Thanks to all those who came to Che Camille on Sunday for the Schema exhibition event.
I had a really good day, with plenty of interesting chat and great music by First Tiger.
I will be adding more photos very shortly, but here is a taster.
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Schema Event
Thanks to all those who came to Che Camille on Sunday for the Schema exhibition event.
I had a really good day, with plenty of interesting chat and great music by First Tiger.
I will be adding more photos very shortly, but here is a taster.
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Schema event - Sunday 25th April 12-5pm
The Pimms is waiting and the band (First Tiger) are all set for the Schema Exhibition event tomorrow (Sunday 25th April) from 12-5pm at Che Camille, Glasgow.
The exhibition has been up and running since the beginning of the month, and will continue until May 4th.
Hope to see you there.
The exhibition has been up and running since the beginning of the month, and will continue until May 4th.
Hope to see you there.
GIAB
GIAB was a great success, and we are pleased to have received some great feedback with lots of people being very inspired by what they saw. The workshops were fully booked (no pun intended), with lots of people wanting to make more!
More photos will follow shortly, but here is a wee taster.
More photos will follow shortly, but here is a wee taster.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Schema Art Exhibition Event - Sunday 25th April - 12 -5pm
I would be delighted if you would join me for the 'Schema' Art Exhibition Event
On Sunday 25th April 2010
12-5pm
At Che Camille,Floor 6, Argyll Chambers, 34 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
There will be live music by First Tiger at 1pm and 3pm
The exhibition runs 6 April - 4 May 2010
I hope to see you there.
Saturday, 17 April 2010
catalogue from Schema exhibition
Please visit http://issuu.com/Che_Art/docs/schema for the catalogue from the current Schema exhibition at Che Camille, Glasgow.
Exhibition runs until 1 May.
Exhibition Event - Sunday 25 April
Exhibition runs until 1 May.
Exhibition Event - Sunday 25 April
Friday, 16 April 2010
GIAB 2010 is here!
Well, after a great deal of planning, preparation and hard work, i am really pleased to say that the 1st day of GIAB 2010 at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall was a great success.
Lots of photos will follow soon!
The event is open again tomorrow from 10am-6pm.
I hope to see you there.
Lots of photos will follow soon!
The event is open again tomorrow from 10am-6pm.
I hope to see you there.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
GIAB on the Radius map
GIAB is on the Radius Map
Radius is a collection of events and exhibitions that will be taking place during the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art — between April 16th and May 3rd
Check it out
http://radiusmap.org.uk/
Radius is a collection of events and exhibitions that will be taking place during the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art — between April 16th and May 3rd
Check it out
http://radiusmap.org.uk/
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Smooth Radio
GIAB 2010 was mentioned on Smooth Radio today, and will continue being plugged up until the event itself!
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Schema Preview Rescheduled - Sunday 25th April - 12pm - 6pm
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the 'preview' for Schema:a solo exhibition by Helen Shaddock has had to be rescheduled.
It will now take place during the day on Sunday 25th April 2010 (specific times to be confirmed).
The exhibition is running 6th April - 1st May, and so can be viewed prior to the preview.
Many apologies for the late notice.
It will now take place during the day on Sunday 25th April 2010 (specific times to be confirmed).
The exhibition is running 6th April - 1st May, and so can be viewed prior to the preview.
Many apologies for the late notice.
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Spreading the word about GIAB 2010
I have been busy distributing postcards and displaying posters about GIAB 2010 in readiness for the event on 16th and 17th April.
Monday, 5 April 2010
Schema install
Whilst others have been searching for Easter Eggs, I have spent the last couple of days installing my solo exhibition at Che Camille.
The work I am exhibiting is all new work made in 2010, and so I am particularly excited about showing it and gaining feedback.
The wonderful Gary Bolam (in charge of all things art at Che Camille) and my dear friend (and studio companion) Stephanie Spindler kindly helped me with the install.
The work I am exhibiting is all new work made in 2010, and so I am particularly excited about showing it and gaining feedback.
The wonderful Gary Bolam (in charge of all things art at Che Camille) and my dear friend (and studio companion) Stephanie Spindler kindly helped me with the install.
