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Location
SPT Subway Glasgow (various locations)

Date
25th April ? 2nd 2005

Artists
ruth BARKER (England), juliana CAPES (Scotland) and christine COLLINS (Australia)

Curators
laura MARSHALL and amy SALES

FRANCIS MCKEE, Curator, GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL said:
'Glasgow's international reputation in the contemporary art world is founded on the many achievements of artists based locally. This new Festival of Contemporary Visual Art has been designed to showcase the high level of artistic activity that generates such attention and to bring this to a much broader public. In its first year it is clear from the programme that there has been an overwhelmingly positive response to the project by venues and artist-run spaces across the city.

[link] connects the public with local and international contemporary visual artists working in orphaned spaces throughout SPT Subway Glasgow.

SPT Subway Glasgow, opened in 1896, and is the world's third oldest subway after London and Budapest. ruth BARKER, juliana CAPES and christine COLLINS create temporary, site and context-responsive interventions which engage with the physical, social and historical aspects of the subway for the launch of Glasgow International 2005; placing visual art at the heart of the community, engaging commuters, shoppers and tourists in dialogue with contemporary art and artists.

For further information about E m e r g e D please contact:

amy SALES
Director of E m e r g e D
Co-curator and Project Manager of [link]
[t] +44 (0) 794 7749 818
[e] amy@emerged.net

E m e r g e D International programme is led by amy SALES and supported and advised by E m e r g e D Lead Curators and Artists:

iestyn DAY [Edinburgh]
steven DICKIE [London]
lucy GIBSON [Leeds]
danny HOLCROFT [Glasgow]
kirsten LLOYD [Edinburgh]
laura MARSHALL [Glasgow]
tia SNAITH [Melbourne]
ric SPENCER [Perth]

E m e r g e D

E m e r g e D was founded in Glasgow three years ago this April and has showcased the work of over 300 artists in a variety of sites including vacant shop fronts, churches, derelict cafes, youth hostels and shopping centres. E m e r g e D expanded into Leeds in March 2004 and, most recently, Edinburgh. The organisation offers local and international artists new opportunities to show their work and engage directly with audiences outside the traditional gallery setting.