Watch Glasgow-set sci-fi film-noir Death Watch in the subterranean screening room of Merchant City’s newly renovated ISO HQ building.

The Merchant city features prominently in this cult classic by Bernard Tavernier. Harvey Keitel plays a reporter with a camera implanted in his brain. He secretly records the final days of a terminally ill writer (Romy Schneider), to be broadcast as a form of twisted entertainment. With its satirical prophecy of reality TV, media paranoia, surveillance and celebrity, this chilling film is more appropriate now than ever.

Part of the Merchant City Festival.
Complimentary drinks provided by Heverlee Beer.

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12A | 128 mins | 1980 | France, Germany | English, French, German

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ROLE
We  have an opportunity for experienced Producers to join our successful team in delivering a series of large media projects and interactive installations across the UK and internationally.

Working from our production studio in Glasgow you will be helping us to deliver content-rich digital experiences that include animation, live action filming, AR / VR, motion graphics and bespoke software development.

The role is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidates to become key members of our studio. You will benefit from the support of a strong creative and technical team and experience on a range of diverse, industry-leading projects.

You will have been involved in animation, games, television or film production or your background will be in digital production in either a design, advertising, online or software development studio.

You will have a  broad interest in culture, technology and the arts and be equally comfortable with creative or technical challenges.

Responsibilties
- Delivering high quality projects across a range of media and platforms, with the skills required to deliver on budget and on schedule.
- A great communicator who will organise and motivate their team and work alongside directors and creative leads to ensure their vision is realised.
- Liaising with clients to determine the aims of their projects and ensuring their requirements are delivered on time and on budget.
- Producing cost breakdowns and schedules and oversee projects from initial briefing to final delivery.
- Managing internal design and production team resources and co-ordinating external freelance associates or suppliers
- On larger projects leading a team of producers, production assistants and project managers
- Excellent reporting skills
- The majority of work will be studio-based with opportunities to work off-site at workshops, presentations, filming or post-production. Some international travel is also required.

Requirements
- 5 years+ professional experience within a media or software related environment.
- Demonstrable experience in handing budgets of £250k+ and the proven ability to work on complex multi-part projects across mixed media and different formats.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to deal directly with directors, designers, developers, production support and freelance associates
- Excellent client management skills
- The ability to quickly determine creative and technical requirements of projects and to put programme and resource planning into place
- Excellent reporting skills especially across budget management and scheduling.
- Attention to detail and a sense of ownership on projects is essential.

SUBMISSIONS
• Cover letter introducing yourself, your work experience and professional  interests. Please make sure if demonstrates the minimum requirements above.
• CV with two industry references
• An indication of salary expectations

The initial contract will be for 12 months full time though we would consider flexible or part-time working for the right candidates. Please indicate if this is a preference.

Please forward to opportunities@isodesign.co.uk

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SCOTLAND

 /// ABERDEENSHIRE

until 28 May | Seventeen
Under New Moons, We Stand Strong
Under New Moons, We Stand Strong sculptural exhibition comes to Seventeen in Aberdeen, with a special edition of Urban Knights.

until 29 May | Peacock Visual Arts
The Brutalist Playground, Assemble and Simon Terrill 
Exhibit exploring post-war design for play, as part of Look Again Visual Art & Design Festival.

until 25 June | Grey’s School of Art
Degree Show at Gray’s School of Art
Exhibition of Painting, Contemporary Art Practice, Three Dimensional Design, Fashion & Textiles, Communication Design and Commercial Photography.

21 May – 14 June | Newave Gallery
Ade Adesina ‘Awake’ Solo Exhibition
Bespoke limited edition prints by a multi-award winning artist.

18 June | Peacock Visual Arts
PMC Silver Jewellery Making Workshop
Led by our resident jewellery expert Renee, this workshop lets users experiment with Precious Metal Clay.

///DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY

28 – 30 May | Various
Spring Fling
Scotland’s premier open studios contemporary visual art and craft event – this year featuring 94 artists, makers and designers.

