Upcoming Exhibition - Polka Dot Punks at Streetland 2012 - Sat 5 May
Two new pieces of work from the 'New Territories' series will be on display at Polka Dot Punks. as part of the Streetland 2012 festival. Please do come along and see it!
0/1, 59 Dixon Avenue
Govanhill
Glasgow
Saturday 5th May, 12-6pm.
Upcoming Exhibition at The Glasgow Art Club
A new show on the horizon at the lovely Glasgow Art Club. New works from my 'New Territories' series will be shown for the first time. Keep your eyes peeled for updates on dates for the show!
IRONBBRATZ & VAULT in the Glaswegian
IRONBBRATZ at VAULT featured in the Glaswegian newspaper. Picture see Amanda Dobbratz, myself and Innes Smith.
New Territories
Back in the studio and making a new body of work - the New Territories series will document and explore sites of interest in the South Side of Glasgow where I now live.
As previously an investigation of the contradictions of visual barriers and loaded symbols within a specific site will feature prominently. However there will be a particular focus on transient but communal spaces like pubs, shops and places of worship, thus allowing me to explore the cultural diversity of my new situation.
New drawings/paintings will be up in the following weeks.
Leeanne McKenna & IRONBBRATZ at VAULT ART GLASGOW
Vault Art Glasgow will be held in the Old Fishmarket at the Briggait between the 9th and 11th of September. I will have some work there on show and for sale along with the works of my friends in IRONBBRATZ studios - there'll be a lot to choose from! Also, we will have a drawing booth set up where you can commission your own personal piece of contemporary art and it will be completed there and then for you over a cuppa tea and a chat! Please do come along.
Opening hours are as follows:
Fri Sept 9, 10am - 9pm
Sat Sept 10, 10am - 9pm
Sun Sept 11, 11am - 5pm
Opening hours are as follows:
Fri Sept 9, 10am - 9pm
Sat Sept 10, 10am - 9pm
Sun Sept 11, 11am - 5pm
Can You Help?
I'm looking for any photographs or digital images anyone might have of the East End of Glasgow between 1948 and 1989. I'm particularly interested in any photographs of pubs that are no longer standing or have been refurbished since and any old photographs of the Barras Market. The images will be used for research purposes and could possibly feature in later works.
If you think you have anything at all relevant to this, please get in touch with me at:
info@leeannemckenna.com
Thanks!
RGI 150th Annual Exhibition
I will have a piece of work in The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 150th Exhibition.
23 October - 12 November 2011
The Mitchell
North Street
Charing Cross
Glasgow
G3 7DN
Open to the public: 23 Oct - 12 Nov Mon - Sat 10.30am - 5pm
Thurs 10.30am - 7pm
Sun closed except Sun 23 Oct 12 - 5pm (with music)
Sat 12 Nov (with Cash bar)
RGI New Graduates 2011
New Graduates 2011
28 June - 9 July
Preview: Thursday 30 June, 5 -7pm
With two former students on this years Turner Prize shortlist and other graduates enjoying substantial international reputations, Glasgow School of Art has alumni of fame and notoriety.
The New Graduates exhibition at the Kelly Gallery will feature a selection of works from recent GSA graduates. Come along and snap up some works by Glasgow’s next big things.
Artists include:
Gillian Anderson
Amelia Barratt
Ruby Chanock
Laura Dray
Robin Leishman
Lei Liu
Leeanne McKenna
Anna Rhodes
Silja Strom
28 June - 9 July
Preview: Thursday 30 June, 5 -7pm
With two former students on this years Turner Prize shortlist and other graduates enjoying substantial international reputations, Glasgow School of Art has alumni of fame and notoriety.
The New Graduates exhibition at the Kelly Gallery will feature a selection of works from recent GSA graduates. Come along and snap up some works by Glasgow’s next big things.
