Programme
Richard Saxton
- Venue: Zoom
- Start: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:00:00 GMT
- End: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:30:00 GMT
Richard Saxton is an artist and the founder of M12 STUDIO, an interdisciplinary collective that creates and supports new modes of art making in often rural and remote areas. His work focuses primarily on rural knowledge and landscape. It has been described as contemporary vernacular and non-heroic. The M12 Studio focuses on experiential practices that explore community identity and the value of often under-represented rural communities and their surrounding landscapes.
Saxton is the co-editor of A Decade of Country Hits: Art on the Rural Frontier (Jap Sam Books 2014) and as a creative practitioner has worked both regionally and internationally. Projects have appeared in THE magazine, Santa Fe, NM 5280, Denver, CO The Rural: Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London, (2019, MIT Press), Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West (2014, The New Press, Lucy R. Lippard) and What is a Western? (2019, Oklahoma University Press, Josh Garrett-Davis) along with others.
Recent exhibitions and commissioned works have appeared at the 21st International Art Biennial of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, The 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale; The Kalmar Konstmuseum; The Santa Fe Art Institute; The Des Moines Public Art Foundation; Franklin Street Works; Wormfarm Institute; The 2011 Australian Biennial (SPACED); The 2010 Biennial of the Americas; The Center for Land Use Interpretation; The Kohler Arts Center; The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; Wall House #2 in the Netherlands, and The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.