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WELCOME GENERATION is a landmark series of exhibitions tracing the remarkable development of contemporary art in Scotland over the last 25 years. Presenting works by over 100 artists in more than 60 galleries, exhibition spaces and venues the length and breadth of Scotland, it shines a spotlight on the period that has seen the country develop a truly international reputation as a distinguished centre for contemporary art.

Here, we highlight the astonishing breadth and richness of work included in GENERATION, and we place the individual GENERATION exhibitions within the broader context of Scottish culture over the last quarter century, highlighting links between art and film, music, football and science.

Turn to page 26 for a full listing of all of GENERATION’s wealth of shows.

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CONTENTS

ONLINE AND MOBILE

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ArtHunter is a free mobile phone app for art lovers, being taken over by GENERATION for the duration of the shows. Use ArtHunter to capture featured GENERATION artworks across Scotland, and unlock bonus content, video, audio and high-resolution images to come back to whenever you want. Plan your explorations, and share your progress with friends as you go.

ArtHunter is free and available for both Android and iOS phones.

Ten GENERATION events you shouldn’t miss

6 STEPHEN PASTEL The Pastels frontman looks back on 25 years of Glasgow’s music and art scene

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8 25 YEARS OF ART IN SCOTLAND

ONLINE

The big names and big events from 1989 to 2014

Visit generationartscotland.org for more information on GENERATION, including full exhibition and event listings, exclusive features, behind-the-scenes videos and artist profiles. And sign up to the GENERATION newsletter for the most up-to-date information.

12 DAVID SHRIGLEY Ten things you didn’t know . . .

14 THE GREAT OUTDOORS We round up GENERATION’s al fresco art

TWITTER Follow GENERATION @genartscot

FACEBOOK facebook.com/generationartscotland

16 KATIE PATERSON Art, science and humour combine in the Glasgow-born artist’s poetic works

CONTRIBUTORS Project Editors David Kettle, Gail Tolley

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Production Manager Simon Armin

How top artists have worked with (or in) some of Scotland’s most influential bands

Senior Designer Lucy Munro Picture Researcher Jaclyn Arndt Subeditor Paul McLean, Claire Ritchie

21 THE BEAUTIFUL GAME Why some of Scotland’s leading artists can’t get enough of five-a-side

Editorial Assistant Cassie Burke Writers Rachael Cloughton, Neil Cooper, Malcolm Jack, David Kettle, Hannah McGill, David Pollock Partnership Director Sheri Friers

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Digital Director Simon Dessain

From skateboarding to visual art – how Toby Paterson was influenced by the city around him

Publisher Robin Hodge

24 ART AT THE MOVIES What’s the difference between video art and feature films? And does it even matter?

26 DIRECTORY Full GENERATION exhibition listings, plus map

Published by The List Ltd in association with the National Galleries of Scotland HEAD OFFICE 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE Tel: 0131 550 3050 list.co.uk © 2014 The List Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission in writing of The List Ltd. Printed by Stephens & George

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ANTHONY SCHRAG: PLAYTIME / PLACETIME Inspired by Aberdeen’s own gallery collection moving location, Zimbabweborn Schrag documents a series of energetic events focused around movement – climbing walls, scaling drainpipes, rolling down a hill. ▲ Aberdeen Gallery and Museum, Sat 19 Jul–Sat 16 Aug.

DALZIEL + SCULLION: TUMADH: IMMERSION With a sister show at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios, Dundee-based Dalziel + Scullion transform Stornoway’s An Lanntair into an immersive environment, using sound and touch to find new connections with the natural world. ▲ An Lanntair, Stornoway, Wed 6 Jul–Sun 31 Aug.

JOANNE TATHAM & TOM O’SULLIVAN

ARTIST ROOMS: DOUGLAS GORDON

New and evolving sculptural constructions across Skye as well as a public programme bringing together thinkers and practitioners in art, architecture and visual culture, all timed to coincide with Portree’s Highland Games. ▲ ATLAS, Isle of Skye, Wed 6 Aug– Tue 30 Sep.

Film works and text-based installations from the renowned Glasgow-born artist, who also has Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from about 1992 until Now at Glasgow’s GoMA. ▲ Caithness Horizons, Thurso, until Sat 11 Oct.

RACHEL MACLEAN: HAPPY AND GLORIOUS A new, darkly humorous cinematic show on national identity, class and empire from the Glasgow-based artist, including her Margaret Tait prize-winning film A Whole New World (pictured). ▲ CCA, Glasgow, until Sun 13 Jul.

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STUDIO JAMMING: ARTISTS’ COLLABORATIONS IN SCOTLAND The construction of a new arts hub in Dundee’s Cooper Gallery is the starting point for a monthlong exploration of artistic collaboration, with artists and groups including Graham Eatough and Graham Fagen (pictured), Full Eye, Ganghut and Henry VIII’s Wives. ▲ Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Sat 28 Jun–Sat 2 Aug.

KATY DOVE Drawings, paintings and innovative animations exploring the connections between sound and image, here based around medicinal plants and Duff House’s former life as a sanatorium. ▲ Duff House, Banff, Sat 26 Jul– Sat 23 Aug.

LORNA MACINTYRE: MOUNT STUART 2014 New, seasonsinspired works from the Glasgow-born artist installed in the Victorian neo-gothic Mount Stuart house (pictured) and gardens, taking as their starting point the house’s stained glass and circular ceiling windows. ▲ Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Sun 6 Jul–Fri 31 Oct.

ZOE WALKER & NEIL BROMWICH: ORCADIA & OTHER STORIES A survey of 15 years of the pair’s work, plus a new sculptural work bringing together archaeology, mythology, energy production and the ancient Orcadian culture. ▲ Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Sat 21 Jun–Sat 23 Aug.

STEVEN HURREL: NORTH SEA HITCH Glasgow-based Hurrel documents his hitchhiking trip around the coast of northern Scotland using local fishing boats, bringing together the images, sounds and histories of seafarers and their communities. ▲ Timespan, Helmsdale, Sutherland, until Sun 31 Aug.

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STEPHEN PASTEL

'I always feel really proud when Glasgow people are on the Turner Prize shortlist'

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Malcolm Jack takes a trip to Glasgow’s renowned record store Monorail to chat with The Pastels’ Stephen McRobbie about Glasgow’s thriving music and art scene

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here’s an eerie sense of poignancy in the air on the day I meet The Pastels’ singer, songwriter and guitarist Stephen McRobbie to discuss cross-pollination and synergy between the Scottish music and art worlds from a musician’s perspective. As we speak at café-bar Mono, home to the renowned record store Monorail, which McRobbie coowns, across town a fire is gutting the iconic Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Glasgow School of Art, leaving uncertain its future as a crucial and cherished fulcrum of creativity for the city and the nation at large.

