Graham Fagen
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Graham Fagen (born 1966) is a Scottish artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. He has exhibited internationally at the [http://www.busanbiennale.org/main/index.php Busan Biennale] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910111227/http://www.busanbiennale.org/main/index.php |date=10 September 2013 }}, South Korea (2004), the Art and Industry Biennial, New Zealand (2004), the Venice Biennale (2003){{cite web|last=Graham|first=Fagen|title=Graham Fagen Bio|url=http://www.grahamfagen.com/bio|accessdate=12 March 2014}} and represented Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 {{cite web|last=Creative Scotland|title=Graham Fagen has been selected to represent Scotland at the 56th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale|url=http://www.creativescotland.com/news/scotland-venice-2015-graham-fagen-selected-to-represent-scotland-in-a-solo-presentation-curated|publisher=Creative Scotland|accessdate=26 March 2014}} in a presentation curated and organised by [http://hospitalfield.org.uk Hospitalfield].{{cite web|title=Art review: Graham Fagen, Palazzo Fontana, Venice|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/arts/visual-arts/art-review-graham-fagen-palazzo-fontana-venice-1-3769658|website=The Scotsman|accessdate=24 May 2015}} In Britain he has exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Britain and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. In 1999 he was invited by the Imperial War Museum, London to work as the Official War Artist for Kosovo.{{cite web|last=a-n|title=The art of conflict (part 1) by Paul Glinkowski|url=http://www.air-artists.org/artists/publications/article/177749/271004|accessdate=12 March 2014}}
His art practice encompasses video, performance, sculpture, sound and text. His work reflects on how contemporary identity and its associated myths and fictions, can be expressed and understood. and his portraits of real, imagined, historical and contemporary characters explore the idea of identity and performance in portraiture.{{cite web|last=Scottish Arts Council|title=Graham Fagen, somebodyelse|url=http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/visualarts/projects/grahamfagen.aspx|accessdate=12 March 2014}} Plants and flowers are recurrent motifs in his art, as he explores their ability to suggest various meanings: social, emotional, personal and national.{{cite web|last=Edinburgh Printmakers|title=Edinburgh Printmakers|url=http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/artist/graham-fagen|accessdate=12 March 2014}}
Fagen is a professor at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland. He has previously taught at Glasgow School of Art, Perpignan School of Art, Perpignan, France, St. Martins School of Art, London, and Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury.
Introduction
Fagen's international exhibitions include the Venice Biennale (solo in 2015 and group presentation in 2003 both with [http://scotlandandvenice.com/ Scotland + Venice]), Busan Biennale, South Korea and the Art and Industry Biennial, New Zealand. In Britain he has exhibited in Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Other Flower Show at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Britain and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London and in 1999 was invited by the Imperial War Museum, London to work as the Official War Artist for Kosovo.{{cite web|title=Duncan Jordanstone College Staff: Graham Fagen|url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/staff/grahamfagen/|publisher=Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design: University of Dundee|accessdate=20 September 2013}}{{cite web|last=The Multiple Store|title=The Multiple Store recent editions|url=http://www.themultiplestore.org/recent-editions/|accessdate=12 March 2014}}
Main project collaborators include Hospitalfield, Arbroath; La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; Tramway, Glasgow; National Theatre of Scotland, Glasgow; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; The Changing Room Gallery, Stirling; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art; Dundee Contemporary Arts; and Artpace, San Antonio.{{cite web|title=Duncan Jordanstone College Staff Research Projects: Graham Fagen|url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/research/researchprojectscentresandgroups/grahamfagen/|publisher=Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design: University of Dundee|accessdate=20 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201155023/http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/research/researchprojectscentresandgroups/grahamfagen/|archive-date=1 February 2014|url-status=dead}}
