GWW Reading Group – 27 October 2021

This semester, the GWW Centre is organising a reading group on the intersections of Art History and Visual Culture, and the shared methodologies and challenges that connect both fields. We shall discuss a series of classic interventions at the borderlands of both art history and visual culture studies. Everybody is welcome! Our first meeting will … Continue reading →

Marilène Oliver – Making Art with Medical Data

Marilène Oliver – Making Art with Medical Data Free online event, Wednesday 25th November, 5pm hosted by the GWW Centre Dear All, LLMVC’s George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture would be delighted if you could join us for our next free online event ‘Making Art with Medical Data’ by Marilène Oliver on Wednesday 25 November … Continue reading →

Loving the monster: David Lynch’s The Elephant Man as cultural history

Free online event, Thursday 12th November, 1-2pmco-hosted by the GWW Centre and the CHPSTM Centre Dear All, LLMVC’s George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture and the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine would be delighted if you could join us for our next free online event ‘Loving the monster: David … Continue reading →

Traditional Gallery Vs. Post- Modern Gallery

When one thinks of an art-gallery the image that springs to mind is one of a white room, decorated in paintings or sculptures, a space where people can fully immerse themselves in art, shutting out the distractions of everyday life. The post-modern approach towards an art gallery however, such as the one taken by Deveron … Continue reading →

Untitled by Fintan Magee

  My personal favourite Nuart piece is the untitled graffiti work done by Fintan Magee in 2017, just off Loch street. A world travelling artist with Scottish origins, Fintan Magee has been referred to as Australia’s Banksy by some news reporters due to his dreamy but politically charged graffiti murals. He is unspecific about the meaning … Continue reading →

Summer Roundup

It may be summer, and the campus may be (relatively) empty, students far away, lecturers off doing research, but we here at the GWW are hard at work, and there are a lot of exciting things brewing over the summer—some already launched and others to look out for in the coming academic year. SERG Partnership … Continue reading →

Picturing Science reading group on Paul Klee

The reading group Picturing Science is back on Tuesday, October 10th at 1pm in New King’s 15. We shall be discussing Paul Klee “On Modern Art”, an intriguing reading suggested by Marc Higgin (School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen) and Anne Douglas (Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University). Please click on the link … Continue reading →

Book launch of Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960

Join us at Blackwell’s Aberdeen for the official book launch of Amy Bryzgel’s latest publication, Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960. Continue reading →

Learning to Touch: Caroline Inckle’s ‘Black Swan White Elephant’ at Seventeen, Belmont Street

On Wednesday 8th March, students in Dr. Amy Bryzgel’s Postmodern Art class took a field trip to visit several of Aberdeen’s visual arts spaces, including Seventeen on Belmont Street. The current exhibition in the upstairs gallery is Black Swan White Elephant, by North East-based artist Caroline Inckle. Inckle’s exhibition takes the form of a giant … Continue reading →

Maja Bekan’s Exhibition at the CCA in Warsaw – On whether a gallery security guard who speaks English can become an artist

  Maja Bekan’s exhibition 23 Assemblies at the Zamek Ujazdowski – Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Warsaw curated by Anna Ptak invites its visitors to take part in the process of the gallery guards becoming performance artists. Bekan was an artist in residence at the CCA and the exhibition is the result of her … Continue reading →