‘It’s terrible.’ McRobbie frowns. But he’s confident of the GSA’s deep significance, not just within the art world, but all areas. ‘People feel proud of that building and proud of the art school’s standing in the world,’ he says. ‘The quality of work that it’s produced, the people that have come through it. We all feed off it on a day-to-day basis in a way we don’t consider.

It’s a beautiful and important building and I’m sure it will be restored. The people factor will be the key.’

One of The Pastels’ long-term ex-members Annabel Wright is a former GSA student, and she continues to design sleeves for the band’s records, up to their 2014 Scottish Album of the Year Award-nominated Slow Summits. As leaders of a very DIY-minded independent guitar music scene that grew up out of post-punk in the 1980s, and as a band who steadfastly remained rooted in Glasgow at a time when the norm was to move down to London in search of a record deal, they’ve been credited as an inspiration to fellow musicians and visual artists alike.

‘A few years back I interviewed Toby Paterson (2002 Becks Futures prize-winning painter) for a piece in a Japanese magazine about the connections between music and art,’

McRobbie explains. ‘Toby said his generation of artists that came off the environmental art course at Glasgow School of Art, they had a strong desire to stay in Glasgow afterwards, and one of the things they felt influenced by was groups like The Pastels, and then Teenage Fanclub and Mogwai staying in Glasgow.

Artists like Toby thought: “Well, if those bands were able to stay in Scotland and be successful, surely we should be able to as well?”’

There is, as McRobbie puts it, ‘shared understanding of situations’ between musicians and artists. ‘Being broke for one,’ he laughs, ‘and having to improvise.’ Certain musicians take a very artistic approach to songwriting.

‘If you look at a band like Muscles of Joy,’ says McRobbie, mentioning a group featuring several GENERATION artists including Sophie Macpherson, Victoria Morton and Katy Dove, ‘their approach to music is very different.

It’s not like they’re starting out jamming “Louie Louie” or whatever, or however we all started. It starts in quite a conceptual way.’

Between the lines of music and art in Scotland are the many people in what McRobbie calls the ‘blur’. ‘There are people who have gone to or been around Glasgow School of Art, but they’re more known for their music, like Franz Ferdinand. Then there’s music people who are better recognised for their art, like Ross Sinclair (former drummer with the Soup Dragons) and Jim Lambie (ex-member of the Boy Hairdressers, who would later become Teenage Fanclub).

‘I always feel really proud when Glasgow people are on the Turner Prize shortlist and I know that, be it someone like Jim Lambie or David Shrigley, they love that connection between art and music,’ McRobbie reflects.

‘It’s not unique to Glasgow and to Scotland, but it is very strong here.’

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25 YEARS OF ART

25 YEARS OF ART IN SCOTLAND

David Pollock surveys the defining moments in Scottish art over the last quarter century

1989 David Harding and Sam Ainsley’s environmental art course at the Glasgow School of Art has recently been established, changing how art education in the country is perceived. Its earliest students (including Douglas Gordon, Martin Boyce and Christine Borland) would go on to form the first wave of internationally acclaimed artists from the city, founding a DIY aesthetic that’s particular to Glasgow.

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1990 As part of the Capital of Culture celebration, the Tramway is opened on Glasgow’s Southside, going on to become one of the city’s major gallery spaces. In 2015 it will host the Turner Prize ceremony, the first time it’s been held in Scotland.

Douglas Gordon wins the Turner Prize, upsetting the arts establishment in the country, with Confessions of a Justified Sinner, a video work that contemplates a filmed version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

1990 Glasgow is the European Capital of Culture, sparking regeneration of the city’s cultural infrastructure which sets it up for the next two and a half decades as an emerging hub of the UK art world.

1993 Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho opens at the Tramway, a slowingdown of the Hitchcock thriller Psycho to a rate of two frames a second, stretching it out to 24 hours in length. It will go on to become one of the defining and most talkedabout Scottish works of its time.

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25 YEARS OF ART

1999 Indie rock group Life Without Buildings form at Glasgow School of Art, their singer being the now highly regarded artist Sue Tompkins. Although they split in 2002, their only album Any Other City is recognised as an under-the-radar classic.

2005 Essex-born, GSA-educated Simon Starling wins the Turner Prize for shedboatshed, which sees him convert a shed into a boat and back again, sailing it down the Rhine in the process.

>>> 1997 Henry VIII's Wives forms. An international collective of Glasgow School of Art graduates, it includes Rachel Dagnall, Bob Grieve, Sirko Knüpfer, Simon Polli, Per Sander and Lucy Skaer. In 2002 they ambitiously build a 1:1 scale of the Orkney Neolithic settlement Skara Brae, entitled Light Without Shadow.

2005 2004 An annual event timed to take place during Edinburgh’s festivals season, the Edinburgh Art Festival is established. Within a decade of its opening it will go on to bill itself as the UK’s largest annual celebration of visual art, with somewhere in the region of a quarter of a million people attending every year.

Glasgow International begins, a wellrespected biennial festival that has developed a glowing reputation for a mixture of Scottish and international shows and new commissions.

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25 YEARS OF ART

2008 2005 Franz Ferdinand’s top-five second album comeback single ‘Do You Want To’ declares: ‘Here we are at the Transmission party / I love your friends, they’re all so arty.’ It’s a reference to the independent King Street gallery that has been a fixture of the city’s contemporary art scene since 1983.

Correcto release their eponymous and only album on the UK independent label Domino, home of their drummer Paul Thomson’s band Franz Ferdinand. Their guitarist was Richard Wright, the Glasgow School of Art-educated architectural painter.

2010 Douglas Gordon designs a bespoke cover for The List (pictured) to tie in with Glasgow International.

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by Mogwai, Douglas Gordon’s Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait follows the French footballer Zinedine Zidane for 90 minutes of a match playing for Real Madrid. The film will go on to impress football fans and an arthouse crowd alike.

Londoner and graduate of Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art Richard Wright wins the Turner Prize for the intricate golden wall mural no title.

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25 YEARS OF ART

2014 The Commonwealth Games come to Glasgow, sparking a renewed cultural investment to match that which occurred in 1990 and bringing the nation’s artists to the fore, including the Scotland-wide celebration of contemporary art, GENERATION.

2013 The extensively redeveloped Vic Bar (pictured) – Glasgow School of Art’s student union and one of the city’s most vibrant cultural hubs – reopens, to be followed the year after by the Reid Building, whose foyer contains a new permanent work by Martin Boyce. Sadly a few months later, the school's renowned Mackintosh building is badly damaged in a fire.

2015 2011 Hamilton’s Martin Boyce wins the Turner Prize, the third victor in a row with a connection to Glasgow.

His installation Do Words Have Voices is an abstract recreation of a child’s playground in metal and paper.

2014 Continuing an annual tradition of at least one artist from the city being nominated, three of this year’s four Turner Prizenominated artists (Duncan Campbell, Ciara Phillips and Tris Vonna-Michell) have connections with Glasgow.

The Turner Prize will come to Scotland for the first time, hosted

by Tramway.

