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Team Strong Exhibition Poster
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Syzygy (i) - Jesmonite, Steel and Resin
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Coercion - Embossed Leatherette and Steel
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Series of Individually titled Screen Prints on Paper
Exhibition
Team Strong. Craig Wright
27 Nov 2015 – 3 Dec 2015
Event times
12pm - 5pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 1307 Argyle Street
- Glasgow
- G3 8TL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Kelvinhall Subway
- Exhibition Centre
Craig Wright offers the viewer through visual art his abstract impression of Glasgow gang culture in his first solo show Team Strong.
About
Recent MFA graduate Craig explores aspects of his (socially perceived) misspent youth and personal experiences of Glasgow gang culture through abstracted, minimal art works. The Glaswegian artist who studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee will be displaying his body of work for the first time in his home town since being featured in the Royal Scottish Academy’s prestigious annual group exhibition RSA New Contemporaries earlier this year.
The exhibition ‘Team Strong’, will be held at New Glasgow Society from the 27thof November until the 3rd of December and is based on Wright’s personal experiences of being involved in a Glaswegian ‘young team’.
Combining themes of brotherhood and unity with those of conformity and mob mentality, Wright is reflective upon the ease with which an individual can succumb to the peer pressure of a group. The work suggests a psychological tension between concrete, every day building materials juxtaposed with specific monochromatic repeated patterns.
Bringing together imagery from Glasgow gang culture and religious and cult symbolism, he represents 'a collective' as it works in unison to build a united identity, where the individual becomes lost - and anonymous - within the group. Therefore the collective may display actions unrepresentative of the way in which the individual would act. A language of abstraction is prominent throughout Wright’s work and is inextricably tied to an attempt to represent both psychological weight and of intimidation by others.
Beneath monochrome Glasgow skies Craig's work straddles an uncomfortable line between abstraction and a hard, physical, intimidatory presence as the presence of the young gang member, this work raises difficult issues and questions about the seductive potential for group action and togetherness coupled with loss of self, something we are all capable of experiencing.
We are delighted to be hosting this exhibition.
- New Glasgow Society
www.craigwrightart.co.uk
www.newglasgowsociety.org
