Tag: art
Images of Blue Spine
On Saturday 19th June, Shauna McMullan presented her Blue Spine installation at the Mitchell Library. Over 500 books spanned the Jeffrey room, each with a blue spine, written by a woman and donated by women from across Scotland, and we have images from the exhibition over on the Making Space blog.
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Also tagged Blue Spine, books, exhibition, installation, Making Space
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Nicky Bird’s Unsorted Donations
After months of research in the Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) Archives, group discussions, individual interviews, and sound recordings, Nicky Bird is ready to present her new work: Unsorted Donations.
Nicky Bird’s Unsorted Donations
After months of research in the Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) Archives, group discussions, individual interviews, and sound recordings, Nicky Bird is ready to present her new work: Unsorted Donations.
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Also tagged Archives, Focus Group, Making Space, Nicky Bird, Sound Archive, Unsorted Donations, women
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Blue Spine exhibition
Shauna McMullan and Glasgow Women’s Library are proud to present the exhibition of Blue Spine in the Jeffrey Room at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
Book Art
A wonderful consequence of Shauna’s Blue Spine project is the many, many questions it has inspired…
Making Space: Archive Hour
Artist Nicky Bird is working to capture the uniqueness of Glasgow Women’s Library, within the medium of sound!
Making Space: Archive Hour
On why Glasgow Women’s Library is so unique, and how artist Nicky Bird is going to capture this…
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Also tagged Archives, Making Space, Nicky Bird, Sound Archive, Unsorted Donations, women
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‘Travelling the Distance’ and the Scottish Parliament
After a few weeks of revising plans, pleading emails, panicked phone calls, the Making Space focus group and the Political Literacy group made it to Holyrood…
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Also tagged Events, Learning, Making Space, Public Art fund, Scotland, Scottish Parliament, Women's History
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Feminist Lines of Flight
GWL staff Hannah Little and Adele Patrick have been meeting with the artist Kate Davis who is working on a collaborative exhibition ‘The Long Loch: How do we go on from here?’ and a related programme of activities with the celebrated American artist Faith Wilding.
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Also tagged artist, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Faith Wilding, Kate Davis
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Public Art Fund award for ‘Making Space’
We’re pleased to announce that the Library has been awarded funding from the Scottish Arts Council for a new public art project, ‘Making Space’. This is the first stage of a project to develop an exciting new public artwork for GWL when we move to the Mitchell Library.
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Also tagged artist-in-residence, fundraising, Making Space, Public Art fund, public artwork, Scottish Arts Council
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