Sweat Lodge
25 May - 19 Jun 2010
SWEAT LODGE
25 May - 19 June 2010
Tuesday- Saturday 11-5pm
Kristina Bengtsson, Jim Colquhoun, Samuel Dowd, Stuart Gurden, Catherine Street
Transmission Gallery is delighted to present Sweat Lodge an exhibition featuring new work by 5 artists based both locally and internationally. The show is non-thematic - the five practices represented are contrasting and varied – rather, the show is conceived as a small survey of some exciting strands of current contemporary art practice.
Kristina Bengtsson (b.1979, Lund) works with photography and text. Bengtsson studied at Glasgow School of Art and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig and is now based in Copenhagen. Her recent exhibitions include Galleri Spark, Copenhagen and Pikto Gallery, Toronto, she will exhibit at Grimmuseum, Berlin later this year. At Transmission Gallery Bengtsson will present a new body of work consisting of photographs and text that discusses the multiple personalities of a photograph.
Jim Colquhoun is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. His work seeks to negotiate the boundaries between art and life, waking and dreaming, fiction and fact. To this end he produces drawings, installations, performances and texts. He has shown recently in Edinburgh, Copenhagen, New York, Akureyri and Glasgow.
Samuel Dowd (b. England, 1978) works across a range of disciplines including sculpture and film. Dowd studied at Wimbledon School of Art before completing an MA at Dartington College of Art, he is now based in London. He has recently participated in exhibitions, screenings and events at a number of international venues including Formcontent, London, HBC, Berlin, and the Serpentine Gallery, London (with the Sprout collective). Forthcoming projects include the publication of the screenplay Aprodite’s Left Turn, based on an unrealised scenario by Frederick Kiesler. At Transmission Dowd will present a 16mm film entitled The Primitives alongside a number of collages. These works - depictions of domestic interiors and alpine settings – draw upon experiments in the search for an earthly paradise, for ideal spaces and ways of living.
Stuart Gurden (b. Harlow, 1969) is based in Glasgow and works primarily with video and sound. He graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2000 and has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Running Time, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Temporary Nature, Pacific Quay, Glasgow. In 2005 Gurden received the SAC/Scottish Screen Film and Video Award. For Sweat Lodge he will present a new audio/sculptural work based on an interview between A**** H**** and B*** O***** of '90s M**** post-hardcore outfit 'H**** P****'.
Catherine Street (b. Harrogate, 1978) multifarious practice incorporates installation, video, live performance, writing and drawing. She studied at ECA and Edinburgh University and is based in Edinburgh. Street recently made a performance installation for Warehouse of Horrors at SWG3 Gallery in Glasgow and will present work at Number 35 Gallery, New York and at Bergen Kjøtt in Bergen, Norway in the coming year. At Transmission Street will present a collaborative performance-to-camera work and a new series of text drawings, both of which have come out of research into the mind, agency and free will. Please see http://nothingneverhappens.wordpress.com for more information.
The artists included in Sweat Lodge will present an evening of screenings and performance on Wednesday May 26th from 7pm.
25 May - 19 June 2010
Tuesday- Saturday 11-5pm
Kristina Bengtsson, Jim Colquhoun, Samuel Dowd, Stuart Gurden, Catherine Street
Transmission Gallery is delighted to present Sweat Lodge an exhibition featuring new work by 5 artists based both locally and internationally. The show is non-thematic - the five practices represented are contrasting and varied – rather, the show is conceived as a small survey of some exciting strands of current contemporary art practice.
Kristina Bengtsson (b.1979, Lund) works with photography and text. Bengtsson studied at Glasgow School of Art and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig and is now based in Copenhagen. Her recent exhibitions include Galleri Spark, Copenhagen and Pikto Gallery, Toronto, she will exhibit at Grimmuseum, Berlin later this year. At Transmission Gallery Bengtsson will present a new body of work consisting of photographs and text that discusses the multiple personalities of a photograph.
Jim Colquhoun is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. His work seeks to negotiate the boundaries between art and life, waking and dreaming, fiction and fact. To this end he produces drawings, installations, performances and texts. He has shown recently in Edinburgh, Copenhagen, New York, Akureyri and Glasgow.
Samuel Dowd (b. England, 1978) works across a range of disciplines including sculpture and film. Dowd studied at Wimbledon School of Art before completing an MA at Dartington College of Art, he is now based in London. He has recently participated in exhibitions, screenings and events at a number of international venues including Formcontent, London, HBC, Berlin, and the Serpentine Gallery, London (with the Sprout collective). Forthcoming projects include the publication of the screenplay Aprodite’s Left Turn, based on an unrealised scenario by Frederick Kiesler. At Transmission Dowd will present a 16mm film entitled The Primitives alongside a number of collages. These works - depictions of domestic interiors and alpine settings – draw upon experiments in the search for an earthly paradise, for ideal spaces and ways of living.
Stuart Gurden (b. Harlow, 1969) is based in Glasgow and works primarily with video and sound. He graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2000 and has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Running Time, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Temporary Nature, Pacific Quay, Glasgow. In 2005 Gurden received the SAC/Scottish Screen Film and Video Award. For Sweat Lodge he will present a new audio/sculptural work based on an interview between A**** H**** and B*** O***** of '90s M**** post-hardcore outfit 'H**** P****'.
Catherine Street (b. Harrogate, 1978) multifarious practice incorporates installation, video, live performance, writing and drawing. She studied at ECA and Edinburgh University and is based in Edinburgh. Street recently made a performance installation for Warehouse of Horrors at SWG3 Gallery in Glasgow and will present work at Number 35 Gallery, New York and at Bergen Kjøtt in Bergen, Norway in the coming year. At Transmission Street will present a collaborative performance-to-camera work and a new series of text drawings, both of which have come out of research into the mind, agency and free will. Please see http://nothingneverhappens.wordpress.com for more information.
The artists included in Sweat Lodge will present an evening of screenings and performance on Wednesday May 26th from 7pm.