This podcast episode with Sorcha Dallas Gray custodian of the Alasdair Gray Archive and Rhona Warwick

Paterson, an artist|writer based in Glasgow, and GoMA's associate artist (2019 -2022) was recorded in the

Alasdair Gray Archive. A focus for the conversation was the ‘Domestic Bliss’ exhibition currently on  in

GoMA and featuring works from Alasdair’s City Recorder series, but also thinking about the relationship of

how Alasdair worked in his home, how artists work and also the determination of making and living as an

artist in the city.

00:00 – 03:00 Introductions

03:00 – 15:42 Memories of GoMA opening in 1996, but also talking about Glasgow as a place to study art

and how that links to Alasdair Gray’s Lanark.

15:45 – 26:40 Alasdair Gray – City Recorder, collections and archives

26: 40 – 49:45 Generosity, living life as an artist and the importance of creativity in our lives.

49:45 – 58:30 The role of the table in Domestic Bliss and for collaborations with artists

LINKS:

Alasdair Gray Archive https://linktr.ee/thealasdairgrayarchive

Rhona Warwick Paterson https://galleryofmodernart.blog/rhona-warwick-paterson-associate-artist/

Domestic Bliss https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/domestic-bliss/

Recorded on 22 December 2021 via zoom this conversation with Malcolm Dickson- a curator, writer and organiser, alongside being the director of Street Level Photoworks and Marcus Jack, a freelance curator, writer and print designer. As Malcolm notes he worked with GoMA from its inception, including curating a show, Infinitude, which opened in 2000. This work (and more) that Malcolm has done in Scotland is also part of Marcus’ PHD looking at the history of artists moving image in Scotland since 1970 and was at the heart of an interesting conversation about moving image in Scotland, GoMA’s early ambitions about new media and conservation gaps of key moments in video in Scotland.

Timecodes:

00:00 – 2:00 – Introductions

2:00 –19:30 – GoMa opening, memories of 1996 and the cultural scene in Glasgow in the late 1990’s

19:30 – 24.30 – photography in GoMA’s collection and some recent collecting

24:30 – 45:40 – video, artist moving image conservation and early resources.

45:40 – 56:00 - Infinitude, GOMA, 2000 – curated by Malcolm Dickson

56:00 – end – final question about a future for GOMA.

Links related to conversations in the podcast

Malcolm Dickson https://rewind.ac.uk/people/malcolm-dickson/

Street Level Photoworks https://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/

Transit Arts https://marcusjack.com/Transit-Arts

Pedro Meyer https://pedromeyer.com/en/

New Visions Festival 1996 https://romulusstudio.com/variant/pdfs/issue2/screening.pdf

Patricia Piccinini Genetic Manipulation Simulator https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/genetic-manipulation-simulator/

Troy Innocent http://www.annapappasgallery.com/troy-innocent

British Art Show 7 https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/british-art-show-7-in-the-days-of-the-comet/

Maud Sulter – https://maudsulterpassion.wordpress.com/

Ajamu - https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/familiar-strangers-portraits-by-ajamu-x/

Rewind https://rewind.ac.uk

Stansfield and Hooykaas - https://rewind.ac.uk/people/madelon-hooykaaselsa-stansfield/

MITES https://artquest.org.uk/listing/mites/

ZKM https://zkm.de/en

Infinitude https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/infinitude/

Series 3, Episode 4, Rachel Mimiec

Glasgow based artist Rachel Mimiec in conversation with GOMA’s Producer Curator, Katie Bruce, about her history of working with the museum, working with communities, play and paint.

Season 3 of the Glasgow Museums podcast has been supported by the Art Fund’s Respond and Reimagine Fund.

