Installation for Open Studios

I have been asked to create a sculptural installation in one of the communal spaces on the 2nd floor of the South Block studios.

Artist and garden designer, Sue Mackechnie, is designing planted areas within the range of social spaces on the 2nd floor of the South Block studios.

We met today to discuss how our work can exist together, and experimented with combining my sculptures with some of her more sculptural plants.

I am looking forward to more experimentation and play tomorrow and am excited about the result of this collaboration.

Open Studios - Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th July - 1pm - 5pm

It's that time of year again for the Merchant City festival. This year marks the launch of the newly refurbished South Block in the heart of the Merchant City. Now is your chance to meet the artists and have a look at the spaces, as well as join in with the activities in the All that is Solid cafe (see flyer below).

Please come and see me and what I am up to in my studio:

STUDIO 312 

3rd floor

South Block Studios 

64 Osborne Street 

Glasgow 

G1 5QH

I will be there from 1pm - 5pm on both Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th July.

July Newsletter

Every month or so I send an electronic newsletter to contacts on my mailing list. The newsletters give information such as current exhibitions I am exhibiting in, events I am involved in, awards I have received, and my ongoing work.

Here is my July newsletter:

If you would like to be on my mailing list, please send me an email:

helen(dot)shaddock(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow since World War II

Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow since World War II

Mackintosh Museum

Glasgow School of Art

7 July - 30 September 2012

 

Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow since World War II is an exhibition and accompanying publication examining the period between World War II and the present day when women artists in Glasgow have been at the forefront of the art scene in the city. The title of the exhibition comes from the studio located on the top floor of the Mackintosh Building which historically was the dedicated work space for women students.

In recent years, a number of highly regarded women artists have emerged from the Glasgow art scene, including Turner Prize nominees Christine Borland, Cathy Wilkes and Karla Black.  Studio 58 will contextualise the work of contemporary women artists in Glasgow through documenting and displaying the little known and under-represented lineage of women's art in the city from 1939 onwards, within the frame of the city's art school where all of the artists included in the exhibition either studied or taught.

The most well known period, 1890 - 1930, has been documented in several publications and the recent exhibition 'Glasgow Girls' (2010), however the post-World War II period has not been subject to the same level of analysis. Studio 58 is organised around four thematic strands:  landscape/still life, body/self, printed matter and photography/film and will focus upon the work of over 50 artists active from the late 1930s onwards.  The artists include Margaret Morris, Mary Armour, Ivy Proudfoot, and Kathleen Mann, as well as those that followed them including Joan Eardley, Margot Sandeman, Bet Low and Sam Ainsley and younger artists such as Cathy Wilkes, Claire Barclay, Victoria Morton, Hayley Tompkins and Karla Black.

Studio 58 has been curated by Dr. Sarah Lowndes and features many seldom viewed works loaned from private collections and the collections of Glasgow Museums, The Hunterian Museum, The Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections and Glasgow Women's Library.
The exhibition and catalogue is supported by The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Life and the Glasgow Society of Women Artists.

Preview: Friday 6 July 6-8pm