 /// DUNDEE

until Autumn 2016 | The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum
Draw the Line: Old Masters to The Beano  
The exhibition shows the vast and all encompassing range of creativity expressed in drawing from Dundee’s nationally significant fine art collection.

/// EDINBURGH

until 21 May | Ingleby Gallery
Kevin Harman: No Man’s Land
Positioned somewhere between painting and sculpture these large format abstractions are at once seductively beautiful and challengingly physical.

until 31 May | Arusha Gallery
Ilona Szalay – Queen of Swords
Ilona Szalay’s oil and resin on wood paintings trace a path through a world of conflict and power play, a place of rigid hierarchy and fierce competition.

25 May – 13 July | Summerhall
Statussignal
Hamish Chapman, Jordan Munro and Jordan Pilling present an exhibition acting as a level playing field upon which three boys come out to play.

26 May – 31 July | Summerhall
Imagining Faith by Isabel Rocamora
This work centres on her 22 minute film triptych Faith: an intimate observation of the act of worship of the three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem.

7 June | Summerhall
Cultures of Prayer: Faith to Faith in Conversation
Panel discussion to coincide with Isabel Rocamora’s exhibition ‘Imaging Faith’, with Rev. Dr Harriet Harris, Rabbi David Rose and Sohaib Saeed.

throughout the year | Various
Screen Academy Scotland Courses
Professional short course training (screenwriting, cinematography, film, TV & cross-platform production & image & sound editing).

throughout the year | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
Writing Courses
Courses in Novel Writing, Poetry, Short Story Writing, and Screenwriting.

/// GLASGOW

until 29 May | Street Level Photoworks
Catrine Val: Political Letters
New collection of staged photoworks around the neglected canon of women in philosophy, including some new work specific to Scotland and the theme.

until 20 May | Many Studios / Project Space
Fátima Rodrigo, UNAP
A piece of video/sculptural work that examines the problematic socio-political relationship between higher education and the Peruvian government

until – 29 May | Street Level Photoworks
Mari Hokkanen: Set & Setting
Every image in Set & Setting is a scene on its own presenting a story of different allegories and world phenomenon.

until 22 May | MANY Studios
The Heart of the City
A solo exhibition by Fatima Rodrigo (Peru) as part of Glasgow International Festival 2016.

until 5 June | CCA
Intermedia, The Women’s Unit
Outcome of a year long residency at Glasgow Women’s Library by Mandy McIntosh, influenced by projects like Judy Chicago’s Womanhouse.

until 22 June | Tramway
The Net Effect
Thinking about a future in making, curating or teaching Art? Discover this new visual arts group for ages 16-25.

until 10 July | CCA
Jerwood/FVU Awards: ‘Borrowed Time’
Two moving-image works by selected artists Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams.

until 14 May | Cyril Gerber Fine Art
Scottish Horizons
A new exhibition of watercolours and drawings by well-known artist Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI.

until 31 May | Glasgow Women’s Library
Palestinian Embroidery
Exhibition of workshops by Claire Anderson and documentation of Palestian women’s embroidery co-operative ‘Women in Hebron’.

21 – 22 May | Street Level Photoworks
Photobook Design Weekend
Turn your photographic project into a high quality 8×10 photobook.

25 May – 5 June | MANY Studios
Trading Stories
Poet Tawona Sitholé harnesses a breadth of stories from The Barras from yesteryear to the present day.

23 June | CCA
Eavesdropper: Hanna Tuulikki performance
Artist, composer and performer Hanna Tuulikki works with voice and gesture to create immersive spaces that unearth relationships with places

28 May – 9 July | Hillhead Library
Departures
The nine participating artists responded in disparate ways to the broad theme of migration.

29 May | Who Art Thou
Drypoint Etching Workshop – with Mobile Print Studio
In this workshop you will learn the art of Drypoint Etching and create an edition of your own. Materials included & all levels of experience welcome.

2 – 4 June | CCA
Cryptic Nights: Therefore 2 – Anna Lucia Nissen
Enter an immersive audio-visual experience combining sculpture, video projection and live music devised by artist Anna Lucia Nissen.

