Gordon Dalton
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Born Under A Bad Sign
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Gordon Dalton’s work is equally fascinated and disappointed with our expectations of our surrounding culture. This shifts uncomfortably between attempts at greatness and contentment. Dalton plays in the gaps between our aspiration and circumstance, between the everyday and the mythic, and success and failure.Unapologetically nostalgic and sentimental, Dalton embraces embarrassment with a dour melancholic edge and a refusal to meet expectations. Dalton’s work wants everything to be alright, but that is quite clearly not the case.
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Back Country Gothic
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The Guardian:
Anti-heroic compositions are made up of objects once deemed super-cool and now discarded. ...reminds us that life is as much about failing as succeeding, and there is beauty and humour in both.
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Born Under a BAd Sign
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Born Under A Bad Sign
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Bad Sign
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Spectator T: Art Sheffield 2005
Flourish, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech, 2005
Ribbed for her pleasure, Cynthia Broan, NYC, 2005
STAR Radio, CBAT/NMGW, Cardiff, 2005
Over & Over, Again & Again, CAC, Vilnius, 2005
Born Under a Bad Sign, Collective, Edinburgh, 2005
Shattered Love, Keith Talent Gallery, London, 2004
Sci-Fi, MOT, London, 2005
Sympathy, Keith Talent Gallery, London, 2004
Masters of the Universe, Chapter, Cardiff, 2003
NYArts Mag:
The treat here is that the aesthetic and psychological hall of mirrors – which bounces the spectator between extremes of naivete, mean-spirited sophistication, calculated ugliness, and the sublime – is so dizzying and hyperactive that one ends up jolted back to the old-school notion of simply enjoying looking at the art.
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Curated projects:
Things we lost in the fire, Transition, London, 2006
Another New Babylon - Public Sites / CBAT, Cardiff, 2006
Aint no love in the heart of the City, Public Sites, CBAT, Cardiff, 2004
Masters of the Universe, Chapter, Cardiff
We interrupt this programme...Waygood Gallery, Newcastle / Changing Room, Stirling
Strange, VANE98, Newcastle
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First time I ever saw your face
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Gordon Dalton is an artist, curator and writer currently based in Cardiff, Wales. He recently recieved a £10,000 Creative Wales from ACW.
He regularly contributes to Flash Art, a-n magazine, Dialogue and Contemporary magazine.
He is currently coordinating May you live in interesting times,Cardiff Festival of Creative Technology www.mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org
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Cardiff
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Europe
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