A new site-specific work by Mick Peter created by in partnership with young people on the GSA’s Widening Participation programme will be part of the Director’s Programme for the 2018 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art is was announced today, 15 February 2018.
Images: Work created during a programme of workshops led by Mick Peter and supported by Sally Hackett, Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir and the GSA’s Widening Participation team; some of the young people on a site visit to the Gas Purifier shed
Mick Peter’s work will be installed on the empty façade of the historic Dalmarnock Gas Purifier shed in the East End of Glasgow. Together with young people from across the West of Scotland Peter is creating a 76m long ‘billboard’ depicting crumbling buildings from different eras, including a medieval castle, tenement housing as well as modern flats in the process of being demolished in in drawings which are reminiscent of a newspaper strip cartoon,. The work will also see a solitary piece of ‘public sculpture’ wheeled out ceremoniously each day before being returned to its lockup behind the newly drawn façade. The project invites us to consider hoardings that surround building sites across the city, Glasgow’s architectural history and the loaded nature of the transformation of its industrial built heritage. The young people’s participation in the project is being led by a core curatorial group of students engaging with the GSA’s Widening Participation and Associate Student programme activities. They have been involved in creative workshops on the GSA campus since December 2017.
New work specially commissioned by the GSA from Torsten Lauschmann will be on show in the Reid Gallery as part of Supported Programme and specially commissioned work by and Susanne Nørregård Nielsen will be on show in the Reid corridor as part of the wider programme for GI.
“The GSA’s Widening Participation team works with young people from across the west of Scotland enabling them to access a broad range of creative opportunities. We are delighted that their project with GSA MFA graduate, Mick Peter, will be part of the 2018 GI Festival especially in this Year of Young People,” says Professor Tom Inns, Director of The Glasgow School of Art. "The GSA is particularly pleased that the young people’s contribution will be part of a broad programme of GSA projects featured in GI alongside major new commissions from GSA alumni Torsten Lauschmann and Susanne Nørregård Nielsen."
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