This catalogue accompanies an exhibition curated for Drawing Room by David Musgrave, one of the leading figures within an emerging generation of British artists. It presents new work by Musgrave and that of his contemporaries - William Daniels (UK), Hannah Greely (US), Rupert Norfolk (UK) and Clare Stephenson (UK) - in juxtaposition with a 19th Century lithograph by Georg Scharf and a drawing of c.1940 by Yves Tanguy.
'Waste Material' is about time, matter and the imaginary. Hannah Greely's 'Assembly', a papier-mache stepladder which is home to numerous handmade insects, implies a future world from which human beings have been erased. At the opposite end of the time-line is Georg Scharf's 'Duria antiquior' (A more ancient Dorset), a print made after a drawing by the geologist Henry De la Beche based on fossil evidence of prehistoric life, which offers a complementary impossible perspective.
24 pages with 11 full colour illustrations and a 3,000 word essay by David Musgrave.
Designed by Marit Münzberg.
David Musgrave (b.1973, Stockton-on-Tees) lives and works in London. Studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design, where he now teaches. Musgrave was a finalist for the Prix Canson in 2015. His digital animation Studio golem was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom (2013). He is the author of two novels: Unit, published by LemonMelon (2015); and Total Abstraction, shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize (2018). Select institutional exhibitions include Good Grief, Charlie Brown!, Somerset House, London (2018-19); The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2017); Space Force Construction, V-A-C Foundation, Venice (2017); Being Thing, CIAP, île de Vassivière, Beaumont du-Lac (2015); The Noing Uv It, Kunsthalle Bergen, Bergen (2015); Être Chose, CIAP Île de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac (2015); and The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, and touring (2013). Select solo exhibitions include greengrassi, London (2018, 2016); Luhring Augustine, New York (2014); and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (2015). His work is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and Tate, London.
Rupert Norfolk (b.1974, Abergavenny, UK) lives and works in London. Graduated with BA (Hons) Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design (1996). Norfolk was Maker-in-Residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2013) and co-curated Physical Information, a programme of five exhibitions at Bloomberg SPACE London (2017). Select exhibitions include The Duchamp Effect, Readymade, Kunsthalle Göppingen (2017); Museum of Stones, Noguchi Museum, Long Island City (2015); The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2014); Novecento mai visto, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (2013); Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2011); Big Minis, CAPC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (2010); and Newspeak: British Art Now – Part 1, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010).
Clare Stephenson (born 1972, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) studied Fine Art Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee. Solo exhibitions include: Martini Bikinis, Glasgow Project Room (2013), She-who-is-the-Maker-of-Objects at Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf (2011) and She-who-Presents at Spike Island, Bristol (2009). Group shows and collaborative projects include: Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland (with Sophie Macpherson), Tramway, Glasgow (2014); Costume: Written Clothing, Tramway, Glasgow (2013); Shoplifters, Shopgirls (with Sophie Macpherson), LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, ICA, London (2012); Madame Realism, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (2011); Compass – Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2011); Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010). She was awarded the Creative Scotland New York Residency in 2010 and has since undertaken residencies at Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia (2012); a City of Cologne Residency at Neues Kunstforum, Cologne (2012) and at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath (2013). She lives and works in Glasgow and is represented by Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf.
