Assemble, Exchange:
Cross-disciplinary crit session featuring four GSA artist’s work

📅 Date: Monday, 18^th March
🕒 Time: 2 - 4.15pm
📍 Location: Project Space 1, 2nd Floor, GSASA Assembly Building, Glasgow, G3 6RJ

🎟️ Free Tickets: Available here (for current GSA students only)
 

Join us for Assemble, Exchange meeting facilitated by Alicia Bickerstaff and Choterina Freer at GSASA. This cross-disciplinary peer crit series aims to encourage collaborative learning, providing a space for students from all programmes across GSA to engage in critical discussions and share ideas and references.
 

 Presenting Artists: 

Stina Aldén - Third Year, Fine Art Photography

Stina Aldén, born in Sweden, is an artist working primarily with photography but also with an act of performance art. She is currently based in Glasgow finishing her studies in Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art. 

A lot of Stina’s work evolves around her background coming from a masculine and labour-intensive environment, and with that the contrast to the life she’s currently living. With a lot of frustration she tackles themes as body image, heritage and self-understanding. Her practice focuses mostly on the photographic analogue process, and using her body as her main object and prop. 

The work shown in the crit is called “The vegan butcher part 2”. It’s an act of play with the contradiction of this little life and the unreliability of actions. 

David W. Hicks - MLitt Fine Art Practice 

At the centre of David’s prolific practice is a relentless investigation and questioning into the materials, mechanics and methods of image-making – each work represents its own provocation to the ways images are constructed, deconstructed or reconstructed through sculpture and assemblage.

Stubbornly avoiding a singular style, David’s work is united by a mindset and means of improvisation; each work aims to seamlessly connect a chosen image with both materials, process and place. Frequently inventing new processes as a result, his creative output functions as a record of decision-making, time and constraints, while celebrating the limitations of the presenting medium or objects.

Vera Bartolozzi - 4th Year Sculpture and Environmental Art 

My most recent work drags inspiration from Female Archetypes, and the negotiation of identity and power for women through a psychological lens. The work I create tends to revolve around the body as a medium, either in performance or sculptural pieces. Recently, I have created installations of life casts made with wax and plaster, besides edible material (caramel and milk). Backbones of my aesthetic is the research on the works of Kiki Smith, Isabelle Alberqueque, Janine Antoni and Erich Fischl, and the studies on Second Wave feminist psychology (Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva) and on Jungian psychology (Clarissa Pinkola Estés). 

Anna Tewungwa - 3rd Year Sculpture and Environmental Art 

For the assemble exchange crit series I will be presenting some recent works through which I have been exploring the presence of lightness or ethereality within roughness or 'ugliness' - everyday urban environments, advertisement, "rubbish" etc. I am particularly interested in utilising consumerist projections of femininity ('beautiful' faces and bodies, certain colours, patterns and cheap material) as vessels for this as they exhibit a type of grace which is simultaneously forced and sincere. I am interested in what these projections might allow one to access within oneself in terms of authentic experience and mood when they are utilised in painting, and the recent work I am making I feel personally marks a recommitment in my faith in painting to be able to best represent and work through these ideas.

Drinks and Snacks Provided!