3 June | CCA
SWOU: What do sex workers want?
Screening of three short movies exploring the diverse realities of sex workers around the world, followed by a Q&A with sex workers and allies.

4 June – 31 July | Street Level Photoworks
Govan/Gdansk
New exhibition linking the shipyards of Govan in Glasgow and Gdansk in Poland and their post-industrial decline and resilience.

7 June | The Butterfly and the Pig
Quotidian Issue 2 Launch
celebrate the success of Quotidian: a literary magazine’s Issue 2 and… *drum-roll* the launch of our second print edition! How exciting!

9 June – 2 July | Compass Gallery
The Golden Age: 90 Years of International Film Posters
Planned to coincide with the Edinburgh Film Festival 2016, this exhibition will include many rare, collectible and international original film posters.

21 – 23 June | Tramway
A Bit of Bite
A brand new show about the role of young people in contemporary politics.

25 June | The Glasgow School of Art
Transitions Out of Fine Art Education
Fine art staff from across the UK will come together with students, graduates, academics, and industry professionals to share practice.

28 June – 3 July | Various
Glasgow Comic Festival
A week-long festival of talks, screenings, performance and exhibitions at CCA and across the city, and Comic Con at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

31 July | CCA
MAP: Voicing the Archive
Audio recordings of past MAP contributions, voiced by their authors and installed at a listening station in the CCA and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

12 – 18 September | various
Illustrious Glasgow
Glasgow Doors Open Days is working with illustrator Rosemary Cunningham to share 10 stunning illustrations of Glasgow buildings.

First Saturday of the month | The Lighthouse
Repair Cafe
On the first Saturday of every month our team of fixers will be on hand to help you fix your broken items, in MAKLab, Gallery One.

ongoing | Crownpoint Studio
Corridor Exhibition
Exhibition by VAU Members, view by appointment only.

ongoing | The Botanics
Art Classes in the Botanics
Weekly tutored classes in Glasgow Botanic Gardens, for anyone wishing to develop their artistic abilities.

ongoing | The Hidden Lane Gallery
Margaret Watkins: The Kitchen Sink (And other classics)
A major retrospective selection of some of the classic images which established Margaret Watkins as one of the most innovative artists of the 1910s & ’20s.

ongoing | 306 White Studios
Silk Screen Printing Workshops
Be your own designer for the day, learn silk-screen printing here at Shapes Of Things Ltd & create your own bespoke product every Wednesday & Saturday.

///HELMSDALE

until 19 June | Timespan
VIK PRJÓNSDÓTTIR
Icelandic design collective showcase their textile work in an exhibition that brings together contemporary design and traditional craft.

///HUNTLY

26 – 28 May | TBC
White Wood Forum: Art and Sustainability
Discussions centre on social and cultural perspectives of sustainability: local and global understandings and lived practices around the world.

///KIRKALDY

until 5 June | Kirkcaldy Galleries
Shelters
Festival of Architecture exhibition examining ‘shelters’ using examples from Lloyd Kahn’s US Shelter Publications to contemporary Scottish.

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ELSEWHERE

///BIRMINGHAM

11 June | St Barnabas Church
Clipping the Church by Tereza Buskova
Sign up to be involved in an art piece adorning a Birmingham church with ornate baked bread and encircle it with a living garland of 100 people.

///LINCOLNSHIRE

14 May – 25 June | 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Liz West: Our Colour Reflection
The installation will transform the interior of the former St John’s Church building housing the gallery by using over 700 mirrors.

/// MANCHESTER

19 May – 18 November | MadLab
WordPress courses
Beginner, Intermediate, and advanced wordpress courses led by co-founder Mike Little.

25 – 26 June | MadLab
Hands-on with the Internet of Things
Everything from picking the right prototyping platform and means of device-device communication, through to different network protocols.

/// OXFORDSHIRE

5 – 7 August | Braziers Park
Supernormal 2016
Supernormal is a three-day, experimental arts and music festival taking place at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire.

