White Matter
23 – 30 May 2013
11am – 6pm

Opening:
7pm, 23 May 2013

« The Meek
And violent equally are norms
And we
Are less than our mythology. »
-C.H Sisson, “The Discarnation”

“White Matter” is the first solo exhibition of Camilla Lausas, regrouping pieces issued from her photographic series Static Echo (2012), Wishes Under Pressure (2012-2013) & Ominous (2013), and writings from the period 2011-2013.

This exhibition reveals a third world with a personal mythology inbetween reality and an inner mindscape, which is timeless and borderless, and where the importance of nature can’t be denied.

Camilla Lausas has a multicultural background, as she grew up between Finland and France. She graduated from the Academy of Fine-Arts of Marseille in June 2012, after which she moved to Glasgow where she currently lives.

http://camilla.lausas.fi/

U Must Be Funking Joking!
Zhang Liang (Ray) and Wang Ning
11:00 – 6:00pm, 18 – 21 May, 2013
Opening night: 6:00pm, Friday, 17 May

U Must Be Funking Joking! presents new work by Zhang Liang (Ray) and Wang
Ning that centres on the fun things. The two artists collaborate through color,
form and material. Intrigued by a range of mediums, the love of popular culture
and their personal views on political and social issues, this is a showcase that
combines gritty urban ideas and philosophical experiments in print.

Ray graduates from the Glasgow School of Art with an MDes in Illustration in
2013. His hip hop-inspired pieces are not just about money, cars and girls, it is a
reflection and a representation of hip hop culture through the exploration of how
hip hop itself has grown to encompass far more than just music. It is a lexicon of
hip hop culture investigating this musical movement’s journey over the past four
decades from the black civil rights movement to ‘bling’ culture.

Ning is a current student at the MDes Fashion and Textiles course at the Glasgow School of Art. Using surrealism as an inspiration and particularly interested in dreams and unconscious imagination, Ning explores the boundary between dark and beautiful subjects to create surreal drawings printed on silk. Her work is expressed through a style that combines different elements such as pattern, color, and material. Ning presents her dream world through hand drawings infused with digital print on textiles to create a unique effect.

Zhang Liang (Ray)’s website: http://www.zhangliangray.com
Zhang Liang (Ray)’s email: zhangyixian221323hotmail.com
Wang Ning’s email: gciq7@hotmail.com

100 HOURS

We will create a body of work within a confined environment over a continuous period of 100 hours. There will be a number of predefined constraints that we must abide by, but no work should be pre-empted or designed. At the end of the 100 hours, the work will be displayed within the confined environment in the form of an exhibition. Constraints will be as follows:
100 consecutive minutes to collect materials
100 consecutive hours creating a body of work
100 seconds of freedom a day
100 photos for documentation: every hour on the hour

A number of elected constraints will be in place

Nothing else is pre-empted or pre-planned

No work created outside confinement will be displayed

The performative act of making will be as much part of the work as the outcomes created, and will therefore be viewable by the public.

studio 41 will be open to the public from midday on Wednesday 17th April for 100 hours. Day and night. (until Sunday 21st at 5pm)

Exhibition preview – Monday 22nd April 6-8pm

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Also open- Tuesday 23rd April 12-6

Contributing artists

Elena Mary Harris

Joanne Dawson

MollyMae Whawell

Stella Stewart

Funded by the SRC – The Art School

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Objects speak, unsettle and move. Creations that in turn, become recreated by the tales we spin around them. A Disquietude of Objects presents new work by Lin Chau and Norman Sutton-Hibbert that centre on the potential for objects – through their colour, material and form – to evoke personal and unexpected narratives. Developed amidst an ongoing questioning of the categories of painting and sculpture, the works are an outcome of the artists’ exploration of the histories and boundaries of both disciplines.

PINCH – AN EXHIBITION CELEBRATING CONTEMPORARY FEMALE ARTISTS IN GLASGOW

March is International Women’s month; to coincide with this an exhibition featuring the work of female artists will be presented at studio 41.

The opening will be on Saturday the 16th of March between 6 and 9pm with refreshments provided!

The exhibition is intended as a critical collection and celebration of work made by contemporary women in Glasgow. It will take place from the 16th to the 21st of March.

This show is the first in a series of small exhibitions representing groups of unestablished artists in under-represented demographics.

For any further information feel free to contact us at:

http://www.facebook.com/events/497501686953873/?fref=ts

r.robertstudio@gmail.com

UPSTAIRSDOWN

Opening night: 6-8pm, Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Hours: 11am – 3pm, 12 – 14 March 2013

UPSTAIRSDOWN is an exhibition by two 4th year Sculpture and Environmental Art students from the Glasgow School of Art: Muyan Gao & Dawn Destor-Mackinnon.

In this exhibition, the two artists combine their works through the contradictions of movement and stillness, nature and manufactured, sound and silence.

Muyan’s work portrays calm through the stillness and the tranquility of time. The video piece white exposes a particular aspect of the sun’s light which reminds her of the simple geometric shapes of the sun. Her sculpture explores materials qualities to embrace a sense of individual contradiction. It emphasises a tranquil existence through rhythm.

Dawn’s work is an exploration of rhythmic movement through repetition, stemming from an interest in process and tradition. Her two works are a contrast of solitary performance and public intervention. Her work simply seeks to evoke a sense of contentment with one’s immediate surroundings.

