South Block

23/02/2022

Immerse yourself in a black and white dreamscape. Alasdair Dimmick's series of double exposure photographic works 'Lagoon' presents the outcome of stitching two scenes together. Together they suggest that the places and people we see in dreams are only the product of real experiences, woven together by our minds to design a new environment.

'Lagoon' - Alasdair Dimmick is open until 25 February in the South Block gallery, all info on the Wasps website: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/events/alasdair-dimmick-lagoon/

📷: Alexander Hoyles

23/02/2022

Immerse yourself in a black and white dreamscape. ’s series of double exposure photographic works in 'Lagoon' present the outcome of stitching two scenes together. Together they suggest that the places and people we see in dreams are only the product of real experiences, woven together by our minds to design a new environment.

'Lagoon' - Alasdair Dimmick is open until 25 February at South Block, all info on the website

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17/01/2022

Wasps artist Harriet Selka spoke with Janice on BBC Radio Scotland's The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth & Grant Stott, talking about the power of art and 'Bones' her current exhibition at South Block, and you can listen back now on BBC Sounds! Head to 2:09:40 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013h7f

Read more about 'Bones' at https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/events/harriet-selka-bones/

Janice Forsyth interviews award-winning author Liam McIlvanney about his new thriller.

11/01/2022

Don't miss 'Bones' from Harriet Selka in the gallery space until 8 Feb.

"These paintings, hung on the exposed brick walls of South Block, are raw and stark."

https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/events/harriet-selka-bones/

The last year has been a whirlwind for young Edinburgh-based painter Harriet Selka.

14/12/2021

Join us this Thursday 16 December, 5-8pm for the opening of the next exhibition at South Block - Bones from Harriet Selka

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Opening this Thursday 16 December, 5-8pm at South Block: 'Bones' from Harriet Selka. An autobiographical collection of works by an artist who beat cancer as a child, stripping back the flesh of outside perception.

Bones is based on a collection of recently re-discovered newspaper cuttings, photographs and memories from 1995, when Harriet was front page news worldwide for breakthrough fertility preservation treatment in an infant cancer patient. Viewing these old records through the lens of today, Harriet has amalgamated the hope and celebration of the time with the pain and uncertainty of struggles that all young adults face. Many of these images have triggered memories of experiences and stories of the time in the artist’s mind.

Join us for the opening this Thursday. Bones then continues until 8 Feb, Mon - Fri, 9-5 (closed 24 Dec - 5 Jan)

More info via the Wasps website: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/events/harriet-selka-bones/

03/12/2021

The silent auction for Pim Pam's BACKSP!N, currently on show at South Block until 13 December, closes today! It's your final chance to support Drumchapel Table Tennis Club and go home with one of these amazing paddles, created by the likes of Martin Boyce, Turner Prize winner pictured here with his paddle, cartoonist Frank Quitely, designer Raissa Pardini, and many Wasps studio holders.

With over 60 artists & designers contributing, you can bid for paddles and the table by visiting the exhibition or online at pim-pam.co.uk/backspin. Remaining paddles will be available for general purchase after the silent auction closes. All proceeds go to the Drumchapel Table Tennis Club.

All 📷 courtesy of Pim Pam

26/11/2021

Say hello to ! Check out some of the items available now at Wasps Shop, in store at South Block.

25/11/2021

We are very excited to be hosting BACKSP!N launching tomorrow from 6pm at South Block 🏓💥

Led by studio holders Pim Pam with paddles designed by over 60 creatives! Each artist was given a blank wooden table tennis paddle and asked to interpret a vision for their own using one of the following words: character, movement, or community.

Check out Creative Boom's feature for a sneak peek, including a process video of Chris Wilson of STCKMN making his paddle on the theme of 'movement': https://www.creativeboom.com/news/backspin/

All info: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/events/pimpam-backspn/

Ping pong paddles get a glorious creative makeover to support a Glasgow table tennis club.

21/10/2021

This Saturday from 11am - 2pm will be holding a drop-in artist workshop with as part of their exhibition and book launch with for HOME: Volume One.

The workshop is an open drop-in for families and kids of all ages to learn more about exploring colour, line and shape through practical collage and art making. The exhibition creators Marcus and Luke will be available for any questions about the series while taking part in the workshop.