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Senior and Junior full time and freelance positions available at ISO Design, Glasgow.

ISO is one of the UK’s leading digital design studios. We create large scale immersive media and interactive projects for cultural clients, brands and television.

A number of positions for 2D/3D MOTION GRAPHICS and INTERACTION DESIGNERS has opened up at our Glasgow studio.

Full time and flexible freelance contracts are available.

Based out of our new studios in Glasgow’s Merchant City you will be working alongside ISO’s Creative Directors and Production team to design a wide range of media projects for UK and international clients, developing high quality motion graphics and animation with innovative interactive experiences.

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MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGNERS (SENIOR)

Responsibilities:

As a senior designer your role would start at the concept stage of a project, and you would be involved right through to delivery. We would expect you to be capable of taking briefs and conceptualising and storyboarding creative approaches. You would lead the development of designs, animation, sometimes composite live action and 3D with motion graphics, typography and illustrative styles.

You will be client facing with excellent communication and presentation skills and be comfortable collaborating and leading other designers and the wider production team.

Presenting ideas, both to colleagues and to clients

Strong conceptual thinking and storytelling skills

Leading the development, preparation and delivery of creative proposals and pitches, generating style frames, storyboards and sample animation

Generating high quality animated and motion graphics content

Working closely with creative teams, content managers, scriptwriters, designers, creative technologists, producers and project managers

Working on multiple projects at once

Requirements:

Excellent Adobe CC skills (After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator)
Cinema 4D experience
5 years+ professional experience in a design, animation, interaction or games studio

Beneficial skills and experience:

Live action film direction or photography
UX / interface design
Information graphics or data visualisation
Experience of digital production pipelines and linear-to-interactive workflows
Video mapping or large scale media design
Character animation

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MOTION GRAPHICS AND INTERACTION DESIGNERS (JUNIOR)

Responsibilities:

As a studio designer you will enjoy working in a group and are fast learners and who show initiative and are willing to throw themselves into a challenge; that may be quickly learning a new piece of software, assisting on a live action shoot, double checking edits or digital assets before they are delivered or quickly developing a series of creative ideas to a client’s outline brief!

You will be working amongst ISO’s design and production teams to assist with the development of a wide range of work from linear animation and motion graphics (2D and 3D), illustration, graphic and brand development, UI and UX design and the development of digital assets for interactive software.

In return you will be gain invaluable experience across projects of vastly different scale and design ambition. These might might range from 360 degree film installations to television idents, large scale interactive environments to online animations.

The opportunities are varied so we are interested in people across a wide range of skillets.

Requirements

Good solid skills in Adobe CC skills (After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator)
2D / 3D motion graphic or animation experience
Evidence of working in larger digital production teams
Evidence of personally designed projects taken from brief to delivery
Good presentation, writing and communication skills
2 years+ professional experience in a design, animation, interaction or games studio

Beneficial skills and experience:

Live action film or photography experience as director or assistant
UX / interface design
Information graphics or data visualisation
Generative graphics
Visual effects and composition
Installation work
Illustration or character development work
Specialist 3D skils (modelling, lighting, texturing, animation, rendering etc)
Experience of runtime environments (Unity 3D, Unreal etc)
Creative coding

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Submission details:

- Cover letter indicating the job you are interested in, introducing yourself and explaining why you think you would be a good addition to the studio
- CV with two references
- Digital link to examples of your work
- Please include the reference CEN_MGSJ_01

Please forward to
opportunities@isodesign.co.uk

No agencies, thank you.

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OERSTED

RASMUS DANØ, SØREN HÜTTEL, DIRTY MAC, DAN MILLER, STEFF NORWOOD, KEV POLLOCK

Tree God, Mixed media on paper, 29cm x4 2cm, 2014. Image courtesy the artist (Photographer: Dan Miller).

Oersted will feature new work by six artists from Glasgow and Copenhagen. It will incorporate a wide range of media to create a dynamic and immersive audiovisual environment – a place of intermittent ocular and auricular experience.

