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11 July - 5 September 09
Launching a long-term project with artists Katy Dove, Simon Yuill and Luke Fowler.
The Changing Room is working with the University of Stirling to investigate their Grierson and McLaren archive and develop new work in web, music and film.
The exhibition explores the working relationship between Stirling born Norman McLaren and John Grierson, as a starting point for the contemporary artists’ new works.
John Grierson, the ‘father of documentary’ and Norman McLaren, an Oscar-winning experimental filmmaker, animator and artist were brought up in Stirling and both attended Stirling High School. Grierson’s contribution to the development of film is well documented but he also had an important role in shaping McLaren’s career. From 1935, when McLaren was a student at the Glasgow School of Art, he won first prize at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival from a jury led by Grierson. The following year Grierson invited him to London to work in the creative hothouse that was the GPO film unit. Several years later Grierson brought McLaren to Canada and set him up with his own studio and full artistic freedom at the National Film Board, which Grierson had established in 1941.
12 September - 24 October 09
Throughout his career, Alasdair Gray’s work in art and literature have been interwoven paths, overlapping in form and content.
Born in Glasgow in 1934, he has worked as a teacher, painter, illustrator, playwright, scene painter, essayist, poet, novelist and muralist (the latest being the monumental decoration of Glasgow’s Oran Mor), among other roles. A prolific writer, with 18 published books to his name, and a winner of the Whitbread and Guardian book prizes.
This exhibition focuses on 2 series of work: illustrations for his own poems in Old Negatives first published in 1989; and The Scot’s Hippo print series Gray’s adaptation of the TS Eliot poem The Hippopotamus from 2007.
www.alasdairgray.co.uk
TALK by Rodge Glass
15 September / 7.30pm / £8/£6
SCREENING
Alasdair Gray 0 - 70
12 September, Tolbooth Auditorium
4pm / Free
A rare chance to see this 25 minute long documentary made for BBC Scotland celebrating Alasdair Gray's seventieth birthday. In this elegant and imaginative film Gray reflects on his life to date and comes face to face with his harshest critic - himself.
Directed by Kevin Cameron and produced by John Archer.
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