Richard Ducker covers every-day objects in concrete.
Narratives are set up through the introduction of found materials
within the work, and the way the work is presented. As personal
associations are projected onto these standardised, mass-
produced objects, they became alive, as sites of symbolic
exchange. Out of this representation of obsolescence and
nostalgia, he uses the language of the monumental to create
artworks where memory and the present collide. The works
coalesces around certain themes of loss and a domestic disquiet.
There is often a sense of displacement, narratives are either
imagined or remembered, and the body remains an absent
presence.
Lives and works in London
Education:
Reading University B.A. Fine Art
Goldsmiths College, University of London M.A. Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions:
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, London, 'Beauty and the Beast'
2006 sevenseven contemporary art, London, 'No-ship'
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, London, 'Kamikaze Blossom'
2006 sevenseven contemporary art, London, ‘MCTwo’
2005 Flowers Central, London, ‘Small is Beautiful’
2005 The Crypt @ St. Pancras, London, ‘Memoire Collective’
2005 Cell Project Space, London, ‘Hard Labour’
2004 21 New Fetter Lane, London, ‘Sonya’s Office’
2002 The Yard Gallery, Nottingham, ‘Growth & Form’
2002 London Art Fair, London, Mark Jason Gallery
2001 The Kitchen, New York, ‘Art for Plot’
2001 TWO10 Gallery, London, Wellcome Trust
2000 Royal Academy, Edinburgh, SSA Annual Open 2000
2000 Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, ‘New Art 2000’
1998 Cable Street Gallery, London, ‘Store’
1997 Commercial Too, London, ‘WheNever’
1996 Commercial Too, London, ‘Nicepace’
1994 Shad Thames, London, ‘Inflation Saints’
1994 IAS, London, ‘Mix Fiz Spin’
1993 ICA, London, ‘Art for Equality’
1993 Clove Gallery, London, ‘Contingent’
1992 Kettles Yard, Cambridge, ‘Face Values’
1992 Serpentine Gallery, London, Barclays Young Artist Award
Artwork in private collections in Britain, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.,
Australia and Singapore
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