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Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition]. Exhibition held on 3-19 March 2023, Aberdeen.

Aberdeen Open City is an exhibition which aims to showcase the range of contemporary art practices shaped by, or located in, the city and identifies loose overlaps and problematics that each of these addresses. The trio of trials that have warped the... Read More about Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition].

Passing the torch. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Passing the torch. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 25 November - 2 December 2022, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

The "Fired Up" event on the 30th October 2022 was the first communal firing of the on-campus wood-fired kiln that had been jointly constructed by both staff and students. The works resulting from this firing were then presented at the "Passing the To... Read More about Passing the torch. [Exhibition].

Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
CAMPBELL, A., CONNOR, F., MACPHERSON, J., MCKIE, M., MILNE, J., MORRIS, K.A., MUNDAY, M., PARTRIDGE LOVE, H., RILEY, C., SHEARER-ANDERSON, A., VAN LOON, J. and WILKINSON, C. 2022. Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 4-11 November 2022, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

This exhibition featured works by support staff at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University. The works represent a wide variety of artforms: painting, photography, illustration, cartooning, ceramics, jewellery, costume, textiles, film and sound... Read More about Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition].

Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 1-6 October 2022, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh.

The "Painted Conversations" exhibition series is organised and facilitated by Lyndsey Gilmour and Peter Chalmers, whose collaborative partnership has formed through their roles as lecturers and early-career researchers in the Painting Department at G... Read More about Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition].

Nothing's guaranteed: exhibition of Bosno-futurism. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Nothing's guaranteed: exhibition of Bosno-futurism. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 29 July - 25 September 2022, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

This exhibition presents a parallel exploration of the intersection between imagination and technology, and explores the rich aesthetic of Afrofuturism through the work of six contemporary mixed-media artists; Igor Bošnjak, Mladen Bundalo, Lana Čmajč... Read More about Nothing's guaranteed: exhibition of Bosno-futurism. [Exhibition].

Painted conversations, exhibition 1: Lyndsey Gilmour and Peter Chalmers. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
GILMOUR, L. and CHALMERS, P. 2022. Painted conversations, exhibition 1: Lyndsey Gilmour and Peter Chalmers. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 18-23 June 2022, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh.

The "Painted Conversations" exhibition series is organised and facilitated by Lyndsey Gilmour and Peter Chalmers, whose collaborative partnership has formed through their roles as lecturers and early-career researchers in the Painting Department at G... Read More about Painted conversations, exhibition 1: Lyndsey Gilmour and Peter Chalmers. [Exhibition].

No place like home. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
No place like home. [Exhibition]. Exhibited on 5 June 2022, Fittie Community Hall, Aberdeen.

This exhibition featured artworks that were created as part of an RGU research project into the impact of Brexit on EU nationals living in the UK. The exhibition explored migration and diversity across Aberdeen and was held as part of the opening of... Read More about No place like home. [Exhibition].

Dislocations. [Exhibition] (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Dislocations. [Exhibition]. Online exhibition held 21 June - 16 July 2021, Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities, Glasgow.

This exhibition is an online video art show selected for the summer school of the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities. It features work by Elena Chemerska, Ivana Mirchevska, Ahmet Ögut, Mila Panić, Stella Rooney, Olia Sosnovskaya and... Read More about Dislocations. [Exhibition].

Out of the woods. [Solo exhibition] (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
MORRIS, K.A. 2020. Out of the woods. [Solo exhibition]. Exhibited 25 September - 25 October 2020, [virtual exhibition]. Hosted on itch.io [online]. Available from: https://mobile-art-school.itch.io/look-again-out-of-the-woods

This virtual exhibition was part of the Gray's School of Art (RGU) Postgraduate Showcase in 2020. The showcase featured works by GSA masters students, as well as works by 31 creative practitioners who had successfully completed the Look Again "Creati... Read More about Out of the woods. [Solo exhibition].

Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder. (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder. Exhibition held 27 January - 2 February 2020, Royal Geographical Society, London.

The exhibition formed a key output of the Valuing Nature Programme (https://valuing-nature.net/) initiated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)/UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The aim of the 4-year Valuing Nature programme is, '…to i... Read More about Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder..

An empirically grey area. [Solo exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
CHALMERS, P. 2019. An empirically grey area. Solo exhibition, 16 November - 8 December 2019, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen.