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DAVID SHRIGLEY

TEN THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT . . .

DAVID SHRIGLEY He’s the guy that does those funny cartoons, right? Well, he’s also a rocker, an outsider, a music video director and an opera librettist, as Malcolm Jack reveals . . .

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HE’S NOT SCOTTISH . . .

Although he’s considered to be one of Scotland’s most treasured and celebrated artists, David Shrigley actually hails from Macclesfield, England, and grew up in Leicestershire. So there.

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BUT HE STUDIED AT THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART . . .

Like many of Scotland’s most renowned creatives, Shrigley was drawn to Glasgow by the GSA, aged 20, where he studied environmental art from 1988 to 1991. He’s been based in the city more or less ever since.

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HE’S DESIGNED COVER ART FOR RECORDS BY SEVERAL ARTISTS . . . including Deerhoof, Ballboy, Malcolm Middleton and Jason Mraz.

HE’S DIRECTED MUSIC VIDEOS . . . for Blur’s ‘Good Song’ and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s ‘Agnes, Queen of Sorrow’.

HE EVEN HAS A DISCOGRAPHY OF HIS OWN . . .

In 2006, Shrigley’s first spoken-word album Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others was released. In 2007, artists including David Byrne, Liars, Grizzly Bear and R. Stevie Moore set his book Worried Noodles to music.

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HE'S A SELF-PROCLAIMED ‘OUTSIDER’ IN THE ART WORLD . . .

Shrigley’s trademark cartoons – bizarre, funny, crudely hand-drawn things usually accompanied by a deadpan caption – have become instantly recognisable the world over, and have seen him branch out into a whole variety of fields from spoken-word recordings to filmmaking. But to some, not least Shrigley himself, his humorous unorthodoxy places him on the margins of the art establishment.

HE STILL GOT A TURNER PRIZE NOMINATION IN 2013, MIND YOU . . .

For his solo exhibition Brain Activity at the Hayward Gallery in London. Highlights included a taxidermied dog holding a sign announcing ‘I’M DEAD’.

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SHRIGLEY’S A RENOWNED ROCK’N’ROLLER . . .

He’s a big music fan who can often be spotted out at gigs around Glasgow, and many of Shrigley’s best-known works have involved projects for or collaborations with musicians.

AND HE ONCE MADE AN OPERA . . .

In 2011 Shrigley’s Pass The Spoon – a ‘sort-of-opera’ as it was billed – debuted at the Tramway in Glasgow. Co-created in a collaboration with Magnetic North and composer David Fennessy, with Shrigley writing the libretto and designing the poster, it was based on TV cookery shows. In classic surreal Shrigley style, characters included an egg, a banana and a giant turd.

IN 2016, SHRIGLEY’S SCULPTURE REALLY GOOD – A TEN-METRE-HIGH BRONZE-CAST HAND GIVING A DISPROPORTIONATELY LONG THUMBS-UP – WILL BE INSTALLED ON THE EMPTY FOURTH PLINTH IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE . . .

It’s a ‘cost-effective way’, hopes Shrigley, of making ‘Trafalgar Square, London, the UK and the world a better place’. Not bad for an outsider.

▲ David Shrigley’s work is featured in GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jun–Sun 2 Nov.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ART

THE GREAT O Stretching from Scotland’s inner cities to its island peripheries, GENERATION’s outdoor the historical monuments that mark it, to our complex, if sometimes tense,

RUTH EWAN & ASTRID JOHNSTON: MEMORIALMANIA Memorialmania is an alternative audio guide around Edinburgh’s Calton Hill. The tour begins at the foot of the hill, at the Black Bull pub, and from there, Tam Dean Burn’s voice gently guides audiences up the incline, peppering the journey with stories about the glaciated landscape.

Fellow narrator Ruth Milne occasionally interjects with poetic interludes. Even locals will look again. ▲ Collective, Edinburgh, until Wed 31 Dec.

JOANNE TATHAM AND TOM O’SULLIVAN On the Isle of Skye, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan are creating a body of work that responds to the question of what it means to be local in an island context. The artists will create temporary sculptures that will surround two historic towers on the isle. Across the water on the neighbouring island of North Uist, the duo will also present an exhibition of photographs at the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre. ▲ ATLAS Arts, Portree, Wed 6 Aug–Tue 30 Sep.

CRAIG COULTHARD, LAURA ALDRIDGE, DAVID SHERRY, MANDY MCINTOSH & HANNA TUULIKKI: TRAVELLING GALLERY The Travelling Gallery is exactly that – a coachload of artworks, including ceramics, wall hangings, digital animations, drawings, sculptures and film, with a quintet of Scottish-based artists on board. It’s scheduled to stop at Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Edinburgh, Nairn and South Ayrshire, with more destinations to be announced. ▲ On tour around Scotland, Wed 23 Jul–Sat 15 Nov.

DALZIEL + SCULLION: TUMADH: IMMERSION 322 miles separate Dalziel + Scullion’s ambitious dual-site work. Both shows – one on the Isle of Lewis, the other in Edinburgh’s city centre – will turn the galleries into immersive spaces filled with sounds and tactile qualities inspired by each site, bridging the gap in a show that alludes to pilgrimage, cleansing and transformation. ▲ An Lanntair, Stornoway, Sun 6 Jul–Sun 31 Aug; Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug–Sat 13 Sep.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ART

T OUTDOORS projects celebrate the country’s inspiring landscape – from its extraordinary geology and relationship with the environment. Rachael Cloughton picks some of the highlights

TESSA LYNCH: RAISING

KENNY HUNTER: THE SINGING OF SWANS

Re-enacting the tradition of barn-raising, a medieval form of home construction, Tessa Lynch and a team of volunteers will erect and then deconstruct a temporary space within the lush grounds of Jupiter Artland. These dwellings, each made within the space of a day, will then serve as settings for discussions surrounding the current restrictions on home planning and development. ▲ Jupiter Artland, near Edinburgh, Thu 17 Jul– Sun 28 Sep.

These are two elegant sculptures in the grounds of 18th-century Adam-designed Paxton House in the Scottish borders. Black Swan is a giant bird overlooking the River Tweed, and Like Water in Water is a deer with water flowing from a wound in its shoulder. There are also workshops during the summer and opportunities to meet the sculptor. ▲ Paxton House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Sat 21 Jun–Fri 31 Oct.

ALEX FROST: THE PATRONS

ILANA HALPERIN: LEARNING TO READ ROCKS

Amid Cove Park’s 50-acre rural site, Alex Frost will produce a copy of the Kibble Palace, the iconic glass-domed building in Glasgow’s Botanical Gardens. Frost’s work focuses on the theme of cultural patronage and the distinction between the Victorian and contemporary models of support for the arts, and his commission also includes a series of temporary sculptures across the whole site. ▲ Cove Park, Cove, Sat 21 Jun–Fri 26 Sep.

