Ross Byers - Artist in residence, August 2011

After being a volunteer with us, Ross Byers spent the month of August in residence at Project Ability.

You can find a short profile about Ross, his work and his time in residence here.

The other artists involved in the 2011 Residency Programme are Lea Cummings, Patrick Butterworth, Duncan Wilson, Abi Pirani and Simon McAuley. Their work will be exhibited in a group show in January 2012.

Posted on 28th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Drypoint workshop

This month, tutor John Fitzpatrick held a week-long workshop for three members of Connect, during which they explored the printmaking process of drypoint. The length of the workshop allowed participants to properly explore the medium and to familiarise themselves with it.

The three artists -two of whom had never tried drypoint before- learnt the basics of the technique and then experimented to create a finished work. Most of the work was made with two plates (two colours), and one of the artists used the chine-colle technique which mixes printing and collaging.

Posted on 28th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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John Shankie’s Everyone @T103 talk is now available to view online

For those of you who missed our last Everyone @ Trongate 103 event with John Shankie, his talk is now available to view online.

Make sure not to miss our next event, with a talk by Project Art Works' Alison Digance: Thursday 6th October, 4pm - 5pm.

Posted on 27th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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The Art Trek artists now have a blog

For the last few months, the five artists who founded Art Trek - an innovative and exciting arts cooperative - have been working on a blog, with tutor Zeynep Arman. It has been a great learning curve for John Cocozza, Edward Henry, Tommy Mason, Cameron Morgan and Steven Reilly, as most of them were very unfamiliar with everything computer related!

The artists have learned how to research images and videos of subjects that inspire them, take photos of their own work, and then upload it all on their blog. Paintings, drawings, video clips of TV shows (the Bionic Woman and Star Trek are obviously all time favourites!) and random images, the blog is a sort of mood board that will let you know what the artists are interested in and what inspires them. They update it every Monday, so make sure to check it regularly!

http://arttrekartists.blogspot.com/

For more information on the artists, please visit our artists database.

Posted on 19th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Everyone at Trongate 103: Project Art Works

For October's Everyone @ Trongate 103 event on Thursday 6th October, we are very pleased to announce that Alison Digance, Deputy Director of Project Art Works in Hastings, will be our invited speaker.

Through a responsive and collaborative practice, Project Art Works conduct a wide range of visual art based projects with people who have complex and high support needs. The organization is artist led and its programmes of work embrace and address the social, cultural and political forces that both enable and disable children, young people, adults, families and carers affected by neurological impairment.

Alison will speak about Project Art Works' current programme and their experience of working with people with complex disabilities as co-consultants on developing practice-led investigations of built space within contemporary visual arts environments. The talk will mainly focus on the processes involved in their current collaboration with M K Gallery (Milton Keynes Gallery), who are curating an exhibition of their work in December 2011. The collaboration is part of a strategic drive to share knowledge with the mainstream contemporary art sector about their work with severe neurological impairment , and particularly to drive forward inclusion of these participants in mainstream programming.

Thursday 6th October 2011, Project Ability Gallery, 1st floor, Trongate 103, Glasgow, G1 5HD. Note: the talk will be from 4pm - 5pm.

Posted on 14th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Home Works artists celebrate the show

A group of Aspire artists, including quite a few currently showing in our exhibition Home Works, took over the gallery this morning to view the show together and celebrate their participation in it.

The theme being Home, the exhibition showcases eclectic objects including customised crockery, cupcakes sculptures, and tea cups. So what better than a tea party in the gallery to celebrate? Real cupcakes joined the fake ones, and everybody cheered to the artists and the work.

The exhibition runs until the 1st of October, Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 5pm.

Posted on 14th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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More images from the SECC Project

The SECC Project is well under way now, and the artists involved have made an amazing amount of (great) work!

For three days, every week, they paint and draw images relating to the SECC one way or another: boxing games, Batman, the Cirque du Soleil, dodgems, landscapes past and present, and even Kylie Minogue! We don't envy the SECC team when they'll have to chose only 25 artworks! There are so many great pieces already.

Click here to see more photos (or here for a slideshow).

Posted on 12th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Mugs, Mugs, mugs!

The Connect participants have been taking part in some mug design workshops, and the results are brilliant! Abstract motifs, cows, rorschach images, text, they have shown great inspiration!

If you would like your own Project Ability mug, come see our shop, as we have a few left from the Young Talent show. We will also have some new ones in for Christmas, which will make for lovely, original presents.

Posted on 7th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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We are now taking bookings for our Introduction to Film workshops.

Project Ability are pleased to announce the return of our Introduction to Film workshops for 6-12 year olds from Wednesday 14th September 2011. Bookings are now open.

Time: 18:00-19:30

Dates: 14 September – 9 November (excluding 19 October)

Cost: £40 for 8 weeks

To book a place, call us on 0141 552 2822 or download the booking form here, fill it in and send it back to us. Places are given on a first come first served basis.

Posted on 6th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Happy Birthday Albert Greig: 90 years old!

Our oldest participant, Albert Greig, just turned 90 on Friday! 

Albert, a true 'Glasgow Man' as he likes to call himself, has been coming to our workshops for 12 years now, and his enthusiasm hasn't changed. Prints, drawings, paintings, he has tried his hand at many media.

This weekend, Albert, his family and friends (including a few other Project Ability artists) celebrated with a ceilidh and a disco! 90 years-old and his dancing shoes are still on!

Happy Birthday Albert, from all of us at Project Ability!

Posted on 5th September 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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