PRESS RELEASE JANIE NICOLL & KAREN VAUGHAN An Exhibition at the GLASGOW PROJECT ROOM
Wednesday 20th - Saturday 23rd November 2002, 1pm - 5pm. Opening Reception Saturday 16th November @ 7pm. This exhibition by Janie Nicoll and Karen Vaughan, showcases new works created specifically for the Glasgow Project Room. �Karen Vaughan and Janie Nicoll deal in minutiae: from the scarred surface of a pot left cooking too long, to the cracks in the pavement. Both artists work with subjects and materials that come easily to hand, and that can just as easily be put down again in response to domestic demands. They combine a degree of technology, the camera for example or the computer, with labour-intensive processes, that include stitching, embroidery and hand cutting, and mix mass-produced objects with the hand crafted. Both are involved in the processes of translation and conversion - of scale and of materials - to make new stories from old. Their work involves small acts of scrutiny and transformation that uncover beauty, banality and anxiety in the overlooked details of the everyday. Small things, maybe, but not insignificant.�1 Karen Vaughan Gathered Flowers For this exhibition Vaughan has been recording the wildflowers that sprout on the pavement on her route to the studio. No botanist, she has been painstakingly identifying them, drawing them, screen-printing them on to patterned -cloth and embroidering them. In the process, Vaughan marks the presence of a marginalised botanical community, the weeds that creep into the city and occupy the cracks in urban structures. Janie Nicoll Big. Bad. Wolf Something's wrong. In Janie Nicoll's work there is often a palpable sense that bad things happen. Or might be about to happen. Or happened some time ago. Nicoll's dead flies, small and overlooked as they may be are capable of suggesting mysterious and complex stories. In this installation they might allude to predatory sexuality or to imminent disaster. These are the unfortunate victims of small everyday acts of violence, forming loose configurations they suggest a sinister hovering swarm, an indication perhaps of something horrid just out of sight. Karen Vaughan is based in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art and the University of Ulster at Belfast. She was a founding member of Catalyst Arts Belfast, and co-founder of 'Not in Kansas' artists organisation. Recent exhibitions include 'Resonate', College Court, Belfast, 'here' Bulkhead, Glasgow, 'Muster', MOD Housing, Helensburgh and 'No Small Feat', Street Level, Glasgow. Janie Nicoll is based in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. She recently completed a Fusion commission for the Neonatal unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Her recent exhibitions include the Changing Room, Stirling and the K�nstlerhaus, Dortmund. Her work was recently included in a Film and Video Umbrella Package, which has toured internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Moira Jeffrey is a journalist for The Herald, Glasgow 1.Taken from an essay �Small Things: recent work by Karen Vaughan and Janie Nicoll� by Moira Jeffrey, published to accompany the exhibition and available by contacting the artists at the following email addresses:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] For further information, or visuals please phone +44(0)141 339 8751. Exhibition supported by Scottish Arts Council, Gasgow City Council and the Hope Scott Trust. GLASGOW PROJECT ROOM, TOP FLOOR, 64 OSBORNE ST., GLASGOW G1 5QH T: 0141 552 1472 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