How can we approach making in the face of a threat from meaninglessness? Beyond a question of whether one should be making at all, Peter's work is centred around a question of what and how to make, and whether the act of making can in itself create m... Read More about An empirically grey area. [Solo exhibition].

Edward Allington: things unsaid. (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Edward Allington: things unsaid. Exhibition held on 25 October 2019 - 23 February 2020, Henry Moore Institute and the Upper Sculpture Study Gallery at Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds.

Seeking new ways of 'moving and matching the complexity of the world', Edward Allington (1951-2017) was part of a generation of artists responding to changing aesthetic, social and cultural values at the end of the 1970s. A sculptor, writer and educa... Read More about Edward Allington: things unsaid..

Embedding. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Embedding. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 19 October - 10 November 2019, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen.

The partnership between Gray's School of Art (Robert Gordon University) and RockRose Energy has been one of unexpected outcomes. By placing students within the workplace and challenging them to respond to the threads that connect the people who make... Read More about Embedding. [Exhibition].

Notes on a periphery. (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Notes on a periphery. Exhibition held 4-18 October 2019, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

An exhibition of recent photography and video work by four artists: Anne Campbell, Sapphire Goss, Lottie Davies and Eugene Schlumberger. Whilst peripheral regions have loomed large in traditional histories of art made in the British group of nations,... Read More about Notes on a periphery..

Ever after [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Ever after. Exhibition held 24 July - 24 August 2019, The Scottish Gallery [online], Edinburgh. Available from: https://issuu.com/scottishgallery/docs/tsg_derrick_guild_ever_after

An exhibition, held at the Scottish Gallery for The Edinburgh Festival 2019. In Ever After the artist has looked at the most traditional of Joshua Reynold’s orders: portraiture and forced us to interrogate how we look and so what we learn. He takes... Read More about Ever after [Exhibition].

Cracks. [Dramatic performance] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
JERAM, T. 2019. Cracks. [Dramatic performance]. Performed on 27 June 2019, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

"Cracks" tells the story of Bob and Debbie, whose lives gradually interweave to show stark differences in health outcomes due to inequitable access to health and social care services. "Cracks" was written and directed by Trisha Jeram, a student nurse... Read More about Cracks. [Dramatic performance].

In between states. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
In between states. Exhibition held on 6 June - 6 July 2019, The W OR M, 2019 Look Again Festival, Aberdeen.

An exhibition of contemporary artists, three from North Macedonia, Ana Jovanovska, Ana Lazarenvsk and Ivana Sidzimovska and two from Scotland, Jack Handscome and Izzy Thomson and curated by Jon Blackwood. The exhibition took place in Peacock Visual A... Read More about In between states. [Exhibition].

Shuffle. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Shuffle. [Exhibition]. Exhibition held on 4-18 May 2019, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/844749

The emphasis of this project is on publicly exhibiting a body of research and development that Lyndsey has been working on during the past 18 months, in collaboration with performing arts venue The Lemon Tree and volunteer participants from Rosemount... Read More about Shuffle. [Exhibition].

How big is there? How long is now? Readings from selected texts by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. Performed on 30 March 2019, UNFIX festival, Glasgow. (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
How big is there? How long is now? Readings from selected texts by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. Performed 30 March 2019, UNFIX festival, Glasgow.

Readings from selected poetic texts by Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018) and Newton Harrison (b. 1932), known as 'the Harrisons,' at UNFIX Festival Glasgow on 30 March 2019. Chris Fremantle and Anne Douglas read six excerpts selected to highlight the... Read More about How big is there? How long is now? Readings from selected texts by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. Performed on 30 March 2019, UNFIX festival, Glasgow..

On utopian realism: the art of Mladen Miljanovi?. (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
BLACKWOOD, J. 2019. On utopian realism: the art of Mladen Miljanovi?. Essay produced to accompany the exhibition: 'Mladen Miljanovi?: Utopian Realism', 8 February - 14 March 2019, Peacock Visual Arts [online], Aberdeen. Available from: https://peacockvisualarts.com/mladen-miljanovic-utopian-realism/

This essay accompanies the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Mladen Miljanovic, a post-conceptual video and performance artist based in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The exhibition can be read, in one way, as a mini-retrospective; starting w... Read More about On utopian realism: the art of Mladen Miljanovi?..