Claire Undy

Monday 27th February 2012 at 1.00pm
in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SB42.

Claire lives and works in London and graduated in Painting from
Wimbledon College of Art, London in 2009.

Recent exhibitions include -
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Hackney Wicked Festival 2011, London
Fade Away, Gallery North, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Last year she also co-curated the exhibition on a return to post-minimalist practice called MATTER, and its related symposium sponsored by Abstract Critical at the APT Gallery in London.

Claire has said, “Frustration with the subjectivity of communication is the driving force behind my work. The conveyance of meaning (for example between an artist and viewer) is inevitably distorted by the artist’s transference of thought into an object of art, or verbal or written language and the resulting interpretation of this by the viewer. The ‘art’ itself seems to exist in the gap between these understandings, and I wish to achieve a greater understanding of it by removing the obstacles of subjectivity to comprehension”.

http://www.claireundy.com

Charles Emerson

Friday 24th February 2012 at 1.00pm
in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SB42.

Charles is a technique photographer who explores ideas and methods for producing imagery. This constantly evolving approach allows his personal projects to be innovative and captivating.

His recent work draws on the composition and lighting values of still life paintings. Using water and inks Charles creates photographs that experiment with the boundaries between painting and photography. Influenced by the use of symbolism in Dutch Vanitas, Charles has created his own symbolic imagery, in which he explores ideas of fragility in life, death and the hereafter.

Charles graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2004. He has since worked in the advertising industry assisting a wide range of photographers. Charles now shoots his own commercial work as well as continually developing personal projects. His personal work has gained accolades along the way most recently and notably being selected as a finalist in The Sony World Photography Awards 2011.

The Caravan Gallery

Thursday 23rd February 2012 at 1.00pm
in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SB42.

A talk by Jan Williams & Chris Teasdale

Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale of The Caravan Gallery (an art gallery in a caravan) will be visiting Gray’s to talk about their project and share their tales of life on the road.

Set up in 2000 to document leisure, landscape and lifestyle in contemporary Britain, The Caravan Gallery has travelled thousands of miles and exhibited in hundreds of locations in the UK and abroad. Following its conversion from 1969 holiday home to mobile contemporary art space, Jan and Chris’s small mustard caravan has popped up everywhere from street festivals to prestigious art biennials. The Caravan Gallery liaises with arts organisations and event organisers to engage with audiences other galleries might not easily reach. Venues so far include the Barras market and Red Road Estate in Glasgow, a petting farm on the edge of Bracknell, a skate park in Southsea, a very muddy field in Belgium and Tate Britain, London. In fact fashion designer Paul Smith was so taken with the caravan he shipped it to Japan for an exhibition at his flagship store in Tokyo!

Jan and Chris will talk about their art practice and explain what inspired them to invent The Caravan Gallery.  They’ll discuss their growing interest in working internationally and introduce two recent initiatives – the Pride of Place Project and Culture on Wheels.

Keiko Mukaide

Friday 17th February 2012 at 1.00pm
in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SB42.

 

Keiko Mukaide is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Edinburgh. She studied glass at the Royal College of Art in London and was awarded a research fellowship from the Edinburgh College of Art. She has works in many public and private collections in the UK and was shortlisted for the 1998 Jerwood Prize for applied art.

Her art work employs a number of glass making techniques, casting and fusing glass in a kiln, manipulating glass in a blowing studio and even gluing shards of dichroic glass to wire nets. Her recent work has been to produce large scale, site specific installations constructed from multiple small scale glass items.

Recent projects include, Street Numbering Disks in Imagine Alloa regeneration project, Scotland, Birmingham History Galleries Friends’ Commission, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery,  ‘Light of the North’ Innovative Craft at Dovecot Studio, Edinburgh and  ‘I have not heard from you, Are you all right?’ Fund rising installation at Pittenweem Art Festival.

Carl MacDougall

Thursday 16th February 2012 at 2.00pm in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SA18

Carl MacDougall; television presenter, radio broadcaster, editor, compiler, reviewer, but first and foremost, writer. Carl has written novels, collections of short stories, non-fiction, journalism, plays, radio programmes and television series. However he is most at home writing fiction. "Carl is a hero of mine... a great storyteller." BILLY CONNOLLY "His work has a unique and distinctive flavour; the writing is beautiful." GEORGE MACKAY BROWN "Carl MacDougall is a writer who is willing to be jumped on by things everyone doesn't see." RUSSELL HOBAN "He doesn’t always write about Glasgow... but when he does, he manages better than almost any other writer to communicate place and people together, and in balance; our intangible criterion for a Glasgow short story." MOIRA BURGESS

Tracey Sherwood

Friday 3rd February 2012 at 1.00pm
in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SB42

Tracy, a part-time lecturer at the University of Northampton, runs her own commercial photography business. She also provides images for www.food-image.com, a royalty-free food stock photography website, and is involved in photographic projects for companies such as Tesco, Asda
and Waitrose.

