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| RICHARD DUCKER |
MISPLACED
For this exhibition, Richard Ducker has created an intimate dream world that exists
somewhere between frozen nostalgia and the charm of a fairy tale. As in all good fairy tales,
there lies menace behind the magic where security is latent with the beginnings of sexual
awareness and nature is intrusive. Using his familiar language of materials, the ensemble
gives the sense of being inside a post-nuclear paper weight, where elements defy gravity,
time is arrested, and as memory decays it begins to re-invent itself.
For this exhibition, Richard Ducker has created an intimate dream world that exists
somewhere between frozen nostalgia and the charm of a fairy tale. As in all good fairy tales,
there lies menace behind the magic where security is latent with the beginnings of sexual
awareness and nature is intrusive. Using his familiar language of materials, the ensemble
gives the sense of being inside a post-nuclear paper weight, where elements defy gravity,
time is arrested, and as memory decays it begins to re-invent itself.
Education:
Goldsmiths College, University of London, M.A. Fine Art
Reading University, B.A. Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions:
2007 Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London, 'Durty Turkey'
2007 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, 'Enchanted'
2007 Fieldgate Gallery, London, 'Intervention'
2006-7 Studio 1.1, London, 'Santa's Grotto'
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, London, ‘Houses in Motion’
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, London, ‘Beauty and the Beast’
2006 sevenseven contemporary art, London, ‘No-Ship’
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, London, ‘Kamikaze Blossom’
2006 sevenseven contemporary art, London, ‘MCTwo’ (‘Memoire Collective II’)
2005 Flowers Central, London, ‘Small is Beautiful’
2005 The Crypt @ St. Pancras, London, ‘Memoire Collective’
2005 Cell Project Space, London, ‘Hard Labour’
2004 21 New Fetter Lane, London, ‘Sonya’s Office’
2002 The Yard Gallery, Nottingham, ‘Growth & Form’
2002 London Art Fair, London, Mark Jason Gallery
2001 The Kitchen, New York, ‘Art for Plot’
2001 TWO10 Gallery, London, Wellcome Trust
2000 Royal Academy, Edinburgh, SSA Annual Open 2000
2000 Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, ‘New Art 2000’
1998 Cable Street Gallery, London, ‘Store’
1997 Commercial Too, London, ‘WheNever’
1996 Commercial Too, London, ‘Nicepace’
1994 Shad Thames, London, ‘Inflation Saints’
1994 IAS, London, ‘Mix Fiz Spin’
1993 ICA, London, ‘Art for Equality’
1993 Clove Gallery, London, ‘Contingent’
1992 Kettles Yard, Cambridge, ‘Face Values’
1992 Serpentine Gallery, London, Barclays Young Artist Award
Artwork in private collections in Britain, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Australia
and Singapore
Goldsmiths College, University of London, M.A. Fine Art
Reading University, B.A. Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions:
2007 Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London, 'Durty Turkey'
2007 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, 'Enchanted'
2007 Fieldgate Gallery, London, 'Intervention'
2006-7 Studio 1.1, London, 'Santa's Grotto'
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, London, ‘Houses in Motion’
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, London, ‘Beauty and the Beast’
2006 sevenseven contemporary art, London, ‘No-Ship’
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, London, ‘Kamikaze Blossom’
2006 sevenseven contemporary art, London, ‘MCTwo’ (‘Memoire Collective II’)
2005 Flowers Central, London, ‘Small is Beautiful’
2005 The Crypt @ St. Pancras, London, ‘Memoire Collective’
2005 Cell Project Space, London, ‘Hard Labour’
2004 21 New Fetter Lane, London, ‘Sonya’s Office’
2002 The Yard Gallery, Nottingham, ‘Growth & Form’
2002 London Art Fair, London, Mark Jason Gallery
2001 The Kitchen, New York, ‘Art for Plot’
2001 TWO10 Gallery, London, Wellcome Trust
2000 Royal Academy, Edinburgh, SSA Annual Open 2000
2000 Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, ‘New Art 2000’
1998 Cable Street Gallery, London, ‘Store’
1997 Commercial Too, London, ‘WheNever’
1996 Commercial Too, London, ‘Nicepace’
1994 Shad Thames, London, ‘Inflation Saints’
1994 IAS, London, ‘Mix Fiz Spin’
1993 ICA, London, ‘Art for Equality’
1993 Clove Gallery, London, ‘Contingent’
1992 Kettles Yard, Cambridge, ‘Face Values’
1992 Serpentine Gallery, London, Barclays Young Artist Award
Artwork in private collections in Britain, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Australia
and Singapore
