GSA Degree Show 2024 runs from 31 May to 9 June across the GSA Glasgow Campus in Garnethill. The GSA’s Master of Fine Art Degree Show opens on 30 May – 9th June at Glue Factory.
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Degree Show 2024 opens to the public on Friday 31 May where a new generation of students will showcase their innovation, creativity and energy in what is Glasgow’s largest public exhibition of work. The physical show will run alongside an expansive digital showcase, which launches live on 30 May.
Over 600 students from across the GSA’s four schools – fine art, design, architecture and innovation and technology will exhibit work that addresses the contemporary landscape they will face as they start their creative careers - from AI, web3, identity and representation, the climate emergency to health and wellbeing.
The show not only celebrates the achievements of the graduates but also emphasises the importance of creativity and innovation in addressing current societal challenges. From product design engineering and interaction design to painting and printmaking, the range of
projects on display highlights the students' ability to tackle complex issues and pushboundaries across disciplines.
This year’s Degree Show campaign features Spider Lily, a font made by Year 4 Communication Design graduating student Nikos Ho.
Nikos’ font, the ethereal and fragile Spider Lily is based on his observations of forms from the Singapore cityscape. Introduced to the island as an ornamental plant, the Spider Lily found an ideal habitat in Singapore’s tropical climate and it has embraced for its beauty in the city’s urban landscape. The naturalisation of the spider lily in Singapore mirrors the diverse migrant population that has settled on the island, integrating into its social fabric, enriching the island’s landscape and identity.
Professor Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School of Art said:
"Year after year, our students produce the most inspiring and dynamic work. The Degree
Show provides a platform for them as creative practitioners to challenge convention, spark discourse and debate, and showcase their potential as they transition into the next stage of their creative careers. Many of our graduating students – here from all over the world -
choose to stay on in the city after graduation—shaping and contributing to a really vibrant, forward-thinking creative landscape in Glasgow and beyond."
GSA Degree Show 2024 runs from 31 May to 9 June across the GSA Glasgow Campus in Garnethill. The GSA’s Master of Fine Art Degree Show opens on 30 May – 9th June at Glue Factory.
For any further info please contact:
Alan Miller Abnormal PR | e: abnormals@me.com | t: 07970931537
Notes for Editors
GSA Degree Show 2024 runs from 31 May to 9 June across the GSA Glasgow Campus in
Garnethill. The GSA’s Master of Fine Art Degree Show opens on 30 May – 9th June at Glue
Factory.
About The Glasgow School of Art (GSA):
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationa
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Degree Show 2024 opens to the public on Friday 31 May where a new generation of students will showcase their innovation, creativity and energy in what is Glasgow’s largest public exhibition of work. The physical show will run alongside an expansive digital showcase, which launches live on 30 May.
Over 600 students from across the GSA’s four schools – fine art, design, architecture and innovation and technology will exhibit work that addresses the contemporary landscape they will face as they start their creative careers - from AI, web3, identity and representation, the climate emergency to health and wellbeing.
The show not only celebrates the achievements of the graduates but also emphasises the importance of creativity and innovation in addressing current societal challenges. From product design engineering and interaction design to painting and printmaking, the range of
projects on display highlights the students' ability to tackle complex issues and pushboundaries across disciplines.
This year’s Degree Show campaign features Spider Lily, a font made by Year 4 Communication Design graduating student Nikos Ho.
Nikos’ font, the ethereal and fragile Spider Lily is based on his observations of forms from the Singapore cityscape. Introduced to the island as an ornamental plant, the Spider Lily found an ideal habitat in Singapore’s tropical climate and it has embraced for its beauty in the city’s urban landscape. The naturalisation of the spider lily in Singapore mirrors the diverse migrant population that has settled on the island, integrating into its social fabric, enriching the island’s landscape and identity.
Professor Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School of Art said:
"Year after year, our students produce the most inspiring and dynamic work. The Degree
Show provides a platform for them as creative practitioners to challenge convention, spark discourse and debate, and showcase their potential as they transition into the next stage of their creative careers. Many of our graduating students – here from all over the world -
choose to stay on in the city after graduation—shaping and contributing to a really vibrant, forward-thinking creative landscape in Glasgow and beyond."