Artists include:
Gillian Anderson
Amelia Barratt
Ruby Chanock
Laura Dray
Robin Leishman
Lei Liu
Leeanne McKenna
Anna Rhodes
Silja Strom
Evening Times Coverage
Rachel Loxton
These students are the future. They may go on to become award-winning artists or household names.
But the biggest moment of their lives so far is just around the corner – it is Glasgow School of Art’s Annual Degree Show.
More than 20,000 people are expected to converge at the show, which is sponsored by Sky Park, and takes place from Saturday until June 18, at the GSA’s Garnethill Campus.
It will feature the work of more than 400 graduating students from the Schools of Fine Art, Design and Architecture, and gives the public the chance to snap up masterpieces at decent prices.
The Evening Times was given a peak behind the scenes as the students battle through 12-hour days to get their pieces ready.
The famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh Building has already started the transformation from educational space to jaw-dropping gallery.
Students and staff are balancing on ladders as works of art, including part of a car, are being hung.
In a pristine white studio painting and printmaking fourth-year student Leeanne McKenna, 21, from Calton, is organising the paperwork to go along with her striking acrylic paintings, which show how Glasgow’s East End – and how she – is changing.
Her paintings include well-known places in the area including the Tolbooth, Braemar Bar, Bairds Bar and the Barrowland.
Leeanne said: “I think my work documents transition.
“It’s not a goodbye but it shows things are changing, there’s going to be a lot of uncertainty in my life and I suppose in a way I’m leaving my old self.
“The East End is changing, too. I mean there’s all this regeneration happening but when I look at shops I see shutters and shops that have burned down.”
During her time at art school Leeanne, who went to St Mungo’s Academy, helped her friend set up IRONBBRATZ, a community studio based in the city centre.
She said: “I have done things I never thought I’d be able to do before. Coming to art school can be a bit of a culture shock but once you settle down here you’re fine.
“These past few months have been the best part of the four years I’ve been here.
“There’s been a real buzz about the place and everybody’s just come together as a group and helped each other out.”
In between gold shimmering lights made out of white stilettos (yes, really) another student Gabriella Boyd, 22, who lives in Finnieston, is arranging her impressive pieces which she says are about the containment of people.
Gabriella, who was born in Glasgow before moving to London, said: “The art scene in Glasgow has been so inspirational, especially with all the galleries that have opened recently. The alumni who have come from here are so inspiring”
Author and painter Alasdair Gray, Scotland’s makar Liz Lochhead and Oscar winning actor Peter Capaldi are just a few of famous faces to have gone to the school.
And, not to add to the pressure, but three Turner Prize winners – Richard Wright, Douglas Gordon and Simon Starling – graduated from the GSA. Two of the four current nominees for the 2011 Turner – Karla Black and Martin Boyce – also hailed from the institution.
But this doesn’t phase Miranda Vane, who comes from Cumbria, but now lives in Glasgow’s West End.
The 24-year-old, who is exhibiting collages and digital prints, said: “If I can just be doing art in 10 years’ time that will be an achievement. To make a living out of my art would be something else.
“Coming to study in the Mac building has been inspiring, I don’t think I’ll ever work somewhere as beautiful as this. So many things have inspired me here – like St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross.
“I think Glasgow is good at looking forward to the future and not being too precious about the past and I really like that about it.”
All the students traditionally hold a street party outside the campus after the degree show finishes.
But this will be the last year the party can happen because a £50million upgrade of GSA will be under way next year.
The development is a two-phase project to create an urban campus to replace several existing buildings, but it will not replace the Mackintosh main building.
Student Leeanne said: “I can’t wait for the street party when the degree show finishes. I think it’s the only way art school people can graduate, the whole graduation gowns with the tipping of hats isn’t for us, spilling out on to the street is the only way we do it.”
These students are the future. They may go on to become award-winning artists or household names.
But the biggest moment of their lives so far is just around the corner – it is Glasgow School of Art’s Annual Degree Show.
More than 20,000 people are expected to converge at the show, which is sponsored by Sky Park, and takes place from Saturday until June 18, at the GSA’s Garnethill Campus.
