Rob Churm
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Installation view, Rob Churm: Ethanol Buzzgrid, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2009
Born: 1979, Epping Forest
Based: Glasgow
Represented by: Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Churm was born In Epping Forest in 1979 and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2001. Selected exhibitions include a solo at Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, and group shows at Broadway 1602, NY (If Not Now), Whitechapel Project Space, London (with SeriPop), The Changing Room, Stirling (DIY:Design it Yourself), Alt Gallery, Newcastle / Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (Harry Smith Anthology Remixed), Collins Gallery, Glasgow (run run), and Glasgow Print Studio (To Bring Forth and Give). The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow presented a solo show of his work in July 2009. Churm lives and works in Glasgow.
Discography: Gummy Stumps 7” E.P. (2009), recorded and mastered by Norman Blake, produced by Narrative; Park Attack: Half Past Human’, (2006), released on Textile Records and Ba-Da-Bing! ‘Last Drop at Hideout’ (2004).
Rob Churm’s monochromatic drawings are composed with equal parts energy and discipline: densely worked cross-hatching and detailed expressionistic forms are anchored by blank space and crisp graphics. The scenes detailed by his pen are various and often surreal: a giant rose crying in the rain, a Japanese symbol being interrogated under a bare bulb, the words ‘lightning bolt’ buoyed up by a knitted Op Art cloud. Most of all, Churm’s work reverberates with the night atmospheres of the Glasgow bars and clubs where he plays a three stringed guitar and sings in an inimitable style for ‘No Wave’ band Park Attack. As the recent past fades, Churm’s posters for dates played by various local bands become recast as artefacts; once useful information concerning names, dates and venues morphs into nostalgic detail. These very specific works join his more abstract drawings, like Untitled (Through the Night) (2005) in generating a sense both of his virtuoso graphic skill, and the scene which his work shapes and is shaped by.
