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'Fools Gold' Exhibition at The Briggait Project Spaces, Glasgow
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Exhibition information
Glasgow based visual artist Janie Nicoll, transforms the Briggait with an exhibition spanning the two glass box project spaces at the front of the prestigious multi-award winning building that was formerly the fish-market for Glasgow.
Nicoll creates new eye catching installation artworks that re-examine imagery and text thrown up by the process of dredging through her own musical heritage.
The text “We're the flowers in the dustbin” is taken from the song “God Save The Queen” by seminal Punk band The Sex Pistols, a song whose notoriety caused the band to be catapulted to fame in the summer of 1976. Reworked in papier maché this text is made using contemporary newspapers, many of whose pages contain images of civil unrest, echoing the malcontent of the earlier era.
“I’m watching you sinking” uses a line from the song “Fools Gold” by the Manchester band The Stone Roses, another seminal song that heralded the emergence of the rave scene in 1989. The title of the exhibition literally resonates through each piece of work, echoing previous artworks such as “We Are All Prostitutes”, a work underpinned by the Faustian notion that we have all sold our souls to the devil in one way or another and “Fake Gold Ring”, where there is a concern with the appropriation of value and the use of imitation.
Nicoll explores imagery associated with different musical genres, reworking “The Torch” and Fred Perry laurel leaf, synonymous with Northern Soul patches and badges, iconography usually associated with a fierce loyalty, here are rendered in imitation gold leaf or “Liquid leaf” gold paint, depersonalised and isolated as singular more ambiguous images. Nicoll has previously recreated these familiar images as banner works, using ‘Handle with Care Tape’ hinting at an impotence that again resonates in the current works.
Nicoll’s work employs a punk aesthetic and an angry, aggressive yet painterly approach to transform the dual spaces playing with imagery associated with various sub-cultural movements such as Northern Soul, Ska and Punk, in a continuation of her exploration of themes to do with the notions of masculinity, fraternity and rebellion. Inevitably these works obliquely reference the socio-economic situation and the feelings of alienation that result.
Exhibition runs until 25th November 2011
Opening hours 9.30am -5.30pm
The Briggait Project Spaces
141 Bridgegate
Glasgow
G1 5HZ
Addtional info
Janie Nicoll is a visual artist based in Glasgow, with a studio in the Briggait.who originally trained in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated from the Master of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art in 1997. Exhibitions include Vault Art Fair, Glasgow; Warehouse Weekend, Huddersfield; Rough Cut Nation at SNPG, Edinburgh; the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh; Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow; the Deviant Arts Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden; Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool; Generator Projects, Dundee; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Lowsalt Gallery Glasgow; The Waygood Gallery, Newcastle;The Changing Room, Stirling; and the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany. Her video works have been shown internationally including South America and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
She has undertaken a wide variety of other residencies including a year long SAC pARTners residency at Callendar House, Falkirk (with artist Alex Hetherington); Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, USA; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Neonatal Unit; Yorkhill Hospital for Sick Kids, Glasgow; Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton; Shining Cliff International Residency for My House Projects, Nottingham; Generator Projects, Dundee and most recently a Boatelier Residency, on a canal boat on the Rochdale Canal, hosted by artists collective Contents May Vary.
In January she will be undertaking a Creative Lab Residency at CCA, Glasgow where she intends to create new artworks in a series of collaborations with DJ’s, writers, musicians and spoken word performers.
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Janie Nicoll, would like to thank Jim Ewan and Project Ability, William Love, Nolan and Rosa Love, Creative Scotland, Helen Moore and everyone who helped to get the show up!
Contact Helen Moore, Communications and Tenant Liaison Officer
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141 Bridgegate
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