It will feature the work of more than 400 graduating students from the Schools of Fine Art, Design and Architecture, and gives the public the chance to snap up masterpieces at decent prices.
The Evening Times was given a peak behind the scenes as the students battle through 12-hour days to get their pieces ready.
The famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh Building has already started the transformation from educational space to jaw-dropping gallery.
Students and staff are balancing on ladders as works of art, including part of a car, are being hung.
In a pristine white studio painting and printmaking fourth-year student Leeanne McKenna, 21, from Calton, is organising the paperwork to go along with her striking acrylic paintings, which show how Glasgow’s East End – and how she – is changing.
Her paintings include well-known places in the area including the Tolbooth, Braemar Bar, Bairds Bar and the Barrowland.
Leeanne said: “I think my work documents transition.
“It’s not a goodbye but it shows things are changing, there’s going to be a lot of uncertainty in my life and I suppose in a way I’m leaving my old self.
“The East End is changing, too. I mean there’s all this regeneration happening but when I look at shops I see shutters and shops that have burned down.”
During her time at art school Leeanne, who went to St Mungo’s Academy, helped her friend set up IRONBBRATZ, a community studio based in the city centre.
She said: “I have done things I never thought I’d be able to do before. Coming to art school can be a bit of a culture shock but once you settle down here you’re fine.
“These past few months have been the best part of the four years I’ve been here.
“There’s been a real buzz about the place and everybody’s just come together as a group and helped each other out.”
In between gold shimmering lights made out of white stilettos (yes, really) another student Gabriella Boyd, 22, who lives in Finnieston, is arranging her impressive pieces which she says are about the containment of people.
Gabriella, who was born in Glasgow before moving to London, said: “The art scene in Glasgow has been so inspirational, especially with all the galleries that have opened recently. The alumni who have come from here are so inspiring”
Author and painter Alasdair Gray, Scotland’s makar Liz Lochhead and Oscar winning actor Peter Capaldi are just a few of famous faces to have gone to the school.
And, not to add to the pressure, but three Turner Prize winners – Richard Wright, Douglas Gordon and Simon Starling – graduated from the GSA. Two of the four current nominees for the 2011 Turner – Karla Black and Martin Boyce – also hailed from the institution.
But this doesn’t phase Miranda Vane, who comes from Cumbria, but now lives in Glasgow’s West End.
The 24-year-old, who is exhibiting collages and digital prints, said: “If I can just be doing art in 10 years’ time that will be an achievement. To make a living out of my art would be something else.
“Coming to study in the Mac building has been inspiring, I don’t think I’ll ever work somewhere as beautiful as this. So many things have inspired me here – like St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross.
“I think Glasgow is good at looking forward to the future and not being too precious about the past and I really like that about it.”
All the students traditionally hold a street party outside the campus after the degree show finishes.
But this will be the last year the party can happen because a £50million upgrade of GSA will be under way next year.
The development is a two-phase project to create an urban campus to replace several existing buildings, but it will not replace the Mackintosh main building.
Student Leeanne said: “I can’t wait for the street party when the degree show finishes. I think it’s the only way art school people can graduate, the whole graduation gowns with the tipping of hats isn’t for us, spilling out on to the street is the only way we do it.”
MORE IRONBBRATZ STUDIOS COMING SOON!
IRONBBRATZ are delighted to announce approx. 25 NEW SPACES for emerging creative practitioner!! If you are interested, please contact us at
Ironbbratz@gmail.com
or come by and have a look between 4th - 6th February at:
84 Miller street (press IRONBBRATZ buzzer)
Floor 3
Glasgow
G1 1DT
Also, check out our blog for photos!
http://ironbbratz.wordpress.com/category/news/
Help IRONBBRATZ get big!
Hello folks,
IRONBBRATZ are hoping to expand at the beginning of 2011 but to do that we need your help! We have a fundraising campaign going on IndieGoGo to try to amass £1500. This will help us by essential building materials.
