Jonathan Scott shows at Coleman Project Space

Wednesday, 09 May 2007 04:05

London - A specially commissioned site-specific installation by Jonathan Scott for Coleman Project Space.  Glasgow-based artist Jonathan Scott explores the complex relationships between people and their environments: how we adapt to and are managed by the man-made infrastructures that define social space.  The exhibition will run from May 18th to June 17th 2007.

With his first London-based residency and exhibition at Coleman Project Space, Scott will respond to the inner-city landscape as both physical entity and ideological space, exposing the narrative significance of everyday urban detritus. Taking his cue from literary descriptions of the city (think J G Ballard’s dystopic metropoli and Iain Sinclair’s uncanny London guide), he intends to formulate his own abject narration within a large-scale installation incorporating the drawing and sculptural elements of his practice.  An outsider responding to an unknown site Scott hopes to reveal as much about the sense of transition and loss within his work as the real and perceived local histories sewn within this pocket of South-East London.

Jonathan Scott graduated from the Glasgow School of Art’s Masters Programme in 2005.  Recent exhibitions include ‘Demo’ (a two-person show with Fred Perdersen at Transmission Gallery); ‘Face of an Angel, Voice of a Demon’ (commissioned by EmergeD as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art); ‘New Ruins’ (EmergeD at Next Wave Arts festival, Melbourne); ‘Re-escape’ (Transmission Gallery project in Hamburg); ‘Exit Strategy’ (Tramway, Glasgow & CAFA, Beijing); ‘Syncopations: Art from Great Britain Now’ (Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm); ‘Prospect Drawing Prize’ (Tea Buildings, London).

Visit Coleman Project Space at : www.colemanprojects.org.uk; and www.jonathanscott.info