Gordon Schmidt | Rhianna Turnbull Amelia Bywater & Christian Newby
8 October - 6 November
Gordon Schmidt studied Sculpture at the Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver and was an exchange student in the Environmental Art Department at Glasgow School of Art. Gordon's practice is concerned with the understanding of the correlation between the performance and the document or the experience of the individual and the group. His artworks, which include video, collage and sculpture reference culturally significant events that he could not have experienced first hand. Recently Gordon has focused on the development of new video works which draw upon found television and news footage from post-war Britain.
Rhianna Turnbull graduated in 2006 from Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art. Working across collage, video, drawing and painting, her work is concerned with lifestyle and identity. Taking her lived experiences as a starting point, Rhianna's work develops through a process of editing environments or situations down, to bring into focus, elements that embody particular attitudes. By isolating selected fragments she articulates their importance, reflecting sensitively on personality and the construction of identity.
Amelia Bywater & Christian Newby both graduated from the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art in 2009. Their project integrates collage, photography, sculptural installation and publications. Informing their joint practice is a consideration to how objects and images can be re-appropriated and reinterpreted as a means of investigating the interference, translation and stability of the image and its relationship to history, nostalgia, narrative and resolution.
