Studio 55: Centre for Research in Fine Art Practice is Glasgow School of Art's contribution to the developing history of artistic research from the Bauhaus and the Bureau of Surrealist Research to Black Mountain College and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. Studio 55 intends to support and develop research in fine art practice in order to shape the future of artistic research in Glasgow and beyond.
In particular, the role of the studio as a creative laboratory and critical forum for practice-led research and artistic dialogue draws upon Barnett Newman's Studio 35 project which focused upon direct dialogue between artists, which were subsequently transcribed, published and disseminated.
Launch
Studio 55 has opened its virtual gates on Thursday, October 5, 2006.
The launch was celebrated with an exhibition in the Mackintosh Gallery of Glasgow School of Art, showing work of artists Christine Borland, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Peter McCaughey.
An international advisory board will help Studio 55 to mark out the wider international professional context. In relation to specific topics Studio 55 will bring international advisors to Glasgow for symposia, seminars, exhibitions or conferences. Here they will have an essential influence on the future direction and the content of research initiated under the umbrella of Studio 55.
The intention is to compose a continuously growing panel, which reflects a wide range of cultural backgrounds with artistic, academic and professional expertise, reflecting the contexts in which studio 55 wishes to engage.
The vision of Studio 55 is to promote and support research in Fine Art practice of international significance and originality.
Studio 55 will explore the interdependence of practice and research in order to reconcile and promote the appreciation of both as essential to the Learning and Teaching environment within a School of Art.
Studio 55 will facilitate the communication and dissemination of GSA research to a wider academic and professional art world, situated in global contexts and perspectives.
The founding members of studio 55 are:
David Bellingham
Dr. Ross Birrell
Christine Borland
Prof. Thomas Joshua Cooper
Alan Currall
Prof. Klaus Jung
Dr. Francis McKee
Ross Sinclair
Eddie Stewart
Stephanie Smith
This web site is the main public footprint for Studio 55. The site is divided into guest and registered sections. The guest section will publish basic information and news, encouraging guest users to register and become affiliates with full access to website, e-journal and resources.
Registered users will also gain first hand access to Studio 55 information and will be invited to become active partners in our dialogue and discourse.
Studio 55 publishes an internationally peer assessed e-journal, Art and Research. Its main focus is on questions, contexts and methodologies of artistic research, and aims to serve professional artists, curators and critics, artistic researchers, postgraduate and doctoral research students and undergraduates, and to inform current pedagogical thought in a global context.