Keeping it Fresh at Kelvingrove

 

It has notched up its one millionth visitor (only three months after re-opening) and had a visit from Her Majesty the Queen on September 13, but this weekend (October 7) Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum will open its first temporary exhibition in a new space created specially for the purpose.

 

The Earth Turned To Bring Us Closer looks at the shortness of human life against the often-unimaginable backdrop of the Earth spinning in its vast orbit.  Artists Dalziel + Scullion have created a stunning and moving portrait of the inhabitants of Glasgow, glimpsed at this moment in time. 

 

The work is accompanied by a soundtrack - Memory Takes My Hand - by award winning Glaswegian composer Craig Armstrong.

 

Alex Mosson, chairman of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, said: “Kelvingrove is clearly a major international art venue, and as such deserves the best for its exhibition programme.  This coIlaboration between some of Scotland’s greatest contemporary artists will give people a fresh reason to visit Kelvingrove, while those who have already been have an incentive to return.”

 

There will be a special performance, entitled Once, of Craig Armstrong’s piece accompanied by the Dalziel + Scullion work on 6 October at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  The performance - by the RSNO - is sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

 

There will be a schools education programme, delivered in conjunction with RSAMD Youthworks, to complement the exhibition. 

 

The Earth Turned To Bring Us Closer is supported by main sponsors The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Glasgow City Council, the Friends of Glasgow Museums, the Scottish Executive, the Scottish Arts Council, the Henry Moore Foundation and RSAMD Youthworks.

 

Further information on Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is available from www.glasgowmuseums.com or on 0141 276 9599.

 

 

 

Issued by Caroline Gray, Public Relations Executive

Glasgow City Marketing Bureau

Tel: 0141 566 0832

email: caroline.gray@seeglasgow.com     

 

 

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has been a tremendous success since reopening on 11 July, with more than one million visitors attending since.

 

Dalziel + Scullion are Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion.  Matthew Dalziel studied fine art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Design, Dundee and sculpture and fine art photography at Glasgow School of Art, and Louise Scullion studied environmental art at Glasgow School of Art.  They have exhibited both together and as solo artists across the world, winning awards from the Scottish Arts Council, and the Royal Incorporation of Architects Scotland, and Carnegie and Creative Scotland Awards.  They also received a BAFTA nomination.

 

Craig Armstrong studied composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1977 - 1981, winning Jazz Musician of the Year in 1981.  He returned to Glasgow and became composer in residence at the Tron Theatre, and his collabioration with Peter Mullan led to his career in film, collection many awards - including BAFTA, Ivor Novello and Golden Globe - for scores on Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Orphans, Magdalene Sisters, The Quiet American and Ray.  Away from film, theatre and jazz, he has worked with several outstanding pop artists, notably Madonna and Massive Attack.