 Hanshin Loop No. 3 (Tower), 2004 acrylic, ink and varnish on board, 105 x 120 cm Graeme Todd Hanshin Loop The "Hanshin Loop" is an expressway that dominates the length and breadth of the city of Osaka in Japan. For three months at the end of 2004 Graeme Todd lived and worked in Osaka while taking part in an ART-EX Artists in Residence programme. All the paintings in his solo exhibition at the Andrew Mummery Gallery were made during this time in Japan. "In a literal sense, the time it takes to make a work is quite important. It acquires a kind of age, a kind of life span as you move through it. I think of my paintings in terms of something other than just history, or memory. They are, in a way, about distance, distance between the real and the illusory, between the eye and the brain, between location and spatial perception. Even time has something to do with distance, and I think the layering in my work has much to do with this. You can read back through the strata, in whichever way you choose." (Extract from a conversation between Graeme Todd and Kate Zamet reproduced in the catalogue "Graeme Todd: Hanshin Loop" published by the Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Japan in 2004) Graeme Todd was born in Glasgow in 1962 and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. Solo exhibitions include: Osaka Contempoary Art Center, Osaka (2004), Angles Gallery, Santa Monica (2004), Andrew Mummery Gallery (2003, 2001, 1998), Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zurich (2003, 2001), Kunsthaus Glarus (2002), Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome (2002, 2000), Gallery Side 2, Tokyo (2000), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2000). Exhibition: 2 June - 4 July 2005 Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12 am - 6 pm Andrew Mummery Gallery 63 Compton Street UK-London EC1V 0BN Telephone +44 (0)20 7251 6265 Fax +44 (0)20 7251 5545 Email info@andrewmummery.com www.andrewmummery.com |
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