The Glasgow School of Art

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS LECTURE HAD TO BE CANCELLED.

Artist talk: Josh Blackwell
Mackintosh Lecture Theatre, The Glasgow School of Art
Friday 10 January, 11.30am

Free and all welcome. Tickets available at www.eventbrite.com

In partnership with GSA’s Sustainability in Action Group www.siag.org.uk, we are delighted to co-host an artist talk by American artist Josh Blackwell.

Thinking about the idea of consumer responsibility led Blackwell to begin collecting plastic bags from kitchen cupboards and city streets six years ago. What began as an exercise in environmental conservation evolved into a studio practice combining aspects of painting, sculpture, and installation. 

Blackwell was featured in GSA’s summer 2013 exhibition ‘A Conspiracy of Detail’ so we are delighted he can give a talk and workshop whilst he is in the UK for his solo show with Kate McGarry in London in Jan 2014.

Originally from New Orleans, Josh Blackwell (b.1972) is an artist and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BA from Bennington College in Vermont and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He has participated in exhibitions at PS1/MoMA, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, and EAST international. In 2004-05 he received an International Fellowship from the Delfina Studio Trust in London, and has received two fellowships from Yaddo, (2004, 2006). He teaches in the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He has been represented by Kate MacGarry in London since 2004.

Please note we will serve coffee after the talk in the break, then our second talk of the day is Dr Helena Britt, ‘Interwoven Connections’.