Monday, 29 March 2010
updated website launched!
at last, i am pleased to announce my newly updated website:
www.helenshaddock.com
please have a look, bookmark it, send me a message, pass it on etc!
hope you like it.
www.helenshaddock.com
please have a look, bookmark it, send me a message, pass it on etc!
hope you like it.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Screenprinting Giab catalogue covers
Harald and I spent the afternoon screenprinting the covers for the Glasgow International Artists' Bookfair catalogue. Great fun, but I'm not looking forward to my job of cutting them all out (150 copies to do!)
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Calling for volunteers for GIAB 2010
Harald Turek and I are currently busy organizing Glasgow International Artists’ Bookfair 2010, which will take place 16-17th April 2010 at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
GIAB is a showcase of artists’ books produced by local, UK-based and international artists.
GIAB will be open from 10am - 6pm on both days and entrance is free.
We are currently looking for volunteers to help us, both before the event (putting up posters/distributing flyers etc) and during the two days of the event.
Volunteers may be asked to assist on the information stand, selling catalogues and providing general assistance to members of the public. We also offer a table manning service to participating artists. This means that we organize for a volunteer to look after a table of artists’ books whilst the artist goes for lunch or has a look around at the other artists’ books.
We would really appreciate any help, even if you are only able to offer an hour of your time.
Please email us if you can be of assistance, and let us know when you will be able to help out.
glasgowartistsbookfair@googlemail.com
For more information about GIAB please visit www.giab.org.uk
It would be great if you pass the message on also, and we hope to see you there!
GIAB is a showcase of artists’ books produced by local, UK-based and international artists.
GIAB will be open from 10am - 6pm on both days and entrance is free.
We are currently looking for volunteers to help us, both before the event (putting up posters/distributing flyers etc) and during the two days of the event.
Volunteers may be asked to assist on the information stand, selling catalogues and providing general assistance to members of the public. We also offer a table manning service to participating artists. This means that we organize for a volunteer to look after a table of artists’ books whilst the artist goes for lunch or has a look around at the other artists’ books.
We would really appreciate any help, even if you are only able to offer an hour of your time.
Please email us if you can be of assistance, and let us know when you will be able to help out.
glasgowartistsbookfair@googlemail.com
For more information about GIAB please visit www.giab.org.uk
It would be great if you pass the message on also, and we hope to see you there!
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Zine preview - Fri 19th March
Some of my artists' books are included in the following exhibition:
You are cordially invited to the opening of ZINE SHOWCASE - an exciting participatory exhibition of zines, multiples, and artists' books! Browse the paper ephemera and zinery of over thirty artists, collectives and small presses! Be entertained by Garnet McCulloch's folksongs, Jack Wrigley's homemade electronic noise, and Dan Monks' solo voice with cassette!
WHEN: this Friday the 19th of March, 6:30-8:30pm
WHERE: Montgomerys Cafe, 9 Radnor Street, Glasgow G3 7UA
Monday, 15 March 2010
Saturday, 6 March 2010
The art of list-making By Jane O'Brien
The art of list-making
By Jane O'Brien
BBC News, Washington DC
What can lists tells us about the personality of the list-maker? An exhibition in Washington reveals the obsessive and controlling sides of some of the world's greatest artists.
Eero Saarinen
Design genius Eero Saarinen's to-do list included changing light bulbs
There are several stages to writing a list.
First there is the gentle thrill of anticipation as I contemplate the pristine paper in front of me. I may not yet have a subject for my list, but just the thought of one gives me a sense of purpose.
Second there is the light-headed buzz that gradually develops into bliss, euphoria and an all-consuming calm.
Third comes the extraordinary sense of satisfaction from having created a rigid timetable of impossible tasks that has taken a disproportionate amount of time and thought.
It doesn't matter that I will never look at it again.
Psychologists say that obsessive compulsive list makers (I guess that includes me) are trying to create an illusion of control in otherwise chaotic lives.
I see nothing wrong with that. In the words of the American abstract artist, Charles Green Shaw: "Real happiness consists in not what we actually accomplish, but what we think we accomplish."
