We are delighted that Luke Fowler has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize. This nomination was for his recent exhibition at Edinburgh’s Inverleith House and his outstanding film ‘All Divided Selves’. This work focuses on the Glasgow-born psychiatrist R.D Laing and includes archival representations of Laing and his colleagues. The film was developed during Luke’s three-month visual arts residency at Cove Park in 2009.
Glasgow International begins on 20 April and includes exhibitions by a number of Cove Park’s recent visual arts residents: Pio Abad, Henry Coombes, Graham Eatough, Ruth Ewan, Graham Fagen, Ilana Halperin, James McLardy, Ciara Phillips and Charlotte Prodger. Henry Coombes will present a new film work – ‘I am the Architect, this is not Happening, this is Unacceptable’, developed during his Cove Park residency last year. This work will be shown Glasgow’s House for an Art Lover.
‘Galapagos’ opens at Liverpool’s Bluecoat gallery in May this year. This group exhibition includes work by 2011 Cove Park visual arts resident Alison Turnbull and is the result of the visit she and 11 other artists made to the Galapagos archipelago over a five year period. Further information on this project is available here and the exhibition will tour to Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery later this year.
The Glasgow Schools is a project by former visual arts resident Ruth Ewan on Glasgow’s Socialist and Proletarian Sunday Schools. The exhibition will run from Sunday 22 April during Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2012 and is realised in association with The Common Guild.
Previous Cove Park resident Maria Fusco will present a new project at Whitechapel Gallery, London, next month. This new sound work features extracts from her novel ‘Sailor’, a work the writer developed during her 2011 residency.
Published by Sternberg Press, this new catalogue documents the work of visual artist and 2011 Cove Park resident Chris Evans. The publication includes texts by Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt and Tirdad Zolghadr, and was designed by Will Holder.
All Divided Selves is a new film by artist Luke Fowler who was Visual Arts resident at Cove Park in 2010. The film, which was developed initially during his residency at Cove Park and subsequently on a residency at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, considers the legacy of radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing. The film will have an installation at CSS Bard from November 9th – December 23rd then travel to Inverleith House in Edinburgh in February 2012. For more information click here.
Application guidelines for both the 2012 craft and visual arts residency programmes are now available here. National and international artists are welcome to apply and the deadline for all our applications in Friday 27 January 2012.
This is a new solo exhibition by former visual arts resident Ciara Phillips. Showing at Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, the exhibition runs through October 2011.
A fantastic opportunity to see a major new solo show in the UK by 2008 Cove Park resident Abraham Cruzvillegas: ‘Autoconstruccion: The Optimistic Failure of A Simultaneous Promise’ opens at Modern Art Oxford on 28 September.
