#exhbitions

Was very inspired earlier by the wonderful art on display at the new Mackintosh exhibition in Glasgow St Enoch centre featuring works influenced by and in tribute to Mackintosh by teenagers from several of the city's schools. Featuring art and design pieces using paint, print, sculpture and textiles from 13 to 17 year olds, it was both eye-opening and exciting to see such creative, skilled and ambitious expression from such young artists, and by extension, what young minds and hands in such early stages of their creative practice can achieve when given the time and space to try, and try again, and flourish.

However, it was also a little sad to realise that for many, likely even the vast majority of these budding artists, this stage and this exhibition may well be as far as they go within the form as they are encouraged away from creative expression, due to the ever more strict capitalistic system of education and work requirements we all now live under, and into other more cutthroat and dare I say machinistic endeavours due to the need to provide for themselves and their families - unless they're independently wealthy enough not to have to worry about such small issues. (Which is a whole other issue...!)

As a working-class person I guess it was something I found very striking and emotive as well on multiple levels.

I would in any case though highly recommend it to anyone in Glasgow to nip in and take a look at the work on display in the space, and perhaps feel inspired yourself. It's free entry of course. You can, as well as viewing the works, vote for your favourite piece in two categories which comes with a prize of being displayed on the centre's website. An exposure prize, yes, but in some small way, one which might inspire the successful student to pursue art and reach some of the heights the potentials clearly on show here suggest capacity for, even in their spare time or part time if afraid to, in these socially insecure times, commit fully. (I guess also, on a more negative note, a taster of what rewards many professional artists can look forward to :/)

In the abstract, I'm proud of what's there and to see what young people - from ALL backgrounds - when given the chance and the confidence can achieve. These kinds of projects are in my view exactly the kinds that schools should be taking time for and societies making space for. I was reminded of the maxim of it taking a village to raise a child, well, this was a city actively choosing to similarly, even within a capitalistic haven, give space for something different specifically to uplift and enrich its young people and its community. It’s nice to see. The exhibition is on the ground floor near the Argyle street entrance of the St Enoch shopping centre, and open from now until September 23rd.

A free exhibition of cartoonist and illustrator Sir Quentin Blake‘s memories of the 1951 Festival of Britain at London’s Southbank Centre opens next month. The much-loved illustrator and author has turned his recollections of Festival into a new installation for you to discover across the site. With these illustrations, created as part of the South Bank’s 75th anniversary celebrations, Sir…

The pandemic has really created a stop and struggle on my GARP, making it hard to find new information to research, no events and little to know culture with a national lockdown on the country. I really would like to squeeze as much information out of this time as I could. 

At this current time, businesses are beginning to reopen and I feel in a comfortable enough position to possibly have a look around to see what I can find. 

The Open Eye Gallery as I am aware from Instagram, have just again reopened their doors, with also online exhibitions. 

An exhibition called, “You Out Tonight?” they have on currently in the outdoor atrium space. This seems to be tied to newspaper, Bido Lito. they have opened up their photographic archive. I would like to visit this in real life to really get a taste of it however with what I can see online I’m going to report my thoughts and connections to my own project with it on this blog.

Homage is being paid to the work of futuristic fashion designer, Pierre Cardin with the first retrospective of his work to be held New York City in forty years. The exhibition “Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion” opened on July 20, 2019, at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. According to an article on the Observer.com website the fiftieth anniversary of man’s first walk on the moon was chosen as the opening date because “the Brooklyn Museum wanted to infuse space exploration into the exhibition, starting with the day of opening.” The museum also wished to acknowledge the designer’s infatuation with space and the influence that space and science-fiction had on his vision.

Ths show boasts 170 objects including many from Cardin’s personal collections. Fashions from his 1964 Cosmocorps collection will be on display.

“Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion” runs at the Brooklyn Museum until January 5, 2020. For more information on the show visit www.brooklynmuseum.org.

More about the Pierre Cardin exhibition on Observer.com.

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