2 October – 30 November 2013
Preview: Tuesday 1 October, 6.30–8.30pm
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12–6pm
Workshop (2010–ongoing) is a new installation made up of multiple screenprints on newsprint and large-scale works on cotton. This new work sets an attitude for a two-month temporary print studio that will take place in the gallery over the course of the exhibition.
Throughout October and November Phillips will be collaborating with invited artists, designers, and local women’s groups (many of whom have ongoing relationships with The Showroom) to produce new screenprints. Guests will bring their different knowledge and experiences of working collectively to Workshop, whose structure is open for development as the project progresses. These new collaborations will initiate conversations and actions that aren’t contained within specific disciplines of art, community action, design or activism. By making prints in these new collaborative groupings, Phillips will explore the potential of ‘making together’ as a way of negotiating ideas and generating discussions around experimental and wider uses of print.
Phillips’ long-term commitment to collaborative production underpins her expansive printing practice that makes use of screenprinting, wall drawing and photography to create context-specific installations. Collaborative work includes projects with Poster Club, a group of Glasgow-based artists that she initiated in 2010 and with which she regularly works. Workshop aims to explore the relations between these interlinked strands of Phillips’ solo and collective work and is also informed by recent research into the history of London-based print collectives.
Selected printed outcomes from Workshop will be collected in a new version of Irregular Bulletin, a hand-printed newsletter that will exist as a record of Workshop after it ends. Irregular Bulletin refers to a publication of the same name published at The Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles in the 1950s and 60s. Visitors can view works in progress from Workshop in The Showroom’s upstairs studio space, where the collaborative work Irregular Bulletin 53 (2012) is also displayed.
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Workshop programme
Friday 4 and Saturday 5 October 2013
Camilla Wills and Ciara Phillips
Sunday 6 October, Sunday 13 October and Sunday 17 November 2013
Justice for Domestic Workers and Ciara Phillips
Sunday 19 October and Saturday 26 October 2013
Fraser Muggeridge and Ciara Phillips
Wednesday 23 October 2013
PERSONA publication launch with Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt
Thursday 24 October 2013
Melissa Gordon and Ciara Phillips
Friday 15 November 2013
Gemma Holt with Ciara Phillips
Saturday 16 November 2013
See Red Women's Workshop Presentation with founding members Suzy Mackie and Pru Stevenson
The exhibition Workshop (2010–ongoing) is realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, supported by a Cooperation Measures grant from the European Commission Culture 2007–2013.
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With thanks to the following individuals and groups for their involvement in the project: Melissa Gordon, Justice for Domestic Workers (J4DW), Suzy Mackie, Fraser Muggeridge, John Phillips, Pru Stevenson and Camilla Wills. The exhibition is also supported by Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust. Research and work for this exhibition was developed during Phillips’ Summer 2013 residency at Drawing Room, London through the biennial Drawing Room Bursary Award supported by CASS Art. With thanks to londonprintstudio for their support.
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More:
Glasgow Women's Library
See Red Women's Workshop
Self Organised, edited by Stine Hebert & Anne Szefer Karlsen, 2013
Born in 1976 in Ottawa, Canada, Phillips is an artist based in Glasgow. She was nominated for the Turner Prize 2014 for her exhibition Workshop (2010–ongoing) at The Showroom, London.
MoreA limited edition by Turner Prize-nominee Ciara Phillips, produced on the occasion of her exhibition Workshop (2010–ongoing) at The Showroom, 2 October – 30 November 2013.
MoreCamilla Wills lives in London and graduated from the Masters programme at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011.
Established in 2009 and supported by Unite the Union, J4DW is an organisation of migrant domestic workers who work in private houses in the UK, and active in campaigning for rights for domestic workers.
MoreBorn in 1981 in America and now based in London, artist and editor Gordon co-edits LABOUR and PERSONA magazines with Marina Vishmidt.
MoreFraser Muggeridge is a graphic designer based in London, and founder of Fraser Muggeridge Studio.
MoreGemma Holt trained as both artist and designer and studied Design Products at the Royal College of Art.
From 1973 to the 1990s, this collective produced silkscreen posters for the women’s liberation movement as well as for community groups and others.
Ciara Phillips, New Things, 2013, dyed screenprint on cotton (monoprint) and To Discuss, 2013, dyed screenprint on cotton (monoprint). © Ciara Phillips. Courtesy the artist.
Ciara Phillips, Untitled, 2013, dyed screenprint on cotton (monoprint). © Ciara Phillips. Courtesy the artist.
Ciara Phillips: Workshop (2010– ongoing), 2013, installation view. © Ciara Phillips. Courtesy the artist.
Ciara Phillips: Workshop (2010– ongoing), 2013, installation view. © Ciara Phillips. Courtesy the artist.
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