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| Guyan Porter | |
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born Aberdeen, Scotland, 1971. studied fine art / sculpture at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, graduating in 1993. Opened the Sculpture Works Studios at WASPS, Alexandra Parade, Glasgow, in 1994, and worked with a variety of artists on a wide range of projects. In 1998 carried out a residency in Russia, going on to South Africa, and has been travelling extensively ever since. |
| About the Artist | |
sculpture / installations consist of multiple objects forming pattern sequences within chosen spaces. These can consist of cast or fabricated objects, layered with paints, lacquers and resins. Dealing with illusion and materiality, and recently working with pre made objects and text, in a series of artificial environments and re created spaces. |
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Listening to the Universe
1999 |
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four hanging steel holographic panels
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100 heads
2003 |
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| 100 individually modelled life-size heads, each one individual yet following a selection of genus types |
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Blood and Squares
2004 |
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Three Imaginary Views
2002 |
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| Etched steel plates coated with 82 layers of lacquer, partially obscuring imaginary maps of the world
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live forever
2007 |
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| commissioned by UZ Events for The Environmental Art Project, - live forever - a temporary neon installation for the centre of Callender Park, was made for the first show of The Environmental Art Project*. The work took the form of a Neon sign, replicating a hand written piece of text. It was always my intention to place some sort of neon text piece amongst the trees, creating an incongruous relationship between the artwork and the natural environment of the park, reflecting in some ways the relationship between the park and the festival. The work explores questions about life, death and attitudes to living.
A light meditation on death
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we are the enemy
2005 |
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| 60 reproduced print multiple with the slogan - we are the enemy - in homage to Aurther Miller's the Crucible
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Gender Bender
2006 |
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| A steel container is transformed into an alien art object, with wit, concentration and several coats of paint
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god is in your mind
2006 |
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| the work recreates an artificial artists studio, a small laboratory of thought without action. In a studio where there is no art, is the problem of god the ultimate investigation.
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| we are the enemy was an installation originally made for a show I organised at Wasps main studio building in Glasgow. the show was initiated not long after September 11th, 2001. As the show was to be installed in a studio building occupied by over 130 artists, I was interested in the role artists play in addressing major political events or traumas occurring throughout the world. what is the responsibility of the artist to comment on, analyse or even draw attention to such events. the show i curated was a collaboration between seven visual artists making installations, and nine works by performance artists.
I made a series of works installed throughout the building, using canvas, furniture, domestic objects and text. we are the enemy was thickly painted across the floor of the main space, addressing the idea of the enemy without and the enemy within; an homage to Arthur Millers the Crucible; - which paralleled the McCarthy witch trials, |
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| 2006 - Stake - Performance Installation with Emilia Telese, FreeShout Festival, Prato, Italy. Gender Bender, Cabin Exchange, Pink Public Art Project, Glasgow The British Art Show - Another Product at Cornerhouse, Manchester A Healing Passion - One Hundred Years of Bio Medicine. Huntarian Museum, Glasgow University 2005 Artists Networks Coordinator - Scotland – for a-n's Networking Artists Network Initiative Generator – Group show, Dundee Networking Artists Exchange trip to Berlin. Funded by AN G8A – a dvd and screening of artists response to the G8 summit States of Union? Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2004 Event - Artist, curator, organiser, for multi media performance installation event at Wasps HQ, Glasgow Painful Creatures - Performance and Installation with Mishief la ba - Falkirk, Bradford, Brighton, Sotteville, Graz, London. Key Speaker and organiser for Art Futures conference, CCA, Glasgow 2003 Sculpture Installation for Painful Creatures, Performance Art Festival, Falkirk. Commissioned by In Situ. Scottish Arts Council Audit Advisory Committee Sculpture Installation with Apex Hotels, Dundee Waterfront 2002 Call for Entry, Market Gallery, Glasgow Scottish Arts Council Audit Advisory Committee Look Look 2002, International Art Project Digital and sculpture workshops with Fast Forward Play and Knowes Housing Co-op, Glasgow 2001 Elected President of the Scottish Artists Union Art for Europe, Scotland House, Brussels Curator for VAULT 2001, Multi-Media Arts Event, The Arches, Glasgow. Public Hanging at the Briggait, Group Exhibition, Glasgow Invited Artist for the Royal Glasgow Institute Exhibition 2000 Chairman of The Glasgow Visual Arts Forum Reggio Emilia workshops, The Lighthouse, The Burrel Collection, Glasgow Events Organizer and Speaker for Scottish Artists Union, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Community Workshops with Lochfield Park Co-op, Easterhouse 1999 Art for Kosovo Auction, Nairns, Glasgow. Curator and Artist at VAULT, The Arches, Glasgow Guest speaker at Sofa: Professional Practice Conference, Glasgow School of Art Member of Monitoring Committee for redevelopment of W.A.S.P.S. Main Building, Glasgow 1998 Selected to participate in International Exchange with Artists from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Includes hosting Russian artists in Glasgow and residency in Rostov. Funded by Glasgow City Council and W.A.S.P.S. Artists in Arms: Selected to produce work for Land Mines Project: Royal Geographic Society, London, Graffiti Gallery, Edinburgh. Organized by the British Red Cross 1997 Source – sculpture installation, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow. P.E.C.A. sculpture / philosophy workshop with Langbank Primary. Sculpture Works, Glasgow 1996 Aesthetics Coordinator at E.P.I.C. Glasgow University, for P.E.C.A. Philosophy and European Art Sculpture Installation, the Italian Centre courtyard, Glasgow 1995 Initiation of Source: Glasgow based visual art group – free events and open installations 1994 Sculpture Works: Opening of sculpture workshop for the production of site-specific projects and gallery based work. 77 Hanson Street, Glasgow Natwest Life Group Sculpture Exhibition, Royal West Academy of Art, Bristol R.S.A. Group Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy of Art, Edinburgh 1992 Group Photographic Exhibition, Man and Environment in Harmony, Royal Academy of Art, London Selected Awards and Commissions 2005 Beatson Bust. Commissioned by Glasgow University to produce work on George Beatson, for the Huntarian Museum. Clay and Bronze portrait bust produced for the permanent collection. 2003 Scottish Arts Council Professional Development Grant: research trip to the Venice Biennale Sculpture Installation for Painful Creatures, Performance Art Festival, Falkirk. Commissioned by In Situ 2002 Scottish Arts Council Professional Development Grant: research trip to Documenta, Berlin and London 2001 Year of the Artist Residency: Workshops and Public ArtWorks, The Island of Eigg Shortlisted for the Museum of Country Life Public Art Commission, National Museums Scotland 2000 Commissioned by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama to produce stage set for new production of Animal Farm 1999 Commissioned by Devil Productions to design and produce Kinetic Sculpture for Channel 4 1996 Commissioned by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama to produce sculptural set pieces for new production of Cosi Fan Tutte Awarded Shepley-Shepley Trust Youth Arts Funding: for equipment and materials 1994 Shortlisted and commissioned to produce maquettes in steel and bronze, Natwest Life Sculpture Commission, Bristol. With the Royal Institute of British Sculptors 1992 Shortlisted for the World Wildlife Fund Environmental Sculpture Commission Works Held In Collections Work held in private collections in Aberdeen, Glasgow, London, Perthshire, Northern Ireland, Cypress and Russia. Publicly held by Huntarian Museum, Glasgow. Aberdeen University, the Eigg Trust. and A.X.I.S Education History 1989 - 1993 Grays School of Art Robert Gordons University, Aberdeen. Awarded B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture |
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| 2007 - Environmental Art Show, Falkirk, 5th and 6th May. Artist and Curator A Wall between Scotland and England - Collaborative Public Art Project, Glasgow and Brighton, UK Rice Pavillion - Collaborative Public Art Project with Chris Biddlecombe, Emilia Telese and Eduardo Malagigi, Brighton Festival 2007 - Collaborative Public Art Residency - Dodanduwa Creation Centre, Sri Lanka |
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