Night Classes

Really making some progress with this portrait, this is my first attempt at a lifesize bust.

currently enrolled in the Glasgow School of Art Cont'd. Ed. figurative sculpture program taught by Cath Whippey.

Thursday Evenings 18:30 - 21:00

Glasgow Necropolis

Visited Glasgow necropolis, just before it stated to rain heavily we came across this gorgeous angel monument, almost at the summit of the hill, it watches over city.

Mesh portrait

Experimenting with wire & mesh, this ultra fine mesh was pressed over a concrete cast of a face.

Helensburgh Metalworks

Needed an armature support ASAP, Helensburgh metalwork obliged with this great Kustom piece measures approx. 1 foot high

Metal Workshop

 INDUCTION

This morning i joined a few other SEA students here at GSA for a practical tour of the campus metal workshop presided over by Billy Teasdale. He showed us how to use a hand grinder, mounted cutter, mounted drill and a mig welder which was really fun to use!

Glasgow School of Art term 2 / 2013

SEA3 TERM 3 EXHIBITION BRIEF

Aims & objectives: 

to collaborate as a group to plan, prepare, install and publicise a group exhibition.

we have 2 spaces for you to use for our yearly exhibition.

- The Grace Clark Fyfe Gallery ( bourdon building )

- BAAD ( Barras Art and Design Centre) 54 calton entry

Schedule:

proposals due: feb 8th, 14:00

poster design: feb 15th, 12:00

installation: GFC feb 25, 26, 27 / BAAD march 4, 5, 6

deadline for instillation: GFC feb 27th / BAAD march 6th, 16:00

potluck dinner / lunch: march 5th

opening / closing: feb 28th, march 7th, 18:00 - 20:00 

de install: march 12

documentation: march 13th, 14:00 pm ( provide on a CD, in jpeg format 300dpi hand into justins and clara's office, next to round room)

critical review: march 11, 12, 13

GOMA

Niki de Saint Phalle Exhibition

Niki de Saint Phalle was born in France in 1930 and educated at a convent school in New York. A former model, she developed an interest in sculpture and architecture - particularly the work of Gaudi and Le Facteur Cheval during her travels around Europe. Whilst in hospital recovering from a serious nervous breakdown, she started making collages from pebbles, leaves and found materials and began to develop her own style through the combination of painting and assemblage. Following a series of gouaches she experimented with oils and various commercial paints, addressing a range of subject matter and enthusiastically studying the work of twentieth century masters, such as Miro, Klee, Leger, Picasso and Matisse for inspiration.

Her highly original form of self-expression helped her to overcome her personal crisis and health problems, and throughout her life, art became her means of coming to terms with feelings, emotions, dreams and nightmares.

Gallery of Modern Art GOMA

    The Great Devil, 1988

University of Alberta

Today I visited the University of Alberta with my brother Callum, who is 17 and looking to apply for a general arts course. After passing through the Law building we headed straight to the Art & Design department and i grabbed a few photos of some really interesting work! Outside the faculty in a large sculpture garden and clustered round the building, was a multitude of welded abstract forms which were really impressive in their sheer scale! Also on display were a small number of portrait busts and figurative sculpture cast in bronze.

An alumni exhibition by Nika Blasser  was being held, which i really enjoyed and was more similar to the kind of work coming out of the Glasgow School of Art. The exhibition as a whole had a definite air of ephemeral fragility which was quite beautiful, my favourite work was Frost Garden II, salt and Prussian blue on somerset (4 feet x 6 feet)

Excerpt of Nika's artist statement:

I would like my works to provide an environment of reflection, in a manner that addresses the transference of time and moments of poetic clarity revealed by the abstract movements of nature. What can we see when the white noise of technology is returned to nature as an extension of, and a new apparatus for, sight? What is the new sublime of our era? 

www.nikablasser.com

view the rest of the photos HERE