Sorcha Dallas

Venice Biennale Artists 2005

Cathy Wilkes The exhibition Third eye, Glasgow, 1989, Transmission, Glasgow with Elizabeth Go, 1999; final exhibition at Switchspace, Glasgow, 2004. The materials Wood, paper, glass, fabric, candles, plastic, canvas, found objects. The ideas ‘I’am convinced that the installation speaks differently to me as a woman than it does to a male viewer,’ said Micky Schubert of a Cathy Wilkes installation in Hamburgh. Her work is frequently multi-centred and disconcertingly intimate providing diffuse, occasionally obscure responses to the singular thrusting form of the hero-sculptor. The background Born in Belfast in 1966, settled in Glasgow in 1985, studied at GSA.

Alex Pollard The exhibitions Artist in residence at Glasgow School of Art, 2002; Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, 2003; Transmission, Glasgow, 2004 The materials Wood, paintbrushes, oils. The ideas In Pollards work the artistic process, the materials and the instruments frequently take over the art itself. The artist and indeed the viewer are at their mercy. A paint brush collage forms grasping hands. A gargoyle reveals itself in a sculpture made from detritus on the studio floor. The result is humour tinged with paranoia. The background Born in Brighton in 1977, came to Glasgow in 1996 to study at GSA.

Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan The exhibition Tramway, Glasgow, 2001; Zenomap, Venice Biennale, 2003; Frieze Art Fair, London, 2004. The materials Jewellery, neon lights, rubble, cardboard, performance The ideas Tatham and O’Sullivan’s work is mercurial. Concerned more with the occasion of exhibiting art as a dramatic moment and a cultural event rather than the act of creativity, it is highly individual. The continual play on the same brutal imagery gives their love of rumour and myth a solid base and brings back an intrigued audience. The background Tatham was born in 1971 in west Yorkshire and O’Sullivan in 1967 in Norfolk. They both studied at GSA.