More details about the exhibition can be found at homestadia.com

16/10/2021

Tonight! Join studio holders Pim Pam and illustrator Marcus Marritt for the book launch of HOME: Volume One, a collaborative book series inspired not just by love of the beautiful game, but the beautiful structures, spaces and songs that make them so special.

HOME: Volume One features 30 of the greatest club football stadiums with removable prints of Marcus Marritt’s excellent work sized 12” x 16” — with each stadium detailed in its HOME language.

Launching tonight at 6pm, with the exhibition continuing for 10 days to 26 October.

https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/events/pim-pam-home/

All 📷: repost from Pim Pam

05/10/2021

"I sometimes feel I am on a Spacewalk observing life on earth from another planet in both wonder and disbelief. I started to think like an astronaut and change the way I view life. The visual images of the unspoken words transformed into art." - Sharon McKay

Sharon McKay's solo exhibition 'PERVASIVE ENIGMAS' is now open at South Block. McKay is a storyteller through her oil paintings, which depict the surrealism of an autobiographical life or travel, people and conversations. 'PERVASIVE ENIGMAS' is open until 15 October, Mon-Fri 9-5.

Read more on the Wasps website: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/latest/events/sharon-mckay-pervasive-enigmas/

20/09/2021

It's your last chance to see 'STOP.START.' from Sarah Kudirka and Rowena Comrie, closing today at South Block.

Both working from Wasps Artists' Studios, the painters hold synergies in their approach to bold colour and abstraction, though with markedly different techniques.

Comrie’s paintings are about the spontaneous expression of feelings tempered by the objective assessment of chance occurrences, identified in the Surrealist canon as ‘Objective Chance’. She captures in a gesture meaning born from a provocative tension balanced by colour and form.

Kudirka’s work concerns the shapes and edges of stuff all around us from cities, buildings, and furniture to objects. Her work is distinctively low-tech – characterised by obliterated, incised, scratched, scraped, layered paint. She pulls things apart and builds them back up again iteratively.

All info via: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/latest/events/rowena-comrie-and-sarah-kudirka-stopstart/

📷: Alexander Hoyles

24/08/2021

Install shots of 'STOP.START.' from Rowena Comrie and Sarah Kudirka, currently showing in our gallery, and now extended until 21 September.

Rowena and Sarah both have Wasps studios in Glasgow, and connected as Council Members of the Society of Scottish Artists. Their bold paintings are created using markedly different techniques, though complement each other with colour and abstraction.

Open Mon-Fri, 9-5, make sure to see it all for yourself.

📷: Alexander Hoyles

All info at https://southblock.co.uk/current/

12/08/2021

Open now in the South Block gallery: Wasps Artists' Studios presents Rowena Comrie and Sarah Kudirka - 'STOP.START.' Here are artists Sarah and Rowena post install!

'STOP.START' is open until 4 Sep, Mon-Fri 9-5. Both artists create bold and colourful paintings, though made in markedly different ways. While neither is solely process-driven, elements of stop.start play a part in the methodology of both. Seen together here for the first time their work may seem to ask: does it change the destination if you have a plan, or not, for getting there?

All info at https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/latest/events/rowena-comrie-and-sarah-kudirka-stopstart/

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20/07/2021

Open now at South Block: 'Futures One' from Nick Domminney, the inaugural solo show of the Glasgow based Architect!

Wasps Artists' Studios presents a series of original watercolours with prints. 'Futures One' is “a study in horizontal lines”, derived from the artist’s childhood preoccupation with the vast horizon and constantly shifting skies of Fifeness, the ever-changing line and its articulation.

Open Mon-Fri, 9-5. All info: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/latest/events/nick-domminney-futures-one/

12/07/2021

Last chance to see the Alternative Degree Show Festival, closing tomorrow 13 July!

07/07/2021

Opening today at South Block, and at Wasps venues across the city! 🌟

Opening today, we are proud to be supporting the Alternative Degree Show Festival across various Wasps venues including The Briggait 1873 Hall, South Block, and Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow! Showcasing The Glasgow School of Art graduates from Photography and Painting & Printmaking, book your slots via the Alternative Degree Show Festival website.