Timecodes

00:28 - 01:02 - Introductions

01:02 - 04:40 - 1996 and GoMA opening, memories

04:40 - 08:20 - Re(Place) at GoMA 2002/3 with Susie Johnson

08:20 - 17:50 - elbowroom (2004/5) and working with communities

08:20 - 26:40 - Associate Artist tenure (2011 -2013) Atelier Public and work on play

26:40 - 30:07 - PLOUGH at GoMA (2013)

30:07 - 33:24 - working with GoMA, Glasgow Arts, Tramway and Glasgow Life

33:24 - 35:30 - favourite works in Glasgow Museums’ collection

35:30 - 37:30 - reflections on working with GoMA

Links for the projects mentioned in this episode:

Re(Place) 2002 https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/replace/

elbowroom 2004 https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/elbowroom/

Atelier Public 2011 https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/atelier-public-a-space-to-play-make-and-explore/

PLOUGH 2013 https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/rachel-mimiec-plough/

Watercolours 2013 https://galleryofmodernart.blog/watercolours-an-exhibition-of-work-by-children-at-red-road-family-centre-nursery/

Hidden Gardens residency https://thehiddengardens.org.uk/explore/artworks/

Joan Eardley in Glasgow Museums http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=3940;type=901

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Nitshill https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/glasgow-museums-resource-centre-gmrc

Timespan 1987, Tam Joseph https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/timespan-84684

Land Levels and Rises 2010, Carol Rhodes https://galleryofmodernart.blog/new-acquisitions-announced/

Disorient 2009, Fiona Tan https://galleryofmodernart.blog/fiona-tan-disorient/

In this episode we hear from the GoMA Youth Group, a creative initiative of young people working with the gallery to deliver youth centered events and programmes.

Season 3 of the Glasgow Museums podcast has been supported by the Art Fund’s Respond and Reimagine Fund.

00:00 - 01:28

Introductions

01:32 - 04:00

Hollie and Connor talk about their first encounter with GoMA?

04:16 - 06:23

Hollie and Connor talk about why they wanted to join the GoMA Youth Group

06:26 - 16:50

Hollie and Connor talk about what they and the GoMA Youth Group achieved over the last year.

16:53 - 23:00

Hollie asks Katie to say what she thinks GoMA gets out of the relationship with the GoMA Youth Group.

23:11 - 26:00

Hollie and Connor talk about what their dreams for the current cohort are.

GoMA Youth Group

Twitter https://twitter.com/gomayouthgroup

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GoMAYouthGroup

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/goma.yg/

That sinking feeling https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/that-sinking-feeling-2/

Series 3, Episode 2, Ajamu

London based artist Ajamu is in conversation with GoMA’s Producer Curator Katie Bruce about his history of working with the museum, Black queer photography and mentoring younger artists.

Season 3 of the Glasgow Museums podcast has been supported by the Art Fund’s Respond and Reimagine Fund.

Timecodes:

00:28 - 00:59 - introductions

00:59 - 06:24 - 1996 and GoMA opening, Typical Men exhibition (2002) and the sh[OUT] (2009) residency at GoMA

.

06:25 - 09:44 - Rukkus and Familiar Strangers Portrait exhibition at GoMA (2009)

09:45 - 15:02 - After Dark (2017)

15:04 - 23:04 - Observations and experiences of working in Glasgow and London

23:05 - 25:27 - Reflections on having work in Glasgow Museums’ collection

25:28 - 27:26 - Maud Sulter Passion Project at Streetlevel Photoworks

Links for projects mentioned in this episode:

Typical Men (2002) https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/typical-men-recent-photography-of-the-male-body-by-men/

Familiar Strangers https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/familiar-strangers-portraits-by-ajamu-x/

After Dark https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/after-dark-part-of-polygraphs-at-goma-for-glasgow-international-2018-3-may-2018/

After Dark recording https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/at-home-talk-after-dark-2018/

Matthew Arthur Williams http://www.matthewarthurwilliams.com/

Archival Sensoria Cubitt Gallery (2021)

https://www.cubittartists.org.uk/ajamu-archival-sensoria

Maud Sulter Passion https://maudsulterpassion.wordpress.com/

This episode of the podcast was recorded over zoom therefore some of the audio may have been affected by wifi connection.

