Posters take off in Glasgow
A set of 10 posters by Megan Rooney populated the city of Glasgow before and during her solo exhibition and performance at Tramway. Part of the MAP commission 2017.
Throughout October, November and beginning December 2017, a set of 10 posters by Megan Rooney populated key city centre sites in Glasgow. Juxtaposed with commercial event posters, they inserted a theatre of strange characters into street life, stimulating comment and in some cases, graffiti. The posters formed one segment of the larger year long project, commissioned by MAP, which included Out the Mouth, a reading event at Cove Park, Argyll, MOMMA! MOMMA!, a solo exhibition at Tramway and a new performance premiered at Tramway under the lead project title Others got wings for flying (see related entries in this issue of MAP).
Megan Rooney is a Canadian artist based in London. Recent exhibitions include: (X) A Fantasy, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2017); Sun Up Moon Down, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel, (2017); Animals on the bed, Seventeen, London (2016); Piggy Piggy, Croy Nielson, Berlin (2016). Recent performances include: f on your tongue, Project 1049 commissioned by LUMA; Last Days, Last Days. Last Days, commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, London and O Labor, Sister Continent, David Roberts Art Foundation Frieze Performance Program 2014
