Stuart Edmundson, "...like dancing to dogs."

About

For Stuart Edmundson’s second solo exhibition with The International 3 the artist presents the products of an engaged studio activity that constantly mutates and transforms challenging accepted binary themes of painting/sculpture, object/subject, low culture/high culture, studio/gallery.

The effervescent painted compositions, some incorporating ‘real’ props, some supported by intricate handmade structures, also present a questioning of the traditional abstract/figurative opposition. These enquiries are conducted via work that is intuitively composed, joyful, warm and visceral. The theoretical is embodied in the practical.

Edmundson sees the display in the gallery as an extension of his studio practice, a place to show but also to play, with the spectator as much as with the work itself. This playfulness and lack of self-consciousness demonstrated through the intensity of colour, composition and curation, is akin to the show’s title. The dogs in question do not judge and may indulge in the dance themselves.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a specially commissioned text written by Dr Alistair Payne, Head of the School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art.

Stuart Edmundson (born 1976, UK), received a BA Fine Art from University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) in 1999, followed by an MA from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000. His solo exhibitions include, Stuart Edmundson at Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool) and Madness Becomes Method at Modul (Dresden). His group exhibitions include The Varieties at Harris Museum and Art Gallery (Preston), TwentyOneFlags, Malta Design Week and Between the Tracks at Badhauss St.Gallen (Switzerland). His work is held in private collections in the UK.

Supported by Arts Council England

The International 3 would also like to thank our Patrons for their generous support.