Also opening today - James Lumsden, Shift in The Briggait Galleries https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/latest/events/james-lumsden-shift/

A great day to explore Glasgow and see art! 🌟

https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/latest/events/the-alternative-degree-show-festival/

25/06/2021

Great to see susan pui san lok - seven x seven, which Wasps Artists' Studios are currently hosting here at South Block and over the road at The Briggait in ArtReview's Glasgow International review 🌟

"The overlooked, the forgotten, are the subject of susan pui san lok’s powerful exhibition seven x seven. A long list of surnames on wallpaper – Ascendants Descendant/Descendants Ascendant (2021) – testifies to brutal misogyny and the large number of women accused of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563 and 1736. A video, 99 (2021), features embroidery hoops with the names and villages of those women persecuted in Essex around the same time."

It's the final weekend to see the installations, as Glasgow International closes this Sunday 27 June - don't miss it!

https://artreview.com/attention-economy-glasgow-international-review/

This year’s edition takes art to the streets and other unusual venues of the city to vibrant effect

09/06/2021

Glasgow International Festival opens this Friday! In South Block's first physical exhibition of 2021, Wasps will be hosting 'seven x seven' from susan pui san lok, curated by Mother Tongue, at South Block and The Briggait Project Spaces.

Inspired by local stories and sites including Pollok House and the Mugdock Park Drowning Ponds, seven x seven seeks to connect narratives of persecution and resistance. This marks the Scottish exhibition debut of London-based artist susan pui san lok, bringing together new commissions and existing work across installation, sound, film and text.

South Block will be open to the public daily 10-5, whereas the Briggait work is designed to be viewed from the street. Please note that we have limited capacity entry to South Block. We will not be operating an advance ticketing system, but ask audience members to safely queue outside the venue if we are at capacity upon arrival.

Join us on 17 June 5-6pm for an online artist talk and the launch of the artist multiple 'seven x seven,' in collaboration with The Courtauld and The Glasgow School of Art, online booking essential

On 20 June, tune into GI Radio to hear the artist's related soundwork, Seven Sisters (2019), audio essays by Mother Tongue and Alexandra Kokoli, and the folksongs that inspired the artist's sound installations, Cruel Mothers/Gross Lovers (2019) and Cruel Mothers/Fine Flowers (2021).

All info: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/latest/events/seven-x-seven-susan-pui-san-lok/

Wasps hosts 'seven x seven' from susan pui san lok, curated by Mother Tongue for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2021 at South Block and the Briggait Project Spaces

14/05/2021

Beautiful installation shots of 'QUARRY' by Kirsty Palmer, currently showing in our gallery windows. Rooted in interaction with materials, place and process, Kirsty’s practice addresses ideas surrounding landscape, archaeology and materiality. QUARRY brings together a series of recent work; these objects speak of working processes and materials inherent to both the studio and land-based environments.

'QUARRY' is the final exhibition in the Wasps Artists' Studios Time Being Programme, available to view, 24 hours a day, from street-side through the gallery windows. Our in person exhibition programme will be opening soon, so keep your 👀 peeled. While we wait to allow visitors into our gallery spaces, the Time Being programme allows us to showcase some of our tenants' and waiting list artist's incredible work.

Also on show as part of our Time Being Programme: 'Two Step/Selvedge to Selvedge' from Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor, over the road from South Block at the Briggait. With lots of our neighbouring gallery friends now open, including Glasgow Print Studio, Street Level Photoworks, The Modern Institute, and Lunchtime Gallery, make a Glasgow gallery weekend of it!

https://southblock.co.uk/current/

📷: Alexander Hoyles

12/03/2021

Wasps Artists' Studios' inaugural online group exhibition, Screen Test, begins tonight at 6.00pm and you are invited to the Screen Test - Online Launch Night!

Screen Test is Wasps’ first fully virtual exhibition; explore 3 galleries featuring works from 67 Wasps artist tenants across 17 studios.
Friday’s launch night begins with artist talks from Inverness Creative Academy based artist Yelena Visemirska and Wasps Artists Studios, Dundee based artist duo Tumim and Prendergast. Hosted via Zoom the Screen Test Launch Night is free to join.

See the full list of participating artists and sign up via: https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/latest/events/screen-test/