Series 3, Episode 1, David Sherry

Glasgow-based artist David Sherry is in conversation with GoMA’s Producer Curator Katie Bruce about his history of working with the museum, performance art and comedy in art.

Season 3 of the Glasgow Museums podcast has been supported by the Art Fund’s Respond and Reimagine Fund.

Timecodes:

00:28 - 02:00 - introductions

00:59 - 03:47- 1996 and GoMA opening, first encounters with the museum

03:47 - 09:45 - Memories from 2003 working with GoMA and the solo show Interremoteness for Fulltime Life

10:11 - 19:10 - Performance art in Glasgow Museums’ collection

19:15 - 32:17 - Comedy and life in performance

32:20 - 36:00 - Reflections on having work in Glasgow Museums’ collection

36:00 - 39:20 - Unrealised projects or thoughts about them

Links for projects mentioned in this episode:

Interremoteness for Fulltime Life https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/interremoteness-for-fulltime-life/

Blueprint for a Bogey https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/blueprint-for-a-bogey/

Just Popped Out http://www.dave-sherry.com/Performance-Dave-Sherry-23-Just-popped-out-back-in-two-hours-at-KG-2014.html

Electrical Appliance (2011) https://www.flickr.com/photos/glasgowmuseums/6046384986

David Sherry -website http://www.dave-sherry.com/

David Sherry / Patricia Fleming Gallery https://www.patricia-fleming.com/Artists/David-Sherry

This episode of the podcast was recorded in David Sherry’s studio with the window open so there may be some background noise.

Dr Anthony Lewis, Curator of Scottish History at Glasgow Museums talks about the historical and cultural significance of the Tontine Heads in the St Nicholas Garden of Provand’s Lordship. The heads originally graced the entrance arches of the Tontine Hotel in Glasgow’s Trongate- a celebrated haunt of merchants who made their fortunes in the tobacco trade in the 18th century.

Timecodes:

01:00 - 02:00 - An introduction to the St Nicholas Garden in Provand’s Lordship and the Tontine Heads carved stones

02:00 - 05:45 - Why are they called The Tontine Heads, who made them and what is their links to the Tontine Hotel and its history

05:45 - 10:55 - The 18th Century expansion of Glasgow and its links to the transatlantic slave trade, how

do the stones connect with this history

10:55 - 20:00 - What the Tontine Heads represent and how we now interpret them

Links and book references mentioned in this episode:

The Tontine Heads, Glasgow Museums Legacies of Slavery blog: https://glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2018/08/15/the-tontine-heads/

Head with possible feathered head dress, Glasgow Museums collection online:

https://bit.ly/3ipxKFZ

Breif History of the Tontine Heads:

http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_images.php?sub=tontine

McNair's Building, King Street City, by David Small, Glasgow Museums collection online:

https://bit.ly/3zWHvBv

A.Lewis, Georgian New Towns of Glasgow and Edinburgh, The New Town of Edinburgh, An Architectural Celebration, ed. Clarisse Godard Desmarest, Berlinn Ltd, 2019, pp.78-99

J.Gibson, Gibsons' History of Glasgow 1777, https://bit.ly/3kq2isz

This episode of the podcast was recorded in a large room at Kelvingrove Museum to comply with Covid-19 regulations, therefore some of the audio may contain an echo.

The women in this picture along with thousands of other women made history as part of the Suffragette movement when they chose to fight for the right to vote.

Join Fiona Hayes, museums social history curator and Sue John from the Glasgow Women's Library as they tell us the powerful story of Janet Barrowman, an activist and Glaswegian Suffragette.

This episode of the Glasgow Museums Podcast was recorded via Zoom, February 2021.

Timecodes:

01:00 - 05:30 - Who was Janet Barrowman and what story do these coins tell?

