Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art

House for an Art Lover commissions selected, contemporary artists in association with the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, to undertake a six month residency at the House to research and develop a visual arts project that responds to the history and immediate environment of the House and Bellahouston Park. The project outcomes are shown to the public as part of the biennial Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art during April/May.

I am the Architect, this is not Happening, this is Unacceptable... Gi 2012 

Henry Coombes’ work explores issues of class, heredity, breeding, and the cult of family that underlie them.  Film, oil paint and watercolour are used to produce apparently familiar and comfortable imagery, which on closer inspection reveals itself to be of a darker and more subversive nature.

Coombes was born in London in 1977, graduated in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art in 2002 and is now based in Glasgow. Coombes has created several notable short films including  Laddy and The Lady, 2006 and the critically aclaimed The Bedfords, 2009. Coombes has also represented Scotland at the'The 52nd Venice Biennale'  in 2007.

I am the Architect... is a new Film work by Henry Coombes, commissioned by and realised as part of a Research and Production residency at House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park. The film is a direct response to research generated by the rich social and historical contexts of the Park, the work explores and plays with ideas of fraught relationships, hierarchies and rules, set within the shifting parameters of invented and re-invented worlds.

Further details of Coombes' I am the Architect... Gi 2012 project can be accessed here.

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SpeedWork  - Gi 2010

The runners of the park go in groups, running along dark streets and quiet avenues, sometimes they pass. Everyone nods and smiles.

Jacqueline Donachie is one of Scotland’s most respected contemporary artists, graduating from The Glasgow School of Art’s influential Environmental Art department, which encouraged artists to place their work in a variety of public contexts out-with the gallery space.

One of a group of artists who helped establish Glasgow in the 1990s as one of the world’s most dynamic contemporary art communities, she is still based in the city and has forged an international reputation for a socially-engaged art practice, with a particular interest in public space-based arts.

In 2010 Jacqueline Donachie created SpeedWork, a new outdoor piece in response to the time she spent during her residency with the runners in Bellahouston Park.

Further details of the Gi2010 SpeedWork project can be accessed here. 

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