Adolf Ferdinand Konrad papers
Adolf Konrad's packing list. (Archives Of American Art)
To Do: See lists by Picasso, Bluemner and Saarinen
He is one of the artists featured in an exhibition currently running at the Archives of American Art in Washington.
It is a taxonomist's dream: hundreds of lists drawn up by some of the world's greatest modern artists. Some are scribbled on scraps of paper, while others are elaborately illustrated.
There are lists of ideas, lists of instructions, lists of ambitions, of biographical details, of paintings, of things to do, of colours.
One artist, Benson Bond Moore, has even made an illustrated list of duck poses. Here is inspiration indeed.
Liza Kirwin, the Archives' curator of manuscripts says lists can be very revealing:
"This very mundane and ubiquitous form of documentation can tell you a great deal about somebody's personal biography, where they've been and where they're going," she explains.
"People can relate to this form of documentation because so many people are list keepers and organise their lives this way," she says.
Ordering chaos
Highlights of the exhibition include:
* Picasso's handwritten list of recommended artists for the historic 1913 Armory Show - the first international exhibition of modern art in the United States. He could not spell the name of one of his most famous contemporaries, Marcel Duchamp.
* Adolf Konrad's packing list made up of illustrations of art materials and clothes he wanted to take to Rome and Egypt in 1962. He draws himself wearing nothing but his underwear.
* A chaotic inventory of work by the colour theorist Oscar Bluemner that is almost illegible. He committed suicide shortly afterwards.
* A collection of attributes the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen found most attractive in his wife. First on his list is the fact she was very clever.
* A self-assessment chart by the sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia in which he rates his character traits. As a struggling Italian immigrant he gives himself an "excellent" for health, neatness and accuracy, but scores poorly for quickness of thought and courage.
Obsessive list makers
Washington-based psychoanalyst and expert on leadership Dr Michael Maccoby says list makers themselves fall into different categories:
"The extreme is the obsessive who has to make lists of everything. These are people who have an unconscious fear that everything is going to be out of control if they don't make a list," says Dr Maccoby.
Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) appears to have fallen into this category. Liza Kirwin says he was an adamant list maker, who even kept lists of lists.
Oscar Bluemner's list of works of art
You can see that there's a lot of chaotic emotion involved, probably repressed anger
Dr Michael Maccoby, psychoanalyst
"But in trying to give order to his life, he obscures the clarity of the inventory of his work. He's completely obsessed with this type of record keeping," she says.
The illustrated list of his landscape paintings is a condensed jumble of thumbnail sketches with overlapping notes on the right-hand side. Comments in pencil are overlaid with separate remarks in ink and underlined in different colours.
"The colours are mostly reds. Reds tend to show strong emotion and he's taking his red pen and putting it through lines and taking things out. You can see that there's a lot of chaotic emotion involved, probably repressed anger," explains Dr Maccoby.
But he says it would not have been possible to predict Bluemner's suicidal impulses just by looking at his list. His state of mind could only have been detected by comparing the list to other aspects of his behaviour and expression.
Most of the artists in the exhibition are from the Western Hemisphere which may highlight some cultural differences between list makers.
Dr Maccoby has studied European and Chinese business leaders and thinks a pre-occupation with detail is a broadly Western characteristic not shared by people in Asia.
Control
"The Chinese try to understand the whole and how the parts serve the purpose of the whole project. Once they have that concept, then they look at each part in turn. Europeans immediately break everything down and stack up lists.
MRS SAARINEN'S ATTRIBUTES
I. First I recocnized that you were very clever
II. That you were very handsome
III. That you were perceptive
IV. That you were enthusiastic
V. That you were generous
VI.That you were beautiful
"Then they try to resolve each one separately in an ideal way and hope that they all fit together in the future. It's really not as useful," Dr Maccoby says.
Eero Saarinen's list of his wife's attributes could be seen as an example of this tendency - or it could be could be read as a love letter:
"He's deciding exactly what his wife's qualities are," Dr Maccoby says. "He's putting her in a frame. It's a form of psychic control and great architects are in a special group when it comes to the desire to control and create everything.
