Glasgow Print Studio News

Sorry readers that it has taken so long to make a new entry, well better late than never.
We are at last ready to relocate. We may have access to the South Block from Friday 3rd March, it is not definite but at least we are getting a final date from the Glasgow City council.
So, hopefully as of the 3rd March we will be officially moving.
This move has been delayed for a number of weeks, so much so that some of the users have been printing and working in the workshop during the past three weeks.
This may continue through to the end of next week, we are not sure about the week begining the 7th March.

Other events: John Mac is heading off to New York to represent GPS and the other Scottish Workshops with the help of David Watt at the New Editions exhibition at the IPCNY.
The show begins on the 9th March, although the opening is not until 5th April to coincide with Tartan Week. I wonder if John and David will take part in a few highland flings whilst wearing their kilts.

More later.........................

Hi All
Workshop Update after 1 week.
We are just approaching the end of the first week here and as you can see from the pics, although nothing has moved, we are gradually sorting out all the garbage. There has been mounds of the stuff, tucked behind, on top off, under every nook and cranny.
This week has been very much like establishing a base camp and then an avalanche landed on the tents. There is a mountain to climb. Stuart, Murray and I have been been getting our hands dirty for change, Scott has been finishing off the editions of Eileen Cooper, and barking at anyone who wanders in.

All for now.................

Sorry everyone but its coming close to the time when we have to clear out the workshop. As we all know GPS is part of the re-develpment project on King Street, which hopefully begins from Spring 2006.
We have been already working in clearing some areas of Glasgow Print Studio but its now that the work begins in earnest. So the deadline has been set for the clearout of the workshop, we would like all the users to remove all their belongings from the Workshop by the end of November.
Unfortunately this will be the final deadline anything left in the workshop will be discarded. This includes screens and the contents of drawers and boxes. The space we are decanting too is much smaller and we are hoping to offer as much of the present facilities as is possible.
I hope we can rely on your goodwill and assistance in this endeavour.

Last week, Scott was also working with Eileen Cooper. Eileen is a Royal Academician based in London, who has now on her third visit to GPS. She usually spends four days working in the workshop. This time Scott worked exteremely hard and managed to complete two new works with Eileen. Here is an example of the two new screenprints.

Last week at GPS, three new exhibitions opened highlighting new works by Philip Reeves, Jila Peacock and Bronwen Sleigh.

Philip Reeves
Glasgow Print Studio is delighted to showcase a new collection of works on paper by undoubtedly one of the most talented Scottish artists. Philip Reeves works the “real” surface, not the illusionistic one of painting; not the literal one of sculpture. Reeves is a master of both Intaglio printmaking and collage.
Glasgow is indebted to his commitment to and influence in facilitating and maintaining traditional printmaking of the highest standard.

Jila Peacock
Ten Poems from Hafez
Jila peacock will be exhibiting a suite of screenprints and a hand printed book of animal shape poems in Farsi calligraphy with new English translations. This artists book in a limited edition of 50, aims to show an artistic response to the world of Hafez's symbolism, making visual translations of some of his poems using the ancient Persian technique of figural calligraphy to make new shape poems

Bronwen Sleigh
A first solo show by Glasgow based artist Bronwen Sleigh. Her artwork explores the relationship between the natural environment and the industrial architecture within it. Through the use of mixed media and printmaking techniques she aims to draw attention to these structures as a contrasting, yet integral part of the surrounding landscape.