Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

SWG3

A dark, industrial space with a screen showing a record being played.
Martin Beck, Last Night, 2016
Installation view, SWG3, Glasgow. Presented by SWG3 with 47 Canal, New York. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Sally Jubb
A close up of a needle of a record player, playing on top of a vinyl record.
Martin Beck, Last Night, 2016
still from high-definition video
Courtesy of the artist
A person reaches their right arm upward and looks toward the sky, while a person to the left is partially obscured.
STASIS, Best of #9, 2023
performance documented at SWG3 and performed at Jupiter Artland.
Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Alice Meikle
A blurred image of a person with blonde hair, liftining their right hand above their head. Their face is obscured.
STASIS, Best of #9, 2023
Performance documented at SWG3 and performed at Jupiter Artland.
Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Alice Meikle
A blurred image of a knife in a sheath around a person's leg, there is a hand holding the knife's handle.
STASIS, Best of #9, 2023
Performance documented at SWG3 and performed at Jupiter Artland
Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Alice Meikle
A blurred, overlapping image of a person with blonde hair which is tied back, they have flowers near their mouth and head.
STASIS, Best of #9, 2023
performance documented at SWG3 and performed at Jupiter Artland
Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Alice Meikle
Performers in a garden location. Audience visible in background
Stasis, Best of. #9, 2024
Performance at SWG3 on Saturday 8 June 2024 as part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Michael C Hunter
Performers in a garden location
STASIS, Best of. #9, 2024
Performance at SWG3 on Saturday 8 June 2024 as part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Michael C Hunter
Performer with large hat viewed through gap in audience
Stasis, Best of. #9, 2024
Performance at SWG3 on Saturday 8 June 2024 as part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Michael C Hunter
Audience members viewing a performance in a garden location with grass and flowers. Performers visible in the background
Stasis, Best of. #9, 2024
Performance at SWG3 on Saturday 8 June 2024 as part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Michael C Hunter
remote controlled car, human hair wig, Newfoundland dogs in front of a bricked wall
Nina Beier, Brando, Morgan and Calgary, 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021
Photograph: Miles Trotter
dancer in a pose within a darkened space
Paul Maheke, Taboo Durag, 2021,
SWG3, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey. Courtesy the Roberts Institute of Art, Glasgow International and the artist
'Currents' 2020.
Lina Lapelyte, Instructions for the Woodcutters,
GI online, Glasgow International 2021,
Image: Ansis Starks
High ceilinged gallery space with a number of windows and a selection of chains drapped across the space
Richard Wentworth & Victoria Miguel, A Roomful of Lovers (Glasgow), 2018
SWG3, Glasgow International 2018
Photograaph: Richard Wentworth
A series of white panels laid out on a floor. The panels have a series of black lines painted on them in concentric circles. A small paper model of a bull's head is also visible
Adam Quinn, Andrew Sim, Felix Welch, Ideal-Form-Zone, 2016
SWG3, Glasgow International 2016
Small sculptural works on a floor
Adam Quinn, Andrew Sim, Felix Welch, Ideal-Form-Zone, 2016
SWG3, Glasgow International 2016
A film still showing a figure on a roof top with a large dome behind
Don Levy, Time Regained, 2016
Film still, SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow International 2016
In the corner of the room, there are artworks placed in a single large frame. They are on either side of the pillar placed in the centre of the corner of the wall.
Gabriele Beveridge, Paul Cowan, Michael Krebber, Landon Metz & Jesse Moretti, La Chose Encardrée, 2014
SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow International, 2014
Photo: Ruth Clark
A large frame is made around a door, moving onto the floor. The frame has two artworks placed centrally on either sode of the door. One is a cloth and the other is like a painting. On the door, there is a multimedia artwork placed centrally in the top half of it.
Gabriele Beveridge, Paul Cowan, Michael Krebber, Landon Metz & Jesse Moretti, La Chose Encardrée, 2014
SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow International 2014
Photo: Ruth Clark
There is a large frame covering the space on the side of and around a square multimedia artwork. There is a small framed photograph placed in its centre.
Gabriele Beveridge, Paul Cowan, Michael Krebber, Landon Metz & Jesse Moretti, La Chose Encardrée, 2014
SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow International 2014
Photo: Ruth Clark
A large frame is made around a door, moving onto the floor. The frame has two artworks placed centrally on either sode of the door. One is a cloth and the other is like a painting. On the door, there is a multimedia artwork placed centrally in the top half of it.
Gabriele Beveridge, Paul Cowan, Michael Krebber, Landon Metz & Jesse Moretti, La Chose Encardée, 2014
SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow International 2014
Photo: Ruth Clark
Sculptural work with metal frame, shelf and wooden plank in a gallery with a window behind
Spike Associates in collaboration with Lauren Gault and Lauren Printy Currie, When Two or More are Together, 2014
SWG3, Glasgow International 2014
keyboard keys atop blue electrical structure.
FOUND & Aidan Moffat, #UNRAVEL, 2012
SWG3, Glasgow International 2012
out of focus close up of electrical cables
FOUND & Aidan Moffat, #UNRAVEL, 2012
SWG3, Glasgow International 2012
three plywood cylinders of increasing heights in a row on the floor.
FOUND & Aidan Moffat #UNRAVEL, 2012
SWG3, Glasgow International 2012
electrical wires, rest of image is indecipherable
FOUND & Aidan Moffat, #UNRAVEL, 2012
SWG3, Glasgow International 2012
image of a person with their mouth slightly open. there is pink text overlayed onto the image that reads, 'a high self-esteem allows me to show this picture of me looking stupid'
Withhold Meaning, 2012
SWG3, Glasgow International 2012
a broom on the floor with watercress growing out of the brush
Withhold Meaning, 2012
SWG3, Glasgow International 2012
three performers. one is dressed in naval uniform. and the other two are topless, one with a chicken mask and the other white a white round mask with a face.
Withhold Meaning, 2012
SWG3, Glasgow International 2012
two dark grey green blurred paintings on adjacent walls. in the middle of the room is a black easel,
Conor Kelly, Niall MacDonald, Emmett Walsh, Turn It On Again, 2010
Installation view, SWG3 Projects, Glasgow International 2010
narrow white plinth with bowl atop in a white gallery space. on the walls are three white and blue textured paintings.
Conor Kelly, Niall MacDonald, Emmett Walsh, Turn It On Again, 2010
Installation view, SWG3 Projects, Glasgow International 2010
geometric triangular installation in a dark space
Conor Kelly, Niall MacDonald, Emmett Walsh, Turn It On Again, 2010
Installation view, SWG3 Projects, Glasgow International 2010
image from a train window of a building with two red lines across the windows
Sam Kennedy, Permanent Artwork, 2010
Installation view, SWG3, Glasgow International 2010
two crt monitors sit on the floor next to each other. one has text on it and the other the image of a person. behind is a large horizontal canvas with a pixelated image stretching across the corner of a room
Baldvin Ringsted, Low Growl, 2010
Installation view, +44 141 Gallery, SWG3, Glasgow International 2010