Check back here for more info on how to donate.
Thanks!
IRONBBRATZ are hoping to expand at the beginning of 2011 but to do that we need your help! We have a fundraising campaign going on IndieGoGo to try to amass £1500. This will help us by essential building materials.
Check back here for more info on how to donate.
Thanks!
Exhibition Opening
Thurs 18th Nov 2010
Vic Bar Gallery (Upstairs)
6 - 9pm
IRONBBRATZ win Shell liveWIRE AWARD!
Thank you so much to everyone who voted to give us £1000 to refurbish our gallery space! Amanda and I are over the moon! Yay!!
IRONBBRATZ mentioned in The List
A wee bit of Press about IRONBBRATZ! Hooray! Published in The List on September 1st 2010. Go us!
"Later in the month Ironbbratz, a collective based in Glasgow’s Merchant city, will do a show in response to this event, inviting all the participants, with the intention to expand on Fortuna’s idea with their own interpretation of the piazza in its modern-day guise."
To see the full article, please visit: http://www.list.co.uk/article/29029-pietro-fortuna-glory/
"Later in the month Ironbbratz, a collective based in Glasgow’s Merchant city, will do a show in response to this event, inviting all the participants, with the intention to expand on Fortuna’s idea with their own interpretation of the piazza in its modern-day guise."
To see the full article, please visit: http://www.list.co.uk/article/29029-pietro-fortuna-glory/
SHAME Opening at IRONBBRATZ Studios
Opening Saturday 11th September, 6-9pm. B.Y.O.B
Works by Alistair Quietsch, Penny Sharp, Innes Smith, Ruth Laila, Lyndsey Gilmore, Fraser Ross.
IRONBBRATZ Win Shell Live Wire Award!
Yep! That's right! You heard it! IRONBBRATZ just won a thousand pounds through the Shell live wire award! This means our gallery will be refurbished with brand new flooring (good riddance old manky carpet!) and new track lighting and ceiling!! Hooray! Thank you so much to everyone who registered and voted for us. We appreciate it so much and hope you'll all come see the new gallery when it's finished!
IRONBBRATZ at Tramway
IRONBBRATZ have been invited to participate in an exhibition of works by Italian artist Pietro Fortuna at Tramway. There will be a live performance on Saturday 28th August at 12.30pm. The show will run until the 12th September. Go us!
VOTE IRONBBRATZ & Help us win £1000!
Hi Folks,
IRONBBRATZ has been shortlisted for a Shell Live WIRE Grand Ideas Award. Please please please log on to www.shell-livewire.org to cast your vote in favour of IRONBBRATZ so we can refurbish our gallery with swish new lighting and flooring. All you need to do is register with Shell (it's quick!), watch out pitch and cast your vote!
Thanks!
IRONBBRATZ Studios Launch Party
So our launch party will be on
FRIDAY 13th AUGUST 2010
6 - 9PM
FLOOR 3
84 MILLER STREET,
GLASGOW
Come along and celebrate with us!
FRIDAY 13th AUGUST 2010
6 - 9PM
FLOOR 3
84 MILLER STREET,
GLASGOW
Come along and celebrate with us!
It's Key Time!!
Okay folks, IRONBBRATZ studios will officially be open for business as of Thursday 15th July 2010, when we receive the keys! We are so excited about turning our studios the best and most fun creative hub in Glasgow and supporting our artists as much as possible. Photos to follow as soon as we get started!
St. Angela's Primary Workshop
As part of my job as Student Ambassador at the Glasgow School of Art, I recently co-ordinated a workshop for a group of 48 Primary 7 kids from St. Angela's Primary School, Darnley. The school recently received it's green flag for recycling and so we thought a project based around sustainability as well as the celebration of the 100 years of MackIntosh. So we got the kids to make a massive collage portrait of Charles Rennie MackIntosh from old GSA prospectus. The kids loved it and they were in the metro on June 18th for their amazing work. Well done guys!
