21.01.12 - 19.02.12
New Work Scotland Programme
New Work Scotland Programme 2011
Jack McConville | Ash Reid | Amelia Bywater & Christian Newby
Ash Reid graduated from MA Fine Art from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007. Working in collage, film, drawing and sound, her practice explores memory, the nature of how it is formed and ways in which it can be revisited to survey effects of current cultural conditions. Particularly interested in the hypnagogic state as an entry point for this enquiry, Ash's work forms fleeting situations that discombobulate past happenings into a series of punctuated actions. A new body of work speculates on these ideas through film and performance.
Ash lives and works in Edinburgh.
Amelia Bywater and Christian Newby both graduated from the MFA programme at the Glasgow School of Art in 2009. Their collaborative project integrates collage, photography, sculptural installation and publications. Informing their joint practice is a consideration to how objects and images can be re-appropriated and reinterpreted as a means of investigating the interference, translation and stability of the image and its relationship to history, nostalgia, narrative and resolution.
Christian and Amelia both live and work in Glasgow.
Read a text on the previous exhibition by Nicola Celia Wright
For more details about the New Work Scotland Programme 2011/12 and a full list of related events, see our NWSP page.
21.01.12 - 19.02.12
Jack McConville
Ash Reid
Amelia Bywater & Christian Newby
Jack McConville graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2008 and works primarily in painting, creating images in open dialogue with art history and informed by contemporary cultural imagery. Within his works, the surface shifts between abstraction and figuration; objects and figures are rendered as graphic signs stripped of either expressive or descriptive intentions. Representational systems employed by Modernism are juxtaposed with those of 80s video games, in the examination of the continual shifting between the sign, the signified and the gap that separates them.
Jack lives and works in Glasgow.
New Work Scotland Programme
Exhibition from
Saturday 21 January - Sunday 19 February
How to Turn the World by Hand
James Hutchinson
Proposal for a Warehouse or Towards a Museum of Reorganisation is a project by James Hutchinson that addresses the transformation of objects as they move through spaces, carried by the forces of the capitalist flow, and consider how the spaces they move through are themselves transformed to accommodate this flow.
As a part of How to Turn the World by Hand via Beijing, Edinburgh, İstanbul - a year long, international research project in collaboration with Arrow Factory / Beijing, Collective / Edinburgh and PiST/// Istanbul, Hutchinson will be based at PiST/// to develop his project which feeds into a dialogue around trade and global movements. During his stay Hutchinson will be making new work as part of his ongoing project which involves the production of art shipping crates in locations that have been subject to massive reorganisation due to an imposed economic imperative and this context will also focus on the rapid gentrification in areas of Istanbul.
* PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space is a non-profit, independent art space co-directed by artists Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt. PiST/// would like to thank the Foundation of Arts.
The Advice Bureau
Thursday 2 February
Advice Sessions
We're offering input, mentoring and expertise on any future projects you may be working on or planning. Please get in touch by email on mail@collectivegallery.net and tell us what you would be interested in discussing.
Image above: Oliver Braid, I'll Look Forward To It, 2011