wooden cabinet with gramophone speakers attached to the top. inside are various instruments and items.
FOUND, Cybraphon, 2010
Installation view, SWG3, Glasgow International 2010
sculpture of letters in a gallery space reading, 'we are all building a new world'
Dan Miller, Sandy Smith, SWG3 Off-Site Project, 2010
Installation view, Arch Unit, Glasgow International 2010

Projects

  • Programme
    SWG3
    Last Night
    SWG3 Warehouse
    A close up of a needle of a record player, playing on top of a vinyl record.
  • Programme
    SWG3
    Best of #9
    SWG3 Garden
    A blurred, overlapping image of a person with blonde hair which is tied back, they have flowers near their mouth and head.
  • 2021
    SWG3
    Brando, Morgan and Calgary
    GI Online
    remote controlled car, human hair wig, Newfoundland dogs in front of a bricked wall
  • 2021
    SWG3
    Taboo Durag
    GI Online
    dancer in a pose within a darkened space
  • 2021
    SWG3
    Instructions for the Woodcutters
    GI Online
    'Currents' 2020.
  • 2018
    SWG3
    A Roomful of Lovers (Glasgow)
    SWG3
    High ceilinged gallery space with a number of windows and a selection of chains drapped across the space
  • 2016
    SWG3
    Ideal-Form-Zone
    SWG3
    A series of white panels laid out on a floor. The panels have a series of black lines painted on them in concentric circles. A small paper model of a bull's head is also visible
  • 2016
    SWG3
    Don Levy :Time Regained
    SWG3 Gallery
    A film still showing a figure on a roof top with a large dome behind
  • 2014
    SWG3
    La Chose Encardrée
    SWG3 Gallery
    In the corner of the room, there are artworks placed in a single large frame. They are on either side of the pillar placed in the centre of the corner of the wall.
  • 2014
    SWG3
    When two or more are together
    SWG3
    Sculptural work with metal frame, shelf and wooden plank in a gallery with a window behind
  • 2012
    SWG3
    #UNRAVEL
    keyboard keys atop blue electrical structure.
  • 2012
    SWG3
    Withhold Meaning
    SWG3
    image of a person with their mouth slightly open. there is pink text overlayed onto the image that reads, 'a high self-esteem allows me to show this picture of me looking stupid'
  • 2010
    SWG3
    Turn it on Again
    SWG3 Projects
    two dark grey green blurred paintings on adjacent walls. in the middle of the room is a black easel,
  • 2010
    SWG3
    Sam Kennedy
    SWG3
    image from a train window of a building with two red lines across the windows
  • 2010
    SWG3
    Low Growl
    +44 141 Gallery, SWG3
  • 2010
    SWG3
    Cybraphon
    SWG3
    wooden cabinet with gramophone speakers attached to the top. inside are various instruments and items.
  • 2010
    SWG3
    Sandy Smith/Dan Miller
    Arch Unit: 5 & 7 Osborne Street
    sculpture of letters in a gallery space reading, 'we are all building a new world'