SUPERNATURE, an exercise in loads
AMP, Athens
28th January–19th March 2010
With: Linder, Charlie Hammond
Showing Now
AMP, Athens
Alex Frost: Hotpot [art, food + people]
Kinburn Gallery, St. Andrews Museum, St. Andrews, Fife
23rd January–7th March 2010
Four Fatrasies
Pump House Gallery, London
20th January–14th March 2010
With: Alex Pollard, Clare Stephenson
Craig Mulholland: Selected works from Videonale 12, the Festival of Contemporary Video Art
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
18th January–31st May 2010
Alex Frost: You Shalt Not Make Yourself An Image For Thyself
Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin
14th January–14th February 2010
Clare Stephenson: Alpha &
On Stellar Rays, New York
10th January–21st February 2010
Alasdair Gray: Curtain Up: 40 years of Scottish Theatre
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
19th December 2009–3rd May 2010
Raphael Danke: The Long Dark
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
4th December 2009–20th February 2010
Coming Soon
Little Magazine
SWG3, Glasgow
12th February–28th February 2010
With: Clare Stephenson, Craig Mulholland, Alex Pollard, Alan Michael
Craig Mulholland: Group Exhibition
IMO Projects, Copehagen
12th February–13th March 2010
Kate Davis: The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place
Zabludowicz Collection: Project Space 176, London
25th February–9th May 2010
Other News
Sophie Macpherson awarded 3 month residency at Air Antwerpen, Belgium
Alex Frost awarded 3 month residency at Air Antwerpen, Belgium
Clare Stephenson awarded The Scottish Arts Council/Location One New York Residency for Visual Artists
This residency offers the opportunity for a visual artist, with a substantial record of achievement, and resident in Scotland, to live and work in New York City, by participating in the international residency programme at Location One for four months. Location One is a not-for-profit organisation devoted to the convergence of visual, performing and digital arts. Its programme of activities includes the established international residency programme for visual artists, exhibitions of work by emerging, senior, and resident artists, performance events and collaborations and community initiatives.
Linder residency at The Work Room, Tramway, Glasgow
In preparation for her upcoming performance for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010, Linder will complete residencies at The Work Room, Tramway, Glasgow. From the 18th January - 14th February and 5th - 18th April 2010.
Kate Davis research residency at Camden Art Centre
5th January - 07 March
Glasgow-based artist Kate Davis takes up her residency in the Artists’ Studio to research and produce new work leading on from her recent project ‘What have we got to do with a room of one’s own?’ and the Eva Hesse: Studiowork exhibition. Davis will examine Hesse’s insistence on process and experimentation and rejection of the need for resolution.
Carrying out a number of experiments as part of this exercise, with particular reference to the work of The London Filmmakers Co-operative, Davis will aim to address questions arising from Feminist history.
Kate Davis with Subjectivity and Feminisms research group (Chelsea College of Art and Design)
At the culmination of her residency, Davis will presenting a unique collaboration with the Subjectivity and Feminisms research group at Chelsea School of Art, for an evening of film screenings, discussion and performance. This event is the inauguration of the Visual Thinking: a series of collaborations with visual arts research groups across London.
3rd March, 7-8.30 pm.
This is not her(e) - Artists’ films selected by Kate Davis
To coincide with the Eva Hesse studioworks exhibition, Davis has selected a series of films to be screened under the title, ‘This is not her(e)’. Through the screenings and her own activities in the studio, Davis will concentrate on the moving image’s relationship to a feminist heritage and the need to question ‘how we can go on’ today, alongside Beckett’s imperative, ‘I can’t go on, I will go on’.
Camden Arts Centre, London. Part 1: 24th February, 7-8.30 pm, part 2: 28th February, 2-5.30 pm
Open Studio: Kate Davis in conversation with Jason Bowman
Davis will be in conversation with Jason Bowman, discussing her work and residency, focusing on the denial of closure, completion or demarcation that Eva Hesse’s studioworks so richly pose as a progressive political and feminist action.
10th February 2010, 07:00 pm, Camden Arts Centre, London. To book a place, visit: http://katedavisopenstudio.eventbrite.com/
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LOVE
15th Jan–19th Feb
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26th Feb–2nd Apr
Detained Chain, 2007
Installation view, LOVE, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, 2010
‘LOVE’
Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton, Gilbert and George, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Preview Friday 15th January 7-9pm
15th January – 19th February 2010
This exhibition celebrates artists working in partnership, from long term collaborators Gilbert and George, local duo Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan to Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton - two independent artists whose marriage has forged a common concern over the years in their artistic subject matter. The exhibition’s title is an ironic take on the idea of respect or ‘love’ in some way assisting in the formation of the work and a contradiction to the political subtext and criticality inherent in each of the artist’s practice.
Rita Donagh is one of Britain’s greatest living painters. In the 1960s and 70s her work was largely conceptual, with her Irish ancestry contributing to the subject of many works which focused on the Northern Ireland political situation. Over the years she has taught at many art schools including the University of Newcastle where she met Richard Hamilton, who she later married. Both Donagh and Hamilton’s work have crossed over in their use of oil paint and collage to depict weighty political issues. Richard Hamilton is a groundbreaking artist whose life and influence seems impossible to summarise in a few short lines. In 1952 he founded the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London together with Eduardo Paolozzi, Lawrence Alloway and several other architects. This group turned out to be decisive for the development of English Pop Art. At that time he taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and at the Royal College of Art. After a trip to New York in 1963 he began to combine elements of photography and painting in his pictures. During the 1980s he intensively studied the opportunities provided by digital media and their effect on image perception and fine arts. Both Hamilton and Donagh will exhibit works from their Northern Ireland conflict series.
Gilbert and George’s entire body of work has been created in and focused on a particular area, London’s East End, a microcosm of the world within walking distance of the flat they share. Their pictures capture a broad human experience, rendered in their distinct sloganistic style. They established their reputation with the 1969 performance, ‘The Singing Sculpture’. This piece was presented all over the world but the limits it placed on restricted audience size sparked an interest in creating films and pictures that could extend the idea of the living sculpture without requiring their physical presence. This exhibition features two 1972 film works, ‘A Portrait of the Artists as Young Men’ and ‘In the Bush’.
Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan have been working together since 1995, making enigmatic drawings, sculptures, performances and installations. They use recurring motifs and props to create a range of two and three-dimensional scenarios, offering a participatory position to the viewer and surrounding environment. For this exhibition they will exhibit two sculptures alongside four new drawings made for their ‘Artists Taking the Lead’ Olympic bid, titled ‘An unsuccessful proposal for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad (An experience like an experience you just had)’.
With thanks to: Caroline Douglas and Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London; Michael Bracewell; Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton; Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan; Toby Webster and The Modern Institute and Malcolm Dickson at Streel Level.
Please contact the gallery for further information and images: tel + 44 (0) 141 553 2662 / info@sorchadallas.com