The exhibition is named after the Danish chemist Hans Christian Oersted, who was the first person to produce aluminium in 1825. This discovery is directly linked to the industrial legacy of the site, which included the operation of an illegal smelt during the 1970’s. The title creates a dynamic link between the exhibition context and the manipulation of material, taking further inspiration from Oersted’s pioneering research into electromagnetism and acoustics.

Hopeful Landscape, Mixed media on paper, 11cm x 20cm, 2014. Image courtesy the artist (Photographer: Dan Miller).

Oersted is hosted and supported through WAVEparticle’s AiA (Artists in Arches) initiative, one of three dynamic spaces included in their Open Spaces programme. Over the past two years WAVEparticle have worked in partnership with the New Gorbals Housing Association and Urban Union to deliver the Art & Living: Laurieston strategic plan.

The inception of this project can be traced back to my first meeting with Rasmus Danø during the 2007 Supermarket art fair in Stockholm. We became firm friends and organised an exchange exhibition between Glasgow and Copenhagen in 2008. I first met Søren Hüttel during the installation of Through the Looking Glass at SWG3. It soon became clear that we all shared very similar artistic concerns and methodologies. Since 2008 we have exhibited together across Scandinavia, including Copenhagen, Malmø and Esbjerg.

I’ve worked collaboratively with Dirty Mac, Steff Norwood, Kev Pollock for the last ten years on a variety of collaborative projects and group exhibitions. The Cleland Lane arches provide the perfect context for the Glaswegian and Danish artists to work together on this ambitious large-scale project.

Spinalonga, Letterpress ink and lino cut on paper, 20cm x 25cm, 2014. Image courtesy the artist (Photographer: Dan Miller)

I’ll be working collaboratively with Dirty Mac to present a live audiovisual performance, concentrating on the themes of resolution, distortion and fidelity. I’m currently editing footage for a multi-channel synchronized video projection that will act as a catalyst for Mac’s sonic performance. For the exhibition I’ll be presenting a new series of digital banners and paintings. These allegorical works will investigate the legacy of capitalist realism and the territories of ratio and repetition.

OERSTED

RASMUS DANØ, SØREN HÜTTEL, DIRTY MAC, DAN MILLER, STEFF NORWOOD, KEV POLLOCK

Artists in Arches
Arches 1-3,
Cleland Lane,
Glasgow,
G5 9DS

Fri 8th April – Mon 25th April 2016
Mon – Sun, 1.30pm – 6pm

Preview Friday 8th April: 6pm
Live audiovisual performance Friday 8th April: 7pm

Scheduled performances will take place throughout the festival.
For more information and updates: www.oersted.industries

Supported by WAVEparticle and The Danish Arts Foundation.

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Ilka live for those special print making moments, from revealing designs on the screen when emulsion is washed away to mixing colours good enough to eat. Process is very important to them, there is no better feeling than seeing the journey of an initial idea transform to bold and colourful inks on quality paper.

Coordinator Laura tells us about this environment where she creates her print works. For more information and to get in touch with the studio follow the links below.

While we were setting up we tried out a few different screen printing studios before settling on East End Press. Starting up outright in in the screen printing business is very costly so we thought that if there was a way to print as often as we want and support another printer that would be the way to do it for now.

The studio itself is is an old factory building and the room is bright with big windows framing the east end of the city. There’s a metal drying wrack and every colour ink you can imagine. We keep ours in old jars of all shapes and sizes. We expose our screens behind some big red velvet curtains so it feels like going backstage at a show every time we go in there!

Sharing with Ellie at East End Press is a really good way to see what a fellow screen printer is doing and means we can talk about any issues that come up or problems we have.

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‘Where I Make’ invites readers behind the scenes of artists from many disciplines to share photographs and a little insight about where they create their masterpieces. See more from the series here.

Hello, My Name is Paul Smith is an in depth exploration of his world, allowing visitors to discover his process, his inspirations, and his genius. The exhibition follows the designer’s progress from the early 1970’s to the present day with many insights and highlights demonstrating what makes him such a prominent character in the fashion world and beyond.

