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  • [Synonym] Session #2: Ten_tacles/drils

    [Synonym] Session #2: Ten_tacles/drils

    This month’s [synonym] session at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow explored ‘Life Bestowing Cadaverous Soooooooooooooooooooooooot’ a research exhibition and live programme by Rae-Yen Song. Inviting the viewer to engage with ideas of speculating on the potentials of world-building through a multitude of sensory artworks, prototypes, experiments, artefacts, models, and research practices. With this in… Read more

  • Studio Chats with Niamh J McFarlane: Paint it like a Polaroid Picture

    Studio Chats with Niamh J McFarlane: Paint it like a Polaroid Picture

    Days go by, one after the other, memories of yesterday’s dinner vanish alongside moments that our cranial philosophy deems forgettable. So, she logs and remembers, using the captured moment to fill her mind with the shimmering water whose ripples are convexed by the solar light; remembering how she made that high-pitched squeak at the end… Read more

  • [Synonym] session: 5 words

    [Synonym] session: 5 words

    With a very successful first [synonym] session we wanted to use this space to share the amazing creativity that came out of the writing session. To kick-off this event we decided to use Tramway, Glasgow, where we responded to Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran’s exhibition ‘Idols of Mud and Water’. Analysis, evaluation and critique of Nithiyendran’s artwork… Read more

  • RESPONSE: HEADS NOR TAIL(S) MELLA SHAW’S sOUNDING LINE

    RESPONSE: HEADS NOR TAIL(S) MELLA SHAW’S sOUNDING LINE

    As contemporary art continues to transform into conduits of critically constructed stories and revelations regarding this noticeably ephemeral globe and its inhabitants – art proceeds to creatively transform the elements around us including those that would be considered rare or impossible to obtain. Edinburgh-based ceramicist, Mella Shaw, for Sounding-Line has produced a rare combined medium… Read more

  • Response: Foreign Objects by rowan walker

    Response: Foreign Objects by rowan walker

    The stark entrance of the downstairs basement, the long corridor with clinical white light shadowing the floor from adjacent rooms. The history steeped in the walls of this 19th-century veterinary teaching hospital, Summerhall, Edinburgh, the exhibition ’Foreign Objects’ by artist Rowan Walker, as a part of ‘FORM: A season of exhibitions by female contemporary sculptors’… Read more

  • Studio chats : Nishi Chodimella

    Studio chats : Nishi Chodimella

    It is 1pm on December 4th and GalBag are in the studio of the interdisciplinary artist Nishi Chodimella. The location is Edinburgh College of Art, to reach the studio space one must access the lobby, gawk and walk through The Sculpture Court, nip through Corridor C30 connecting to Stairwell 6. The incline is breathy and… Read more