Collective Gallery presents New Work Scotland Programme 2011

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19 Nov 2011 to 18 Dec 2011
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Artists in this exhibition: Florrie James, Joey Villemont, Oliver Braid


New Work Scotland Programme 2011

Florrie James | Joey Villemont | Oliver Braid

19 November - 18 December

Joey Villemont graduated from the Glasgow School of Art MFA this year. Working in sculpture, installation and film, he explores elemental links between counter-culture and the prehistoric or primal. Through interweaving the past with popular culture, Joey's work is concerned with the remaking of histories, proposing historical narratives which have never existed.

Florrie James graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2010. Her work comments on cultural history and art history: existence, failure and continuation, explored through the medium of appropriated design, writing, painting and film-making.

"My work exists within a structure of historical documentation as an attempt at talking about time and all things.A problematic critique of the artist is coupled with attempts to achieve all encompassing, impossible situations."

Oliver Braid graduated from the Glasgow School of Art MFA in 2010. Oliver describes his practice as, "exploring strategies with which work can be made and received. I often work with other individuals and use collaboration as a way to challenge the conventional understandings of the procedures governing the making and reception of art, and search for an alternative." Taking inspiration from contemporary cultural sources from Big Brother to Harry Potter, Oliver offers a new lens with which to read contemporary art practice and its theories.