Dr Maccoby sees parallels between Saarinen and Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect and designer of Fallingwater in Pennsylvania:
"Look at Frank Lloyd Wright who not only wanted to design the building, but also all the furniture in the building and the wife's clothes."
Saarinen is perhaps best known for designing airport terminals in Washington and New York and the exhibition contains another of his lists.
Dated 16 August 1961, it is a large but neatly itemised catalogue of things to do that range from changing light bulbs to presenting plans for a major design project in Oslo. Some of the items have been crossed off, while others remain undone.
The following week he was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and a few days later he was dead. It is a poignant reminder that none of us will ever complete all our lists.
Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Archives of American Art runs until September 2010, at the Lawrence A Fleischman Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
By Jane O'Brien
BBC News, Washington DC
What can lists tells us about the personality of the list-maker? An exhibition in Washington reveals the obsessive and controlling sides of some of the world's greatest artists.
Eero Saarinen
Design genius Eero Saarinen's to-do list included changing light bulbs
There are several stages to writing a list.
First there is the gentle thrill of anticipation as I contemplate the pristine paper in front of me. I may not yet have a subject for my list, but just the thought of one gives me a sense of purpose.
Second there is the light-headed buzz that gradually develops into bliss, euphoria and an all-consuming calm.
Third comes the extraordinary sense of satisfaction from having created a rigid timetable of impossible tasks that has taken a disproportionate amount of time and thought.
It doesn't matter that I will never look at it again.
Psychologists say that obsessive compulsive list makers (I guess that includes me) are trying to create an illusion of control in otherwise chaotic lives.
I see nothing wrong with that. In the words of the American abstract artist, Charles Green Shaw: "Real happiness consists in not what we actually accomplish, but what we think we accomplish."
Adolf Ferdinand Konrad papers
Adolf Konrad's packing list. (Archives Of American Art)
To Do: See lists by Picasso, Bluemner and Saarinen
He is one of the artists featured in an exhibition currently running at the Archives of American Art in Washington.
It is a taxonomist's dream: hundreds of lists drawn up by some of the world's greatest modern artists. Some are scribbled on scraps of paper, while others are elaborately illustrated.
There are lists of ideas, lists of instructions, lists of ambitions, of biographical details, of paintings, of things to do, of colours.
One artist, Benson Bond Moore, has even made an illustrated list of duck poses. Here is inspiration indeed.
Liza Kirwin, the Archives' curator of manuscripts says lists can be very revealing:
"This very mundane and ubiquitous form of documentation can tell you a great deal about somebody's personal biography, where they've been and where they're going," she explains.
"People can relate to this form of documentation because so many people are list keepers and organise their lives this way," she says.
Ordering chaos
Highlights of the exhibition include:
* Picasso's handwritten list of recommended artists for the historic 1913 Armory Show - the first international exhibition of modern art in the United States. He could not spell the name of one of his most famous contemporaries, Marcel Duchamp.
* Adolf Konrad's packing list made up of illustrations of art materials and clothes he wanted to take to Rome and Egypt in 1962. He draws himself wearing nothing but his underwear.
* A chaotic inventory of work by the colour theorist Oscar Bluemner that is almost illegible. He committed suicide shortly afterwards.
* A collection of attributes the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen found most attractive in his wife. First on his list is the fact she was very clever.
* A self-assessment chart by the sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia in which he rates his character traits. As a struggling Italian immigrant he gives himself an "excellent" for health, neatness and accuracy, but scores poorly for quickness of thought and courage.
Obsessive list makers
Washington-based psychoanalyst and expert on leadership Dr Michael Maccoby says list makers themselves fall into different categories:
"The extreme is the obsessive who has to make lists of everything. These are people who have an unconscious fear that everything is going to be out of control if they don't make a list," says Dr Maccoby.
Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) appears to have fallen into this category. Liza Kirwin says he was an adamant list maker, who even kept lists of lists.
Oscar Bluemner's list of works of art
You can see that there's a lot of chaotic emotion involved, probably repressed anger
Dr Michael Maccoby, psychoanalyst
"But in trying to give order to his life, he obscures the clarity of the inventory of his work. He's completely obsessed with this type of record keeping," she says.
