Artist statement
Concepts
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 a transience of life along with the 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 progress 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.
Areas of work:
Curating
Exhibiting
Public commissions
Residencies
Workshops
Art Psychotherapy
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 Transparent, James Hockey Gallery, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham
- 1998 Belling, Baby, Cable Street Gallery, London
- 1996 Soured Sweets, Coffee Co, Brighton
Group exhibitions
- 2011 Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, Societe Jersiaise, St Helier (more info)
- 2011 Space Exchange, Aid & Abet, Cambridge (more info)
- 2010 Art of Faith:Self, Spirit, Surrounding, School of World Art Studies, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (more info)
- 2010 Defending the View, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
- 2009 Channel, Millais Gallery Off-Site, Foyer, Southampton Solent University
- 2008 Pulse, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich
- 2008 An Invisible Sun Within Us, Warehouse, Norwich
- 2007 Capturing Paradise, Braintree Museum & Town Hall Gallery, Essex
- 2004 Crossing The Line, Salthouse Church, North Norfolk (more info)
- 2003 Blickling Histories, site-specific work, Blickling Hall (National Trust), Norfolk
- 2001 Dust, The Queen of Hungary, Norwich (more info)
- 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 Point of Entry, Cable Street Gallery, London
- 1997 Behind the Beach Hut, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
- 1997 Wait and See, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
- 1997 Tales of Everyday Objects, Alternative Arts, London
- 1996 Incidents II, St Agatha's Exhibition Centre, Portsmouth; Co-curator
- 1996 Umjetnost Sloboda, Dom Mosa Pijade, Tuzla, Bosnia
- 1996 Incidents, Fabrica, Brighton; invited co-curator
- 1996 Racing, Le Chat Noir, London
- 1996 Angels and Mechanics, Riverside Studios, London
Live/Performance
- 2010 Performing Presence, National Centre for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
Artist talks
- 2012 Touring Territories Project: East Anglian U.F.O Archive (Revised), The Queen of Hungary Project Space, Norfolk
- 2012 Touring Territories Project: East Anglian U.F.O Archive, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
- 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 (more info)
- 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 (more info)
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2005 Selected for the Mentoring Scheme, Commissions East, Cambridge
Web links - gallery/work/projects
Personal website
