Archive 2009-10
Alan Currall
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT
Alan Currall teaches, part time, at Glasgow School of Art’s Sculpture and Environmental Art and MFA courses. He is also an academic researcher at the School, where he co-edits the online journal, www.artandresearch.org.uk.
Alan’s art practice is, in its broadest terms, an investigation into human nature. It deals with questions of belief and identity, and the limitations of our capacity to understand these concepts. In recent years he has worked almost exclusively in the medium of video, often performing simple actions or monologues to camera. The resulting work can be humorous. Sometimes this is intentional.
His work has been shown widely across the UK and abroad including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Tramway, Glasgow, Kiasma, Helsinki, Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and Secession, Vienna.
In 1998 he was awarded, Scotland’s chief lens based media prize, The Richard Hough Bursary and in 2001 was Scottish Arts Council’s Artist in Residence at Canberra School of Art. In 2003 he received a Scottish Arts Council Artist’s Award and was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Prize.
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