1-7 March 2013
11am – 7pm

Priscilia’s piece questions the role of a child in the family drama and is about being an individual and the experience of it. Her work embraces public participation in the displacement of the plastic toy animals. By suspending our disbelief, we sometimes open ourselves up to greater familiarity. From the interior of the tent, the narratives embedded in both our subconscious and consciousness seem to alter and fade.

Theresa Moerman Ib, “Suspended Animation”, The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2012, installation shot. Photo by Theresa Moerman Ib

Theresa Moerman Ib
Suspended Animations
Preview: Thursday 7 February 5-8pm
Opening hours: 8-23 February 2013, Wednesday-Saturday 1-6pm, or by appointment.

To spin a yarn means to tell a story. When a caterpillar spins a cocoon around itself, it weaves a tale of death, metamorphosis and rebirth, the same way people have spun stories and fibres through generations. Each textile is a text from which a narrative unravels like an archetypal fairy tale or a game of Chinese whispers. Although they appear solid, memory and meaning are in a constant state of flux.

Theresa Moerman Ib’s recent work revolves around the unreliability of memory and the tension between holding on and letting go. As human beings, we have a natural inclination to preserve the past. We find containers to hold our keepsakes and heirlooms, we store our knowledge in files, archives and books, we create technology to record more information for the future, we make photographs and videos lest we forget the things we’ve seen, the words we’ve said, the places we’ve been and the people we’ve loved.

Through sculpture, video, photography and text, “Suspended Animations” reimagines everyday objects that remember for us, such as photographs and memory sticks, and explores how to challenge and transform them.  Juxtaposing digital and analogue formats with both manufactured and natural materials, these fictional installations become like fetishes we keep to protect us and to remedy loss. At the same time, they remind us that the more we hold on to, the more we have to lose.

Theresa Moerman Ib (b. 1977 in Soest, The Netherlands) graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2012 with a First Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography and a distinction for her dissertation on the unreliability of photography as memory. Her degree show work secured her in the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries exhibition in April 2013. Since graduating, her work has been featured in group exhibitions in the UK and Denmark including graduate shows at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Boetzelaer|Nispen gallery in London. She was recently selected for the Catlin Guide, a prestigious annual catalogue of the 40 most promising art school graduates in the UK, which launches at the London Art Fair in January 2013.

Theresa Moerman Ib continues to live and work in Glasgow. “Suspended Animations” is her first solo exhibition.

Website: http://theresamoermanib.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/TMoermanIb
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Sogol Mabadi, Endeavour no: 03, The Arches, Glasgow 2011, photography Ashanti Harris.

Sogol Mabadi
Endeavour no.6: the Green; the Bows; and the Binding
studio 41, Glasgow
16-26 January 2013, Wed, Fri, Sat 12am-3pm, Thurs 4-7pm (continuous performances during these times)

Endeavour no.6: the Green; the Bows; and the Binding is a new solo exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Sogol Mabadi. In January 2013 Mabadi will inhabit studio 41 in an attempt to demarcate it as her own territory. It will provide a silent space, generous and changeable in nature, to which others will be invited to participate in one-to-one performances. By employing touch and physical closeness she will set up very specific modes of interaction: some subtle, some more demanding, others open ended. For the viewer this direct interaction with the artist in her landscape will inevitably alter the power relationship. For Mabadi it is an attempt to ascertain the extent to which we are able and willing to enter an other’s unfamiliar physical, psychic and emotional presence. It involves risk of rejection, labour and perseverance. In order to help put her ‘co-creator’ at ease, they will be surrounded by a collection of human scale placeholders. The mere presence of these objects may or may not make intimacy less daunting. Nevertheless, with their company, Mabadi aims to create a new and different space in which she and the audience member collaborate to explore ways of being in relation to an other.

Mabadi´s ongoing performative practice relies entirely on this active participation of the audience member. Her work addresses issues of disquieting closeness and anticipated partings. These physical interactions then become groundwork for initiating new collaborations – some of these may be staged, where others become wedged in the cracks where art and life blur. She invites you to participate in what will be unspoken interactions.

Sogol Mabadi (b.1985 Tehran) gained her BA(hons) from The Glasgow School of Art in 2010. She received the Bram Stoker award for best imaginative work for GSA degree show 2010 and was subsequently given the accolade of the front cover of AN-magazine’s July/August issue the same year. She has performed at and made work for: ‘Ok-yuh-pahy’ Glasgow International Ext. Programme-Pipe Factory, Glasgow (2012) ‘Arches Live’-The Arches, Glasgow(2011); ‘State of Play-1min Manifestos’- National Galleries Edinburgh (2011);’ The Mutual Assembly’- Ironbratz Studios, Glasgow (2010); ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’- Lansdowne Church, Glasgow (2010). ‘Endeavour no.6’, independently organised but hosted at Studio 41, will be her first solo show. She will also participate in the Annual SSA exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in March 2013. She lives and works in Glasgow.

http://www.sogolmabadi.com

It is also a guest-curated programme by Andrew Black and Nick Thomas, of exhibitions, seminars, discussion groups, performances and screenings throughout November and December, based at studio 41.

Open and active involvement in all aspects of the programme is the primary aim. With any luck, a tentative platform for critiquing and re-assessing the mechanics of experience and participation in art will emerge.