JMW Turner, Joseph Beuys and Matthew Barney have all found creative inspiration in the Outer Hebrides, and Ilana Halperin will exhibit a new body of work influenced by the same captivating location. Learning to Read Rocks is the result of research visits to Mull, where Halperin examined ancient geological sites. There will also be new works displayed in locations across Mull and Iona. ▲ An Tobar, Tobermory, until Sat 26 Jul.

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KATIE PATERSON

FLY ME TO THE MOON

Glasgow-born Katie Paterson’s thoughtful art works tackle complex scientific issues with playfulness and poetry. David Kettle speaks to the woman who broadcast Beethoven to the moon

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fragment of moon rock sent on an ‘orbit’ of the Earth via airfreight courier; billions of years of fossil history embedded within a simple necklace; Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata sent to the moon and back. Glasgow-born Katie Paterson’s startling works tackle some of the biggest scientific questions around – in evolution, cosmology, ecology, genetics – with an astonishing sense of poetry.

‘It wasn’t as if I was a science boffin at school – quite the opposite,’ she admits.

‘My interest came a few years ago when I lived in Iceland, and I got a sense of the expansiveness of nature: the blackness of the sky, the brightness of the midnight sun, the vast landscapes, the energy.’ The country itself played a vital role in subsequent works: Vatnajökull (the sound of), for example, invited viewers to call a mobile number to hear the creaking and cracking of the eponymous Icelandic glacier through a microphone she’d submerged in its lagoon.

Since then, Paterson has established a network of scientific contacts throughout the planet to inspire and advise on her work, as well as taking on artist-in-residence positions at University College London and the Sanger Institute, Cambridge. ‘I’ve adopted a very bold approach, so that I find people through their subject areas, and I just contact them directly asking for specific advice on, say, a gamma ray burst.’

For her Jupiter Artland installation, Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon) (pictured right, top), Paterson translated Beethoven’s moody piano sonata into Morse code, transmitted it to the moon’s surface using radio waves, then reconstructed a musical score (performed by a ghostly, playerless digital grand piano) from the corrupted, incomplete signal she received back. ‘There were plenty of technical challenges, and a network of people involved. Moonbouncers are quite an underground community, but eventually I worked with quite an authority in the field, who sent the signal from Southampton and received it in Sweden.’

Her second GENERATION show, Ideas, is an extensive exhibition at Edinburgh’s Ingleby Gallery, and it includes her deceptively simple Fossil Necklace (pictured right, middle), which captures the history of life on Earth in a single string of beads, as well as Second Moon (pictured right, bottom). ‘I’ve posted a fragment of the moon around the Earth, and it’s going to be touching down at the exhibition after having been in the air for a year, being shipped around the planet. Almost everything you can imagine has happened with it – it’s been stuck at customs, it’s been through quarantine, and we’re always on the phone to UPS. There’s a lot of the absurd in the piece.’

Jupiter Artland, Thu 17 Jul–Sun 28 Sep; Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Fri 27 Jun–Sat 27 Sep.

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SCIENCE-INSPIRED ARTISTS

KATIE PATERSON

TAKE 5 – PAUL CARTER – Many of Carter’s works deal with science and faith: in one project, he sent a message up into space (for extraterrestrials or even God), but there’s been no reply as yet. ▲ Icaro Menippus [X2], Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Sat 2–Sun 31 Aug.

– DALZIEL + SCULLION – Their work explores mankind's relationship with nature and our interaction with the planet's ecology. ▲ Tumadh: Immersion, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Sun 6 Jul– Sun 31 Aug; Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug–Sat 13 Sep.

– ILANA HALPERIN – Ancient geology, tectonic plates and the birthdays of volcanoes inform Halperin’s works. ▲ Learning to Read Rocks, An Tobar, Tobermory, until Sat 26 Jul.

– CHRISTINE BORLAND – Forensic science informed Borland’s early work, and later pieces ask how we establish scientific fact. ▲ GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Sat 28 Jun–Sun 2 Nov.

– STEVEN HURREL – North Sea Hitch explores our relationship to the natural world. ▲ Timespan, Helmsdale, Sutherland, until Sun 31 Aug.

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SOUND & IMAGE

THE ART OF NOISE Whether it’s music inspiring Scotland’s visual artists, or the artists themselves making the music, the cross-pollination between the two genres has produced some of GENERATION’s most memorable works. Malcolm Jack picks a few key figures who straddle the worlds of sound and image

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oes Scotland’s art step to the beat of the nation’s music scene, or is it the musicians who draw inspiration from Scotland’s artists? It’s never easy to tell, and that’s one of Scottish art’s defining strengths. There are countless examples of Scottish or Scotland-trained or based artists who work with, draw inspiration from or operate in parallel to music – be it by featuring music in (or indeed as) their art, collaborating with musicians, playing in their own bands, or running labels or venues. Here are just a few examples of prominent Scottish artists who blur the lines between aural and visual creativity.

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ROSS SINCLAIR

SUE TOMPKINS

Kilcreggan-based Sinclair first emerged as drummer with indie band the Soup Dragons, an experience that he says ‘has informed all the art I’ve made since’. His new show at Collective Gallery involves giving free drum kits and guitars to teenagers. ▲ 20 Years of Real Life, Collective, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jun–Sun 31 Aug; GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jun–Sun 25 Jan, 2015.

Formerly the singer with short-lived but muchloved Glasgow art-rock band Life Without Buildings, Tompkins continues to use language and a microphone in her art, but now for idiosyncratic spoken-word performances. She also creates paintings and fabric works with text at heart. Tompkins has performed or exhibited from São Paulo to New York. ▲ Let the Day Perish, Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath, Fri 4–Sun 6 Jul; You, Me and the Plants, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Sat 26 Jul–Wed 31 Dec.

RICHARD WRIGHT

LUKE FOWLER

As well as being renowned for creating largescale frescos in architectural spaces (including The Stairwell Project, pictured), Richard Wright – one of several Turner Prize winners and nominees on the GENERATION list – also plays guitar in Glaswegian indie band Correcto. Led by another Glasgow musician / visual artist, Danny Saunders, Correcto released their selftitled debut album in 2008. ▲ The Modern Institute, Aird’s Lane, Glasgow, Wed 25 Jun–Sat 30 Aug.

‘I’ve been making music since I was 13,’ says Fowler, and experimental music remains a key part of his artistic output in tandem with film. He has just completed a four-LP set exploring music technology. ‘At present I am listening to Erkki Kurenniemi, who made his own digital instruments in the early 70s. He also made experimental films, but it’s his music that is most incredible.’ ▲ GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jun–Sun 2 Nov.

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JIM LAMBIE

DOUGLAS GORDON

As a collaborative event with punk legend Richard Hell, ever-resourceful Scottish artist Lambie decided to design and build his own venue at the SWG3 warehouse in Finnieston, Glasgow, in the space of just six weeks. It was named The Poetry Club and since 2012 it has hosted intimate music, club and spoken-word events, with the likes of Primal Scream and Patti Smith. ▲ Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Fri 27 Jun– Sun 19 Oct.

