In order to celebrate Contradictory Woolf, The 21st Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, held at Glasgow University in June 2011, curator Kitty Anderson and artists Anne-Marie Copestake, Kate Davis, Rachel Lowther and Lorna Macintyre developed a new collaborative art project.

Drawing inspiration from a series of reading groups looking at Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, alongside the conference theme, they created a series of limited edition risograph prints and bags, each of which honours a variety of female figures, past and present.

These works are for sale and all the proceeds go to Glasgow Women’s Library’s Women Leading Through Reading programme which supports the development of women’s literacy and communication skills in a range of different communities.

Hand painted and screenprinted canvas bags and limited edition risographs for £15

The exhibition runs until December 17th at the CCA.

More about the exhibition:

As CCA’s own art writing journal 2HB launches its 12th volume, we are pausing to ask the question: what do we make with words?

2HB’s widening community of readers has been shared with, and developed by, five other Glasgow-based journals: Dancehall, Gnommero, Marbled Reams, Uncle Chop Chop and Victor & Hester. The proliferation of writing and publishing here has built momentum by drawing on the approaches and experience of an international community.

2HB: What we make with words is best described as a gathering; of the artists, writers, journals and publishers, local and international, who are generating a velocity in local artistic practice.

Cove Park Lakehouse

Friday 1st- Saturday 3rd October

Cove Park are offering a great 2 night residential drawing course, led by Kate Davis and Frances Priest.

“ Drawing Together will examine the possibilities for drawing as action, as conversation, as looking and as a means to invent, to think and to be”- Cove Park website

The course will highlight and suggest strategies for overcoming problems and will look at ways for participants to overcome the blank page and will encourage them to engage with the beautiful environment around Cove Park.

Kate Davis and Frances Priest are both established artists, and their work has been exhibited internationally.

Kate Davis is a New Zealand born artist who trained at Glasgow School of Art. She has had solo shows at Kunsthalle Basel (2006) and Tate Britain (2007), and recent residences have been at Camden Arts Centre (2010) and Cove Park (2008). Her most recent work was a two person project with Faith Wilding at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, entitled The Long Loch: How do we go on from here?, shown as part of the Glasgow International Festival.

Frances Priest was born in England and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. Her recent exhibitions include ‘Meet Your Maker’, The National Museum of Scotland (2010), ‘Collect’, The Crafts Council at The Saatchi Galleries (2010), ‘Objects of touch & travel…’, a solo exhibition for The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (2009).

Cove Park is situated on Loch Long, on the outskirts of the Trossachs National Park, an area of outstanding natural beauty.

The workshop costs £300. This price includes two nights accommodation, studio, dinner on the first evening, drinks on Saturday evening and introductory talks by both tutors.

More information, including a detailed timetable, and tutor biographies is available here:

http://www.covepark.org/Documents/pdf/Drawing_Course_cp10.pdf

Further information about Cove Park is available here:

http://www.covepark.org/

For further information and to reserve your place please e-mail Alexia Holt or telephone 01436 850 123

http://makingspace.womenslibrary.org.uk/2010/05/05/archive-hour-revisited/

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Davis and Wilding are working towards a range of work that makes links between women and feminism historically and those working today which will culminate in a discursive exhibition project at Glasgow’s CCA. Glasgow Women’s Library have been invited to inhabit a reading space at the gallery with part of our collection during the exhibition run. This project has been commissioned for 2010 as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.

An article about this work has recently been published in MAP Magazine (Issue 19/Autumn 2009).

Making Space: toward a public artwork for Glasgow Women’s Library

Two 6-month Part Time Artist Residencies, based within Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL). The Residencies offer an exciting opportunity for two artist to work with the rich resources of Glasgow Women’s Library – staff, learners, users and archive – to achieve the aims and focus of Making space: toward a public artwork for GWL.

Funded by the Scottish Arts Council’s Public Art Fund, the two Artist in Residence opportunities are offered to develop ideas, visuals and participatory working methods that can inform GWL’s ambitions to realise a public artwork for their new premises at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. The Residencies will support the artists’ investigation of Women’s histories and representation in the Public Realm, as well as potential means of engagement and consultation with diverse constituents of GWL, including Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Women’s Groups, Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALN) groups, Women Make History groups, homelessness and Violence against women projects), and the GWL’s archive and wider resources.

Deadline for applications: 24 July 2009
Interviews will be held on: 27 or 28 August 2009

For further details please download the application cover sheet, job description and application information below:

Making Space: Application Cover Sheet
Making Space: Job Description/Brief
Making Space: Application Information

For more information please call 0141 552 8345 or contact the Library.

Please note that due to the nature of this project, this post is open to women only under Section 7 (ii) d&e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

On Sunday, Sue and I were lucky enough to be invited to look through Hannah Frank’s book collection by her niece Fiona Frank. In case you haven’t heard of Hannah, she was a Glasgow artist and sculptor, who produced beautiful, haunting black and white drawings and incredible sculptures. She died in December 2008 at the age of 100. By all accounts an amazing woman, she continued to sculpt into her early 90s.

Hannah’s books themselves are gorgeous, but are made even more so by her personalised black and white ‘Ex libris’ bookplates. Many of them have beautiful, touching inscriptions from friends and family. It felt like such a privilege to look through Hannah’s books, as though we were getting an rare insight into her life as a young woman. As well as a lover of art, it’s clear that Hannah was a lover of books and language. Many of the books are from her student days at Glasgow University in the 1920s. What an achievement – to keep all your books together over a lifetime.

We’re over the moon to have some of Hannah’s books in our collection, and can’t wait to be in the new space where we can exhibit them.

In the meantime, if you’d like to find out more about Hannah’s life and her art, you can have a look at the following website:

http://hannahfrank.org.uk/pages/index.htm