Roderick Buchanan
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Roderick Buchanan (born 1965[1]) is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography.
After attending Thomas Muir High School,[1] 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, Jaqueline Donachie, Christine Borland and Martin Boyce.[2]
Work in Progress (1995) is a set of photographs of amateur Scottish footballers wearing the team shirts of Inter Milan and AC Milan.[3] His 2004 film about Indian and Scottish soldiers, History Painting, was commissioned by the British Council for the 11th Indian Triennale.[4]
In 2000 he won the inaugural Beck's Futures prize for his work Gobstopper,[5] 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.[6]
He has had solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2000) and the Camden Arts Centre (2005),[7] and his work is held in the collections of the Tate[8] and the National Galleries of Scotland.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir". Map Magazine. 2007. http://www.mapmagazine.co.uk/index.cfm?page=984F1E34-BDF5-2379-71075D0184E53D92&articleid=178. Retrieved on 2008-08-04.
- ^ Neil Mulholland, The Cultural Devolution: Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003, p144. ISBN 075460392X
- ^ a b nationalgalleries.org
- ^ britishcouncil.org
- ^ Peter Plagens, Britannia Rules The Wave, Newsweek, May 8, 2000
- ^ phf.org.uk
- ^ camdenartscentre.org
- ^ tate.org.uk
