Lorna Macintyre

THE SUN PUTS HIS ARM RIGHT THROUGH THE WINDOW


Opening Friday, July 7, 2006, 6 pm - 9pm
Exhibition July 8 - August 26, 2006
Opening hours Tue - Sat 11 am - 6 pm

Lorna Macintyre's (*1977 in Glasgow) works are three-dimensional collages combining in equal measure simple everyday objects, found natural objects, photographs and reworked photocopies. The artist spreads herself out in space; her installations are scattered fragments. As viewer one paces a course; the missing centre resembles a labyrinth of signs and symbols that seem to show the way, but then lead into confusion.

The title of the exhibition “the sun puts his arm right through the window” is taken from a poem by Apollinaire, and suggests, as a central thread, analogies between man and nature. Starting form Leonardo Da Vinci's descriptions that plants resemble the limbs of a landscape, Lorna Macintyre installs shelves that hold a sphere, and which could also be seen as leaves or hands holding a celestial body. The object reappears throughout the exhibition, preventing each separate object from becoming an interpretable depiction and centre. Constellation, combination and variation move into the foreground. The central thread provides a point of departure, where - as in Jorge Luis Borges' story 'The Garden of the Forking Paths' - a number of forking ways begin. In “Gemini”, a copper-pipe forks to becomes an image of the paths demonstrating variants within the field of the possible.

It is as if something is spoken with many voices simultaneously - and this is what especially interests the artist. Borrowing from literature, where various characters and voices produce a whole, the artist installs her various fragments. Titles play as important a role as she does herself as the 'author', who leaves behind traces of her work process, and clears the way for development.

This complex relationship between artist, viewer and artwork is the labyrinth for which Lorna Macintyre doesn't offer the key - even for herself.




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1977 geb. / born in Glasgow, lebt und arbeitet / lives and works in Glasgow

1995 – 1999 Glasgow School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art (Environmental Art)
Currently on the MFA Programme, Glasgow School of Art (first year)


Scholarships and awards / Stipendien und Preise

2005 Artist in Residence, Dumbreck Marsh Art Project
(In association with The Centre, Glasgow)
Nominated for Jerwood Artist’s Platform
SAC National Lottery Grant
2004 SAC Small Assistance Grant
2003 GCC Visual Arts Award
2002 SAC Small assistance grant
2001-2002 Transmission Committee Member
2001 GCC Visual Arts award
2000 Artist in Residence, Cultural Centre De Zeyp, Brussels
(In association with Pepinieres and Brussels)
1999 Artist in Residence, Walston Primary School, South Lanarkshire


Selected Exhibitions

2007 upcoming
Mary Mary, Glasgow, January 2007 (S)

2006 upcoming
Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, (G)
Alex Pollazzon London, (G)
MFA Interim Degree show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
The sun puts his arm right through the window | Galerie Kamm, Berlin

2006
Death and The Compass | Four, Dublin
De Kunstvlaai 6 | Amsterdam (with Glasgow School of Art)

2005
Low Lights and Trick Mirrors | Generator Projects, Dundee
Superbia 2 | St. Columbus School, Cork
Liberation de L’Aesthetique | Old Jail, Glasgow
Leviathan | 90 Leather Lane, London
New Work | Glasgow Sculpture Studios Gallery, (S)

2004
Tripping Over a Varicoloured Tangle of Wires | The Lowry Centre, Manchester
Miseries and Wonders are Twins, They are Born Together | The Project Room, Glasgow (S)
Spacemakers | Lothringer Drezehn, Munich
Women Men Children | Transmission, Glasgow
In Viaggia | Museo Corta Alta, Fossombrone, Italy

2003
Pallas | The Changing Rooms, Stirling
Illusions of Grandeur | Switchspace (solo show)
Nth Art | Ols & Co., London
EAST International | Norwich School of Art and Design
Some Art | Lloyd Jerome Gallery, Glasgow
Signal/ Transmission exchange | Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Picture Room, Gasworks | London (as part of Goshka Macuga installation)

2002
The Chateau | Switchspace, Glasgow*
Half the World Away | Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo, NY
The Dirt of Love | Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

2001
October | St. Vincent Street, Glasgow
Menschenraum | Mulackstrasse 8, 10119, Berlin

2000
Complecity 11 | Transmission Gallery, Glasgow*
Louder than Love | Cultural Centre De Zeyp, Brussels
Vienna Austrotel Art Fair, Vienna (in association with Transmission)*

1999
Deep Frieze | Quartorq, Greenland
Flat 44 | Hillhead Street, Glasgow
Complecity 8 | Westbank Quadrant, Glasgow*
Science Fictionn | Strathclyde University, Biochemistry Department
Horizon ’99 | Glasgow Project Room
Complecity 1 | in association with Gulp Galleri, Iceland*
Hear No Evil Speak No Evil See No Evil | free Gallery. Glasgow
*Work made in collaboration with Neil Bickerton


Publications / Press
-Jeffrey, Moira, The Herald, Friday 12th May 2006
-Kennedy, Alexander, The List, Issue 538 (December 2005)
-Kelly, Sean, CIRCA Issue113, Autumn 2005
-Thompson, Susannah, Map, Summer 2005
-Artist’s Newsletter, December 2004, David Mackintosh, Amy Marshall, Carol London, Jo-Anne
Thornton and Nicola Martin, University of Central Lancashire
-Lowndes, Sarah, Social Sculpture, published by STOPSTOP, 2004
-Figgis, Laurence, Untitled, Spring 2004
-Jeffrey, Moira, The Herald, 9th January 2004
-Bickerton, Neil, Switchspace publication, commissioned text, 2004
-Pallas publication, The Changing Rooms, Stirling, 2003
-EAST International catalogue, 2003
-October publication, 2002
-Transmission book, 2002
-Half the World Away catalogue, 2002