One of the most bold and successful film / music crossover projects in recent memory saw Glasgow-born Gordon team up with post-rock band Mogwai to create Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, a 90-minute film masterpiece that paid tribute to the French football legend, and found a unique synergy between video art, music and sport. ▲ Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from about 1992 until Now, GoMA, Glasgow, Fri 27 Jun–Sun 28 Sep.

SOPHIE MACPHERSON

ROB CHURM

In parallel with her acclaimed work in drawing, sculpture, text and film, themed around exploring our relationships with clothing and its display, MacPherson is a founder member of the improvisational avant-garde music collective Muscles of Joy, whose ranks have at different stages also included fellow GENERATION artists Victoria Morton and Katy Dove. ▲ Tramway Performance Programme: Clare Stephenson and Sophie MacPherson, Tramway, Glasgow, Fri 8 Aug.

Glasgow-based Rob Churm sings and plays in noise band Gummy Stumps, as well as creating playful drawings with everyday materials. His collaborative project with Raydale Dower and Tony Swain at DCA also includes a series of live events, gigs and interventions. ▲ Continue Without Losing Consciousness, DCA, Dundee, Sat 28 Jun–Sun 24 Aug. Ela Orleans, Security / P6 Phil, Craig Mulholland and Michelle Hannah perform on Fri 18 Jul. The Rebel, Paddy Steer and Steve Aylett perform on Sat 19 Jul.

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THE BEAUTIFUL GAME A decades-long tradition of amateur football has played its role in the Scottish contemporary art scene. David Pollock speaks to Roddy Buchanan about the connections between art and the five-a-side kickabout

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little-told story of the Scottish art scene over the last 25 years is the influence of football upon its male exponents, not least the 24-year history of amateur matches played on the pitches of Glasgow in which artists Douglas Gordon, Jim Lambie, David Shrigley, Nathan Coley, Richard Wright and Simon Starling have all served. ‘It was a bunch of us who worked at the Transmission Gallery who started it in 1990,’ says Beck’s Futureswinning artist Roddy Buchanan. ‘We’d all grown up with football, but there are huge demands on you when you’re at art school.

Once we got out, we got a Saturday morning game going.’

He won’t be drawn on the talents of the best-known of those artists above (although when David Shrigley plays ‘there’s definitely humour involved’). ‘It was a mixed-ability game,’ he says, ‘and it was friendly, too. Some

folk were fantastic athletes who’d never kicked a ball, others hadn’t played for ten years, others had been in teams all their lives. You’d play to accommodate everyone’s capacities.’

So it wasn’t really a competitive game, then?

‘Oh no, it was highly competitive! It was just like the international art market. Those stereotypes of the artist doing it to explore their inner self, they’re not true. But to socialise on the football field and have a different means of communication outside of studios and openings was very useful.’ It may be a geographic thing or a statement on the class makeup of Scottish artists compared with their national contemporaries, but the interest has substantially fed into the practice of Buchanan and other Scots of his era, in works like his own Work in Progress (pictured), Douglas Gordon’s film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and Craig Coulthard’s recent Selkirk-set Forest Pitch.

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OBSERVATIONS OF A SKATER BOY

Glasgow-born Toby Paterson discovered his unique vision of the city’s evolving architecture while skateboarding through it. Neil Cooper talks to him about his touring GENERATION show

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tanding outside his studio in Glasgow city centre, Toby Paterson can observe a metropolis in a state of architectural flux. It isn’t difficult to spot this influence in the Glasgow-born, Becks Futures-winning, former skateboarder’s body of work over the last 20 years. It’s reflected, too, in Paterson’s solo GENERATION show which opens in

Kirkcaldy before touring the country.

‘One of the things about the show,’ Paterson explains, ‘is that there’s a lot going on in terms of texture and scale. That goes right back to my formative experiences skateboarding, when you’re focusing on a tiny detail of whichever location you’re using, and you occasionally take a step back and think, “Oh, this building

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TOBY PATERSON

is interesting.” You’re discovering a way of looking at things.’

Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in the early 1990s, Paterson has continually looked to the botched utopian visions of postwar modernist architecture that ended up as makeshift playgrounds for skateboarders like him. His GENERATION show will feature work drawn from the last decade, as well as new work specific to each space.

For Kirkcaldy, Paterson will draw from a specific spot on the esplanade and ‘the complete failure to address a body of water in the landscape, and how you have to look through several lanes of traffic to see it’ For the other venues, he says, ‘I will be off on a wander again and see what happens. My favourite thing in the world is to go to places I’ve never been before, get lost and find out about them. As I get longer in the tooth, I realise what I’ve been doing, which is a subjective form of town planning of the mind, containing a series of images and experiences that sit together and build a kind of geography for myself. These spaces sit together in my head, and I’m able to copy them imaginitively and feel like I’m engaging with the world.

There’s idealism in that, but it’s a personal idealism. I hope what comes out of the work isn’t something that’s didactic. It’s more saying: this is open as a way of approaching your environment and positively engaging with it.’

– CHARLES AVERY – In its astonishingly detailed drawings and sculptures of life on a fictional island, Avery’s The Islanders project imagines the customs, gods, foods and buildings of towns and locales drawn and improvised entirely from his imagination.

– CHAD MCCAIL – In more creative imaginings, McCail delivers images based on Ladybird books and instructional pamphlets to describe an urban utopia where wealth is shared and people take care of each other.

– CAROL RHODES – Instantly familiar but entirely invented landscapes of factories, roads, airports and fields, seen in eerie aerial views, evoking surveillance and deception.

– KENNY HUNTER – Fife Contemporary Art and Craft @ Kirkcaldy Galleries, until Sun 22 Jun. Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Sat 26 Jul–Sat 23 Aug. The Gallery, Tweeddale Museum, Peebles, Sat 6 Sep–Sat 25 Oct. Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Sat 22 Nov–Sat 17 Jan, 2015.

Also GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jun–Sun 25 Jan, 2015, and Urban/

Suburban, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug–Sun 19 Oct.

Using elegantly produced, monumental sculptures in urban spaces, Hunter questions (often humorously) contemporary and historical cultures.

– NATHAN COLEY – In Villa Savoye, Coley provides an ironic commentary on Le Corbusier’s iconic modernist building by contrasting it with everyday suburban British housing.

■ All at Urban/Suburban, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug–Sun 19 Oct.

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ART AT THE MOVIES Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the difference between feature films and video art? And does it even matter? Film expert Hannah McGill considers the evidence, and rounds up some essential film art to encounter during GENERATION

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UNMISSABLE ARTISTS FILMS

FILM ARTISTS

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hen is a movie not a movie? When it’s ‘gallery art’, or ‘artist film and video’. Broadly speaking, one might expect films made by people who consider themselves visual artists rather than filmmakers to be less narrative-driven and less commercially orientated than films aimed at cinema audiences. Such works can theoretically be of any length, not being tied in to exhibitors’ or funders’ conventions regarding audience attention spans. They might be combined with performance, text or other forms. And they are probably made to be shown in spaces other than the darkened cinema hall or home screen. Artist film is more likely to comment on itself, and to experiment with the means of its own making.

