SARAH FORREST
P is for Protagonist
Solo exhibition of newly commissioned work
01 December – 17 December 2011
P is for Protagonist is a time based installation that is the culmination of Sarah Forrest’s one-year Gordon Foundation Graduate Fellowship at Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GSS). This major new solo exhibition brings together new video, sculpture, creative writing and a newly commissioned text by international art critic Jan Verwoert.
For P is for Protagonist, Forrest draws upon certain sensibilities found within gothic literature, paying particular attention to what is not seen. Forrest places her protagonists at the edge of visibility, presenting them in the text as a subject who comes in and out of focus or as a spectral presence within the video work.
The work presents two concurrent narratives that unfold and overlap, putting into play as they do so, her ongoing exploration of the interrelationships between maker, work and viewer.
Forrest will also launch her first publication alongside this exhibition on Saturday 10 December 2011 at GSS. The publication is designed in collaboration with Glasgow-based graphic designer, Zeynep Arman.
Born in Dundee UK 1981, Forrest received her BA Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone Art College, Dundee in 2003. As part of her MFA at The Glasgow School of Art she spent one term at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Recent exhibitions include DAYS Transmission Gallery Glasgow, The Spectator Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Hands Across the Fire (GANGHUT) DCA Dundee, L.P. Hendriks Rotterdam, The Space We Made La Vitrine Quebec and Don’t Cry It’s Only a Rhythm, Generator Projects Dundee.
The Fellowship running since 2005 is awarded annually to a graduate of The Glasgow School of Art’s Master of Fine Art Programme.
The Fellowship comprises of annual GSS Artist Membership, private studio accommodation, access to professional opportunities and specialist communal production facilities. Alongside training, curatorial, technical and administrative support to realise a solo project as part of the GSS Public Programme.
Past recipients have included Risa Tsunegi (2010), Carla Scott Fullerton (2009) Laura Aldridge (2007) and Jonathan Scott (2005).
The 2010 selection panel for the award comprised of Becky Anson, Co-director, Lowsalt Gallery, Jenny Crowe, Public Art Commissioner, Crowe Commissions, Charles Engebretsen, Artist & GSS Production Facilities Coordinator, Benjamin Fallon, Curator & Director of Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Andrew Miller, Artist & GSS Studio Holder and David Watt, GSS Director.
2011-12 Gordon Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Alex Impey was awarded this year’s Fellowship and will take up occupancy in November 2011 to work towards a solo exhibition in 2012.
Based on suspicions that acts of thought are co-determined with sedimented traces of being-in-aworld, using installation, sculpture and writing, Impey’s work acts as a series of speculative reorganisations of manners of comportment within these embodied habits; if meaning is use, then a questioning of purpose is at stake in any hint toward meaning’s outside. Impey’s work tries to ask; if communication is a closest encompassing and enabling medium, then what are the potential impacts and resulting ethics of adjusting the palpability of a relationship to it. Impey has said of the Fellowship;
"The fellowship offers me a priceless opportunity to develop my practice within a supportive and stimulating environment and work towards a solo exhibition in 2012. I’m excited to diversify and intensify my methods whilst being surrounded by such rich options both practical and intellectual."
Born in Stockport UK in 1981, Impey has a BA from The Slade School of Fine Art in London. He recently exhibited at Transmission Glasgow, and has published work in 2HB volume 9, CCA Glasgow.
The 2011 selection panel comprised of Claire Barclay, GSS Studio Holder & Artist Member, Jenny Brownrigg, The Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions Director, David MacAllister, Artist & GSS Technician, Jenny Richards, Collective Gallery Programme Manager, Baldvin Ringsted, GSS Artist Member and Amy Sales, GSS Head of Programme.
For further information contact Louise Briggs, Programme Coordinator
[email protected]
Founded in 1988, Glasgow Sculpture Studios is a unique centre for research, production, presentation and the dissemination of contemporary sculptural practices. It provides specialist production and research facilities to a vibrant community of over 120 professional Artist and Associate Members who are at varying stages of their careers; from emergent and recent graduates through to established artists whose practice is recognised at the highest level; from representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale, being nominated for the Turner Prize to winning Becks Futures.
Glasgow Sculpture Studios is funded by Creative Scotland & Glasgow Life
The Graduate Fellowship is funded by The Gordon Foundation & The Hope Scott Trust
Sarah Forrest’s Exhibition & Publication is supported by The Arts Trust & The Tom McGrath Trust
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