Gone Tomorrow Gallery is proud to present The Mighty Quinn — new sculpture by Stewart Gough opening Saturday 7th July 2007.
Poised within the white-out of the Gone Tomorrow Gallery is Stewart Gough’s sculptural musing on Bob Dylan’s ambiguous Quinn the Eskimo; most popularly known as Manfred Man’s #1 from 1968. A song charged with optimistic anticipation for the coming of a great Inuit figure; the embodiment of redemptive truth and indiscriminate, secular good.
Stewart Gough makes sculpture from readily available plastic objects and components with a constructivist spirit; fixing dinner plates and food containers amongst drainpipes and machine parts.
Through deliberate use of size, scale, form, and graphical colour his works command presence, slipping between grounding utility and a fantastic flight through playful sculptural reference and architectural ideology.
For Gone Tomorrow Gallery, Gough has made a significant new work taking the natural six sided phenomenon of a snowflake as its formal essence. This fractal-like construction incorporates transparent materials to evoke a mobile, modular ice dwelling and elaborate driving mechanism held atop a ski and tracked snow-vehicle. In this instance, by means of ephemeral notions —and within the defining logic of the work— an intangible realm opens, of concept, or “will”.
Also on display are a series of ‘snow plates’, clear picnic plates drilled using holesaws into delicate snowflake patterns, floating on the gallery walls give context to The Mighty Quinn within a stylised blizzard. Not yet here — but speeding towards.
-ENDS-
- The Mighty Quinn will be Stewart Gough’s first solo exhibition.
- stewart gough lives and works in london, he graduated from Goldsmiths college MA Fine Art in 2005. he has featured in recent group exhibitions at Cell Project Space, The Fieldgate gallery, St Pauls Art Space, Bear Space, MAMA showroom (NL), George Polke Invites and with Trailer.
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