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Katie Orton is an artist interested in the concept of the microcosm. What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control? What is it that makes us who we are? That is the question at the heart of Orton's work. She seems to have a fascination with the props of identity; a ring on a finger,...
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Craig Coulthard's work looks and feels like the noticeboard of your local 'local history society' - imbued with facts, connections between obscure persons and events and highly empirical topographical detail. Although imbued with the corrective revisionism of people's history, such local histories tend to create an 'objective' manageable past...
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Between Fact and Fiction: the power of mythology From Sea to Shining Sea is an imaginary landscape pictured delicately on a huge semi-transparent curtain swathed with polka-dots. The curtain was specially made for the Round Room at the Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh) and, drawn directly onto the curtain, the images suggest another time,...
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