The first programme details for a
landmark series of exhibitions celebrating 25 years of contemporary art
in Scotland have been revealed today.
GENERATION will bring an ambitious and extensive programme of
works of art by over
100 artists to over
60
galleries, exhibition spaces and venues the length and breadth of the
nation between
March – November 2014, with the majority
of exhibitions taking place over the
summer of 2014,
as part of the
Glasgow
2014 Cultural Programme.
GENERATION
has been in the making since 2011. The programme will continue to grow
in the coming months, and featured artists announced today include
Charles Avery, Sara Barker, Karla Black, Christine Borland, Martin
Boyce, Roddy Buchanan, Steven Campbell, Duncan Campbell, Katy Dove,
Graham Fagen, Moyna Flannigan, Douglas Gordon, Ilana Halperin, Charlie
Hammond, Iain Hetherington, Louise Hopkins, Callum Innes, Jim Lambie,
Lorna Macintyre, Sophie Macpherson, Alan Michael, Rosalind Nashashibi,
Toby Paterson, Ciara Phillips, Alex Pollard, Charlotte Prodger, Mary
Redmond, John Shankie, David Shrigley, Ross Sinclair, Simon Starling,
Clare Stephenson, Corin Sworn, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, Cara
Tolmie, Sue Tompkins, Hayley Tompkins, Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich,
Alison Watt, Cathy Wilkes, Richard Wright and many more.
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THE PARTNERSHIP
GENERATION is
being delivered through a partnership between the
National Galleries of Scotland
and
Glasgow
Life, and is supported by
Creative Scotland.
These partners have engaged with a range of
associate partners,
venues and arts organisations across the country to ensure a
truly national reach for the project. The programme aims to
shine
a spotlight on the past 25 years - a period
which has seen Scotland develop an international reputation as a
distinguished centre for contemporary art, produce a disproportionate
amount of award-winning artists, host a number of ground-breaking
exhibitions and foster an infrastructure which has helped allow
contemporary art to flourish.
GENERATION is part
of the
Glasgow
2014 Cultural Programme, which is a partnership between the
Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland.
Generation has ambitious goals to raise the profile of contemporary art
in Scotland and to increase access and participation. It is being
produced with the assistance and expertise of partners including
VisitScotland and EventScotland, British Council Scotland, Museums
Galleries Scotland, Education Scotland, Young Scot, Children in Scotland
and the BBC.
THE SCALE, AMBITION
AND GEOGRAPHICAL REACH OF GENERATION
The scale, ambition
and geographical
reach of
GENERATION
make it the first project of its kind. It will be one of the most
ambitious celebrations of contemporary art ever held by a single nation,
and aims to reach and build new audiences for contemporary art. The
venues involved in the project have
programmed their own
exhibitions, working with Associate Curator Katrina Brown and a
specially convened Curatorial Board comprised of representatives of the
partner organisations, to ensure that all the exhibitions share the
aspirations of the project.
One central aim of the project is to
engage
with a new generation and bring to life the possibilities that
contemporary visual art presents to
young people between
the ages of 12 and 25 with an extensive
education
and outreach programme specifically devised to fuel their
imagination and increase their participation. The programme for children
and young people is still in development and more details will be
announced over the coming months.
KEY MOMENTS AND WORKS CELEBRATED
The wide-ranging
programme will
highlight the cultural significance of key
moments and works from the past 25 years,
featuring seminal pieces from landmark exhibitions and bringing
significant works to new audiences in galleries and exhibition spaces
across the nation.
The
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art will host a
two-part exhibition across the
Scottish National Gallery and
the
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, which
will bring together historically significant works from the past 25
years and show them in parallel with new work by both established and
emerging artists.
Steven Campbell’s landmark On Form &
Fiction exhibition, a memorable part of the Third Eye
Centre’s programme for Glasgow 1990 which saw the artist cover all the
available wall space with a remarkable range of work, will be recreated
in the
Scottish National Gallery as part of
GENERATION.
Also being shown in Edinburgh for the first time at Scottish National
Gallery will be
Martin Boyce’s 2002 Tramway show
Our
Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours.
Among
the four solo shows being staged at Glasgow’s
Gallery
of Modern Art are two celebrated works which have been
shown to great acclaim in Edinburgh, but never before in Glasgow:
Douglas
Gordon’s Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work
from about 1992 until Now (a comprehensive collection of
Gordon’s work in film and video, including some of his most celebrated
installations such as
Play Dead; Real Time,
Feature Film,
24 Hour Psycho and
30 Seconds Text) and
Nathan
Coley’s The Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship –
a scale model in cardboard of every ‘Place of Worship’ listed in
the 2004 edition of the Edinburgh Yellow Pages telephone directory.
Collective Gallery
will mark the 20 year anniversary of
Ross Sinclair’s Real
Life projects, whilst
The
Fruitmarket Gallery will trace the development of
Jim
Lambie’s practice, from the sculptures with which he first
came to public attention in the early 1990s, to his signature floor work
ZOBOP (1999), to
Ultra Low
through to new work, specially made for the solo exhibition.
