Glasgow - City of Sculpture
Newsletter No.8 30 August, 2002
Welcome to our August Newsletter:

August was the best month so far this year with some really nice weather in Glasgow. But there doesn't seem to have been much news to collect. The next event to look forward to is Doors Open Day on 21st/22nd September.

Richard Miller at work, Glasgow We have added a few new galleries to the site plus a few new biographies, including that of a young, modern sculptor, Richard Miller. Nevertheless, there is still a great number of photographs to show you and we shall continue to add a hundred or so pictures every month.

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New photo galleries during August:

Tontine Heads, St Nicholas Garden, Glasgow Tontine Heads, St Nicholas Garden.
Sculptors: David Cation (fl. 1737-56),
              Mungo Naismith (1730-70)
              Archibald Macfarlane Shannan (1850-1915)
Location: St Nicholas Garden, behind Provand's Lordship,
              Castle Street, Glasgow.
Dates executed: 1737-42, 1758-9, 1872 and 1873 		top
Mitchell Library, Glasgow Mitchell Library.
Sculptors: Johan Keller (1863-1944)
              Thomas John Clapperton (1879-1962)
              William Vickers (fl. 1892-1940)
Architect: William B Whitie (d. 1946)
Location: Mitchell Library, 201 North Street, Anderston, Glasgow
Date executed: 1891-3 		top
Cameron Memorial Fountain, Glasgow Cameron Memorial Fountain.
Sculptor: George Tinworth (1843-1913)
Designers: Robert Alexander Bryden of Clarke & Bell (fl. 1842-1915)
              and Mr Lightbody of Doulton & Co (fl. 1815-)
Location: At the junction of Sauchiehall Street and
              Woodside Crescent, Charing Cross, Glasgow
Date executed: 1895-6 		top
Elie Street, Partick Topographical Scenes at Partick Cross.
Sculptor: Lynn Clark
Cast by: Plean Pre-cast
Commissioned by: Partick Housing Association
Location: Above entrances to 1 and 3 Elie Street, Partick
Date executed: 1990		 top
Figurative Capitals, British Linen Company Bank, Govan Figurative Capitals, British Linen Company Bank, Govan.
Modeller: Johan Keller (1863-1944)
Carver: R Ferris (fl. 1886-1915)
Architects: James Salmon II (1873-1924)
                J G Gillespie (1870-1926)
Location: British Linen Company Bank, 816 Govan Road
Date executed: 1897-1900		 top
Partick Burgh Hall, Glasgow Allegorical Roundels: Misericordia (Mercy),
Justitia (Justice), Veritas (Truth).
Sculptor: William Mossman II (1824-1884)
Architect: William Leiper (1839-1916)
Location: Partick Burgh Halls,
              3-9a Burgh Hall Street, Partick, Glasgow
Date executed: 1872 		top
Monument to David Livingstone , Glasgow Monument to David Livingstone .
Sculptor: John Mossman (1817-1890)
Assisted by: Francis Leslie (1833-94)
                  James Pittendrigh Macgillivray (1856-1938)
Designers of pedestal: Campbell Douglas & Sellars
Location: Cathedral Square, Townhead, Glasgow
Date executed: 1875-9 		top
Unite De Recreation, Glasgow Unite De Recreation.
Sculptor: Richard Miller (b. 1968)
Location: Children's Playground, Abernethy Street,
              Haghill, Glasgow
Date executed: 1996-8		 top
Anderson College of Medicine, Glasgow Anderson College of Medicine.
Sculptor: James Pittendrigh Macgillivray (1856-1938)
Architect: James Sellars (1843-88)
Completed by: John Keppie (1862-1945)
Location: Anderson College of Medicine,
              56 Dumbarton Road, Partick
Date executed: 1888-9		 top
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New biographies during August:

Richard Miller (b. 1968). Born in Leicester, he is currently studying for a degree in Fine Art Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art. In 1993, he was awarded a Shepley Trust grant and sponsorship from General Accident to build and site his SSO6 exhibit as a permanent feature at the Member’s House, Royal Zoological Gardens, Edinburgh (1991-3). top
 
John Carrick (1819-90). He was the first City Architect of Glasgow, being appointed to that post in 1862. He was involved with the City Improvement Trust, which swept away the old slums of Glasgow, and commissioned Thomas Annan to make a photographic record of the condemned districts. top
 
The following are short biographies of sculptors, all of whom have an example of their work exhibited in the Kibble Palace, Botanical Gardens, Glasgow: top
 
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Glasgow News:

The House for an Art Lover will be exhibiting works by some of Scotland's top artists, such as David Mach, Peter Howson and Avril Paton. They will all then be auctioned off on October 3rd to raise funds for the charity ENABLE, which helps people with learning disabilities. It is hoped to raise at least £6,000 from the auction.
Source: Evening Times, 8 Aug 2002.

Two Georgian buildings, some of the last in the east end of Glasgow, are under threat of demolition. Both buildings are former warehouses and have been neglected for years. It is proposed to demolish them and erect luxury flats in their place. The site is opposite the former St Andrew's in the Square Church and close to the Homes for the Future development.
The Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland are amongst the objectors.
Source: Evening Times, 19 Aug 2002.

Doors Open Day is coming round again, on the week-end of 21st/22nd September. This always creates great exitement amongst anyone interested in the sculptural, architectural and cultural heritage of Glasgow. There is always so much to see and do, that plans sometimes have to made to cover several years into the future.
A new venue this year is The Panopticon Theatre at the Trongate. This 139 year old music hall, which later became the Britannia Theatre, is famous as being the place where comedian Stan Laurel made his debut. A young Cary Grant also appeared here. The theatre closed in 1938 but is now about to be restored in a £4 million pound project.
Another exciting new venue this year is the Heisenberg Studios in the Gorbals.
Get more information from the website: http://www.doorsopendays.org.uk/
Source: Evening Times, 29 Aug 2002.

David Mach's new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art is still on. You have until September 29th to get along there. You can see more of David Mach's work on his own website at http://www.davidmach.com.

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Book Choice:

After Modern SculptureTitle: After Modern Sculpture
Author: Richard J. Williams


Synopsis: During the mid-1960s, sculptors in the USA and Europe simultaneously lost interest in making objects. Instead, under banners such as "Anti-Form" and "Arte Povera", they began to present undifferentiated matter as sculpture: industrial felt, lead, dirt, vegetables, even live animals. Such heaps, arrays and environments seemed to mark the end of modern sculpture. They dominated sculptural debate at the time of their appearance, and they have since proved enormously influential on contemporary art. This text treats such work as a separate topic. It discusses its appearance in the work of such diverse artists as Joseph Beuys, Evan Hesse, Robert Morris and Richard Serra, and analyzes the ways in which it questioned existing traditions of modern sculpture. The book describes in detail the contemporary theoretical basis of the work, for example the impact of psychoanalysis, and the politics of the so-called New Left. It is also careful to situate the work in its social and historical context.
 
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288 pages (May, 2000)
ISBN: 0719056519

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