Art Pints
Join the conversation at Look Again's Art Pints, which takes place at The Lemon Tree. This event invites speakers to discuss their thoughts and personal experiences regarding Aberdeen's creative hubs, and the significance of these spaces to them. Art Pints aims to create a relaxed and casual atmosphere. It's an opportunity to actively participate and share their ideas on what Aberdeen requires around art and creativity.
As an added bonus, all guests will be treated to a complimentary drink upon arrival. This sets the stage for a delightful evening of connection and collaboration. It's a perfect occasion to mingle with fellow creatives, gain fresh perspectives, and have your voice heard within the local arts community.
Don't miss out on this chance to engage in meaningful conversations, forge new connections, and contribute to the thriving art scene in Aberdeen. Be a part of the vibrant artistic dialogue that shapes our city.
Art Pints speakers
The speakers for this event will be announced soon.
Art Pints
Join the conversation at Look Again's Art Pints, which takes place at The Lemon Tree. This event invites speakers to discuss their thoughts and personal experiences regarding Aberdeen's creative hubs, and the significance of these spaces to them. Art Pints aims to create a relaxed and casual atmosphere. Its an opportunity to actively participate and share their ideas on what Aberdeen requires around art and creativity.
As an added bonus, all guests will be treated to a complimentary drink upon arrival. This sets the stage for a delightful evening of connection and collaboration. It's a perfect occasion to mingle with fellow creatives, gain fresh perspectives, and have your voice heard within the local arts community.
Don't miss out on this chance to engage in meaningful conversations, forge new connections, and contribute to the thriving art scene in Aberdeen. Be a part of the vibrant artistic dialogue that shapes our city.
Art Pints speakers
The speakers for this event will be announced soon.
Loved Seeds by Eldin & Love
Loved Seeds is a new exhibition from Look Again in collaboration with We Are Here Scotland featuring the work of Eldin & Love, taking place in a project space over a month-long period.
The exhibition focuses on Aberdeen's flawed history of connections to slavery. It explores how the artists' own identities connect to local sites. This show extends the Quasheba project, a performance using poetry and clay that will be part of the Aberdeen Performing Arts Rise Up festival.
The exhibit aims to take visitors back in time to the lives of an enslaved family in Jamaica in 1832. The family are connected to Aberdeen's Powis Gate, Powis Community Centre, and Jamaica Street. The exhibition runs on Saturdays and Sundays from 29th April to 28th May, from 11 am to 4 pm.
TV Dinners: An Exhibition by Susannah Hewlett
Join Gray's School of Art and Culture Aberdeen for TV Dinners, a captivating exhibition by renowned artist Susannah Hewlett. This unique showcase features some of Hewlett's extraordinary work from the last 15 years, including audio and televisual highlights.
As an added treat, the exhibition will also feature character performances by Chris Titmas, the esteemed VSS Shopping Channel host and 'personality'.
The opening night of the exhibition will take place on Friday, 21st April, from 6 pm to 8 pm. This exclusive event will provide a sneak peek into TV Dinners. For those unable to attend the opening night, fear not! The exhibition will be open to the public from 22nd April to 21st May, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, from 11 am to 4 pm.
TV Dinners is funded by the LACER scheme and delivered by Gray's School of Art on behalf of Culture Aberdeen.
Rudy Kanhye - Composition with Red and Yellow
The new Rudy Kanhye exhibition at the Look Again project space promises a unique and thought-provoking experience. The show, hosted by We Are Here Scotland, features eight works that reflect the politics of food, decolonisation, and the economy of time through the lens of Mauritius Island, where Kanhye's father is from.
New work is the show highlight, supported by Peacock and Gray's School of Art, called Token Offer. Each visitor is given a modest gift with the effigy of the dodo, the symbol of Mauritius, which they can take home and keep for life or use to activate other works in the show.
The exhibition offers an inventive sharing game centred around consumption, food, and storytelling. By participating in the play elements like the ping pong table and exchange, the visitor enters into a sharing game proposed by the artist. This creates a space to be activated and appropriate by the visitor.
Rudy Kanhye aims to creatively engage with the audience in a unique way. Kanhye encourages visitors to think more deeply about these topics and their relationship to society.
Art Pints
Look Again host Art Pints at The Lemon Tree. Speakers will share their thoughts and experiences on the city of Aberdeen, its creative hubs, and what these spaces mean to them. The event is designed to be a casual and relaxed gathering, providing an opportunity for attendees to get involved and share their own ideas about what Aberdeen needs in terms of art and creativity. In addition, all attendees will receive a complimentary drink upon arrival. This is a chance to connect with other creatives, hear new perspectives and make your voice heard in the local arts community. So come and join the conversation.
