Hunners of Churches at the GoMA

I was at the gallery commonly know as The GoMA in Glasgow today to meet painter, Moyna Flannigan, who had just finished installing her GENERATION show, Stare.

I'm writing about it for The Herald this Saturday.

I took pictures on the iPad but they're more for note-taking purposes than publishable and don't really do her work justice.

Still mulling it over. I liked it very much. Very painterly and loose but boy, does she know what she's doing.

Afterwards, I wandered up to see Nathan Coley's 2004 work, The Lamp of Sacrifice – 286 Places of Worship, which is also part of GENERATION, a summer-long, Scotland-wide celebration of the last 25 years of contemporary art to coincide with the Commonwealth Games.

It's quite an astonishing work consisting of a a series of scale models in cardboard of every place of worship listed in the 2004 Edinburgh telephone directory, made by Coley and his assistant over the course of three months.

In the aftermath of the dreadful fire at Glasgow School of Art all I could think of was that it was highly flammable...

Maybe that was the wrong response...