Saturday 17th April 2010
A New Path - Walking Tours with artist Graham Fagen
- Venue:
- Meet outside Macsorleys Bar, 42 Jamaica Street, Glasgow, G1 4QG
- Time:
- 11am curators/2pm public tour(s)
Curator's Tour 11am / Public Tour 2pm
Join the A New Path team led by Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen who will deliver walking tours from Ian Hamilton Finlay’s carving at George IV Bridge to Douglas Gordon’s Empire, both featured artworks of A New Path's Research Phase.
FREE but booking is essential, call 0141 553 2662
Tours now concluded
During the opening weekend of Glasgow International Festival, Graham Fagen delivered a series of tours for the A New Path team between Ian Hamilton Finlay’s carving at George IV Bridge and Douglas Gordon’s Empire. Fagen's tours asked us to consider the 'empires' which exist in both of these seemingly polemic works and within the history of Glasgow as whole. Taking in the Classical Greek and Roman traditions of Finlay's work, as well as the colonial shipping routes of the Clyde (including the near emigration of 'Rabbie' Burns) Fagen tangentially led us to the personal empire of Gordon in Brunswick Lane via anecdote, local history, personal memories and a few lines of song: I belong to Glasgow/ Dear old Glasgow town/ Well what's the matter with Glasgow/ For it's goin' 'roon and 'roon/ I'm only a common old working chap/ As anyone here can see/ But when I get a couple of drinks on a Saturday/ Glasgow belongs to me.
Fagen is both a featured artist in A New Path's research phase for his work at the Royston Road Parks Project and contributed a newly commissioned text on Finlay's carving for A New Path.
Many thanks to Graham Fagen for an engaging and humorous day and to everybody who came along for the tours.