BG3: Graeme Durant

27 March – 25 April
Launch event: Friday 27 March, 6 – 8pm

Free & open to all

Produced with Bloc Projects for its third iteration, Blind Gallery presents new work by Graeme Durant.

Durant works in a wide range of media, often creating installations comprised of sculptural forms, collages, paintings, drawings and found everyday objects. The diverse elements arranged within his works draw reference from literature, art history, architecture and pop culture, brought together to invite altered perspectives on the times, ideas, and experiences they evoke.

For this exhibition, Durant’s work is responsive to the gallery’s current state of being paused at a point of change, where parts of the building differ in appearance, lighting, material and structure.

Graeme Durant (b. 1987, North Shields) is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, where he is co-founder of art collective JAMBON. His recent exhibitions include When in Roam, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2014; Jambon January Sale, Newbridge Projects, Newcastle, 2014; Jesmonite on Paper A3 Project Space, Birmingham, 2013 and The Gate of The Kiss, Baltic 39, Newcastle, 2013. Durant Graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Northumbria University, UK in 2009.

Blind Gallery is a peripatetic, collaborative curatorial project by James Harper and Jo Marsh. Through a series of experimental, temporary exhibitions in gallery spaces based across the UK, Blind Gallery invites artists to develop work on or around a changing installation of domestic blinds.

Harper & Marsh have worked together since 2013. The first two Blind Gallery exhibitions were shown at Undegun, Wrexham, 2014, and featured new work by Mike Jones and Harper&Marsh respectively. Their other projects include I Know You; You Can Come With Me, and …and other cautionary tales, which was shown as part of BamBamBam at The Royal Standard, Liverpool, earlier this year. James Harper studied curating at Chelsea College of Arts and Jo Marsh studied Fine Art at the University of Chester.