Artist Statement
Dominique Rey produces photographs, collage, sculpture and video informed by the history of a place, or by the influence of the human in collision with the monumental in the built world. Rey works with the effects of time and decay on the architecture of a landscape. The work is inspired by growth, war, death and the transience of life, along with notions of an afterlife or paradise that often accompany this. Using found imagery and photographs, etched glass or textile patterns from Islamic and British sources, Rey captures the transformation of environments as they move between the dystopian and utopian. Recent obsessive interests include WW2 defence structures, Persian gardens and garden pavilions and camouflage. Current literary influences include Paul Virilio, Iranian poets such as Farough Farokhzhad, Hafez and Saadi, Sir Thomas Browne, and Owen Hatherley's writing on modernist architecture.
CV & Education
Qualifications and training
2003 - M.A Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London
Solo exhibitions
2009 - Moth. Light. Garden., Dragon Hall, Norwich
1999 - In the Torrents Course, Trinity Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells
1999 - The Tear Catcher, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
1998 - Belling, Baby, Cable Street Gallery, London
1998 - Transparent, James Hockey Gallery, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham
1996 - Soured Sweets, Coffee Co, Brighton
Group exhibitions
2011 - Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, Societe Jersiaise, St Helier
2011 - Space Exchange, Aid & Abet, Cambridge
2010 - Art of Faith:Self, Spirit, Surrounding, School of World Art Studies, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
2010 - Defending the View, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
2009 - Channel, Millais Gallery Off-Site, Foyer, Southampton Solent University
2008 - An Invisible Sun Within Us, Warehouse, Norwich
2008 - Pulse, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich
2007 - Capturing Paradise, Braintree Museum & Town Hall Gallery, Essex
2004 - Crossing The Line, Salthouse Church, North Norfolk
2003 - Blickling Histories, site-specific work, Blickling Hall (National Trust), Norfolk
2001 - Dust, The Queen of Hungary, Norwich
2000 - Nothing (But) the Truth, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, Curator
2000 - Parlour, A Bedsit in Hove, collaborative show
1998 - Fiveways Open House and Brighton Train Station Concourse, Brighton
1998 - Great Histories, Small Lives, Media Centre, Brighton
1997 - Behind the Beach Hut, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
1997 - Point of Entry, Cable Street Gallery, London
1997 - Tales of Everyday Objects, Alternative Arts, London
1997 - Wait and See, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
1996 - Angels and Mechanics, Riverside Studios, London
1996 - Incidents II, St Agatha's Exhibition Centre, Portsmouth; Co-curator
1996 - Incidents, Fabrica, Brighton; invited co-curator
1996 - Racing, Le Chat Noir, London
1996 - Umjetnost Sloboda, Dom Mosa Pijade, Tuzla, Bosnia
Live/Performance
2010 - Performing Presence, National Centre for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
Artist talks
2012 - Touring Territories Project: East Anglian U.F.O Archive, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2012 - Touring Territories Project: East Anglian U.F.O Archive (Revised), The Queen of Hungary Project Space, Norfolk
2011 - Liverpool, An Inexpert View, Aid & Abet, Cambridge
Residencies
2012 - In Process, The Queen of Hungary Project Space, Aylsham, Norfolk
Public commissions
2006 - The Dragon Hall Project, outside Dragon Hall, King St. & River Wensum, Norwich
2005 - The Mercer's Grains of Paradise, King.St, Norwich
Projects
2011 - Project Space - Co-Founder, The Queen of Hungary Project Space, Aylsham, Norfolk
2009 - The Garden of Cyrus - performance event, on King.St, Norwich
2007 - Satellite - Artists' Collective, founder member, Cambridge, Eastern region
2005 - Air Field, Seething Airfield, Norfolk
Competitions, prizes and awards
2005 - Selected for the Mentoring Scheme, Commissions East, Cambridge