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The Officer's Mess, Jacob Kerray, Oil on canvas, 2016. Photo credit: Patrick Jameson
Exhibition
Jacob Kerray | LOOKY LOOKY
28 Jul 2017 – 30 Sep 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- The University of Edinburgh
- Old College, South Bridge
- Edinburgh
- EH8 9YL
- United Kingdom
For his TRG3 commission Jacob Kerray has been invited to explore and respond to the University of Edinburgh’s vast Art Collection to create a new work, or series of works, for the Talbot Rice Round Room.
About
Kerray’s work draws on the visual cultures that surround his main interests – particularly football, pro wrestling and historical painting. Engaging with the hierarchies of culture, social distraction, mob mentality, myth, belief and taste.
Usually realized as paintings, they are revisions of redundant fantasies. Observing the role of the deification, myth/media faith and power, their relationships with morality and attempts as a culture to achieve a consumable reified thread throughout history, that uses pictures and words as manipulative tools of magic for both ambivalent ‘good and evil’.
