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P is for
Protagonist 2011 Sarah Forrest © the
artist
SARAH
FORREST
P is for
Protagonist
Solo exhibition of
newly commissioned work
Glasgow
Sculpture Studios
145 Kelvinhaugh
Street
Glasgow G3
8PX
01 December – 17
December 2011
Gallery open 12noon -
5pm Thursday – Saturday, or by appointment
P is for
Protagonist 2011 Sarah Forrest © the
artist
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.
P is for
Protagonist 2011 Sarah Forrest © the
artist
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.
The Spectator
2011 Sarah Forrest © the artist
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."
Spray 2010
Alex Impey © Tobias Wootten & the
artist
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.
All Ways
Tunnel 2011 Alex Impey © Song Yun Kim
& the artist
For further
information contact Louise Briggs, Programme
Coordinator
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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