Degree shows
June 18, 2005 8:09 PM Subscribe
Glasgow School of Arts Degree Show 2005, Gets into the ring with the Edinburgh Art College Degree Show 2005. Is this Tyson versus Bruno all over again ?
i'm sorry tommy , did i hurt your feelings ? will you ever forgive me ?
Yeah Bonaldi , it pretty much looks that way doesn't it ?
I was at the Edinburgh party and it was good but a lot of same ole same ole , i'm not sure if Edinburgh is really a place for Artists starting out.
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:00 AM on June 19, 2005
Yeah Bonaldi , it pretty much looks that way doesn't it ?
I was at the Edinburgh party and it was good but a lot of same ole same ole , i'm not sure if Edinburgh is really a place for Artists starting out.
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:00 AM on June 19, 2005
Am I missing something? Or are you just plugging your show?
posted by none at 4:22 AM on June 19, 2005
posted by none at 4:22 AM on June 19, 2005
Yes , i am , i'm the principal of both glasgow and edinburgh art colleges , it's a wonder that i get any time to comment here really , i must admit though that the content of these links is rather slim compared to your own post featuring scans of yellow post it notes someone had stuck on your monitor.
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:27 AM on June 19, 2005
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:27 AM on June 19, 2005
Some background for the non-Scottish (I'll type slowly so you can understand): Glasgow and Edinburgh don't get on. Edinburgh thinks Glasgow is an uncouth, violent, damp city, filled with winos. Glasgow thinks Edinburgh is a cold, aloof, cheeseparing small town that smells terrible, filled with junkies. Each thinks the other talks funny. It's west coast versus east coast, except they're less than an hour's drive apart.
posted by scruss at 6:17 AM on June 19, 2005
posted by scruss at 6:17 AM on June 19, 2005
the second row of links in the glasgow pages get you to details of individual projects (otherwise it looks like you can only see the welcom, map and sponsors - confused me anyway).
posted by andrew cooke at 6:40 AM on June 19, 2005
posted by andrew cooke at 6:40 AM on June 19, 2005
Glasgow is an uncouth, violent, damp city, filled with winos.
Sounds excellent, who is up for a road trip?
posted by R. Mutt at 6:59 AM on June 19, 2005
Sounds excellent, who is up for a road trip?
posted by R. Mutt at 6:59 AM on June 19, 2005
edinburghs fuckin shite and i should know, i live here.
posted by sgt.serenity at 7:12 AM on June 19, 2005
posted by sgt.serenity at 7:12 AM on June 19, 2005
"Edinburgh thinks Glasgow is an uncouth, violent, damp city, filled with winos. Glasgow thinks Edinburgh is a cold, aloof, cheeseparing small town that smells terrible, filled with junkies."
Funny thing is, they're both right!
Shame both sites are in flash, so we can't link to individual pieces of work. Anyone see anything that's actually any good?
posted by dickasso at 8:25 AM on June 19, 2005
Funny thing is, they're both right!
Shame both sites are in flash, so we can't link to individual pieces of work. Anyone see anything that's actually any good?
posted by dickasso at 8:25 AM on June 19, 2005
Not made it to the Edinburgh show yet, but the GSA is a bit of a shocker - a few good installations, in a showboating way, but the painting department should be hanging its head in shame. Fucking awful daubings. As a whole, not a patch on the last two years, and certainly not a patch on the three before that.
On the plus side, for the first time in three or four years, no one was doing carbon copy Toby Paterson, thank Christ.
For those who were after context - Glasgow is pretty much the world hot spot just now when it comes to the art, and is showing no real signs of cooling down.
posted by jack_mo at 10:32 AM on June 19, 2005
On the plus side, for the first time in three or four years, no one was doing carbon copy Toby Paterson, thank Christ.
For those who were after context - Glasgow is pretty much the world hot spot just now when it comes to the art, and is showing no real signs of cooling down.
posted by jack_mo at 10:32 AM on June 19, 2005
anyone got alison watts phone number ?
posted by sgt.serenity at 11:39 AM on June 19, 2005
posted by sgt.serenity at 11:39 AM on June 19, 2005
Some charming work on show from Glasgow. Edinburgh looks interesting too. Your post could have done with some background links, at the very least an explanation of who "Edinburgh" and "Glasgow" are, for the less UK-centric viewers here.
jack_mo I'm wondering what you yourself have produced and shown? You may not have a taste for abstract paintings but I'm sure many others do appreciate them, and in the end isn't that what's important?
posted by tommyc at 2:22 PM on June 21, 2005
jack_mo I'm wondering what you yourself have produced and shown? You may not have a taste for abstract paintings but I'm sure many others do appreciate them, and in the end isn't that what's important?
posted by tommyc at 2:22 PM on June 21, 2005
anyone got alison watts phone number ?
Erm, yep. Probably not good form to post it to the interweb, though ;-)
jack_mo I'm wondering what you yourself have produced and shown? You may not have a taste for abstract paintings but I'm sure many others do appreciate them, and in the end isn't that what's important?
Wrong end of the stick - the above slagging was based on the fact that I do have a taste for abstract painting (I earn part of my living writing about visual art, so perhaps over-exposure has made me harsher on work I believe to be not good). Other folk might appreciate them, of course, but they would be wrong ;-)
Anyway, just back from Edinburgh, and funnily enough the painting there was of a very high standard indeed, from both MFA and BA graduates. High standard as in, 'I want that on my wall, right now!' in a couple of cases.
posted by jack_mo at 10:29 AM on June 22, 2005
Erm, yep. Probably not good form to post it to the interweb, though ;-)
jack_mo I'm wondering what you yourself have produced and shown? You may not have a taste for abstract paintings but I'm sure many others do appreciate them, and in the end isn't that what's important?
Wrong end of the stick - the above slagging was based on the fact that I do have a taste for abstract painting (I earn part of my living writing about visual art, so perhaps over-exposure has made me harsher on work I believe to be not good). Other folk might appreciate them, of course, but they would be wrong ;-)
Anyway, just back from Edinburgh, and funnily enough the painting there was of a very high standard indeed, from both MFA and BA graduates. High standard as in, 'I want that on my wall, right now!' in a couple of cases.
posted by jack_mo at 10:29 AM on June 22, 2005
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