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GALLERY I & II
NO-HOW
Paul McDevitt, Nathaniel Mellors, Ellen Munro, Victoria
Skogsberg, Michael Stumpf
17 Jan - 14 Feb 2004
Group show featuring five artists
from Edinburgh, Glasgow and London presenting new works in
a range of media across both gallery spaces.
Paul McDevitt‘s work
is predominately drawings made in colour
pencil, ballpoint and ink on paper. Paul’s
complex and fluid drawings flow and sprawl
in a way that alludes to the distracted
scrawls found in an exercise book but
taken to an
obsessive extreme. Paul completed his
MA at Chelsea College of Art, London
in 2000,
after which he was awarded the Saatchi
Fellowship.
Made in a forest environment, Nathaniel Mellors’ new
video work uses music and voice-over to play with tone, we are never sure
to what extent he is attempting to undermine our reading of the film. Nathaniel
is represented by Matt’s Gallery. He is also involved in various
projects including a band, Skill 7 Stamina 12, who have just released
their second
single. Nathaniel lives and works in London.
Ellen Munro ‘s work often relates to
memories and stories. Intuitively, she combines craft processes
with found
objects to recontextualise them and 'make them a bit punny'.
Ellen is currently on the MFA course at Edinburgh College of
Art.
Victoria Skogsberg makes video
works that use the idea of afterimage to dramatic
effect. In her most recent works this hinges
on the appearance and disappearance of the human
figure
in both screen based and projection works. Victoria
is Swedish, she currenly lives and works in Glasgow.
Michael Stumpf takes an improvisatory
approach to materials in his pieces. He is interested
in combining a number of elements to propose
a narrative. These subtexts often suggest film
reference
points. Michael has exhibited in East 2003, Norwich
Gallery. Michael is German, and currently on
the Masters course in Glasgow on a DAAD grant.
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PROJECT ROOM
JANET McCRORIE
Janet
McCrorie works in a diverse range of media, this show comprises
of new work with the main focus being aspiration. Motivated
by the potential presence of the remarkable in everyday life;
she transforms familiar, mass-produced objects using simple,
devotional
acts aiming to subvert their meaning and attached history.
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