Commissioning
Commissioning is a practice that involves the engaging of an artist in the production of a new work of art.
Historically this included paying artists to create statues, religious iconography or portraits of family
members, but in the present day it covers an ever-expanding range of materials, processes and possibilities.
The University Art Collection manages both permanent and temporary commissions for University buildings and
as part of research, and the University Commissioning Guidelines can be viewed here, with
physical copies available on request.
JAMIE CREWE
Identity Deception 2020-2022
Glasgow-based artist Jamie Crewe is working alongside the Art Collection and Dr Chloë Kennedy in
the School of Law on a two-year research project exploring the concepts of criminalisation of
identity deceptions, and specifically instances of intimate deception.
The resulting moving image work produced by Crewe will join the collection for use in display,
research and teaching.
More
detail on the project can be viewed here
SHONA MACNAUGHTON
Here to Deliver 2019-2021
Here to Deliver was a live cycle of performances by artist Shona
Macnaughton, produced over October and November of 2020. Footage and audio from the performances
will become a new moving image work, set to join the Contemporary Art Research strand of the Art
Collection in 2021.
Responding to research undertaken on artists’ engagement with the ‘gig’ and ‘platform’
economies, the artwork explores the conditions of artistic labour, when actioned through gig
economy structures.
More detail on the project can be
viewed here
MANUAL LABOURS
The Global Staffroom 2020 -2021
Manual Labours (ML) is a research project exploring physical and emotional relationships to work, initiated by Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope. During the first lockdown period they hosted the live podcast series The Global Staffroom. Each of the 14 episodes consists of conversations and interviews with people about what it feels like to care, be cared for, and not be able to care at work.
The Art Collection was able to support the production of The Global Staffroom by providing funds to pay speakers, and to bring together the research and thinking undertaken into a manual which will be used in teaching in 2021.
More detail on the project can be viewed here
NATHAN COLEY
The Basic Material is Not the Word but the Letter 2018
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Main Library at George Square, artist
Nathan Coley was commissioned to make a new work for the building.
Best known for his illuminated text works, Coley sourced the phrase which both composes and
names the work from the University’s archive.
More detail on the project can be viewed here and the record in the collection is here.
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