Sorcha Dallas

The artists who represent Scotland at this year’s 51st Venice Biennale, Alex Pollard, Cathy Wilkes, and Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan will return to Scotland and stage an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh from 7 December 2005 to 5 March 2006. Generous support from the Esme Fairbairn Foundation and The Foyle Foundation has allowed each artist to develop new commissions for this phase of the project.

In collaboration with the Scottish Nation Gallery of Modern Art, the exhibition will be curated by the same partnership, Jason E Bowman and Rachel Bradley, and will continue the theme of encouraging the public to explore the works of three practices dedicated to investigating the diverse roles of visual languages within contemporary art.

Curators Jason E Bowman and Rachel Bradley commented:

“We hope viewers will have an enriching experience in Edinburgh amidst he intricacy and challenge of this exhibition and take advantage of the inventive education program that accompanies this phase.”

In the exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, each artist will build upon the work he or she made for Venice and will re-visit recurrent motifs. Alex Pollard is creating a sculpture-based instillation which continues his distortive and self-reflexive methods of producing works such as beasts, creatures and machine-like hands that enscript their own form of control.