Exhibitions and projects
In 2015 he represented Scotland at the [http://www.labiennale.org/en/calendar/art.html?back=true 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia] with a solo exhibition for [http://scotlandandvenice.com/ Scotland + Venice] an official collateral event curated and organised by [http://hospitalfield.org.uk/ Hospitalfield]. This exhibition included new bronze, ceramic, steel and neon sculptures, Indian ink drawings and a 5 channel audio-video work within a series of rooms and a courtyard of Palazzo Fontana, which had previously never been used for an exhibition and is located on the Grand Canal in the Cannaregio district of Venice.{{cite web|last1=Jeffrey|first1=Moira|title=Art review: Graham Fagen, Palazzo Fontana, Venice|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/arts/visual-arts/art-review-graham-fagen-palazzo-fontana-venice-1-3769658|website=The Scotsman}}{{cite web|last1=Wright|first1=Karen|title=Graham Fagen, artist: 'In this space it's all about the making, in the other it's about the thinking|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/graham-fagen-artist-in-this-space-its-all-about-the-making-in-the-other-its-about-the-thinking-10151820.html|website=The Independent}}{{cite news|last1=Gompertz|first1=Will|title=Trying to shine at Venice|work=BBC News |date=7 May 2015 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32624437}}
During GENERATION - 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, a programme of exhibitions across Scotland in 2014, Graham Fagen exhibited within several venues. He presented a solo exhibition of new works at The Glasgow School of Art entitled [http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/c/cabbages-in-an-orchard-the-formers-and-forms-of-charles-rennie-mackintosh-and-graham-fagen/ Cabbages in an Orchard; The formers and forms of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Graham Fagen].
In April 2012 Fagen presented a collaboration with theatre director Graham Eatough and photography director Michael McDonough entitled The Making Of Us, which combined elements of performance, art installation and film, part reality TV and part scripted metafiction. It was conceived with Tramway and National Theatre of Scotland.{{cite web|last=The Skinny|title=The Making of Us @ Tramway|url=http://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/glasgow_international_festival_visual_art_2012/301867-the_making_us_tramway|accessdate=12 March 2014}}{{cite news|last=Cummings|first=Laura|title=Glasgow international festival of visual art – review|newspaper=The Observer |date=21 April 2012 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/22/glasgow-international-festival-art-review|publisher=Guardian Online|accessdate=12 March 2014}}{{cite web|last=Dalamangas|first=Rachel Cole|title=INTERVIEW: Graham Fagen|url=http://zingmagazine.com/drupal/node/35786|publisher=Zing magazine|accessdate=26 March 2014}}
Other recent solo exhibitions include Missing, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland,{{cite web|last=Patience|first=Jan|title=Graham Fagen: Missing, Tramway, Glasgow|date=19 September 2011 |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/graham-fagen-missing-tramway-glasgow.15103925|publisher=Herald Scotland|accessdate=12 March 2014}}{{cite web|last=Kotzé|first=Talitha|title=Graham Fagen: Missing|url=http://www.list.co.uk/article/37646-graham-fagen-missing/|publisher=The List|accessdate=12 March 2014}} Edinburgh, Under Heavy Manners, Artpace, San Antonio, where he also formed a band with his fellow artist in residence Frank Benson and Artspace preparator Chad Dawkins {{cite web|last=Andrews|first=Scott|title=Artpace International Artists in Residence, third round, offers effective cross-talk|url=http://m.sacurrent.com/arts/visualart/artpace-international-artists-in-residence-third-round-offers-effective-cross-talk-1.1235591|publisher=San Antonio Current|accessdate=26 March 2014}}{{cite web|last=Bennett|first=Steve|title=An exhibit about structure|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/visual_arts/article/An-exhibit-about-structure-2284807.php|publisher=San Antonio Express News|accessdate=12 March 2014}}
His publications include:
- Subversive On The Side Of A Lunatic, The Henry Moore Foundation, 1999.
- Botanica, designed by Chris Evans, Grisedale Arts, 2002
- Love Is Lovely, Fruitmarket Gallery, 2002
- Clean Hands Pure Heart, Tramway, 2005
- Cabbages in an Orchard, Glasgow School of Art, 2014
- Graham Fagen, Scotland + Venice and Hospitalfield, 2015
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