Ultimately, though, these differences are nebulous, flexible and awkward to define. The important separations between the forms might be said to come down to practical matters of funding, distribution and exhibition, rather than clear aesthetic or philosophical parameters.

Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle, for instance, is partly defined as art rather than experimental feature film by its unavailability to watch on DVD. There’s also the simple matter of what the creator chooses to call him or herself: filmmaker, or artist working in film? And, just to confuse things further, there’s crossover. Douglas Gordon and Phillippe Parreno’s Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is an example of an art project that was released in the manner of a mainstream documentary, because of the commercial appeal of its subject, French football star Zinedine Zidane. Gus Van Sant’s 1998 shot-by-shot remake of Psycho, meanwhile, was recently described by its cinematographer Christopher Doyle as ‘a $20m artwork . . . Don’t even worry about the film. It’s the concept.’

Though snobbery can be found on both sides – artists suspicious of the commercial ambitions of the mainstream film world; filmmakers who balk at the pretentiousness of artist film – the two disciplines inevitably cross-pollinate. And they may come to do so more, with the recent successful transition of celebrated artists Steve McQueen and Sam TaylorWood into feature filmmaking mapping an alternative route to that elusive first-feature funding. Three out of four artists shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize use moving image in their work – though we can but guess whether they might envy Taylor-Wood her current brief directing the Fifty Shades of Grey film. GENERATION offers a chance to experience the work of some of the most important names in artist film, long-established and up-and-coming alike. For film fans burnt out on blockbusters, it’s a chance to shrug off assumptions and glimpse another side of the moving image.

– DUNCAN CAMPBELL – Turner Prize shortlisted for his Venice Biennale show, Campbell is known for documentary-style work using collages and archive footage (pictured left, top). ▲ The Common Guild, Glasgow, Sat 20 Sep–Sat 25 Oct.

– HENRY COOMBES – Coombes’ film work (pictured left, bottom) examines social class via surreal storytelling and unsettling skews on period imagery. ▲ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jun–Sun 25 Jan, 2015.

– LUKE FOWLER – Blends self-shot 16mm film with archive footage in thoughtful explorations of historical and family themes. ▲ Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jun– Sun 2 Nov.

– CORIN SWORN – Work in video and photography examining objects and their connections with history and storytelling. ▲ The Common Guild, Glasgow, Sat 9 Aug–Sat 13 Sep.

– ILANA HALPERIN – Interested in geological history, the American-born Halperin is fascinated by movements of the earth. ▲ An Tobar, Tobermory, until Sat 26 Jul.

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GENERATION LISTINGS

From Dumfries to Stornoway, there are GENERATION exhibitions taking place across the country. Each show is listed below, ordered by location, then alphabetically

ABERDEEN

ARGYLL & BUTE

01289 386291.

1 ABERDEEN ART GALLERY Schoolhill, Aberdeen, 01224 523700.

4 COVE PARK Peaton Hill, Cove, 01436 850123.

Kenny Hunter: The Singing of Swans Sat 21 Jun–Fri 31 Oct.

Anthony Schrag: Playtime / Placetime – Project Until Mon 30 Jun. Anthony Schrag: Playtime / Placetime Sat 19 Jul–Sat 16 Aug.

Alex Frost: The Patrons Sat 21 Jun–Fri 26 Sep.

DUMFRIES

2 WASPS STUDIOS 36-48 Langstane Place; 15 Shore Lane, Aberdeen.

AYR 5 MACLAURIN ART GALLERY Rozelle Park, Monument Road, Ayr, 01292 443708.

Wasps Open Studio Oct.

Christine Borland, Graham Fagen and Dalziel + Scullion: GENERATION – SXSW 2014 Until Sun 13 Jul.

ARBROATH

BANFF

3 HOSPITALFIELD ARTS Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, 01241 656124.

6 DUFF HOUSE Banff, 01261 818181.

8 GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries, 01387 262084.

Christine Borland, Graham Fagen and Dalziel + Scullion: GENERATION – SXSW 2014 Until Sat 5 Jul. Toby Paterson Sat 22 Nov–Sat 17 Jan, 2015.

DUNDEE

Katy Dove Sat 26 Jul–Sat 23 Aug. Claire Barclay & Janice Parker: Underside Fri 4–Sun 6 Jul. Fiona Jardine & Sue Tompkins: Let The Day Perish Fri 4–Sun 6 Jul.

9 COOPER GALLERY, DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN University of Dundee, 13 Perth Road, Dundee, 01382 345330.

BERWICK-UPON-TWEED 7 PAXTON HOUSE Berwick-upon-Tweed,

Studio Jamming: Artists’ Collaborations in Scotland Sat 28 Jun–Sat 2 Aug.

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10 DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900.

Rob Churm, Raydale Dower and Tony Swain: Continue without Losing Consciousness Sat 28 Jun–Sun 24 Aug. 11 THE MCMANUS: DUNDEE’S ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM 1 Albert Square, Meadowside, Dundee, 01382 307200.

Nick Evans: The White Whale Fri 20 Jun–Sun 31 Aug. 12 WASPS STUDIOS Meadow Mill, West Hendersons Wynd, Dundee

0131 226 6558.

Sep. Mick Peter: Popcorn Plaza Thu 31 Jul–Sun 28 Sep.

Exhibitions across the city, commissions by Jacqueline Donachie and Craig Coulthard; and Michelle Hannah, Shona Macnaughton and Ellie Harrison co-commissioned with Talbot Rice Gallery. Thu 31 Jul–Sun 31 Aug.

Open Dialogues Sat 28 Jun–Sun 31 Aug.

17 EDINBURGH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP 25 Hawthornvale, Newhaven, Edinburgh, 0131 551 4490.

23 SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, Edinburgh, 0131 624 6200.

Paul Carter: Icaro Menippus [x2] Sat 2–Sun 31 Aug.

GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland Sat 28 Jun–Sun 2 Nov.

18 FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, Edinburgh, 0131 225 2383.

Wasps Open Studio Oct.

22 RSA The Mound, Edinburgh, 0131 225 6671.

24 SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, 0131 624 6200.

EDINBURGH

Jim Lambie Fri 27 Jun–Sun 19 Oct.

13 CITY ART CENTRE 2 Market Street, Edinburgh, 0131 529 3993.

19 INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, Edinburgh, 0131 556 4441.

Urban/Suburban Fri 1 Aug–Sun 19 Oct.

Katie Paterson: Ideas Fri 27 Jun–Sat 27 Sep.

