Hunterian Associates Programme

The Hunterian Art Gallery has within its archives a collection of screenprints by the Scottish poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. Dating predominantly from the mid-1960s, the prints reveal a poet in transition as he explores new poetic possibilities in the intermingling of word and image. This podcast by Calum Rodger, Hunterian Associate and PhD researcher, explores the beauty and significance of these works, showing how they relate to his concrete poetry and work in the garden at Little Sparta, and how they capture one of his most enduring and endearing poetic images: the world of the sail boat and the fishing boat.

More information about Calum, his project and others from the Hunterian Associate Programme can be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/index.html?refer=itunes

Contact: Ruth Fletcher, Student Engagement Officer, [email protected]

By outlining the fusion of Scottish and Japanese cultures at the end of the 19th century, this video offers new understandings of, and triggers enthusiasm for, these artworks and designs. Hunterian Associate and PhD researcher Michael Shaw demonstrates that Celtic cultures and Japanese cultures were perceived as very similar between 1880 and 1914 and that Scottish artists drew from Japanese culture as it could complement and further the Celtic Revival in Scotland. Curiously, the internationalism of Scottish artwork could lend to the formation of its national cultural identity.

More information about Michael, his project and others from the Hunterian Associate Programme can be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/index.html?refer=itunes

Contact: Ruth Fletcher, Student Engagement Officer, [email protected]

Improvement and Scotland is an online exhibition focussing on the Hunterian's holdings of 18th and early-19th century Scottish art. Linking this material with literary texts of the same period, Hunterian Associate and Glasgow PhD researcher Gerard McKeever narrates the challenges set to Scottish national identity by early processes of modernisation. Part of the Hunterian Associates Programme for 2013, the video also aims to explore the significance of the Hunterian's status as an 'Enlightenment Collection'.

More about the artists, this project and others from the Hunterian Associate Programme can be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/index.html?refer=itunes

Contact: Ruth Fletcher, Student Engagement Officer, [email protected]

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Hagar and the Angel is a creative response to The Hunterian's exhibition of the same title (http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/currentexhibitions/hagarandtheangel/index.html?refer=itunes ) Hunterian Associates, writer Madeleine Campbell and sonic artist Bethan Parkes collaborated with visual artist Birthe Jorgensen to bring to life this first in a series of Hunterian Associate Programme events for 2013. Their collaboration has arisen from their ongoing project Jetties, which is based on Campbell's translations of poems by the recently deceased Algerian Author Mohammed Dib.

More about the artists, this project and others from the Hunterian Associate Programme can be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/index.html?refer=itunes

Contact: Ruth Fletcher, Student Engagement Officer, [email protected]

Castrato singers: their vocal legacy is project which combines the exploration the song books contained within the University of Glasgow’s Special Collections (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/index.html?refer=itunes) written by the lost castrato singers of the 18th and 19th centuries and the performance of the music contained within these books. Participating in the Hunterian Associate Programme 2013, singer and researcher Brianna Robertson brings to life music that has not been performed for over two hundred years in this Hunterian Insight Talk. She explores the technical and the anatomical differences of the castrato singer and how a modern female singer can recreate the music sung by this absent creature.

More information about Brianna, her project and others from the Hunterian Associate Programme can be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/index.html?refer=itunes

Contact: Ruth Fletcher, Student Engagement Officer, [email protected]

This video shows one of the talks given at the first Hunterian Associate Open Evening, October 2012. Hunterian Associate and PhD researcher, Francesca MacKay explains how her interest in Hunter’s vast and varied book and manuscript collection (held by University of Glasgow’s Special Collections, http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/index.html?refer=itunes) led her to examine how this collection is representative of Hunter as an individual, as a collector, and as a member of 18th century society. In the talk she gives an overview of the collection, discusses Hunter’s collection methods and compares them to other 18th century book collectors and takes a particularly close look at his remarkable and unusual collection of dictionaries.

More information about Francesca, her project and others from the Hunterian Associate Programme can be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/index.html?refer=itunes