The illustrated list of his landscape paintings is a condensed jumble of thumbnail sketches with overlapping notes on the right-hand side. Comments in pencil are overlaid with separate remarks in ink and underlined in different colours.
"The colours are mostly reds. Reds tend to show strong emotion and he's taking his red pen and putting it through lines and taking things out. You can see that there's a lot of chaotic emotion involved, probably repressed anger," explains Dr Maccoby.
But he says it would not have been possible to predict Bluemner's suicidal impulses just by looking at his list. His state of mind could only have been detected by comparing the list to other aspects of his behaviour and expression.
Most of the artists in the exhibition are from the Western Hemisphere which may highlight some cultural differences between list makers.
Dr Maccoby has studied European and Chinese business leaders and thinks a pre-occupation with detail is a broadly Western characteristic not shared by people in Asia.
Control
"The Chinese try to understand the whole and how the parts serve the purpose of the whole project. Once they have that concept, then they look at each part in turn. Europeans immediately break everything down and stack up lists.
MRS SAARINEN'S ATTRIBUTES
I. First I recocnized that you were very clever
II. That you were very handsome
III. That you were perceptive
IV. That you were enthusiastic
V. That you were generous
VI.That you were beautiful
"Then they try to resolve each one separately in an ideal way and hope that they all fit together in the future. It's really not as useful," Dr Maccoby says.
Eero Saarinen's list of his wife's attributes could be seen as an example of this tendency - or it could be could be read as a love letter:
"He's deciding exactly what his wife's qualities are," Dr Maccoby says. "He's putting her in a frame. It's a form of psychic control and great architects are in a special group when it comes to the desire to control and create everything.
Dr Maccoby sees parallels between Saarinen and Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect and designer of Fallingwater in Pennsylvania:
"Look at Frank Lloyd Wright who not only wanted to design the building, but also all the furniture in the building and the wife's clothes."
Saarinen is perhaps best known for designing airport terminals in Washington and New York and the exhibition contains another of his lists.
Dated 16 August 1961, it is a large but neatly itemised catalogue of things to do that range from changing light bulbs to presenting plans for a major design project in Oslo. Some of the items have been crossed off, while others remain undone.
The following week he was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and a few days later he was dead. It is a poignant reminder that none of us will ever complete all our lists.
Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Archives of American Art runs until September 2010, at the Lawrence A Fleischman Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Layering drawings and photos
I have been experimenting with layering some drawings over some photos:
Research trip
So, at the weekend I escaped from Glasgow and took a much needed trip to Manchester and then London.
I visited too many galleries to mention here, but a couple stood out:
- animalation at Manchester Art Gallery (wonderful animations featuring animals)
- The Drawing Factory at Madame Lillies
I also visited the Manchester Museum and the Natural History Museum and was inspired by patterns and organic forms, reminding me of my drawings
I visited too many galleries to mention here, but a couple stood out:
- animalation at Manchester Art Gallery (wonderful animations featuring animals)
- The Drawing Factory at Madame Lillies
I also visited the Manchester Museum and the Natural History Museum and was inspired by patterns and organic forms, reminding me of my drawings
Thursday, 11 February 2010
collograph plates
Next week i want to do some printmaking, and produce some more collograph prints.
I enjoy the tactile nature and textural qualities of collographs, and I want to explore line and colour in a series of prints.
Here are some of the plates have have made, prior to being varnished and printed.
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I enjoy the tactile nature and textural qualities of collographs, and I want to explore line and colour in a series of prints.
Here are some of the plates have have made, prior to being varnished and printed.
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Monday, 8 February 2010
Steph and Helen drawing experiment
Today Steph and I worked on our collaborative ideas, and decided to experiment with doing a drawing whereby we both added part to it and the other one responded.
Here is the result of our first experiment.
my new home- (studio 122)
My new studio in the Briggait is wonderful and makes me very happy.
Sharing the space with Stephanie Spindler (and her dog, Sparkles) is a joy.
The central heating is BLISS!
Sunday, 7 February 2010
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