14 COLLECTIVE GALLERY City Observatory & Dome, 38 Calton Hill, Edinburgh, 0131 556 1264.

20 INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, 0131 248 2971.

GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland Sat 28 Jun–Sun 2 Nov.

Memorialmania Until Wed 31 Dec. Ross Sinclair: 20 Years of Real Life Sat 28 Jun–Sun 31 Aug.

Corin Sworn Until Sun 29 Jun. Sue Tompkins: You, Me and the Plants Sat 26 Jul–Wed 31 Dec.

26 STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, 0131 622 6200.

15 DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, 0131 550 3660.

21 JUPITER ARTLAND Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900.

The King’s Peace: Realism and War Fri 1 Aug–Sun 26 Oct.

Dalziel + Scullion: Tumadh: Immersion Fri 1 Aug–Sat 13 Sep.

Tessa Lynch: Raising Thu 17 Jul–Sun 28 Sep. Katie Paterson: Earth-MoonEarth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon) Thu 17 Jul–Sun 28

16 EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL Various venues, Edinburgh,

GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland Sat 28 Jun–Sun 25 Jan, 2015.

25 SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, 0131 624 6200.

27 TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, 0131 650 2210.

Counterpoint Fri 1 Aug–Sat 18 Oct.

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34 GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, Glasgow, 0141 552 0704.

The Travelling Gallery Wed 23 Jul–Sat 15 Nov.

Michael Fullerton: Meaning, Inc. Sat 28 Jun–Sun 17 Aug.

29 WASPS STUDIOS 78 Albion Rd, Leith; 48A Hamilton Place, Stockbridge; 2/3 West Park Place, Dalry

35 THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, REID GALLERY 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, 0141 353 4500.

Wasps Open Studio Oct.

Graham Fagen: Cabbages in an Orchard Sat 28 Jun–Fri 29 Aug.

FALKIRK 30 THE PARK GALLERY Callendar House, Callendar Park, Falkirk, 01324 503789.

John Shankie: Refractory and Refrigeration Sat 2 Aug–Sun 26 Oct.

GLASGOW 31 CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 0141 352 4900.

Rachel Maclean: Happy & Glorious Until Sun 13 Jul. 32 THE COMMON GUILD 21 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow, 0141 428 3022.

Scotland + Venice: Hayley Tompkins Sat 21 Jun–Sat 2 Aug. Scotland + Venice: Corin Sworn Sat 9 Aug–Sat 13 Sep. Scotland + Venice: Duncan Campbell Sat 20 Sep–Sat 25 Oct. 33 PLATFORM (EASTERHOUSE) The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow, 0141 276 9696.

Mary Redmond: Cross Block Split Fri 20 Jun–Sun 3 Aug.

36 GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS The Whisky Bond, 2 Dawson Road, Glasgow, 0141 353 3708.

Mood Is Made / Temperature Is Taken Sat 5 Jul–Sat 6 Sep. 37 GLASGOW WOMEN’S LIBRARY 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, 0141 550 2267.

Kate Davis: HOUSE WORK CASTLE MILK WOMAN HOUSE Sat 18 Oct–Thu 18 Dec. 38 GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, 0141 287 3050.

Nathan Coley: The Lamp of Sacrifice Until Sun 1 Mar, 2015.

Moyna Flannigan: Stare Until Sun 2 Nov. Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from about 1992 until Now Fri 27 Jun–Sun 28 Sep. Sara Barker: for myself & strangers Fri 27 Jun–Sun 5 Oct. 39 HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, Glasgow,

0141 353 4770.

Kenny Hunter: Kontrapunkt Fri 4 Jul–Thu 4 Sep. 40 THE HUNTERIAN (ART GALLERY) University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, 0141 330 4221.

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28 GENERATION: TG Various venues, across Scotland, 0131 529 3930.

Lucy Skaer Until Sun 4 Jan, 2015.

41 KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM Argyle Street, Glasgow, 0141 276 9599.

David Sherry Fri 27 & Sat 28 Jun. 42 MARKET GALLERY 334 Duke St, Glasgow, 0141 556 7276.

Group exhibition Sat 28–Jun Fri 1 Aug. 43 THE MODERN INSTITUTE – AIRD’S LANE 3 Aird’s Lane, Glasgow, 0141 248 3711.

Richard Wright Wed 25 Jun–Sat 30 Aug. 43 THE MODERN INSTITUTE – OSBORNE STREET 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow, 0141 248 3711.

Scott Myles: Mummies Sat 28 Jun–Sat 30 Aug. 44 PATRICIA FLEMING PROJECTS Studio 225, South Block, 60/64 Osborne Street, Glasgow, 0796 806 6708.

Discordia Sat 14 Jun–Fri 4 Jul.

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45 PEOPLE’S PALACE Glasgow Green, Glasgow, 0141 276 0788.

Beagles & Ramsay Fri 27 Jun– Mon 29 Sep. 46 PROJECT ABILITY 103 Trongate, Glasgow, 0141 552 2822.

Cameron Morgan: Cameron’s Way: Coast to Coast – Open Studio Until Fri 27 Jun. Cameron Morgan: Cameron’s Way: Coast to Coast Fri 27 Jun– Sat 23 Aug. 47 RIVERSIDE MUSEUM 100 Pointhouse Place, Glasgow, 0141 287 2720.

Clare Stephenson and Sophie Macpherson: Tramway Performance Programme Fri 8 Aug. Charlie Hammond, Iain Hetherington and Alex Pollard Sat 9 Aug–Sun 14 Sep. Charlotte Prodger: Tramway Performance Programme Fri 19 Sep. Alan Michael Sat 20 Sep–Sun 19 Oct. Raydale Dower: Tramway Performance Programme Fri 10 Oct. 50 WASPS STUDIOS 15 East Campbell St; 77 Hanson Street, Dennistoun; 64 Osborne Street; 141 Bridgegate.

Wasps Open Studio Oct.

Alan Currall Fri 27 Jun–Mon 29 Sep. 48 STREET LEVEL PHOTOWORKS Trongate 103, Glasgow, 0141 552 2151.

Wendy McMurdo: Collected Works (1995–2012) Fri 27 Jun– Sun 17 Aug. 49 TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, 0845 330 3501.

Mick Peter: Almost Cut My Hair Until Wed 1 Oct. Cara Tolmie: Tramway Performance Programme Fri 27 Jun. Sue Tompkins: Tramway Performance Programme Fri 27 Jun. Artists’ Moving Image Sat 28 Jun–Sun 31 Aug. Cathy Wilkes Sat 28 Jun–Sun 5 Oct. Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan Sat 28 Jun–Sun 27 Jul.

AND GARDENS Rothesay, Isle of Bute, 01700 503877.

Lorna Macintyre: Mount Stuart 2014 Sun 6 Jul–Fri 31 Oct.

ISLE OF MULL 55 AN TOBAR Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, 01688 302211.

Ilana Halperin: Learning To Read Rocks Until Sat 26 Jul.

