GARY COLCLOUGH Other Worldly
14 November - 20 December 2014
dalla Rosa Gallery | 121 Clerkenwell Road | London EC1R 5BY | dallarosagallery.com
GARY COLCLOUGH: OTHER WORLDLY 14 November – 20 December 2014
The combination of sculpture and drawing has become a distinctive element of Gary Colclough’s practice, with the new work presented in Other Worldly he drives this investigation even further. Delicate pencil drawings are framed and suspended by meticulously constructed sculptural structures, which not only support but complement them. While Colclough has frequently worked on floor-based structures, the works on show are conceived for wall installation, creating a strong series of constructions connected by the use of geometric outlines. In these works the natural order of things has been upturned, in Slight Return a forest is twice depicted on its side, and There’s a World contains a drawing of an upside down tree – or seen the other way – an upside down drawing of a tree. These works appear to be suggesting new perspectives for viewing seemingly common scenes. The potential readings of the drawings are further complicated by their interaction with sculptural supports. Carefully composed from rosewood and teak hardwoods that are commonly associated with furniture making and decorative arts, the structures integrate a subtle utility with their own aesthetic logic. Their diagrammatic geometry resembles primitive symbols or hieroglyphs, implying a language of arcane symbols that we no longer know how to read. In Common Ground the structure suspends the drawings in orbit, suggesting a terrestrial rather than heavenly constellation. The support of Edge of the Real mimics the architecture of a picture frame, albeit one on the point of collapse. By both adopting and disrupting the conventions of the frame, the work prompts us to question how images are given meaning and purpose by the structures of presentation. About the Artist Gary Colclough studied at Chelsea College of Art and Central Saint Martins, where he currently teaches. He has shown in the UK, Germany, China, Netherlands, and the US - most recently he was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2013), participated in exhibitions at Identity Gallery (Hong Kong), Angus-Hughes, PayneShurvell for Collective Gallery, and dalla Rosa (London). A catalogue of Gary Colclough’s work, including an essay by Natasha Ginwala, has been printed in conjunction with the exhibition Other Worldly, please contact the gallery for further information.
previous page and opposite: Gary Colclough, There’s a World (2014), coloured pencil, paper, wood, 74 x 111 x1.5cm
Gary Colclough, Common Ground (2014), coloured pencil, paper, wood, 54 x 92 x 1.8 cm
Gary Colclough, Common Ground (2014), detail, coloured pencil, paper, wood, 54 x 92 x 1.8 cm
Gary Colclough, Edge of the Real (2014), coloured pencil, paper, wood, 84 x 25 x 1.8 cm
GARY COLCLOUGH Education 2008 - 09 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London 1996 - 99 BA Hons Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London 2014 2011 2009 2009
Solo Exhibitions Other Worldly, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Anderswo, Smallspace Gallery, Berlin Glimpsed, 24Seven, Gooden Gallery, London Crossing, Basement 43, London
2011 2010 2010
Two Person Exhibitions Encounter, with Hannah Brown, Gallery Primo Alonso, London On Becoming a Gallery, Part Two, with Frances Richardson, Angus-Hughes Gallery, curated by Fieldgate Gallery, London two sides of the same plain, with Amy Stephens, Stour Space, London
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Selected Group Exhibitions Beguile the Night, Beyond Drawing, Dark Matter Studio, London The Structure of Things, with Alan Magee and Andy Wicks, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London Works on Paper, PayneShurvell at Collective Gallery, London The Fine Line, Identity Gallery, Hong Kong Discernable, Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London At the Edges, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London Earth Works, P.P.O.W. New York Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Nature, Vegas, London Alter, Vegas, London There Was a Country Where They Were All Thieves, Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam Escape, Sumarria Lunn, London Pulp Fictions,Transition Gallery, London Strip, Transition Gallery at Sluice Art Fair, London Wolfson Syndrome, The Modern Language Experiment, London Creekside Open, A.P.T. Gallery, London (selected by Phyllida Barlow) In Arcadia, IMT, London Tomorrow People, Elevator Gallery, London God is in the Details, Primo Alonso, London Miniscule, Oblong Gallery, London Sehnsucht, Transition Gallery at JTG Project 09 Artsway Open 09, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire M.A. Contemporary Arts Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset Arctic Fox, Vulpes, Vulpes, London Pandamonium, (Powerball Event), The Power Plant, Toronto The Joy, Nettie Horn, London Monstrous Tales, A.P.T. Gallery, London Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales I-d, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk Baby you’re out of time, Unit 15, London opposite: Gary Colclough studio in Hackney Wick, London (March 2014)
2011
Curatorial Projects Common Logic, co-curated with Kate Terry, group exhibition with Rana Bagum, Ian Monroe, Amy Stephens, Kate Terry and Amy Yoes, IMT Gallery, London
2014 2013 2011
Publications and Press Gary Colclough, catalogue of recent work including essay by Natasha Ginwala Traction Magazine, interview with Susie Pentelow (online) At the Edges, Exhibition catalogue Jerwood Drawing Prize, Exhibition catalogue What is an Art Book? (contributor), published by The Modern Language Experiment Wolfson Syndrome, exhibition catalogue, The Modern Language Experiment, London
Gary Colclough, Slight Return (2014), coloured pencil, paper, wood, 47 x 12 x 1.5 cm
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