GSA Degree Show 2024 runs from 31 May to 9 June across the GSA Glasgow Campus in Garnethill. The GSA’s Master of Fine Art Degree Show opens on 30 May – 9th June at Glue Factory.
For any further info please contact:
Alan Miller Abnormal PR | e: abnormals@me.com | t: 07970931537
Notes for Editors
GSA Degree Show 2024 runs from 31 May to 9 June across the GSA Glasgow Campus in
Garnethill. The GSA’s Master of Fine Art Degree Show opens on 30 May – 9th June at Glue
Factory.
About The Glasgow School of Art (GSA):
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationa
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 My name's Phil McKay.
00:13 I'm a sculpture environmental art student.
00:15 And my work kind of explores themes of realness and fakeness,
00:22 mostly within wrestling, pro wrestling specifically.
00:28 Because it has this kind of--
00:31 wrestling has this theater in it called kayfabe.
00:35 And basically, kayfabe is kind of all-encompassing term
00:40 used to describe the relationship between performer
00:44 and audience, as well as the relationship a performer
00:52 has with their own character.
00:55 So they bring in a lot of kind of self-mythologizing,
00:59 which also kind of runs parallel in my own practice
01:02 and in the practice of a lot of contemporary art.
01:07 Basically, what I do is I create these characters.
01:10 And I create performances where sometimes I'm wrestling,
01:14 sometimes I'm doing slightly more mundane things.
01:19 And it's all about really getting a rise out
01:22 of the audience and allowing them to be as much a part
01:27 of the performance as I am, really.
01:29 Well, in this performance, I've got a few people
01:33 performing with me.
01:35 Sometimes I have invited people in the ring
01:38 to go toe-to-toe with me.
01:43 And I've done performances with other people
01:46 previously as well.
01:47 I did a performance in November where
01:53 there's this thing in wrestling called heat.
01:55 You're trying to create heat, which is basically
01:58 anticipation for a fight.
02:00 And I was trying to create heat for two inanimate objects,
02:06 two rocks.
02:09 Wrestling is a kind of medium where the macho-ness is kind
02:15 of so absurd.
02:17 And you're kind of almost asking the audience
02:21 to suspend their disbelief.
02:23 That's what I want them to do.
02:25 And I don't really care about whether they're actually
02:31 watching a performance, but give in and accept that they are.
02:36 But then go one step beyond that and pretend
02:41 that they do believe it, like really here.
02:44 And that's where I think the magic, the amazing thing
02:48 about wrestling is.
02:49 The audience is a key part, not only of my practice,
02:52 but of wrestling as well.
02:54 And yeah, the other thing I'm kind of interested in
03:00 is the capacity for violence to give an audience
03:08 this kind of medieval urge, this kind
03:10 of rotten tomato-throwing energy that we
03:17 can create as performers.
03:19 My name is Axel Guitart-Folle.
03:21 I am from France.
03:23 I've been in Glasgow for six years.
03:24 I'm in sculpture and environmental art.
03:27 I've been really into world building.
03:29 And in this world, nature ceases to exist.
03:33 And queerness has thrived.
03:37 So it's the idea that queerness cannot exist
03:41 within the realm of capitalism.
03:44 So I'm just imagining that there's been an apocalypse
03:48 and the world ended.
03:51 And when the world ends, only plastic is left.
03:56 And out of plastic and out of the rubble,
03:59 queer people come out and perform a ritual in order
04:05 to understand the nature that they've never met before,
04:09 that they've never seen.
04:11 So I've made about 10 costumes for different people
04:15 in my community.
04:16 They're all made of melted plastic, recycled plastic.
04:21 And they all use mirrors in order
04:24 to get transported into another realm.
04:29 So that's just part one of this film.
04:31 They've not been transported yet.
04:34 So far, what I'm showing here is the ritual for them
04:38 to get to that other place.
04:40 I think my work is more about home.
04:44 Because I've changed home many times in my life.
04:48 My dad was a traveler.
04:50 And I kind of always wondered how and when to feel at home.
04:57 And for me, for the first time of my life in Scotland
05:00 and in Glasgow with my community and my queer community,
05:03 I feel like I can be myself and feel at home with those people.
05:07 And I feel like I wanted to celebrate them.
05:11 And I feel like more than just creating another world,
05:15 maybe I'm just welcoming people into mine
05:18 and into the world I've created here.
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