Among the many examples of his iconic garment designs are his designs for shops and the original Paul Smith multi stripe Mini car. Walk into a replica of Smith’s office and recreation of his design studio to discover where the magic happens including his own collection of books and materials he draws inspiration from daily.

The exhibition is supported by Sony and The Herald, Creative Scotland and Glasgow City Council.

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I love working with anything I can get my hands on, print, wood, metal, textiles. It’s fun to make things which have some kind of interactive element which people can take part in. For example, squeezing your own lemonade or burning a paper mache goddess on a bonfire with baked potatoes in her belly to eat in a big feast. Making sculptures, or functional things or making food and music events all roll into one if they are all important, which I think they are.

At the moment I work mostly in clay and paint posters. I like throwing clay on the wheel, and sculpting on to them and paint them with coloured slip. I do not like to be too precious and there is so much to learn so I am constantly experimenting with shapes and paint differently as I go, ending up with quite a mixed bag of designs. I work to what I enjoy at the time, playing with mud is really fun… and it turns out I like to paint faces more than I thought. Some pieces are more like sculptures but their functionality is important to me because it can become part of your small everyday rituals and add beauty and happiness to a day and home.

I am exited to be collaborating with a woodworker right now as I think that collaborating is an interesting way to go with ceramics.

I have done a couple head cup painting workshops in my studio where people get a cup which has ears and they get to make it into whoever. I will be running new workshops in the new year…and am also planning to do more food/ceramic projects because to me they are always a good combination.

Look here for more information about the Firework Ceramic Studio.

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The third Lighthouse Late takes place on Friday 9 October with keynote speakers including:

Florian Urban, Professor and Head of Architectural and Urban Studies at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. Florian will be hosting a talk on post-war urban design in Berlin and Glasgow.

Michael Stumpf (GSA MFA graduate) will talk about the inspirations behind two recent projects:’This Song Belongs To Those Who Sing It‘ an exhibition and temporary public art commission at Glasgow School of Art, as part of Glasgow international 2014. ‘Objects Converse on a Matter of Mutual Concern‘, a temporary public art commission for Art Across the City 2015 in Swansea.

Designer Rebecca Torres (pictured above) will compare and contrast with her views on Glasgow as a city for building a design business. Specialising in the use of luxurious sports led fabrics, Rebecca is renowned for her ability to accentuate and empower the female form creating garments featuring enhanced fit, stretch and comfort.

All speakers will come together to discuss what makes Glasgow such great creative place to work in.

In addition to the line-up of speakers, four Scottish bands will play; FOUND, Apache Darling, The Spook School and Supermoon.

FOUND

Apache Darling

Also programming workshops, Tea Green Events will be carrying out jewellery up-cycling and Cogs + Wheels will be showing you how to use pre-loved items and turn them into useful objects.

Short film screenings include: the fully restored director’s cut of the expressionist science fiction drama film Metropolis (1927), directed by Fritz Lang and The Blue Angel (1930), the cult German tragicomedy directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich and Kurt Gerron.

Lighthouse Late runs on the evening of 24 October. For full details and to book tickets see the Lighthouse’s website here.

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This Autumn Glasgow welcomes Europe’s most prestigious visual art award. Tramway will host the Turner Prize, organised by Tate with an exhibition of works by the nominated artists: Assemble, Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers.

Assemble group

The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist under the age of 50 for an outstanding exhibition in the preceding year. Introducing us to new artists and ideas in contemporary art, previous winners include Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry and Gillian Wearing.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive programme of workshops, talks, tours and activities for people of all ages to get involved and be inspired by the creativity on show.

Given how many artists from Glasgow have made up the Turner Prize shortlists over recent years, it is great to have the Prize on show in Tramway, which feels like a natural home for the Prize this year.
- Dr Penelope Curtis, Director, Tate Britain

The winner of the prize will be announced on 7 December 2015.

Visit Tramway from 1 October 2015 – 17 January 2016 to see the show for free.

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