[Please note session 1 of this course 'Learning from Glasvegas' with tutor Neil Mulholland starts next Tuesday 28 May 6.30-8.30pm]
CCA: COURSES SCOTTISH CONTEMPORARY ART Tuesday 28 May, Wednesday 5 June, Tuesday 11, 18, 25 June, 6.30pm - 8.30pm CCA 4 �30 / �15 for whole course (�6/�3 for individual sessions) Places are limited to book please phone CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900. This course will provide an introduction to contemporary art in Scotland and will be lead by artists, curators, gallerists and writers working in Scotland today. The course will include lectures, presentations of work, a studio visit plus course notes and reading materials. Session 1: Tuesday 28 May, 6.30-8.30pm LEARNING FROM GLASVEGAS Tutor: Dr Neil Mulholland This session will provide an introduction to the history of contemporary art in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee from the 1980s to the present day. Dr Neil Mulholland is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice and Theory at Edinburgh College of Art. He has written extensively about Scottish Art including the 'Aperto Scotland' essay for Flash Art magazine plus numerous exhibition reviews and texts for Frieze, Mute, Art Monthly, Dazed and Confused and Untitled magazine. He is the author of the forthcoming publication 'The Cultural Devolution: British Art in the Late Twentieth Century (Ashgate, London, 2002). Session 2: Wednesday 3 June, 6.30-8.30pm ARTIST-LED PROJECTS Tutors: Sarah Lowndes and Transmission Committee This session will look at the array of artist initiated projects organised in Scotland from the 1980s to the present day, including artist led galleries, publishing and commissions and the increased role of the artist as curator. Sarah Lowndes is author of a history of the recent Glasgow art scene, 'Social Sculpture Glasgow 1983-2002', to be published by StopStop in autumn 2002. She is a visiting lecturer to the Historical and Critical Studies department at Glasgow School of Art and has written for publications including Make and Untitled magazine. Transmission is an artist run gallery set up in 1983 by graduates from Glasgow School of Art who were dissatisfied with the lack of exhibition spaces and opportunities for young artists in Glasgow. Transmission provides a place where artists can meet, talk and exhibit along with local and international peers and influences. Session 3: Tuesday 11 June, 6.30-8.30pm STUDIO VISIT: GLASGOW INDEPENDENT STUDIOS AND PROEJCT ROOM Talk and Tour: Katie Exley This session will include a talk and tour of Glasgow Independent Studios and Project Room by committee member and studio resident Katie Exley. Glasgow Independent Studio is an artist run organisation established in 1995. The organisation aims to support, promote, maintain and improve visual art activity in Glasgow. The premises comprise studio spaces accommodating sixty people and a project space for exhibiting work. Session 4: Tuesday 18 June, 6.30-8.30pm ART BEYONG THE GALLERY Tutor: Lucy Byatt This session will look at the development of arts practice beyond the gallery, this will include an overview of public art projects initiated in Glasgow over the past ten years and look at the process of commissioning and working collaboratively with artists and funding strategies. Lucy Byatt has been living and working in Glasgow for ten years. She trained at Glasgow School of Art and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She joined Visual Art Projects as Co-director in 1996 and is currently Director of The Centre. Both companies develop projects and commissions with artists mostly, though not exclusively, out with the gallery. She has commissioned some significant public works, including Douglas Gordon's piece 'Empire' and Claire Barclay's public space at Govanhill with the "Hut" that she designed with architect Chris Platt. Current projects include the Royston Road Project, that has included work with Graham Fagen, Radio Tuesday, Jenny Brownrigg and Toby Paterson and working on a series of commissions for Scotland's first National Park, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. In September she will be leaving Scotland to take up the post of Director at Bristol's Spike Island. Session 5: Tuesday 25 June, 6.30-8.30pm THE ART MARKET Tutor: Toby Webster This session will look at the intricate and complicated mechanisms of the contemporary art market, and will look at the role of artists, gallerists and exhibitions in developing and sustaining national and international art markets. Toby Webster is Director of The Modern Institute in Glasgow an organisation which promotes and produces contemporary art. The Modern Institute represents artists such as Martin Boyce, Jeremy Deller, Jim Lambie, Toby Paterson and Cathy Wilkes. The organisation has also curated major exhibitions of international contemporary art including: Electric City (The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 2001), Pyramids of Mars (Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 2000), Can 303s Heal? (Kiasma, Finland, 2000). A new exhibition curated by The Modern Institute 'My Head is on Fire by my Heart is Full of Love' opened at the Charlottenburg Museum in Copenhagen in April this year. 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