Fiona Jardine

Spark for Artists

There are multiple people sitting at stationary benches in a lecture theatre. They are facing a projector screen, which is showing an image on it and a woman standing behind a podium with a microphone in front of her.

A woman is standing at a podium with a microphone in front of her.

People are sitting on stationary benches in a lecture theatre. They are talking to each other while referring to the Glasgow International programme booklet.

In a lecture theatre, there are people sitting on stationary benches and talking to each other. Most of the people are facing the front.

Paisley Museum

Spark for Artists is an illustrated presentation that explores the role of art and artists in the work of Muriel Spark. Connections are made between motifs in Spark’s work to Elizabeth Price’s recent films, the Artist Placement Group and Arthur Danto’s appropriation of the title of a fictional text from The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, amongst others.

The presentation uses research conducted in the archives of the National Library of Scotland to script unveiling layers of original and archive imagery.

A screening programme of rarely seen TV and film treatments of Spark’s work runs in association. Additional dates will be available to view on the website.

Commissioned by Glasgow International and supported by Outset Scotland.