Change, growth and progress are words that are often stated in political spheres, but do we really understand what these words mean? Such questioning is the predominant focus of Verdon’s practice through the challenging of man made technologies and constructs and their relationship to natural processes. Change and evolution are unavoidable elements of life, the question is how do we deal with
Change, growth and progress are words that are often stated in political spheres, but do we really understand what these words mean? Such questioning is the predominant focus of Verdon’s practice through the challenging of man made technologies and constructs and their relationship to natural processes. Change and evolution are unavoidable elements of life, the question is how do we deal with them. What happens before, during and after change? Is it even as simple as a before and after, or are more complex non-linear processes at play? The outcomes of the pratice feature various notions of material transformation and adaptive re- use as ways of thinking about ideas of growth, how the ‘new’ is produced and the relationship of this production to the existent. Structural and vernacular elements are adapted and transformed with notions of the present to speculate on the functioning of the systems we inhabit, how we shape them and how they shape us.
EDUCATION
MFA (Art Practice), Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
BA (Practice & Theory of Visual Art), Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
B.App.Sc. (Rural Management), University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
No Wave, Breezeblock, Sydney, Australia
Union of Voices, Horatio Jr, London, UK
Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
One Way Return, Peter von Kant, London, UK
MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
Technopolis, Departure Foundation, London, UK
Amerika, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
2013
Light Capture, Stryx Project Space, Birmingham, UK
Gardening, Garden Projects 2, London, UK
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Ghost Town, Saison Video, Lille, France
Screening, Parade Gallery, Margate, UK
2012
Les Rencontres Internationales, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
PVM-2130, Furnished Space, London, UK
Kill the Lollipop, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
Isolated Borders, The Old Police Station, London, UK
Oriel Davies Open, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, UK
The Object as Image, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
The Lewton Bus: Coming Soon & Conditions, Shortwave Cinema & Vitrine Gallery, London, UK (collaboration with Alasdair Duncan)
2011
Open, New Gallery, London, UK
I am not a poet, TotalKunst, Edinburgh, UK
Video Guerrilha, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Poster Project: 10 Artists: 10 Weeks, Peter Von Kant, London, UK
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA
Hors Pistes, Pompidou Center, Paris, France
2010
Duncan, Hermes, Strba, Verdon, Peter Von Kant, London, UK
CubeOPEN, Centre for the Urban & Built Environment, Manchester, UK
All that glitters is NOT institution, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Deptford X Award finalist, London, UK (Selected by Mark Titchner)
Johnny Funstopper's, The Old Police Station, London, UK
Pop-up, The Old Police Station, London, UK
Inside outsider language, Waterside Project Space, London, UK
Art / Value / Currency Part 2, Eastern District, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Images Contre Nature, Theatre des Chartreux, Marseille, France
Let there be light, Greenwich Art Cinema, London, UK
I take artistic interventions, Exchange project, Porto Alegre, Brazil
agency, The Agency Gallery, London, UK
Saison Video, Espace Croise, Lille, France
Madrid Abierto, La Casa Encendida & Spanish National Radio, Madrid, Spain
The Pursuit of Happiness, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2009
Art / Value / Currency, The Pigeon Wing, London, UK
The Pursuit of Happiness, This Is Not A Gateway Festival, Kobi Nazrul Centre, London, UK
Rotoreliefs, Vibe Gallery, London, UK
2008
WRAPPED and encased, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool, UK
Relaunch, The Russian Bar, London, UK
Departures, Charlton Art Centre, Dover, UK
D is for Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
Theory and Practice, Gallery Aferro, Newark, USA
2007
Visual Deflections, The Roxy Screen, London, UK
Punk, Ada Street Gallery, London, UK & Rote Flora / Galerie Lecocon, Hamburg, Germany
Situation Leeds, Round Foundry Media Centre, Leeds, UK
Un-do-up-do un-do-up-do, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK
2006
Montage, The Flea Pit, London, UK
Glossolalia, Gallery Aferro, Newark, USA
Sufficient Disclosure, Nolia’s Gallery, London, UK
Temporary Cities, Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania, & National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Projektor, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK
Break the Surface, St Pancras Church Crypt, London, UK
ReNew, 68 Hope Street Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2005
EyeforArt, Curator Space, London, UK
Creekside Open finalist, APT Gallery, London, UK (Selected by David Tremlett)
