A three part lecture series on ‘Memory’,
‘Land’ and ‘Sustainability’
Spring Fling, in association with
University of Glasgow’s Solway Centre for Environment and Culture, are
delighted to present ‘Looking In – Looking Out’. The lecture series
celebrates the work of artists and art professionals from Dumfries and Galloway
and beyond, and explores the relationship between creativity and location.
Tickets cost £2.50 per lecture. All will be held in: Rutherford-McCowan Building, Crichton Campus, University of Glasgow, Bankend Road, Dumfries DG1 4ZL
Tickets cost £2.50 per lecture. All will be held in: Rutherford-McCowan Building, Crichton Campus, University of Glasgow, Bankend Road, Dumfries DG1 4ZL
The lectures can be booked in three
ways:
Phillipa McNeill (University of Glasgow)
- phillipa.mcneill@glasgow.ac.uk / 01387 702 131
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The
evenings will take the format of Pecha Kucha 20x20 - each speaker will show 20
slides for exactly 20 seconds per slide.
Looking In - Looking Out Lectures
#1 MEMORY
Wednesday
18 April 6 - 7.30pm
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| Will Levi Marshall |
Dumfries,
DGRutherford McCowan Building,
The Univerity of Glasgow, Crichton University Campus Bankend Roa1 4ZL.
SPRING FLING SPEAKERS
Natalie Vardey – A jeweller who began her
career in London, in 1979 Natalie set up her jewellery workshop on the Isle of
Eigg - she has now lived and worked as a jeweller in Galloway for over twenty
years, and has been instrumental in promoting the arts in the region and in the
growth of Spring Fling. .
Will Levi-Marshall – Trained in ceramics, Will
designs and installs site specific architectural projects, and has worked in the
region for twenty years. He designed his award winning home and studio in
Dumfries and Galloway in 2006, being granted landmark planning permission as
his arts practice is an asset to the region.
Patti Lean – A pupil of the colourist
painter Archie Sutter Watt RSW; now working with memory and flux, Patti is a
painter and academic with an interest in contemporary theory and practice, and
has lived and worked in Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway for over 15 years.
Patti's Spring Fling profile.
Elizabeth Waugh – A sculptor, Elizabeth has
worked in Dumfries and Galloway for many years – her first influences from this
region are from the early 1950s. When she was trained in London in the mid to
late 1940s she was involved with the sculptors Moore, Epstein, Leger and Degonzac.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Dr Maggi Toner-Edgar - After working in France and
America and running her own fashion design company in the 1980s, Maggi spent
over 20 years leading Degree and MA courses in Fashion and Applied Arts in
Higher Education at UCLAN and Cumbria Institute of the Arts. Her main interest
is in sculptural textiles and the Cumbrian landscape and weather has always
inspired her in relation to concepts, colour and form.
Stina Wirfelt - Stina has worked with moving
image as her primary medium since 2004. Having been an exchange student at
Glasgow school of Art while studying, she graduated with an MFA from Malmö
Art Academy in 2007 and subsequently relocated to Glasgow.
#2 LAND
Wednesday
25 April 6 - 7.30pm
SPRING FLING SPEAKERS
Angela Lawrence – The atmosphere and landscape
of Finland and the British countryside has long been a source of inspiration
for Angela: particularly the looming shapes and ever-changing shadows across
the hills and horizons, and the mysterious and elusive landscape of Galloway
and the Western Highlands. Angela's Spring Fling profile.
Ross Fulton – Drawn to objects or places
that have pattern or beauty as a result of functional design as opposed to any
deliberate aesthetic choice, Ross paints in a detailed, realist style to
encourage the viewer to look closely at something they would pay little
attention to when encountered first hand. Ross's Spring Fling profile.
Jeremy Carlisle – Depicting the land not as
background but as a living system that we are part of, Jeremy creates landscape
paintings in-situ, not primarily as topographical paintings or ‘portraits ‘ of
nature, more, the intention is to embody in the calligraphy of washes, the flow,
fall and energy of nature.
Silvana McLean – The public art project,
‘Voices’ based in Glentrool in 2007 led to a reconnection with the land for
painter/printmaker Silvana. Recent work is a response to the stark
uncompromising landscapes of Iceland and the many ideas which embody The North
from the complex geology of the coastline. Silvana's Spring Fling profile.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Jan
manages Wide Open’s public art curation activities in Southern Scotland. Jan
combines her project management and development activities with her continued
role as a visual artist with a particular interest in the environmental art movement,
leading on to her gaining a practice led PHD in environmental art at Sunderland
University.
Dr Paul Scott - Artist and Academic, Cumbria
and Oslo National Academy.
Paul
Scott is an artist best known for his research into ceramics and print. He
creates individual pieces that are exacting and critical, blurring the
boundaries between fine art and design. His practice is diverse, so as
well as making individual artworks, installations and artefacts for exhibition,
he also works to commission, writes, teaches and curates.
#3 SUSTAINABILITY
Wednesday
2 May 2012
6.00
pm – 7.30 pm
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| Justin Carter - Wasteland Twinning |
SPRING FLING SPEAKERS
Morag Macpherson – Textile designer Morag worked
in graphic design where she saw common links with new digital technology in
textiles. Now working on a commission basis with large-scale project work with
architects and interior designers. She also designs and makes her own line of
limited edition digitally printed textiles for fashion and interiors.
Hope London – Trained as a lawyer in New
York, visual artist Hope uses her graphic novel ‘M. Contraband Esq., Punk
Lawyer’ as a medium for expressing ideas of copyright and contract law for
artists, through text and drawing. Hope's Spring Fling profile.
Clare Melinsky – Over the last thirty years
Clare’s illustrations have been used in advertising, for labels and packaging,
and in editorial work for books, magazines and newspapers. She has created a
series of postage stamps for Royal Mail and recently completed a set of new
covers for the seven Harry Potter novels. Clare's Spring Fling profle.
Amanda Simmons – Drawing on her biomedical
sciences past life, glass artist Amanda recently exhibited at COLLECT with
Craft Scotland at the Saatchi Gallery in London. A regular exhibitor at Origin,
in 2010 she was awarded the Gold Award: For Innovation, Creativity and
Potential to Export. Amanda's Spring Fling profile.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Craft
Scotland is a registered Scottish charity and the world’s first audience
development agency for craft. Their purpose is simple: to unite, inspire and
champion Scottish craft. Since Emma joined Craft Scotland in 2007, the
organisation has been in constant growth.
Hannah Stewart - Hannah is and Artist and the
Director of Free Range Artists in Cumbria
Freerange
Artists brings art and business together - an office complex dedicated to
Carlisle's burgeoning creative sector. Artist Hannah Stewart is
behind the project, which offers office space, hot desking, creative equipment
and studio hire, use of meeting rooms, co-working and business mentoring.
Following
graduation from the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art, Justin Carter was
selected for New Contemporaries 2000. Later that year he took up the inaugural
residency at Cove Park, showing work at Tramway, Glasgow. He has exhibited work
throughout the UK and abroad including a special commission for the 2004
Whitstable Biennale where he gifted free produce from his solar powered
ice-cream stall along the East Kent coast.
ALSO...
Looking
In - Looking Out is also a Q&A blog on our website - offering a
unique insight into the studios and work or artists, makers and designers from
across the world. Why not pay a visit? We are sure you'll find something worth
reading.
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