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James Winnett (Birmingham, 1983) is a Glasgow based artist working primarily in sculpture, intervention, print and video. His work focuses around forms of spatial enquiry, merging processes of research, intervention, and documentation. An examination of place, borders and cultural identities is central to his practice as is an exploration of the...
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‘The Acute Disaster’ (2012) is a short film comprising extracts of archive material that range from super 8 footage of Trade Union marches, to grainy black and white documentation of civilians running through the streets, ruined buildings and bomb sites, and bodies lying face down on the ground. The footage of the marches appears to be...
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Appropriation and representation are keys to apprehend myths. Sometimes objects can be difficult to apprehend, then, mythology becomes the key.Most of the time under the form of object and installations, Jocelyn's pieces escape from the dark ground of subcultures like rock music, bikers, surf, club culture etc, due to their capacity to reverse...
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For The Glasgow School of Art MFA degree show, Giuseppe Mistretta presented a single video work entitled 'The Form You Adopt Upon Entering the Room' (2011) in a small, self-contained room in the former Glue Factory on Speirs Locks.Projected on to a large screen against the wall, the film features a couple awkwardly embracing for 13...
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Dr Kristin Mojsiewicz writes on the sound and performance work of Glasgow-based artist Aileen Campbell.Open Frequency ProfileAileen Campbell has an expansive voice. To use the term ‘soprano’ does not say enough. To state that she slides from consonance to dissonance does not express the feelings of vertigo this causes.She...
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Emily Donnini's practice explores the room for fluctuation within the study of understanding through its simultaneous relationship to antiquity and contemporary methodology and technology. She achieves a non-hierarchical reading of information, codes, and texts by taking a more playful role in the utilisation of these traditions. Through the...
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Amelia Bywater is an artist from New Zealand who now lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Amelia's practice explores the means by which we make connections between visual information and personal and shared narratives, considering our subjective experience of objects and the construction of meaning for the viewer. Through the...
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My practice is stimulated by what I perceive as challenges within the act of portrayal. I am fascinated by what lies behind the surface of the subject as an essence to be grasped or sought after through attempting to re-present it. The dialectic between the possibility and simultaneous hopelessness of this endeavour emerges in the abstraction of...
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