Roderick Buchanan

{{Short description|Scottish artist (born 1965)}}

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Roderick Buchanan (born 1965) is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography.

After attending Thomas Muir High School,{{cite web | title =Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir | publisher =Map Magazine | year =2007 | url =http://www.mapmagazine.co.uk/index.cfm?page=984F1E34-BDF5-2379-71075D0184E53D92&articleid=178 | accessdate =2008-08-04 | url-status =dead | archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20080306124117/http://www.mapmagazine.co.uk/index.cfm?page=984F1E34-BDF5-2379-71075D0184E53D92&articleid=178 | archivedate =6 March 2008 | df =dmy-all }} Buchanan studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s, where he was part of a group later described as "The Irascibles", which included fellow students Douglas Gordon, Ross Sinclair, Jacqueline Donachie, Christine Borland and Martin Boyce.Neil Mulholland, The Cultural Devolution: Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003, p144. {{ISBN|0-7546-0392-X}}

Work in Progress (1995) is a set of photographs of amateur Scottish footballers wearing the team shirts of Inter Milan and AC Milan.{{Cite web |last=Scotland |first=National Galleries of |title=National Galleries of Scotland − Collection |url=http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/result/0/68068?artistId=16723&artistName=Roderick%20Buchanan&initial=B&submit=1 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120219002901/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/result/0/68068?artistId=16723&artistName=Roderick%20Buchanan&initial=B&submit=1 |archive-date=2012-02-19 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=www.nationalgalleries.org |language=en}} His 2004 film about Indian and Scottish soldiers, History Painting, was commissioned by the British Council for the 11th Indian Triennale.[http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-art-international-biennales-xi-indian-triennale.htm britishcouncil.org]

In 2000, he won the inaugural Beck's Futures prize for his work Gobstopper,{{Cite web |last=Plagens |first=Peter |date=2000-05-07 |title=Britannia Rules The Wave |url=https://www.newsweek.com/britannia-rules-wave-160015 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=Newsweek |language=en}} a video of children trying to hold their breath while being driven through Glasgow's Clyde Tunnel. In 2004 he was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award.{{Cite web |title=Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Awards for Visual Arts 2006 |url=http://www.phf.org.uk/news.asp?id=133 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20140714155105/http://www.phf.org.uk/news.asp?id=133 |archive-date=2014-07-14 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=www.phf.org.uk |language=en}}

He has had solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2000) and the Camden Arts Centre (2005),{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions Tour: Anne-Marie Watson |url=https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/exhibitions-tour-anne-marie-watson?id=100121 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=Camden Art Centre |language=en}} and his work is held in the collections of the Tate{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Roderick Buchanan born 1965 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/roderick-buchanan-2738 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}} and the National Galleries of Scotland.

In 2011, Buchanan exhibited Legacy at the Imperial War Museum in London. The work, a video and photographic installation commissioned by the museum, depicted Scottish bands from the Irish republican and British Unionist communities performing in Northern Ireland.{{Cite web |url=http://www.artlyst.com/events/legacy-roderick-buchanan-imperial-war-museum-london |title=Legacy: Roderick Buchanan - Imperial War Museum London |year=2011 |work=artlyst.com |accessdate=8 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614072807/http://artlyst.com/events/legacy-roderick-buchanan-imperial-war-museum-london |archivedate=14 June 2012 |df=dmy-all }}

In 2017, Buchanan was commissioned by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art to spend time in Corby meeting second and third-generation Scottish immigrants who moved to England to find work in the steel industry, through long engaging with standing football supporters clubs.{{Cite web |title=OOF EVENTS - COLLECTIVE FAILURE |url=https://oofgallery.com/past-event/collective-failure |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=OOF GALLERY |language=en-US}}