05:30 - 09:20 - The campaign, activism, Suffrage support and advertisements

09:20 - 14:30 - The woman who travelled with Janet Barrowman, the campaigns they were involved with and the memoteos donated to museums

14:35 -15:40 - The creativity of the Suffragette movement

15:40 - 27:00 - Gaps in knowledge of Suffragette materiel and new research into Satirical material, and mass produced items, made for commercial profit such as games and postcards

Links

Glasgow Women's Library

https://womenslibrary.org.uk/

The Argument of the Broken Pane: Suffragette Consumerism and Newspapers by Jane Chapman, published in Media History Vol. 21, No. 3 in 2015: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688804.2014.977238

Art and Suffrage, a biographical dictionary of Suffrage artists, by Elizabeth Crawford, 2018

https://francisboutle.co.uk/products/art-and-suffrage/

Panko card game

http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=46908;type=101

Photograph

http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=675279;type=101

Coins

http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=504545;type=101

A brilliant discussion on the many twists and turns of tartan, involving an Englishman, rebellions, monarchs and our very own Lord Mungo Murray.

Join Rebecca Quinton, Glasgow Museums' Research Manager for Art and Dr Sally Tuckett, Lecturer in History of Art at University of Glasgow as they go a journey.

This episode of the Glasgow Museums podcast was recorded August 2020 via Zoom.

07:00 - Description of the painting and the practicalities and status of Highland dress and plaid, use of painting for dress historians

07:00 - 10:00 - How to style a huge piece of tartan plaid

10.15 - 14.00 - How kilts came to be

14:00 - 19:00 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobite Army and the influence and rebellion of plaid

19:00 - 24:00 - The politics and banning of Highland dress

24:00 - 26:00 - Military use of tartan and how it became a symbol of the Empire

26:00 - 31:00 - Tartan manufacturers, commercialisation and clan tartans

31:00 - 34:00 - Protection of Highland identity and organisation and registering of of clan patterns

34:00 - 42:00 - George IV’s Royal visit to Edinburgh in 1822 and the beginnings of tartan becoming fashionable

A Highland Chieftain: Portrait of Lord Mungo Murray (c.1683) by John Michael Wright, was purchased in 2019 thanks to the generous support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Art Fund, Friends of Glasgow Museums and National Fund for Acquisitions.

Links

Lord Mungo Murray, John Michael Wright, Glasgow Museums

https://bit.ly/2G2vc0r

National Lottery Heritage Fund

www.heritagefund.org.uk

Art Fund

https://www.artfund.org/

National Fund for Acquisitions

https://www.nms.ac.uk/about-us/services-and-expertise/national-fund-for-acquisitions/

The Tartan Register

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/index

Act of Proscription

http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan/the-growth-of-tartan/the-act-of-proscription-1747/

The Highland Society of London

http://highlandsocietyoflondon.org

George IV (1762-1830) by Sir David Wilkie (1745 - 1841, Royal Collection)

https://bit.ly/2Huu0Ub

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Our host Harry speaks to Saqib Razzaq and Isobel McDonald about the GlaswegAsians project, join us to hear more about the brilliant work Colourful Heritage has been doing with Glasgow Museums.

This episode was recorded February 2020.

Timestamps

0.50 – Background to the Colourful Heritage Project

02:17 – Uncovering surprising and inspiring stories during research

07:25 – Highlights of the GlaswesAsians exhibition

09:13 – The exhibition timeline

11:00 – The objects, stories& themes from the exhibition

15:42 – Community events that have taken place during the project

18:20 – Bashir Maan CBE, his contribution and archive

21:15 – WW1 and WW2 research into the South Asian war contribution

26:15 – Glasgow Museums South Asian collections and objects and donations from the community

28:00 – Lessons that can be taken from this project which may help other migrant communities

Remember to use the hashtag #GMPodcast to keep the conversations going on social media.

Colourful Heritage website www.colourfulheritage.com

Colourful Heritage timeline www.colourfulheritage.com/timeline

Colourful Heritage are also on Facebook at facebook.com/colourfulheritage/ and Twitter @ColourHeritage