Elsewhere
in the programme,
Paisley
Art Gallery & Museum will revisit
Information
– the significantexhibition staged in 1989 in the Museum by a
group of then-emerging artists from Glasgow School of Art including
Roddy
Buchanan and
Jackie Donachie – with a show of
work by current
Glasgow
School of Art MLitt students, who have been invited to
respond to the theme of “Information” within the particular context of
Paisley Museum.
NEW WORKS AND
COMMISSIONS
Although there is an emphasis on existing
works,
GENERATION will highlight the continued
relevance of visual art at local, national and international levels
through a number of
new works and commissions. Artists
exhibiting new works include
Claire Barclay, Alex Dordoy, Ciara
Philips, Karla Black,
Dalziel + Scullion, Alex Frost
who is creating a new work for
Cove Park’s 50-acre
rural site overlooking Loch Long,
Mary Redmond, Lorna Macintyre,
Sara Barker and
Moyna Flannigan.
In
line with its international reputation for commissioning, producing and
presenting contemporary art,
Tramway will present a
programme of new works by an array of leading artists including
Sophie
MacPherson, Charlotte Prodger, Clare Stephenson, Cara Tolmie, Sue
Tompkins, Cathy Wilkes, Alan Michael, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan,
Charlie Hammond, Iain Hetherington and
Alex Pollard.
SPANNING THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE
COUNTRY
GENERATION will see exhibitions
taking place the length and breadth of the country. Participating venues
include
The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney, which will
present a major exhibition of work by
Zoë Walker & Neil
Bromwich spanning more than 15 years of their practice.
Caithness
Horizons in Thurso will show the work of
Douglas
Gordon for the first time in the north of Scotland, whilst a
specially curated exhibition of work by
Toby Paterson
will tour to venues in Kirkcaldy, Inverness, Peebles and Dumfries.
Another touring exhibition will be the
Travelling Gallery,
which will see the work of a group of artists at varying stages of
their career and working in a range of media (including
Hanna
Tuulikki, Craig Coulthard and
Laura Aldridge)
shown throughout Scotland.
Dalziel + Scullion’s installation
Tumadh : Immersionwill be staged in two parts
in
An Lanntair in Stornoway and
Dovecot
Studios in Edinburgh, whilst venues East Ayrshire, South
Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway will present works by some of
Scotland’s major contributors to the development of contemporary art in
the last 25 years as part of the
South By South West (SXSW)
partnership.
THE
INTERNATIONALISM OF GENERATION
The
GENERATION
programme also features an array of works produced in Scotland over the
past 25 years - many of which have won prestigious international
prizes, or have been shown at renowned museums and galleries or
festivals across the world - but which have
never been shown
before in Scotland, offering audiences the opportunity to see
them for the very first time.
The
Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art and the
Scottish
National Gallery will show
Simon Starling’s Burn
Timeand
Graham Fagen’s Peek-A-Jobby
and a sculptural installation by
Christine Borland,
all of which have never been seen in Scotland before.
The Common Guild
will host three consecutive solo exhibitions by
Corin Sworn,
Duncan Campbell and
Hayley Tompkins, the
artists presented by The Common Guild exhibition
Scotland +
Venice 2013, a Collateral Event of the 55th
International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, which received
international acclaim.
ARTIST-LED
INITIATIVES AND SUPPORTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE
GENERATION
will highlight the
work of artists and the distinctive
infrastructure in place in Scotland that has supported the
development of contemporary art over the past 25 years. Support from
Creative Scotland (and formerly the Scottish Arts Council) has enabled a
range of initiatives and facilities to thrive – from grass-roots and
artist run initiatives such as Transmission Gallery (a model which has
been adapted the world over) through to production facilities and
artists’ studios to major museums and art centres. In the spirit of such
artist-led initiatives,
Cooper
Gallery in Dundee will host
Studio Jamming:
Artists’ Collaborations in Scotland – the first discursive
survey to foreground the grassroots character of artists’
collaboration.
Dundee
Contemporary Arts will present
Continue Without
Losing Consciousness - three solo exhibitions by
Rob
Churm, Raydale Dower and
Tony Swain. They’ll
reference the artists’ collaboration for the 2010 Glasgow International
Festival -
Le Drapeau Noir - which was a temporary artists café
held at The Old Hairdressers, and will develop their original concept
into three new projects built around a core installation and featuring
events, concerts and intervention.
Patricia Fleming
Projects will celebrate the DIY and lo-fi approach instrumental
to the rise of artist-led activity in Glasgow with
DISCORDIA,
which will feature performance, live music and limited edition t-shirts
by twenty contemporary artists involved with Patricia Fleming Projects
from the early 90s to the present.
