THE SKINNY
This group show brings together painting, printmaking, drawing, textiles and performance from 12 artists, exhibiting together for the first time since graduating from the GSA’s MLitt Fine Art Practice programme in 2020.
Room Image by: Kialy Tihngang
Open Studio Summer School
Race, Rights and Sovereignty
Graduate Degree Show 2022 Glasgow and online, August
Race, Rights and Sovereignty Glasgow and online, throughout the year The Students’ Association and GSA Exhibitions curate this public series, exploring the relationship between race, place, and creative practice. The current programme strand, Caring Between Practices, invites practitioners working at the intersections of art and somatic practices to deliver workshops, walks and talks, to help us consider how somatic and healing practices can be used as ways to care for ourselves and each other within our own practices.
Image by: Alan McAteer
Graduate Degree Show 2022
Image by: Belle Breslin
Hot on the heels of the undergraduate Degree Show comes the annual showcase of postgraduate work, which also makes a return to the physical realm this year. From fashion collections to innovative service design, heritage visualisation to painting, this is your chance to explore the work of GSA’s master’s students both on campus and online.
Room Reid Gallery, Glasgow, 30 Jul-13 Aug
GSA OPEN Glasgow and online, throughout the year
Portfolio Preparation Course
Whether you’re just starting to consider coming to art school, or you’re almost ready to hit ‘send’ on your application, GSA OPEN has an event to help you. Our year-long programme encompasses virtual open days, student-led campus tours, portfolio advice sessions and more, for whatever stage of the application process you’re at.
Open House: RGI Graduate Award Winners GSASA Degree Show After Party
GSASA Degree Show After Party SWG3, Glasgow, 31 May
Street Level Open 2022
Open House: RGI Graduate Award Winners Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, 8-30 Jul
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Dressing Above Your Station Online and around Glasgow, until 26 Jun Image by: Steven Campbell
Image by: Yeon Ju
Street Level Open 2022 Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, until 7 Aug Image by: Indre Bylaite
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Image by: GSASA
Leonie Hiller Errand's “I am a multidisciplinary designer and photographer, graduating this year in Communication Design. I am interested in themes of culture and society, which go further into nostalgia and heritage/ identity. This has influenced the typeface, created as part of a collaborative project that deals with the marketing language of domestication. As well as being used on the Degree Show poster, the typeface was originally created as a display font for the Errand's shop – created by myself and Abigail Allen – based on old supermarkets from the 1950s, and will also be presented as part of the Communication Design work at Degree Show 2022.”
Billy Paterson Capsule “ I am a Glasgow-based Graphic Designer and year 3 Communication Design student exploring concepts of hauntology, temporality and technology primarily through typography and print media. Capsule is a modular typeface inspired by Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo – a key building from the Metabolist architectural movement. This movement fused ideas of architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth in post-war Japan. Since designing the typeface, the building began its disassembly in March 2022, which has prompted the release of the typeface for free via billypatersonstudio.co.uk.”
GSA OPEN
June 2022
June 2022
Portfolio Preparation Course Glasgow, from September Are you working on your application to art school? The GSA’s Portfolio Preparation Course gives you the time and space to develop your portfolio in a collaborative, dynamic studio environment. The course is structured to help you choose a specialist area of art and design to study, and has a track record of getting students places at top art schools across the UK.
Graduate Showcase 2022
After two years online, Open Studio returns to the studios of the GSA for a month-long programme of short courses. Whether you’re looking for an intro to illustration, or want to try your hand at screenprinting or life drawing, there are courses for all levels covering art, design and craft – and a discount for full-time students.
Image by: Bori Gheorghita
Sophie Ammann Ghost Signs “My main interests lie in analogue processes such as print, bookbinding and sign painting, with a focus on typography and lettering. Humour is an integral part of my work. Some of my recent work has been finding and digitally preserving letterings from ghost signs around Glasgow and re-introducing them into a new context. If I could be any letter of the alphabet, I would be an S.”
Fleur Connor Untitled Diptych 1 “ This diptych was produced by adapting during lockdown to what little space I had and the few physical resources I had to create. That’s why it follows a grid pattern, because the painting is made from lots of little tiny paintings. It’s really exciting for me to have the diptych now become a symbol of something positive. It’s really wonderful to be featured alongside the work of my fellow students and for that work to be celebrated.”
Open Studio Summer School Glasgow, 20 Jun-22 Jul
Image by: Catherine Johnston
Graduate Showcase 2022
We hear from the GSA students whose work came together to create this year’s beautiful Degree Show poster and digital campaign
Heads Up Image by: Louise Stewart
Group work
THE SKINNY
Dressing Above Your Station
