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Robert Logan
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Degree: MA Fine Art
University: Central Saint Martins
Graduation Year: 2008
New Blood Art Statement
Logan is a gestural and visceral mark-maker who plays on our desire to connect fragments in his primitive, amorphous, futuristic pieces. Logan’s works occupy an intriguing hinterland, hovering, almost before your eyes, between drawing, painting and even photography in that they are highly detailed in condensed areas, out of focus in others, use techniques of cropping and in the melancholy manner in which they are coloured. Often using diverse cultural references Logan creates vast abstracts with plenty of interest and entanglements. The artist is like the unruly offspring of Ralph Steadman, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore and an imploding Rothko.
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Artist Statement
My works are part planned, and part improvised using techniques similar to frottage (a practice made famous by surrealist artists, used as a way to access the subconscious).The works are neither abstract nor figurative; they are realist images of abstract/unnameable things. What could be fragments of body parts, internal organs, genitals or bones, morph and shift into one another, and there is a strong sense of explosion/ implosion.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2009, Beast, Standpoint Gallery London
2009, WUK Projektraum, Vienna, Austria
2009, C4RD Moot: 4 days Long: A Crash Course in Phantasy, Empire Gallery, London
2009, Transimulation, The Elephant Rooms, London
2009, Exquisite Decay, Chateau d'Alba, Ardeche France
2009, The Minuco Art Show, Coningsby Gallery, London
2008, Lust and Luxuria, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2008, This Constant Cracking of the Surface, Bargehouse, OxoTower, London
Prizes
2008, Winner, Cecil Collins Memorial Award
2008, Shortlisted, DLA Piper
2007, Final Year Award, Central Saint Martins, London
Residencies
2010, Lanson’s Artist in Residence, London