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City Centre ArtContemporary Trail Explore 14 of Glasgow’s public contemporary artworks, by world renowned artists, in an easily walkable trail. HILL STREET COWCADDENSMCPHATER ST RENFREW STREET Glasgow DALHOUSIE ST GARNET STREET ROSE STREET Caledonian University Royal SAUCHIEHALL STREET 5 Conservatoire of Scotland SAUCHIEHALL LANE A603 M8 CAMBRIDGE STREET A603 6 Buchanan RENFREW LANE Bus Station KILLERMONT STREET ELMBANK STREET SAUCHIEHALL STREET Concert NORTH HANOVER STREET BATH STREET Hall T E PITT STREET E R HOLLAND STREET BATH LANE T S WEST REGENT STREET Buchanan E B DOUGLAS STREET Galleries ST JAMES ROAD E L BATH LANE G Glasgow City of Royal STIRLING ROAD Glasgow Imfirmary College WEST REGENT LANE WEST GEORGE STREET BLYTHSWOOD STREET CATHEDRAL STREET BUCHANAN STREET DUNDAS ST WEST GEORGE LANE WEST NILE STREET T ST VINCENT STREET E Glasgow E Cathedral R T Queen ROTTENROW S Buchanan ST VINCENT LANE Street R Street University of O CASTLE STREET CASTLE Strathclyde L BOTHWELL STREET 4 Y A GEORGE SQUARE 7 T BISHOP LANE COLLINS STREET ST PETER’S JOHN STREET HOPE STREET ST VINCENT PLACE ROTTENROW EAST BOTHWELL LANE RICHMOND STREET RENFIELD STREET City DRURY ST Chambers NORTH FREDERICK STREET MONTROSE STREET WEST CAMPBELL STREET GEORGE SQUARE 14 GEORGE STREET WATERLOO STREET WELLINGTON STREET G ORDON STREET T COCHRANE STREET WELLINGTON LANE E E R 3 CADOGAN STREET T DRYGATE S DUKE STREET UNION PL 2 MITCHELL LN L C L INGRAM STREET HOLM STREET E BLYTHSWOOD STREET H B L C P E ALBION STREET V Glasgow T IRG I INIA SHUTTLE STREET Central M High UNION STREET UNION HIGH STREETStreet ARGYLE STREET BUCHANAN STREET QUEEN STREET City Hall MILLER STREET WILSON ST CRIMEA ST 13 BRUNSWICK STREET BROWN STREET WALLS ST VIRGINIA STREET CANDLERIGGS YORK STREET JAMES WATT STREET GLASSFORD STREET BELL St. Enoch HUTCHESON STREET Argyle MCALPINE STREET St. Enoch Street STREET ROBERTSON STREET Shopping Centre TRONGATE OSWALD STREET HIGH STREET JAMAICA STREET O ALBION STREET S D K B N O R Y HOWARD STREET N J W E S 11 10 TR W PARN BELL STREET FOX STREET EE E IE ST WATSON ST DIXON ST N R T EE S OLD WYND T TOC MOLENDINAR ST 1 KWEL L PL River Clyde CLYDE STREET F GALLOWGATE STOCKWELL STREET H 8 T S LONDON ROADIR E CAMPBELL ST DUNLOP ST O MCFARLANE ST M KING STREET SALTMARKET G T D RIDGEGA E TURNBULL ST T M B T E E S E R MONCUR ST T R 12 C DYER’S LANE I T H R ROSS STREET A A S N M A T KENTS STREET N I T E L VEN A N 9 S O B N ST CHARLOTTE STREET The City Home to a collaborative Known for fostering arts scene and to a world- an environment for artists Chookie Burdies famous art school, Glasgow to develop their practice, is a city with a significant Glasgow is a city full of The Clyde Clock 6 presence on the international art. Some installed in its contemporary art stage. In streets – not just inside its recent years, eight Turner galleries. Artists from all over Prize winners have been the world, as well as those born, trained or worked closer to home, have public out of Glasgow. contemporary artworks present in the city. This trail, commissioned by The City Homeless Jesus 4 Centre Regeneration Team in Mhtpothta/ 7 Glasgow City Council, guides Maternity you through the city centre Topographical Relief Map 14 to explore some of the public COME WHAT MAY... 3 contemporary art pieces Tympanum 2 available in Glasgow’s streets. The significance of the contemporary arts in Glasgow is invaluable and is supported 13 Glasgow Bouquet by Glasgow City Council. The Trail Empire This route of 14 works takes 11 10 Cherub Skull you around the heart of 1 Bridge Columns Glasgow, with a walking time 8 Untitled of approximately 90 minutes. For bonus content and a 12 Built by Immigrants digital version of this guide, 9 Slow Down access the app at: citycentrecontemporaryarttrail.co.uk ARTIST Ian Hamilton Finlay YEAR 1990 MEDIUM Stone COMMISSIONER TSWA Four Cities Project LOCATION Broomielaw, G1 4NP Remnants of the Caledonian Bridge (that was demolished in 1966-7) were turned into works of art by artist Hamilton Finlay in 1990, in the year Glasgow was named European City of Culture. The piece features a quote from Plato’s Republic, carved onto two 1 large stone pillars. Bridge Columns Written in both English and Greek, the English verse reads: ‘All greatness stands firm in the storm.’ The Greek loosely translates to: ‘All great things are perilous, and it is true, as the proverb says, that beautiful things are hard [to attain].’ Despite these pillars standing firm, much like Glasgow’s industrial heritage both have fallen from use. Now a bridge to nowhere, is this work an ironic remark on the Ian Hamilton Finlay (b. 1925 both an artist and a poet, deterioration of the British Empire or in Nassau, Bahamas; d. with works located all over praising the endurance and survival 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland) the world. He is most known of these stone pillars standing in the is of Scottish descent and for his concrete poems and Clyde? Regardless, this work allows studied at the Glasgow sculptures that incorporate us to reflect on Glasgow’s past, School of Art. Finlay is the written word. present and future. 2 Tympanum Commissioned for the opening of the new Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow in 1996, the triangular mirror mosaic that sits above the entrance on the outside of the building, as well as the mirrored room in the entrance hall were created by de Saint Phalle. Saint Mungo is the founding father and patron saint of the city of Glasgow. His story, the inspiration for the colourful symbols and figures depicted, is shown through the artist’s design. During his lifetime, he produced four famous miracles. He restored life to a robin; he restarted a fire that went out whilst he was sleeping; he brought back a miraculous bell from Rome; and he saved Queen Languoreth of Strathclyde from being executed after she was falsely accused of adultery. Her husband had taken her wedding ring and thrown it into the Clyde. After demanding that she produce it to prove that she had been faithful, she asked Saint Mungo for help. He found the ring inside a fish caught from the river. Niki de Saint Phalle (b. 1930 Germany and the USA. She in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; had a long connection with d. 2002 in California, USA) Glasgow and following a ARTIST Niki de Saint Phalle was a French-American retrospective at the McLellan YEAR 1996 painter, filmmaker and Galleries in 1993 she gifted MEDIUM Glass, aluminium sculptor. With no formal two works, Altar to a Dead COMMISSIONER Glasgow Museums art training, de Saint Phalle Cat (1962) and The Great LOCATION Royal Exchange Sq, G1 3AH went on to create significant Devil (1985) to Glasgow. large public artworks in Italy, 3 This commission for the Gallery MAY WHAT COME of Modern Art (GoMA) is the only publicly-sited artwork by Weiner in Scotland. It is the first public artwork commissioned by Glasgow Museums for GoMA since it opened in 1996. Typically working with language, Weiner uses the phrase, 'ALONG THE WAY/ COME WHAT MAY, SOMEWHERE/ SOMEHOW' for the piece. These are set into the stone step surrounding GoMA and its entrance. This step puts the gallery onto a shallow plinth, creating a space for sitting, meeting and conversation. Weiner wrote a text about this work stating that 'art is not a metaphor… [people use art to create metaphors] in relation to their own needs and desires. The use of a ... ARTIST Lawrence Weiner public art gallery as the plinth for a YEAR 2014 sculpture… [allows] the public to do MEDIUM Steel, stone [what they want] with [it] as they may.’ COMMISSIONER Glasgow Museums Through the placement and LOCATION Royal Exchange Sq, G1 3AH content of COME WHAT MAY, SOMEWHERE SOMEHOW, a space is created for the public to respond Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942 his text-based installations. to the idea of what a public art in New York, USA) is one Weiner’s relationship with gallery is and how it is used. of the central figures in the Glasgow began in the 1990s formation of conceptual art with a solo exhibition at in the 1960s alongside other Transmission, followed by world-renowned artists such exhibitions at Tramway in as Sol LeWitt and Richard 1995 and GoMA in 2000. Serra. He is best known for 4 Homeless Jesus Homeless Jesus is an original, life-size sculpture that was installed at the University of Toronto, Canada in early 2013. After seeing a homeless person on a bench in Toronto, Schmalz was inspired to create this work, to help tackle the homeless epidemic happening across the world. The figure is purposefully covering their head, appearing anonymous, in order to send the message that anyone can end up in this situation. It is only through the markings on the feet that it becomes apparent that the person is Jesus. Glasgow is the only location in the Scotland to have a copy of this work, with permission for the location granted by the minister and congregation of St George’s Tron. Approximately one hundred copies of Homeless Jesus are on display worldwide. These works have been installed and blessed in many places globally, from Singapore to the Vatican City. ARTIST Timothy Schmalz Timothy Schmalz (b. 1969 sculpting large scale YEAR 2017 in Ontario, Canada) is a pieces in order to create MEDIUM Bronze Canadian sculptor whose ‘epic’ works.