Art Pints speakers
The following speakers will be featured at Art Pints:
Libby Curtis - Gray's School of Art
Kirsten Body - Circus Artspace
Allan Watson - Deemoth Artist Studios
In Medias Res
In Medias Res showcases the work of final-year art students from Gray's School of Art across two of Aberdeen's key art spaces. You can find the exhibition at the Look Again Project Space on St Andrew Street, and the Arkade Gallery at The Anatomy Rooms, just off Queen Street. A wide range of media and perspectives are explored through thirty-five unique perspectives in this mid-year exhibition by Contemporary Art Practice students in their fourth year.
When can you see In Medias Res?
Opening night:
Tuesday 29 Nov 6 pm - 8 pm
Continues:
30 Nov - 4 Dec 11 am - 4 pm
Guest at Gray's: Ica Headlam
Guest at Gray's presents Ica Headlam, a creative practitioner, and founder of Creative-Me-Podcast & We Are Here Scotland. The importance of open and honest dialogue is very significant to Ica as he advocates for representation across the creative sector. During his talk, he'll reflect on curating your own space, how representation in the creative industries is critical, and what meaningful grassroots work looks like for marginalised communities.
All are welcome.
Staff Outing II
Staff Outing II is a brand-new exhibition of works by Gray's School of Art staff. It takes place at the Look Again Project Space on St Andrew's Street.
Speaking about Staff Outing II, Reader in Contemporary Art & Research Lead at Gray's, Jon Blackwood said, "It’s been just over three years since the inaugural Staff Outing exhibition at the Look Again space, which featured staff from the Contemporary Art Practice programme, and Graduates-in-Residence. So much has happened in the intervening time that that show seems from another world, even if it was in the same city and the same space. This time, the CAP staff are joined by colleagues from Painting, and some Critical & Contextual Studies staff, making this a more rounded exhibition showing of current Fine Art practices at Gray’s School of Art.
"At the core of the show is a deep commitment to, and understanding of, materials, and their metaphorical and humorous potential. Regular attenders of the annual RSA exhibition will immediately recognise the works of Michael Agnew, Head of Painting, Derrick Guild, and Lyndsey Gilmour. Michael’s work deals with Scottish folklore and colloquial humour; Derrick’s is steeped in the history of painting and delights in tricking us into seeing the familiar as unfamiliar again; Lyndsey invites us to see more in her abstract, organic patterns in a delicately chosen palette. The painters are also represented by Peter Chalmers who has shown new work both here and in Edinburgh in the past year, Marcus Murison, and Hannah Gibson. Marcus and Hannah are recent Gray’s graduates whose practice develops again through seductive abstraction and expanded painterly installation."
Look Again encourages and supports the growth and development of the creative sector in the northeast. With support from Aberdeen City Council and Creative Scotland, they are based at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University.
Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita (as above, so below) is a multiple styled public art project curated by Miasma and Look Again. It will be a major part of the upcoming Wonderland Festival. It takes place in Aberdeen from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 September.
The project is co-curated by Miasma - Abby Quick and Eryka Aniol. It features exciting new work by 14 visual artists and designers, working collectively as Terra Incognita (as above, so below). Many of the artists are Gray’s graduates.
The project, ‘Terra Incognita’ (as above, so below), imagines curious, magical and uncanny aspects of the city. It gives people the opportunity to explore hidden sides of Aberdeen. Exhibits will include a sacred wishing well, a greenhouse radio station and a swing that is also a knitting machine. It also features a creature made of redundant satellite dishes and artworks created from mycelium fungus, among other things. In addition, there will be a programme of interactive and participatory workshops for the public.
Abby says: “As we look forward to the wider programme within Wonderland, we are grateful for the opportunity to present works and activity in the public space this year with generous support and mentorship from the Look Again team.”
Other artists involved are Ane Smith, Jack Murray Brown, Caitlin Dick, Jared Cameron, Phoebe McBride, Ray Downie, Maria Roman, Caitlyn Main, Saoirse Horne, Astrid Bjorklund, Emily Doherty and Samm Anga.
Look Again Co-Director, Hilary Nicoll said: “It is wonderful to be working with this talented group of artists and designers, supporting them to bring their uncanny take on the city to the public. We’re thrilled to be taking part in Wonderland and to be supporting arts, culture and importantly, creatives, from the region.