Modern and Contemporary British Prints, Drawings and Watercolours post 2000
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of Modern and Contemporary British Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from 2000 to the present. This collection includes watercolours and drawings on paper and examples of printing techniques on paper including digital prints, screen-prints, etchings, lithographs, linocuts, woodcuts and engravings. The subjects of these objects vary from abstract compositions to depictions of people, objects or places. These include works by Kennard Phillips, Lucy Skaer, Alasdair Gray and Graham Fagen. The majority of work is by artists based in Scotland and includes the installation ‘Attention!’ by Corin Sworn with Nicolas Party and Ciara Phillips. Attention! Is a collaborative work with over 100 screenprints covering two gallery walls and was first shown in the Gallery of Modern Art in 2011. The collection includes print portfolios including Cove Park Portfolio (2007) and Glad Editions (2020) - limited edition prints created by internationally respected local artists to support the work of The Glad Café, a non-profit community art and music organisation in the Southside of Glasgow. This collection also includes the conceptual artwork queer timɘs school prints commissioned from the artist and educator Jason E Bowman. queer timɘs school prints is a conceptual framework for Glasgow Museums to commission. Through a participatory process, an ongoing propositional set of education prints for Glasgow Museums and Glasgow City Council Education Department explores aspects of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Polysexual, Queer, Intersex + and Allies (LGBTPQI+A) histories and experiences in Scotland. Artists commissioned to date include Anne Robinson, Donald Urquhart, Kate Charlesworth and Adam Benmakhlouf.
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