Tracy will give an overview of the role of the commercial photographer within contemporary design and advertising, giving advice on the specifics of food photography.
With 25 years experience in the industry, Tracey has been directly involved in the change-over from conventional to digital photography, experiencing how new technologies have not only changed how we record our images but how we identify new markets in creative advertising.

Paddy Hartley

Thursday 2nd February 2012 at 1.00pm
in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SB42.

Throughout Paddy Hartley’s career, a constant theme of investigation in his work is the way in which the human body is changed, modified and reconfigured either by choice or circumstance. Addressing subjects such as steroid use in bodybuilding, the discourse between faith groups and biomedical research, the ethics of human cloning and conflict acquired injury. His work has taken the form of installation, ceramic, assembled objects, garment creation and modification and digital embroidery.

Most recently his Face Corset work has featured in a number of premiere fashion publications, most notably photographed by iconic British fashion Photographer Nick Knight, worn by Lady Gaga. Paddy is constantly collaborating with fellow artists, designers and photographers in the development of his facial garments.

Paddy Hartley originates from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and is a graduate of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff with a Masters Degree in Sculpture and Ceramics with Distinction. He is currently based in London’s East End.

Kate E. Deeming

Friday 9th December 2011 at 1.00pm
Now in Scott Sutherland building Room SB01

Kate E. Deeming (born Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1973) is a performance artist, writer, filmmaker, activist and brownie baker who has presented work in the USA, UK, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Canada, Syria & Lebanon.

In 2010 Kate E. received a commendation from the Scottish Parliament for her contributions to dance and peacemaking in honour of UNESCO World Dance Day.

In 2011 she was nominated to be an London Olympic torch bearer.

As a filmmaker/producer Kate E. famously worked with Hannaywood Studios producing two feature films and over a dozen shorts, and has also collaborated on her own films with artists Simon Dennis, Richi Holt, Peter Hastie, Martine Cotton, Richard Grehan, Norman Douglas, Basharat Khan, Alison George, Chris McNulty, Rob Casey and Benoit Moulanier, to name a few.

In addition to giving independent workshops and lectures worldwide for corporate and independent clients she has also lectured at the Glasgow School of Art, the RSAMD, Franklin & Marshall College, Temple University (Tokyo), and the Grays School of Art (Aberdeen) in addition to working with the Philadelphia Department of Recreation, Glasgow Department of Education, and the charities Funforlife, Barnardos, Dance House (Glasgow) and The Workroom (Glasgow).
Kate E.’s work has featured on many media channels including the BBC, STV, Glasgow Herald, Indian Television Network, Daily Mail, The Evening Times, The Sunday Express and more.

Kate E. has published one book ‘The Body) of Earth)‘ and is now working on her second, ‘Hope Dances-100 Stories of Hope from Glasgow’s Morning Dancer’. She also writes a regular blog ‘Deeming Dreaming’ and previously wrote a blog for the Glasgow Herald ‘Notes of an Itinerant Artist’.

Charlie Bowden

Friday 2nd December 2011 at 1.00pm
in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SB42.

Pickled ink illustration agency was set up in London in 2009 by Charlie Bowden,who has a background in art-editing and book design.

Representing artists of the utmost quality and versatility worldwide in the fields advertising, design and publishing, the styles range from digital, collage & mixed media to gouache, watercolour & pen and ink.

Our clients include: AKA UK, MEC Global, Oxford University Press, Silver Fire Films, Pearson Education, Authentic Media, Dorling Kindersley, ACCA Global, Top That! Publishing, The MacRobert Theatre, Aurora, Cambridge University Press, MacMillan Education, Hive Health, Tribeca, Summersdale Publishing, Hallmark, Repeat Offenders, Tango Books, The Art Group, Easy Jet.

Toyoko Shimada

Thursday 1st December 2011 at 2.00pm
in Scott Sutherland building Lecture Theatre SB42.

The Japanese artist Toyoko Shimada explores what Art, Fashion and Food about our individual and national identity in this era of globalization and high technology.

She plays with the differences in attitudes and practices among various cultures and combines them with a good dose of humor and creativity. The results of her research process in surprising fashion outfits Shimada, multimedia projections, workshops, food and new rituals. Often in combination with a short presentation or fashion show and always in collaboration with others.