NORTH UIST 56 TAIGH CHEARSABHAGH, NORTH UIST Taigh Chearsabhagh Lochmaddy, North Uist, 01870 603970.

HELMSDALE 51 TIMESPAN Dunrobin Street, Helmsdale, 01431 821327.

Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan Fri 1 Aug–Tue 30 Sep.

ISLE OF SKYE Stephen Hurrel: North Sea Hitch Until Sun 31 Aug.

INVERNESS 52 INVERNESS MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Castle Wynd, Inverness, 01463 237114.

Toby Paterson Sat 26 Jul–Sat 23 Aug.

57 ATLAS ARTS Skye Gathering Hall, Fancy Hill, Portree, 01478 611143.

Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan Wed 6 Aug–Tue 30 Sep. 58 WASPS STUDIOS 4 Lower Ollach, Braes Wasps Open Studio Oct.

IRVINE KILMARNOCK 53 WASPS STUDIOS 128 Harbour Street, Irvine Wasps Open Studio Oct.

ISLE OF BUTE 54 MOUNT STUART HOUSE

59 DICK INSTITUTE Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock, 01563 554902.

Christine Borland, Graham Fagen and Dalziel + Scullion: GENERATION – SXSW 2014

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KIRKCALDY

Information Fri 11 Jul–Sun 5 Oct.

60 FIFE CONTEMPORARY ART & CRAFT @ KIRKCALDY GALLERIES War Memorial Gardens, Abbotshall Road, Kirkcaldy, 01592 583206.

Toby Paterson Until Sun 22 Jun.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT 61 WASPS STUDIOS 117 High Street, Kirkcudbright Wasps Open Studio Oct.

LINLITHGOW 62 LINLITHGOW BURGH HALLS The Cross, Linlithgow, 01506 282720.

Old Town Hall, High Street, Thurso, 01847 896508.

Douglas Gordon: ARTIST ROOMS Until Sat 11 Oct.

PEEBLES 66 THE GALLERY, TWEEDDALE MUSEUM Chambers Institution, High Street, Peebles, 01721 724820.

Toby Paterson Sat 6 Sep–Sat 25 Oct.

PERTH 67 PERTH MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY 78 George Street, Perth, 01738 632488.

Alison Watt: Paintings 1986– 2014 Fri 6 Jun–Sun 28 Sep.

SELKIRK Louise Hopkins: Black Sea, White Sea Fri 15 Aug–Sun 2 Nov.

68 WASPS STUDIOS Unit 1, St Mary’s Mill, Selkirk

NEWBURGH

Wasps Open Studio Oct.

63 WASPS STUDIOS 67 High Street, Newburgh

SHETLAND ISLANDS

Wasps Open Studio Oct.

69 WASPS STUDIOS New Street, Scalloway.

ORKNEY

Wasps Open Studio Oct.

64 PIER ARTS CENTRE 28–30 Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney, 01856 850209.

STORNOWAY 70 AN LANNTAIR Kenneth Street, Stornoway, 01851 703307.

Walker & Bromwich: Orcadia & Other Stories Sat 21 Jun–Sat 23 Aug.

Dalziel + Scullion: Tumadh: Immersion Sun 6 Jul–Sun 31 Aug.

PAISLEY

THURSO

65 PAISLEY MUSEUM

71 CAITHNESS HORIZONS

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS ACROSS SCOTLAND

GENERATION LISTINGS

Until Sat 16 Aug.

Jacqueline Donnachie & Nicolas Party Jul–Sep.

PICTURE CREDITS Page 2: Henry Coombes, The Bedfords. Written & directed

by Henry Coombes, produced by Ciara Barry, A Brocken Spectre production Page 4 & 5: (left–right) 1. photo © Stuart Armitt; 2. Dalziel + Scullion - Immersion (2014). Mixed media installation. Image courtesy and copyright Dalziel + Scullion; 3. Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan - DOES THE IT FIT - Installation view at Stephenson Works, CIRCA Projects, 2013. Photography Adam Phillips, Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow 4. Photo © Marc Lilius 5. Rachel MacLean: A Whole New World, 2014; 6. Graham Eatough and Graham Fagen, The Making of Us for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and National Theatre of Scotland, 2012; 7. © Ewen Weatherspoon; 9. Dancing Borders Artists: Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich Photo: Mark Pinder; 10.

Fife Council Page 8: Subodh Gupta at Tramway. Photo: Alan Dimmick Page 9: Sue Tompkins (top left) courtesy of the artist and the Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow. Karla Black at GoMA (bottom right) Page 10: Richard Wright, no title (bottom right). Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow Page 11: The Vic (top left), Josh Hill & Alex Misick.

Commonwealth Games (top right), courtesy of Glasgow 2014. Martin Boyce, courtesy of the artist (bottom left).

Page 14: Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan – HK - Tramway, Glasgow 2001 (bottom left). Photo: Keith Hunter. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow; The Travelling Gallery (top right) courtesy of the Travelling Gallery; Dalziel + Scullion Immersion (2014) (bottom right). Mixed media installation.

Image courtesy and copyright Dalziel + Scullion.

Page 15: (clockwise from top left) Tessa Lynch – Gob-ons (drum and salt); Kenny Hunter, courtesy of the artist; Physical Geology (new landmass / fast time) – Ilana Halperin, 2009; Alex Frost – ‘New Ruins’, Walled Garden, Glasgow, 2013 Page 17: top and middle image courtesy of Katie Paterson and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh; bottom image copyright Locus+ Archive / Katie Paterson / Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh Page 19: (clockwise from top left) ‘Real life, Rocky Mountain’ 1996 installation view, CCA, Glasgow, courtesy of the artist; Sue Tompkins, courtesy of the artist and the Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow; Luke Fowler – The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott, courtesy of the artist and the Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow; Richard Wright, The Stairwell Project, Collection Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, 2010 Page 20: (clockwise from top left) Jim Lambie, Shaved Ice, photography Keith Hunter. Courtesy of the artist and the Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow; Douglas Gordon image copyright of the artist, installed for National Galleries of Scotland, 2006, photography by A. Reeve; Sophie MacPherson – ‘Nina, Tanya and Sarah pause and reflect’, opening performance, ‘The Irregular Correct – New Art from Glasgow’, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, 2012 Page 21: Roddy Buchanan, Work in Progress, 1995 © the artist. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Page 22: Toby Paterson, Hypothetical Relief (CDA), 2012, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow 2012. Courtesy of the artist and the Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd. Photo: Ruth Clark Page 24: (top) Duncan Campbell – ‘It for Others’, 2013; (bottom) Henry Coombes - The Bedfords. Written & directed

by Henry Coombes, produced by Ciara Barry, A Brocken Spectre production Back Page: (clockwise from top left) Ross Sinclair, ‘Real Life, Rocky Mountain’ 1996, courtesy of the artist; Rachel Maclean, A Whole New World, 2014; Jim Lambie, Shaved Ice, photography Keith Hunter. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

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