IRONBBRATZ Studios - Glasgow City Centre
IRONBBRATZ Studios are located in the third floor of 84 Miller Street in Central Glasgow – just 5 minutes walk from Glasgow Central and Queen Street Rail Stations, St Enoch and Buchanan Street Subway Stations, and Trongate 103 and King Street.
We have 20 spaces available ranging from 50 – 70 sq ft (15.25 – 21 sq m) to accommodate artists and designers. Prices range from £100 – 145 per month and are inclusive of heat, electricity and internet. Other benefits included in studio rental are: secure main entry, tea/coffee/microwave facilities, an annual members exhibition, in-house gallery programmed by The Mutual, open-crits/show and tell nights, a visual culture reading club.
IRONBBRATZ Studios will be ready for occupation mid-July 2010. Photos and space layouts/price guides are available on this page of our blog: http://ironbbratz.wordpress.com/category/ironbbratz-studios/
If you would like to register interest in a space, please email Amanda Dobbratz at ironbbratz@gmail.com.
Our ethos
IRONBBRATZ Studios wants to be the most sought after studio in Glasgow. We will have the best and most open community, the best professional opportunities and the most fun. We will help emergent creative practioners grow and flourish, to keep them engaged in their practice post-study and to give them a support network. We will support discussions that challenge current notions of art and design in Glasgow and will create new paradigms to work with.
IRONBBRATZ studios are high-quality and in a central location. We will host a series of professional opportunities that will include open studio days, monthly critique sessions and an annual member show. Studio rental are competitively priced and reflect the quality of the space and additional opportunities/facilities provided.
We have 20 spaces available ranging from 50 – 70 sq ft (15.25 – 21 sq m) to accommodate artists and designers. Prices range from £100 – 145 per month and are inclusive of heat, electricity and internet. Other benefits included in studio rental are: secure main entry, tea/coffee/microwave facilities, an annual members exhibition, in-house gallery programmed by The Mutual, open-crits/show and tell nights, a visual culture reading club.
IRONBBRATZ Studios will be ready for occupation mid-July 2010. Photos and space layouts/price guides are available on this page of our blog: http://ironbbratz.wordpress.com/category/ironbbratz-studios/
If you would like to register interest in a space, please email Amanda Dobbratz at ironbbratz@gmail.com.
Our ethos
IRONBBRATZ Studios wants to be the most sought after studio in Glasgow. We will have the best and most open community, the best professional opportunities and the most fun. We will help emergent creative practioners grow and flourish, to keep them engaged in their practice post-study and to give them a support network. We will support discussions that challenge current notions of art and design in Glasgow and will create new paradigms to work with.
IRONBBRATZ studios are high-quality and in a central location. We will host a series of professional opportunities that will include open studio days, monthly critique sessions and an annual member show. Studio rental are competitively priced and reflect the quality of the space and additional opportunities/facilities provided.
VERSUS @ The Market Gallery
For the month of June, I am involved in an artists residency at the Market Gallery, Glasgow (www.marketgallery.org) which addresses the issue of competition in contemporary art. I am working on the IRONBBRATZ team along with several other fantastic people - Amanda Dobbratz, Will Lakey, Penny Sharp, Innes Smith, Helen Cuinn, Gillian Anderson, Spudd Connor and Ruth Laila. What a team we are!
We are set numerous briefs throughout the residency with a budget allocated to each and expected to produce work which answers the theme. However, there is a twist - we will be publicly judged by means of a marking system which is on the window and also competing against another team, namely The Mutual.
Please see our blog for more info!
http://ironbbratzversus.wordpress.com/
We are set numerous briefs throughout the residency with a budget allocated to each and expected to produce work which answers the theme. However, there is a twist - we will be publicly judged by means of a marking system which is on the window and also competing against another team, namely The Mutual.
Please see our blog for more info!
http://ironbbratzversus.wordpress.com/
