Turner Prize nominated artist Karla Black has hand painted and signed
three beautiful linen bags for her exhibition for Scotland + Venice at
the Venice Biennale 2011 which will be auctioned off to the highest
bidder. Karla Black would like the proceeds of the auction to go towards
the Glasgow Project Room. The Project Room is a non-profit contemporary
art exhibition and project space based in Trongate 103, which has been
championing emerging artists since 1997. Black believes The Project Room
was instrumental to her continuing creativity in the first few years
after leaving The Glasgow School of Art. It was the first place that
Black ever publicly exhibited a piece of work which was in a group show
that she co-curated in 2000, and then, in 2002, she had her first ever
solo exhibition Robert there. Black along with fellow Glasgow artist
Katie Exley curated an experimental public art event which included her
own work and that of 31 other artists which was in collaboration with
Glasgow Project Room. She feels that Glasgow Project Room is and should
continue to be incredibly important in making the work of young artists
visible.