Will Foster

UPCOMING

The Head As The Seat Of Reason. Solo Show, TÄT Berlin, 28 January 2011



EDUCATION

2008-2009 ....................
Arts & Ecology, MA, Dartington College of Arts

2001 - 2004 ..................
Environmental Art, BA, Glasgow School of Art

SELECTED SITE WORKS, EXHIBITIONS AND CURATED PROJECTS

2010
SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE - Collaboration with Guyan Porter, Curated by Basak Senova, Akbank Senat, Istanbul

SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE - Collaboration with Guyan Porter, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow International 2010, Glasgow

Endless forcast - Rørsle, Fykse, Hardanger, Norway

2009
DUPLEX, Lowsalt & Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow

2008
Bluss - Low Carbon Temporary Light, Fykse, Norway

2007
Use - Link Gallery, Functionsuite, Edinburgh

2006
Tug of cabin - Cabin Exchange, Next Wave, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne

Cabin Exchange 2006 - Glasgow International, Dennistoun, Tradeston, Pollokshaws, Glasgow

2005
Return. Porta. - Trajectory Book Launch, CCA, Glasgow

SHOP 111 - Presented by SEAM, Glasgow International, 111 Saltmarket, Glasgow

2004
Cabin Exchange 2004 - Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh

2003
Just War – Collaboration with Hans Rosenstrom, Helsinki

Cabin Exchange 2003 - Glasgow



ARTISTS LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS AND PANAL DISCUSSIONS

2008
Art practice and the Barselgrad project, lecture,Stavanger Art School, Stavanger

PRAKTIKA- Creating a Critical Context for Socially Engaged Art Practice, Deveron Arts, Huntly, Aberdeenshire

2007
Barselgrad project, lecture, KIT, Art Academy, Trondheim

Art practice, lecture, Alberta Collage of Art & Design, Calgary

2006
Cabin Exchange, Group lecture, Monash University, Melbourne

2005
Extraordinary Everyday, Panal discussion, CCA, Glasgow

Up the Garden path, Group Panal discussion, Networking Artists Networks, BALTIC, Newcastle

2004
Alternative strategies for exhibiting, Group lecture, Organised by a-n, Generator, Dundee




RESIDENCIES

Oct 2007 - Sept 2008
Barselgrad - Year Long Residency Project, Fykse School, Fykse, Hardanger, Norway

Oct-Nov 2006
Cove Park Artists Residency - Cove, Argyle & Bute, Scotland

July Sept Oct 2006
Functionsuite - Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh

Nov 2005 - May 2006
Partners Residency Scottish Sculpture Workshop - Aberdeanshire, Scotland

Aug-Sept 2005
Cove Park Artists Residency - Cove, Argyle & Bute, Scotland





AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2008-2009
Arts and Humanities Research Council - Professional preparation for masters scheme

2006
Scottish Arts Council - Creative Proffesional Development Grant

Glasgow City Council - Visual arts Grant





PUBLICATIONS AND ESSAYS

2008 ...............................
PRAKTIKA- Creating a Critical Context for Socially Engaged Art Practice
ISBN 978-0-9555253-7-7

2006
Temporary Urban Spaces, concepts for the Use of City Spaces - Florian Haydn, Robert Temel
Birkhauser 2006 ISBN - 10:3-7643-7460-8

Placed Upon the Horizon - by Niall Macdonald and Ruth Barker
Publisher South Lanarkshire Council ISBN-10: 0955312701

Return - (Artists Book), Trajectory Publications 2006
ISBN 1-905343-05-1

2004 ...............................
Analytical and Synthetic Cabinism - by John Calcutt




GALLERY COMMITTEE

2004 - 2006 ..................
Market Gallery, Duke street, Glasgow, Scotland

Biography Will Foster was born in Sheffield (1982) and lives in Berlin. He has a background in environmental and socially engaged arts practice. He studied a Bachelors of Arts in Environmental Art and Sculpture at The Glasgow School of Art and a Masters of Arts in Arts and Ecology at Dartington Collage of Arts, England which was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Foster’s practice is a hybrid of applied site-specific research and conceptual play. Fosters projects have taken form of temporary and mobile structures and the curation of multifunctional social spaces and events in both urban and rural environments. He has developed projects while being an artist in residence throughout Scotland; New Moon- Porta Projector at Scottish Sculpture Workshop Aberdeenshire (2005-2006), Trident Platter at Cove Park Argyle and Bute (2005-2006), and Skills Bank and Use- All thing temporary and Mobil at Functionsuite based in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital (2007). Foster is the founder and co-curator of Cabin Exchange from (2002 until 2006), a project where multiple 10ft by 8ft x 8ft shipping containers were used to create a platform for an annual week long public art project. This project involved over 160 art works by local and international artists and took place throughout Glasgow, Edinburgh (Scotland). In 2006 Foster and the Cabin Exchange curation team where invited by Next Wave to Melbourne (Australia) for The Commonwealth Games presenting to develop a new site specific work Tug of Cabin, supported by the Scottish Arts Council. In 2007 Foster undertook a renewable energy research trip traveling by bicycle through Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark and Norway to arrive in Fykse on the west coast of Norway. This month-long trip culminated in a year-long inaugural residency at Barselgrad Centre in Fykse village. During this year Foster initiated several collaborative projects ‘Bluss - Low Carbon Temporary Light’ and ‘Plotshift - Nomadic Garden Design’. Foster has work featured in various publications; Temporary Urban Spaces- Concepts for the Use of City Spaces Birkhauser (2006) and PRAKTIKA- Creating a Critical Context for Socially Engaged Art Practice, Deveron Arts (2008). Recently he exhibited Subject To Change Without Notice a collaborative project with artist Guyan Porter that investigates the phenomena of Small print at Center for Contemporary Arts, Intermedia as part of Glasgow International Festival Of Visual Art 2010.