Rory Duckhouse is an artist and writer based in Cardiff, Wales. Rory’s work looks at ideas of information and control, his mixed media practice works across image, text, video and installation to look at how our behaviour can be influenced by external factors. Recently his work has focused on the gallery space and the tension felt by the public upon crossing a threshold, his work acts as an institutional critique looking at the junction between viewer and cultural space. Trained as a photographer, his work is concerned with our relationship to photography and how the photograph is perceived as a document. Rory's work encourages a sense of participation where the viewer completes the artwork themselves, this collaboration between viewer and artist is integral to his practice. Using this as a platform, Rory's work explores the space between photography, news, history, information, power, control & technology amongst many other ideas..
Rory Duckhouse is an artist and writer based in Cardiff, Wales. Rory’s work looks at ideas of information and control, his mixed media practice works across image, text, video and installation to look at how our behaviour can be influenced by external factors. Recently his work has focused on the gallery space and the tension felt by the public upon crossing a threshold, his work acts as an institutional critique looking at the junction between viewer and cultural space. Trained as a photographer, his work is concerned with our relationship to photography and how the photograph is perceived as a document. Rory's work encourages a sense of participation where the viewer completes the artwork themselves, this collaboration between viewer and artist is integral to his practice. Using this as a platform, Rory's work explores the space between photography, news, history, information, power, control & technology amongst many other ideas..
Education
2010-2012. Swansea Metropolitan University- MA Photography: Contemporary Dialogues
2006-2010. Swansea Metropolitan University- BA (hons) Photography in the Arts (2:1 grade awarded)
Curatorial Projects
2016 Proposals for the public, public commission by Made in Roath, Cardiff, UK
Upcoming Exhibitions
2017 What makes this landscape beautiful? What makes these portraits so picture perfect?, Arcade Cardiff, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2016 Rewritten Narratives, Plymouth School of Creative Arts, Plymouth art weekender, UK
2016 The Great Unanswered Vol III, 3Space, Manchester. Commissioned by Scaffold Gallery
2016 Space/Place, Left Bank, Leeds, UK
2016 Axisweb Instagram Takeover
2016 Unit(e), G39, Cardiff, Wales
2015 Halftone, PhotoIreland, Dublin, Ireland
2015 Made in Roath, Cardiff, WalesScaffold Gallery
2013 Monochrome, Hotel Nos Da, Cardiff, Wales
2012 MA Final year Exhibition, Swansea, Wales
2010 Swansea BA Final year Exhibition, Truman Brewery, London, UK
Experience
October 2016 - Novenber 2016
Invigilator, Cardiff Contemporary
February 2012- Present
Freelance Writer
January 2014 – May 2015
Web Editor, European Prospects
June 2013 - November 2014
Exhibitions Assistant, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
April 2013- May 2013
Freelance, Diffusion Photography Festival, Cardiff
November 2013
Freelance Invigilator for Off-site programme, Ffotogallery, Cardiff
September 2012-February 2013
Marketing and Admin Assistant, Volcano Theatre Company, Swansea
July 2012- September 2012
Volunteer Co-ordinator and Project Intern, Emergence Summit, Swansea
January 2012- July 2012
Gallery Intern, Ffotogallery, Cardiff
November 2010- December 2011
Gallery and Education Volunteer, Ffotogallery, Cardiff
