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Scotland Study Visit: Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois
On Saturday 22 February students are invited to attend a study visit to view and discuss a major presentation of works by the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois.
Bourgeois was one of the most influential and prolific artists of her time. In a career spanning seven decades, from the 1940s until her death in 2010, she produced some of contemporary art’s most enduring images, sculptures, installations, writings and drawings.
There are two venues for this visit. We will spend the morning at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to look at an outstanding collection of her late works before continuing after lunch to the Fruitmarket Gallery where there is a suite of 220 drawings and writings.
The visit will be led by OCA tutors Jane Mitchell and Olivia Irvine and places are free to OCA students.To book please email enquiries@oca-uk.com
Image Credit: Cell: Qui es-tu?, Lousie Bourgeois, Photo by CEA from flickr used under a Creative Commons Licence


Posted by author: Joanne

4 thoughts on “Scotland Study Visit: Louise Bourgeois

  • Having seen the collection at the gallery of Modern Art I would thoroughly recommend this study trip. We have chosen a Saturday to give those who can rarely come to study trips a chance. I am hoping to attend a curator’s talk at the Fruitmarket next week to further inform myself of her work. It should be a provocative and lively study visit. We are going to do it a bit differently, but you will have to come along to find out how.

  • I attended the talk at the Fruitmarket. It was a conversation between the curator and the director. What came across was something of Bourgois’s self obsession and how she liked to play with people- string them along. I’m not sure i would have liked to meet her! I found the overt psychology fascinating. It’s not an area many people, let alone artists, feel comfortable with. Certainly it has not always been considered fashionable to navel gaze so much. The other thing that stuck with me was actually seeing the large prints done by the hand of a ninety something year old. The quality of line was both assured and hesitant.

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