Drawing Room
Drawing Biennial 2015
Exhibition: 5 March – 30 April · Auction: 16 April 10am – 30 April 9pm
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Sam Austen
The Hot Glass Tourist’s Dream
Top Pick |
from actress Michelle Dockery |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Medium | Photocopy, unique print |
| Dimensions | 29.5 x 21 cm |
| Bidding Open | Thu 16 April, 2015 at 10:00am |
| Bidding Ended | Thu 30 April, 2015 at 9:00pm |
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Sam Austen:
Sam Austen (b. London, 1986) lives and works in London. Sam is currently a student of the Royal Academy Schools and gained a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design (2009). On graduating Austen was awarded an ACME Studio as a 6 month studio residency. Solo exhibitions include Such Animals, Paradise Row, London (2014) and Angry Film, The Sunday Painter, London (2010). Group exhibitions include: Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London (2015); Tomb, Shrine, Survey-marker,Spare part, Enclave, London (2014); Dreamland, Garis and Hahn, New York (2014); A Cool Drink To Cheek, Plaza Plaza, London (2014); V22 Collection show, V22, London (2013); The Instability of the Image, Paradise Row, London (2013); Young London, V22, London (2012); You Aren't Anything, You Are Everything, The Duchy, Glasgow (2012); Seconds, The Sunday Painter, London (2011); TVOD, Transition Gallery, London (2011); A Mouth To Suck Your Sap, The Sunday Painter; Bold Tendencies III, London (2009).
Sam Austen's The Hot Glass Tourist’s Dream began as a drawing of a hand on one side of the paper which is pulled through a photocopier to create a mirrored image, then drawn on and re-photocopied until you get repeated images. Using the outmoded photocopier the drawing is like film speed with slight nuances of change, affecting a hallucinogenic image. Austen’s work is mainly moving image and objects. His analogue films are made up of collaged images of constructed 2d and 3d objects, drawings, words and sounds. He is interested in the materiality of analogue film as opposed to digital, and drawing being part of the manual process in the moving image.
