The Love of Print is a celebration of 50 years of printmaking at Glasgow Print Studio. Since 1972, thousands of artists have made prints at GPS, from Turner Prize winners and nominees to recent graduates and complete beginners.
'If North Was South And East Was West' is part of a portfolio commissioned by GPS. The work invites the viewer to re-imagine the orientation of the accepted Mercator projection view of the world map and instead reflect on how we might consider Global relations differently. Can a refiguring of the history of mapping and how images become accepted and unchallenged interrogate in a modest way the implicit colonial distortions of capitalism and its Global networks?
The exhibition will include significant works created by well-known artists spanning five decades to the present day. Artists include Ciara Phillips, Martin Boyce, Alasdair Gray, John Byrne, Ken Currie, Adrian Wiszniewski, Claire Barclay, Barbara Rae, Alison Watt…the list goes on and on!
It's really a who's who of Scottish art over the past 50 years, with around 225 works from more than 130 artists.
The exhibition will also include a 'Here and Now' section of 50 newly commissioned works by a selection of artists currently working in and using the printmaking facilities at GPS.
