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for the 2008 edinburgh arts festival echo will curate a contemporary art group show. the theme of the show is the (sibling) rivalry existing between the two cities of edinburgh and glasgow
we have chosen five edinburgh artists to be in the show: satoko kiuchi, tonya mcmullan, steve mykietyn, paulina sandberg and derek sutherland.
each of the artists will choose an artist based in glasgow to either collaborate with or to submit work for the show. echo will encourage the artists to explore these themes openly. the exhibition will include sculpture, video, performance and mixed media. the artists involved are all emerging and have exhibited widely throughout scotland and abroad.
echo is committed to utilising unusual spaces for art and finding new audiences. we hope people will stumble across this group show in the midst of activity during a busy time in edinburgh and be excited by the breath of artistic exploration.
about the artists
derek sutherland
using low-tech ostensibly mundane materials, derek creates set-ups which insist upon the dynamics of the location of the work in relationship to the viewer. he consciously renounces elaborate or perfectionist techniques and traditional resources in favour of an assemblage of heterogeneous materials. the materials are used together to create unexpected configurations and arrangements.
satoko kiuchi
satoko is concerned with the everyday: particularly the fundamental properties of physical experience; gravity and motion; light and reflection; dimension and direction, of which we are only peripherally aware in the course of daily life. she gravitates towards objects and images that subtly reflect this concern, transforming the ordinary everyday objects she encounters into universal images reflecting an interest in the physical world and its mysteries. satoko works in sculpture, photography and installation.
tonya mcmullan
tonya’s work centres on the notions of the everyday and deals with elements of our lives which are imbedded within our national psyche, offering the viewer clues and comments to the themes of the trials, tribulations and struggles we all go through in our desire to win and achieve. by playing with the subject matter the work reveals the friction which exists between actual everyday life and social expectations, the materials and techniques used specifically allow a truthfulness and freedom to emerge and playfully explore the artificial construction and categorisation of identity.
paulina sandberg
interested in how we explain and understand nature and the ways in which we project cultural and personal fears onto the natural world, paulina looks at how we relate to the culture we live in and the extent to which we can understand what lies beyond ourselves. in her practice she uses a variety of media in order to alter the viewer's perception and experience of their surroundings.
steve mykietyn
steve’s work deals with mysticism, belief and pop-culture. "i like to think of what i do as a position or an attitude, not caught up in the work and not tied to any roles. i usually come up with my ideas by thinking of the last thing that I would be willing to do. something humiliating and not well planned. i'm not interested unless there is a visible gamble and people see that gamble, they get excited and I get excited, that is when i know i'm in a good spot to be working." steve’s work spans performance, video, installation and painting. |