City Art Centre’s
Urban/Suburban exhibition is based on work
acquired through the
National Collecting Scheme for Scotland, the
Scottish Arts Council initiative founded to support the sustained
development of collections of contemporary visual arts by Scotland’s
museums and galleries
. Featured artists include
Chad
McCail and
Carol Rhodes.
Sir
John Leighton, Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland,
said: “There is an amazing story to tell about art in Scotland over the
past 25 years and we believe that we have found a very compelling way
to tell it with what surely must be one of the most ambitious programmes
of exhibitions ever mounted by a single country. With over 60 free
shows across the entire country, this is a massive opportunity for both
residents and visitors to experience world-class contemporary art from
Scotland.”
Councillor Archie Graham, the Chair of
Glasgow Life, said: “This is a groundbreaking partnership
between Glasgow Life and the National Galleries of Scotland, which will
allow us to share our outstanding collections, resources and knowledge.
GENERATION presents a unique opportunity to galvanize a new audience for
the artists and artworks that have propelled both Glasgow and
Scotland’s contemporary art onto a global stage.
“Now is the time to
tell the story of how Glasgow and Scotland has nurtured such incredible
talent and to ensure that communities from Orkney to the Borders can
share in what promises to be an amazing show.”
Janet
Archer, Chief Executive of Creative Scotland said: "We are
delighted to be working in partnership with the National Galleries of
Scotland, Glasgow Life and venues across Scotland to deliver GENERATION,
which celebrates 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland. It provides a
unique opportunity to reach more people in more places with the art and
ideas of our time. We are particularly excited to be engaging with
children and young people. GENERATION features work made in their
lifetime. We hope experiencing these extraordinary exhibitions will
inspire and fuel their imagination as they journey through their own
lives."
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: ”The
Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme offers a wealth of opportunities for
people right across Scotland to get involved in a number of truly
inspiring cultural activities, connecting people and communities to the
Games, and encouraging them to celebrate culture in new and surprising
ways.
“As part of the Cultural Programme, GENERATION is an
exciting opportunity to enjoy, celebrate, and learn about our nation’s
rich recent history of achievement and excellence in contemporary art.
“The
sheer scale and ambition of this project is testament to the large
number of talented artists that Scotland has produced over the last
quarter of a century.
“I’m pleased that along with
once-in-a-lifetime exhibitions there is also a strong focus on engaging
and inspiring our young people. I’m positive that the creative legacy of
GENERATION will be felt not only across the country but down the years
for a long time to come.”
For further information on
GENERATION
visit:
nationalgalleries.org
and use
#GENERATION
on Twitter.
ENDS
Notes
to editors
1. GENERATION will feature work by artists
who came to attention working in Scotland between 1989 and 2014 and
include work by artists born in Scotland, as well artists of other
nationalities who studied and live or lived in Scotland.
2. A
specially convened Curatorial Board comprised of representatives of the
partner organisations along with an Associate Curator, Katrina Brown,
has formed the overall shape of the project, its specific manifestation
across the partner organisations’ venues and the extension of the
programme nation-wide to include many other galleries and organisations
across Scotland.
GENERATION, Curatorial Board:
Simon Groom,
Director, SNGMA
Sarah Munro, Head of Arts, Glasgow Life
Amanda
Catto, Portfolio Manager, Creative Scotland
Katrina
Brown, Associate Curator for GENERATION
Keith Hartley, Chief Curator
& Deputy Director, SNGMA
Victoria Hollows, Contemporary Arts
& Museums Manager, GoMA
Lucy Askew, Senior Curator, SNGMA
Working with Jenny Crowe, Project Manager for GENERATION
3.
This is the first ever such national project in Scotland.
Previous
exhibitions in Scotland that have offered a view of the contemporary art
of their time have included:
‘
The Vigorous Imagination: New
Scottish Art’
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1987
‘
New Art in Scotland’
CCA, 1994
‘Here +
Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001’
Dundee Contemporary Arts
McManus
Galleries and Generator Projects, Dundee
Aberdeen Art Gallery
and Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
4. Creative Scotland is the
national development agency for the arts, screen and creative
industries.
5. The Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme launched in
July 2013 and is a national celebration with two strands: Culture 2014
and Festival 2014.
Culture 2014 is an unprecedented national
programme of extraordinary new work by world-leading and emerging
Scottish and international artists. It will be intimate and epic,
intense and life-affirming. Stories will be told of individual lives and
communities, special places and moments in time. These come together in
one programme, creating a journey throughout Scotland that frames and
celebrates the Games.
Festival 2014 is a massive Games-time
celebration in Glasgow running alongside the sporting action,
transforming the city from 19 July to 3 August with an invigorating mix
of entertainment, culture and enjoyment filling the streets, spaces and
stages of Glasgow.
The Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme is an
opportunity for the whole of Scotland to get involved in the Games. From
grassroots celebrations to large scale projects: the aim is for every
community in Glasgow and Scotland to celebrate and benefit from this
historic event.
The
Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme is a partnership between the Glasgow
2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland.
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