{"id":2243264,"date":"2026-11-06T23:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2243264"},"modified":"2026-11-06T23:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:02:26","slug":"franz-ferdinand-turning-to-art-at-glasgow-print-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2243264","title":{"rendered":"Franz Ferdinand turning to art at Glasgow Print Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"AlanAlan Dimmick<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Franz Ferdinand have created a limited edition print<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It was the neighbourhood that launched Franz Ferdinand’s career and even got a mention in one of their earliest songs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Well here we are at the Transmission party. I love your friends they’re all so arty,” is the line in their single Do You Want To.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Twenty-one years later, the band are back in the Glasgow Print Studio – two doors down from Transmission Gallery – to launch a limited edition print that celebrates their musical journey and their Scottish roots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bassist Bob Hardy said: “When I was a student and we were getting the band together, it was often the openings that would take place on King Street which would be the beginning of a night out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Transmission Gallery, the Modern Institute round the corner. It would often be the start of some of the best nights out ever.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"AlanAlan Dimmick<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Drummer Audrey Tait signed the band’s prints<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The band shot to fame with their 2004 debut, which produced three hit singles in a row and won them the Mercury Prize the following year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They’ve since toured the world, notching up a substantial fan base in South America where they did an early tour in support of U2, and playing their own headline residency at the historic Olympia Music Hall in Paris earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And it’s an image from that landmark show which they chose to make into a work of art as part of Glasgow Print Studio’s Call and Response project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s often used in music where you sort of sing the first part and then people respond,” said the studio’s creative director Claire Forsyth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“So seeing what the response is from the participants has been really interesting because it’s not always what you might expect.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"MarkMark Cameron<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Kirsty Wark’s print was inspired by her aunt<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Among those who’ve signed up to this “gym for artists” are broadcaster Kirsty Wark, actor Sanjeev Kohli, and musician Bobby Bluebell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Each worked with master printmakers to create a new work for a limited edition run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kirsty Wark was inspired by her great aunt, a bank teller by day, who painted china and porcelain in her evenings. Her delicate print is based on a plate that her aunt painted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sanjeev Kohli’s work was also personal, and a tribute to his late father. St Parduman of Glasgow shows his father as St Mungo on a gable end, with the words I Belong to Glasgow in English, Gaelic and Punjabi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Forsyth said: “He was thinking a lot about very traditional Glaswegian elements but then putting a bit of a twist on it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“‘I belong to Glasgow’ was something that his dad said after a day or two of being in Glasgow. He said ‘I may not always understand what everyone’s saying to me but I feel I belong here’. It’s a very powerful message.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"MarkMark Cameron<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Sanjeev Kohli remembered his father with his creation<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For all of Franz Ferdinand this was a personal project. But especially for Bob Hardy, who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2003 with a degree in painting and printmaking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I hadn’t done any printmaking since I was 19,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“So it was really nice to be back here and in the workshops. It felt like being back at art school again.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The band had been on tour for two years when the idea was first mooted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hardy added: “We had this idea that we wanted to bring the touring world of Franz Ferdinand back to Glasgow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Knowing that it was going to be launched after we’d come home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We’ve had this set for the last two years designed by our lighting engineer, Dan Williams, which we’ve had all over the world and we just wanted to document it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Actor and director Alan Cumming will be taking part in the project<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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French photographer Julien Courbe \u2013 who was in Glasgow for the launch \u2013 captured the original image of the band onstage, which he then developed as a cyanotype in his Paris kitchen. That was then made into a print by Master Printer Alistair Gow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thursday’s launch was a relatively intimate experience for a band used to playing huge stadiums. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The limited run of a hundred prints was swiftly dispatched, some online to international fans, with the proceeds supporting the future of Glasgow Print Studio and its members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Forsyth added: “Our aim is for everybody to be able to enjoy it whether it’s in our free to access galleries where they do a class or where they join as a member and come use our specialist equipment upstairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“You don’t need to have been to art school to be a printmaker that’s what’s so great and egalitarian about it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alan Cumming, Greg Hemphill and Julie Wilson Nimmo will launch work in coming months while the aptly-named Glasgow band The Pastels will be next to create a work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It has been a new experience for Franz Ferdinand but one that Bob Hardy, at least, plans to repeat, having been invited back for a printmaking course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hardy said: “When you play in a show, we do a lot of work to get to the performance. But this way, you can relax, the work’s done, it’s on the wall.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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