Showing posts with label ross birrell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ross birrell. Show all posts
26 Nov 2011
5 Nov 2011
4 Aug 2011
Bin proposed Star of Caledonia for artistic, cultural and political reasons
AHM, Ray Mackenzie and Ross Birrell have voiced their concerns about the 'massive piece of art dubbed the Star of Caledonia' by Cecil Balmond which has been selected by the Gretna Landmark Trust to welcome travellers to Scotland.
The letter was published in the Herald on Wednesday 3rd August 2011
The letter was published in the Herald on Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Border sculpture faces opposition
Jody Harrison writes in the Herald about the letter of disapproval written by AHM, Ray Mackenzie and Ross Birrell in relation to the Star of Caledonia.
Note to readers: Sam is not a former member of the Scottish Arts Council, Alexander Moffat is a painter rather than sculptor and David Harding is primarily an artist as opposed to a writer!
This article was published in the Herald on Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Note to readers: Sam is not a former member of the Scottish Arts Council, Alexander Moffat is a painter rather than sculptor and David Harding is primarily an artist as opposed to a writer!
This article was published in the Herald on Wednesday 3rd August 2011
27 Sept 2010
Guantanamera gets a mention in Freize
‘Guantanamera’ – the overall title of the series of works that Ross Birrell and I made in Cuba and Miami in 2008/09 – has a nice mention in a review in the latest ‘Freize’ magazine. (vol. 133 pp. 151) They have been showing in the gallery of the Swiss Institute in Rome and the Kunsthalle in Basel and now go to the gallery of Valand, the art school in Gothenburg, opening at the end of the first week in October.
David Harding
David Harding
27 Aug 2010
Guantanamera goes to Gothenburg
David Harding and Ross Birrell will be showing Guantanamera at Valand School of Fine Art, University of Gothenburg in October 2010.
There will be a screening, lecture and talk on 15th October 2010.
There will be a screening, lecture and talk on 15th October 2010.
6 Jul 2010
KUNSTHALLE – BASEL
Ross Birrell and I are showing work at the Kunsthalle in
Basel in a partner show to the one in Rome, ‘Strange Comfort
(Afforded by the Profession)’ till 22/8/2010. We met some of
the artists we had met in Rome and some new ones. (photograph
of myself with Paul Hendrickse in the Kunsthalle bookshop)
On the Friday we all went to the Mathew Barney opening at
Schaulager. For those who don’t know about this place, it is a
massive gallery and ‘warehouse’, designed by Herzog and Meuron,
of a private foundation and collection of contemporary art that
opened in 2003. The Barney show itself was huge and complex
and there must have been a couple of thousand people at the
opening being watered and fed. I don’t think even Tate Modern
could put on an event of this scale. And Basel has a population of
180,000.
Bjork was there, of course, but I didn’t suggest we have another
singing session together.
david
Basel in a partner show to the one in Rome, ‘Strange Comfort
(Afforded by the Profession)’ till 22/8/2010. We met some of
the artists we had met in Rome and some new ones. (photograph
of myself with Paul Hendrickse in the Kunsthalle bookshop)
On the Friday we all went to the Mathew Barney opening at
Schaulager. For those who don’t know about this place, it is a
massive gallery and ‘warehouse’, designed by Herzog and Meuron,
of a private foundation and collection of contemporary art that
opened in 2003. The Barney show itself was huge and complex
and there must have been a couple of thousand people at the
opening being watered and fed. I don’t think even Tate Modern
could put on an event of this scale. And Basel has a population of
180,000.
Bjork was there, of course, but I didn’t suggest we have another
singing session together.
david
18 May 2010
Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession) Exhibition at the Swiss Cultural Institute Gallery - Rome
This was my first time in Rome so it was a great feeling to be there at long last. Ross and I didn't manage to visit much as we were held up by technical problems and lots of hanging around the gallery waiting for things to happen and to be resolved. We stayed at the Swiss Cultural Institute near the via Veneto and the villa Borghese. It is a massive 1906 villa set in a fantastic Italian garden and the view from its tower , second only in height to the top of St Peter's, is magnificent. Set below the garden is the modern gallery. Next door is an Irish Franciscan monastery and church - well it is Rome.
Part of the exhibition was in the Keats - Shelley House which forms the lower right side of the Spanish Steps so that one can look out of the room in which Keats died onto the steps. At the Saturday lunchtime reception there we met the 'great and the good' of the mainly British and American colony including Christine Melia the head of the British Council in Rome. The main opening in the evening went very well and, so different to UK openings, people were very serious about looking at all the works. Ross had composed a short piece of music for the viola which we rehearsed with a young Italian woman, Georgia Franceschi. On the Sunday afternoon she performed the work at Keats' graveside. The music, based on Keats’ last words, ‘Lift me up for I am dying…..’ was very moving.
All dinners seemed to start at 10-00 pm and finish around 1-00 am - not quite my style now! - falling into bed very tired. Maria Theresa and Jimmie were back in Rome and a had some work in the exhibition as well. So it was nice to hang out with them.
Managed a visit to the Pantheon, some churches, Trevi fountain (I guess more people go to sit/stand and look at it than go to the cinema), St Theresa of Avilla (in ecstasy) but not much else except through taxi windows.
We got back from Rome managing to nip past the ash clouds that had affected our outward journey.
david harding 17 May 2010
Part of the exhibition was in the Keats - Shelley House which forms the lower right side of the Spanish Steps so that one can look out of the room in which Keats died onto the steps. At the Saturday lunchtime reception there we met the 'great and the good' of the mainly British and American colony including Christine Melia the head of the British Council in Rome. The main opening in the evening went very well and, so different to UK openings, people were very serious about looking at all the works. Ross had composed a short piece of music for the viola which we rehearsed with a young Italian woman, Georgia Franceschi. On the Sunday afternoon she performed the work at Keats' graveside. The music, based on Keats’ last words, ‘Lift me up for I am dying…..’ was very moving.
All dinners seemed to start at 10-00 pm and finish around 1-00 am - not quite my style now! - falling into bed very tired. Maria Theresa and Jimmie were back in Rome and a had some work in the exhibition as well. So it was nice to hang out with them.
Managed a visit to the Pantheon, some churches, Trevi fountain (I guess more people go to sit/stand and look at it than go to the cinema), St Theresa of Avilla (in ecstasy) but not much else except through taxi windows.
We got back from Rome managing to nip past the ash clouds that had affected our outward journey.
david harding 17 May 2010
26 Apr 2010
24 Apr 2010
Discussion following 'Guantanamera' screening
Dominic Paterson, Ross Birrell and David Harding in discussion after the screening of
'Guantanamera' on Sunday 18 April.
8 Apr 2010
Guantanamera
Guantanamera
A film, installation and recording project by Ross Birrell and David Harding
Produced by Douglas Gordon
Record launch: Glasgow International 2010
Trades Hall, 83 Glassford Street, Glasgow
Saturday 17 April 8-11:30pm
Sunday 18 April 12noon-6pm
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