25/4 Radius in Motion
Schema by Helen Shaddock
Atypical Root: Kate V Robertson, A Stone’s Throw: The Govan Beacon, Sam Stead, Anthony Shrag
Cleansing the House With Ink; Ricefield Gallery
Che Camille is located on the 6th floor of the Argyle Arcade; there homes a workshop for designers and a shop floor featuring custom clothing, jewellery, accessories and has created a space for artists to exhibit their work. It is like a candy shop filled with beautiful things, textures and curiosities that beg to be worn and lusted after.
Helen Shaddock has created new work for her solo exhibition titled Schema.
Grace and Divide
Shaddock has created intricate drawings, a product of exploring two conflicting states of being rigidity and spontaneity. Out of a collection of Shaddocks obsessive collection of photographs of lines, stripes, colour and repeated patterns, she has applied a process of drawing to bring order, and refinement.
Shaddock has produced visually elegant places by constructing a delicate architectural like measurement, to something that occurred naturally within her milieu. She has applied order and re-organization, layering and marrying two disparate means of process that would seemingly be in conflict but have created a new landscape and space for the eye and mind to investigate.
First Tiger were playing for our browsing pleasure. We liked them alot!
Atypical Root This is an extremely important and supportive emerging, not-for –profit, artist-led initiative, and official but unfunded event for GI. Natalie Lambert is the curator and project lead for Atyp. The project is a public art trail through the regenerating/degenerating areas along the Clyde Riverside. Sunday I walked down Kelvinhaugh st. to the pedestrian bridge that takes you across the M-8 to the science center. I visited Kate V Robertson Meeting place in front of the BBC , A stones Throw Away: The Govan Beacon, I continued to follow the Atyp trail markers past a public sculpture by Sam Stead to the Slip Rd Where Anthony Shragg did a public lecture about the social responsibility of the Chair in public art works and then invited the audience to create a public art work with the stack of chairs he was giving his talk from. It was fun. I was disappointed that the weather was a bit crap as I think it deterred people from coming along. Don’t miss next weekend, as there are a host of things happening including a really cool Launch of the Govan Armada launched from Clydebrae Gallery Exhibition and Bike-So-Coo, a zany celebration of Glasgow bike culture 24 in the mini skinny in the Atypical Root listing.
The final event of the day was Cleansing the House With Ink at Ricefield Gallery 34 Albion St. (This is marked incorrectly on our map, I blame Google, but apologies if anyone turned up at their old location.)
This was a wonderful culturally diverse experience: poetry and traditional Chinese singing and music were composed into a very intimate performance. I couldn’t help be seduced by the interesting display of traditional Chinese instruments and the sculptural sounds that came from Liu Fong part of the Harmony Chinese Music Ensemble. If you are one of those people that find Glasgow art scene a bit “samey” try reaching out to Ricefield, you are guaranteed to find a journey to another place through their program.
Thank you to all the performers and Ricefield Gallery for participating in Radius.
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