Between Islands exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio

The Scotsman

BETWEEN ISLANDS FIRST FLOOR GALLERY GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO 2 AUGUST - 28 SEPTEMBER 2024  Glasgow Print Studio             Graphic Studio Dublin Gregor Smith                     Yoko Akino Lin Chau                             Elke Thönnes Marion MacPhee             Niall Naessens   Curated by James Murphy (GPS) and Peter Brennan (GSD)  Glasgow Print Studio is delighted to partner with Graphic Studio Dublin for this exhibition, featuring three artists from each studio working in land and seascapes.  The exhibition will subsequently show in Dublin from October 26th to November 30th.    The selection of exhibiting artists was made blind by each studio, with a common thematic approach found to emerge naturally. The artists' distinct visions are interrelated through this theme and employ a range of techniques that encompass monotype, etching, carborundum, mezzotint, mokuhanga and digital. Their practices are supported by this introduction to new audiences and the collaboration also fosters development of the relationship between the studios.  Glasgow Print Studio was founded in 1972 as an artist-led initiative providing accessible workshop facilities and later a gallery space for artists making original prints. Now, as an internationally acclaimed centre of excellence in fine art printmaking, GPS promotes contemporary and innovative printmaking and supports the development and expression of artists' practices. Its state-of-the-art workshop lies at the centre of its activities, which encompass publishing and exhibition programmes, print sales, courses and an archive.  Graphic Studio Dublin and its Gallery enable artists to create and exhibit work in the medium of fine art print. The studio was set up in 1960 and the gallery in 1988. They are the largest print studio and gallery dedicated to promoting fine art print in Ireland. They provide tangible assistance to artists through their original printmaking studio facility, exhibition schedule, private commissions, collaborative programming, visiting artist program, and courses.

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00:00Hi, I'm James Murphy, I'm the commercial director with Glasgow Print Studio.

00:29So we're here in Glasgow Print Studio in Trongate 103 in Glasgow's Merchant City and we're here

00:34to present a new exhibition called Between Islands, which is a collaboration between

00:38ourselves and Graphic Studio Dublin.

00:41So our first collaboration with Graphic Studio, we're delighted to be working with them.

00:46They're a historic print-based organisation like ourselves, they were constituted in 1960

00:53with their gallery starting in 1988, similar to ourselves we're going since 1972.

00:59So it's an opportunity for the studios to build a relationship with each other and also

01:05in terms of the individual artists, it's giving them an international platform in order to

01:11kind of expose their work to different audiences.

01:13Six artists in total, so the way that we approached the show from a curatorial point of view was

01:19we made blind selections of the artists, myself and my compatriot over in Graphic Studio Dublin.

01:28We picked according to sort of what kind of artists we thought we might like to show and

01:34then a theme naturally emerged from that selection.

01:38We ended up with six artists in total, three per studio, and our theme was Between Islands,

01:43which was essentially landscape and seascape work.

01:47The show covers a range of techniques, which I think shows a good spread of printmaking

01:54styles and approaches, everything from kind of etching through chinkalay, there's a bit

02:00of mokuhanga, various other techniques as well.

02:03So our hope is that it kind of creates a sort of a cohesive identity under which we can

02:11kind of look at the different artists' approaches to the theme.

02:14It is free.

02:15It's free to everyone to visit any time between our opening hours, which are 10 to 5.30 Tuesday

02:21to Saturday.

02:22We open on Friday the 2nd and it's open until Saturday the 28th of September.

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