MEDIA RELEASE: Ripples on the Pond

From Gordon Boag, Media Officer, Glasgow Life 30 April 2015GALLERY OF MODERN ART EXHIBITION TO CELEBRATE THE ACQUISITION OF WORKS INSPIRED BY THE GLASGOW WOMENS LIBRARY A new exhibition featuring works, which celebrate the 21st anniversary of Glasgow Women’s Library and Scotland’s only women’s library, is opening at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. 12 of the…

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Spike Island Film Open

Teeth, Screen Shot, 2014

Film Open 2015 Friday 1 May 2015, 5.15–6.15pmSaturday 2 May 2015, 5.15–6.15pmSunday 3 May 2015, 5.15–6.15pmMonday 4 May 2015, 5.15–6.15pm We are delighted to announce the artists’ chosen for the Film Open 2015. Liam Allan, Dan Auluk, Emma Charles, Karen Cunningham, Aideen Duran, Jemma Egan, Warren Garland,  Alexander Story Gordon, Lewis Den Hertog, Toby Huddleston,…

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Teeth at FILM OPEN 2015

Teeth, Screen Shot, 2014

Teeth (2:19 mins, 2014) has been selected for FILM OPEN. It’ll be screened in Spike Open (1-4 May 2105). The programme will then travel on to Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Transmission, Glasgow, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, S1 Artspace, Sheffield and ICA London.

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31st Hamburg Short Film Festival June 2015

Peter (Screen Shot) Digital film 29:55, 2014, Jane Topping.

Peter has been selected for the No Budget Competition of the 31st Hamburg Short Film Festival. I’ll be introducing 2 screenings on the 10th and the 12th June 2015. Here’s a little bit about the festival: HAMBURG INTERNATIONALE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL No other form of cinematic art is as open, experimental, fast, courageous, abstract, hard,…

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O Yes at the art school

O Yes - Inventors of Tradition II

This – 6 Minutes – and perfectly crafted. Led by Ellen van Schuylenburch, for The Inventors of Tradition II, Panel and Atelier E.B recreate a dance from Michael Clark’s I am Curious, Orange as a series of four short performances within the iconic and atmospheric space of The Assembly Hall at The Art School, Glasgow. I…

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Spring/Summer 2015 @ DCA

SS15 After Party Poster (Image Clare Stephenson)

What a start to the summer! Get yersel’ to the seaside pronto and up to DCA for the neon splattered, martini drenched exhibition of work by Maripol, Clare Stephenson and Zoe Williams. Heavenly and disco blasted.

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Power Suit Yourself: Is the Power Suit Dead?

Mike Nichols’ Working Girl (1988) is centered on Tess McGill, played

Part of the Glasgow Film Festival, was this little panel discussion, at the CCA on Saturday: ‘Since the heyday of shoulder pads in the 1940s, costume has been used to illustrate female power on screen. But when Sarah Lund’s woolly jumpers hit the headlines, did perceptions shift? A panel of guests will discuss wearable power…

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Bitter Lake

Hurrah! New Adam Curtis is available – and about time too. Released last Sunday at 9pm on iplayer. Find it here until the beeb take it away. Adam’s Blog is here. And here’s a randomly selected short of his, from Charlie Booker’s Weekly Wipe: A Film about how all of us have become Richard Nixon.

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