twelve artists' studios and offering a programme of exhibitions and events, artists’ residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.

Biography

Catalina Lozano holds an MA from Goldsmiths College, and is a PhD candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She works as Residencies Coordinator at Gasworks, London where she curates a programme of artists’ residencies and outreach activities for artists based outside the UK. She is involved in various curatorial projects at Gasworks and independently.

David attends the launch of Art & Research at GSS

On Wednesday, David attended the launch of the Summer 2010 edition of the Glasgow based on-line journal Art & Research at Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

Ross Birrell, Artist and Editor of the journal, introduced this season’s journal, its contents and contributors, as well as providing an overview of the journal from it’s inception in 2006 and outline themes for forthcoming issues.

This edition features contributions by Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham whilst on his three month Production Residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. This issue is prepared in the context of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010 (GI) and is framed by the philosopher Simon Critchley’s text The Infinite Demand of Art presented at the GI symposium where he reflects, among other things, on the work of French artist Philippe Parreno with whom he has begun to collaborate and also includes an extensive interview with Critchley by Anders Gullestad.

The issue also includes artist pages from Bik Van der Pol who recently exhibited at CCA, Glasgow, an interview with Alain Badiou on the subject of his play Incident on Antioch and his writings on St. Paul in relation to truth, and the event which was recorded on the occasion of the French philosopher’s visit to Glasgow in February 2009.

Art & Research is an artist-led, internationally peer-assessed e-journal focused upon questions, contexts and methodologies of artistic research and practice. Art & Research aims to serve professional artists and academics, curators and critics, artistic researchers, postgraduate and doctoral research students and undergraduates.

Tatton Park Biennial Curator's Talk

Yesterday David attended the Tatton Park Biennial Curators' Talk at Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

Lunch with Jimmie Durham and Maria Thereza Alves

After AHM 'did lunch' with the current Glasgow Sculpture Studios Production residents (as opposed to Research residents), it was confirmed that next week AHM will be having a recorded conversation with Jimmie Durham and Maria Thereza Alves.

The aim is for this conversation to be edited and then made available online.

AHM have an extensive line up of artists, curators, writers, political figures etc with whom they wish to record conversations with.

We will keep you posted...