Modern and Contemporary Scottish Prints, Drawings and Watercolours post 2000
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of Modern and Contemporary Scottish Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from 2000 to the present day. 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. Initial acquisitions in 2003 - 2007 included prints and drawings by some of the acclaimed artists that have studied at The Glasgow School of Art since the early 1980’s. Works by these artists, such as Richard Wright, Graham Fagen, Lucy Skaer and Ilana Halperin, are significant as at the time they represented the foundation for the contemporary collecting strategy that informs the collection today. Since then works on paper by Rob Churm, David Shrigley, Kate V Robertson and Carol Rhodes have been acquired for the collection. The collection includes print portfolios such as 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. Alongside selected works from Glasgow Women’s Library ’21 Revolutions’ project marking their 21st anniversary in 2012. This collection also includes the conceptual artwork ‘queer times school prints’ commissioned from the artist and educator Jason E Bowman. ‘queer times 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 exploring 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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