WhiteHouse@Burrell House Video

Here is a video documentation of the Mark Campbell & Craig Peacock show at Sir William Burrell's former family home. We hope it will also highlight the state of the House has been left to fall into over the years by the council.
Although the current owner is working with historic scotland they have it on the market and it should be bought back by the council, restored and made into a West End Burrell.

WhiteHouse @ Burrell's House, Mark Campbell & Craig Peacock from WhiteHouse on Vimeo.

Burrell House Show - Mark Campbell & Craig Peacock

Thanks again to all who came to the show which was very busy and a well recieved show.
We were only disappointed that no-one officially from the GI came along to see the show and think they missed a good PR opportunity as Sir William Burrell donated more than two hundred works for the original Glasgow International Exhibition in 1903. And we were the first artists to have work hung in Burrells house since the great man himself lived there. Click on the Photos link at the side to see all the photos from the House.
It's also a scandal that Burrell's House has been left by various councils over the years to fall into such disrepair and then to be sold off, although I presume he left it to the People of Glasgow on his death. The house is now in private ownership and whilst working with Historic Scotland the present owner has the House up for sale. The house should be bought back by the council and with various restoration agencies be restored to its original state and made into a West End Burrell as less than a quarter of his work is ever on display in Pollok Park. So come on Glasgow show a little initiative and take this treasure back Burrell gave his entire collection plus money to build the Burrell Collection yet the city fathers have  neither the will or the wit to show the same courtesy.

a God Given Light

An Exhibition of new work by 

MARK CAMPBELL & CRAIG PEACOCK

MARK CAMPBELL

Mark Campbell's work takes on the notion of the nurture of children and the images and propogandic messages they are subjected to and indoctrinated with from religions and the media.

With 'Jelevision' he uses the idea of a greenhouse, where seeds are normally germinated by the light, to express this with his images etched and fired onto the glass. The symbolic metaphors are throughout the work i.e he uses the image of a rabbit taken from a Hamas Childrens Television programme called 'Pioneers of Tomorrow’ where adults dressed as cartoon animals are the stars and where each one is eventually killed by the israelis with the young children praying for their demise, and also with the bible reference on the gun sight (US

troops had been fighting in afghanistan and Iraq using guns with scripture quoted references on their scopes) bringing the idea of modern day crusaders.

The neon text work simply speaks for its self.

CRAIG PEACOCK

Art and Divinity are thoughtful abstractions that deal with the aesthetic

and esoteric. They are both relative to our perceptions, feelings and needs. One seeks the sublime the other purpose. In truth they have never been apart, each influencing the evolution of concepts, ideas and notions of our present time and place.

The work for ‘a god given light’ was cumulative of thought, time and process. They are imaginations, notations, where lines and marks become formal objects. Representations of sky and sea, one tumultuous the other calm, subjective, emotive, where light begins to prevail, in hope and its own radiant glory.

' God Given Light ' Opening

Thanks to everyone who came to the opening of 'a God given Light' the Mark Campbell & Craig Peacock exhibition that took place yesterday afternoon, and also thanks to John Ferry of GOMA for the great photos he took.

A God Given Light

The WhiteHouse presents as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010:

'A God given Light'

Site specific work based on the theme of light created by artists
Mark Campbell & Craig Peacock.

Mark Campbell has made a greenhouse out of stained glass and neon text connected with modern religious ideoligies and the visual media children grow up with and the God given right each believes they have.
Craig Peacock deals in the visceral perception of place, where personal emotive thought is contextualised through drawing and paint. His work seeks a sense of the spiritual, without a premise to any specific religion.

The exhibition is installed in Burrell House, the former shipping magnate and art collector William Burrell's family residence.

INDIVIDUALS

Sebastien Marciak

17th Oct - 31st Oct

Preview Friday 16th Oct

7-10pm.

All welcome.

The White House are delighted to be hosting young French artist Sebastien Marciak's work, which comprises large wall constructed prints with video and floor installation pieces.

Here he describes a little of the work:

'Taking inspiration from the violence and noise of the «crash tests», Individuals raises a paradox:

Immersing the spectators in a dark but silent and contemplative atmosphere by confronting them

with a series of works that play on physical impact.

The reference to Anthropomorphic Test Devices (known as crash test dummies) serves as a pretext

to emphasize the individual aspect of the human body and to show its fragile condition.

Although industrially produced, they reveal here their uniqueness.

I would like to thank Mark Campbell from the White House Glasgow
for hosting the show and also the Market Gallery and the Glasgow Print Studio for their great help.'

Sebastiens CV

http://www.gpsart.co.uk/membership/marciak/marciak_001.html

NATALIE LAMBERT

Administration

22nd Aug - 29th Aug 2009

We are delighted to be opening our latest creation by artist Natalie Lambert.

Natalie has been in residence for the last 3 weeks and we are delighted to be opening the WhiteHouse to let the public see what marvelous, thought provoking, work natalie has created specifically in the space.

Here Natalie has has constructed a space of diminishing, in height, strings horizontaly fastened across the space only broken by the voided space left by the vertical columns in the centre of the White House. This leaves the viewer a little perturbed by the shifting volume of the space and the rising lines of string above them and infront.

We would like to thank Natalie for a wonderful installation and although the work was down all too soon we hope she got as much from the project as we got from her.

LICKING WOUNDS

A one night stand by
Moray Hillary and Agnes Nedregard
Installation and live Performance

Saturday 13th June 6pm - 8pm

A collaborative site- spesific installation and live performance based on a four week residency at The White House. The work finds its source in several years of searching for a meeting point between Moray Hillary's painterly practice and Agnes Nedregards performance-based work. The result of this process comes together in a response to the particular rugged nature of The White House.

More information on Agnes can be viewed on the Art Councils website.

And her artists statement at Axis.

More information on Moray can Be found here at Axis.

View Photographs

craig peacock

Some more images of Craig Peacocks prophetic work from 'a God Given Light' show.

Jelevision

Here are some more photos of Marks 'Jelevision' piece.

Directions

Our forthcoming show which is part of the Glasgow International Festival for Visual Art will be taking place in shipping magnate, Glasgows greatest art collector, Sir William Burrell's old family residence @ 8 Great Western Terrace, Great Western Road.
If coming from the city centre you can take the Underground Inner Circle line to Hillhead then proceed north up Byres road before turning left @ Great Western Road. Great Western Terrace is the Alexander (Greek) Thomson designed terrace on the left after the first set of traffic Lights.



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Burrell House
8 Great Western Terrace
Great Western Road
Glasgow

G12 0

Opening Hours

Open Daily from 10.30-5.30pm 

Thursday till 7pm