Showcase: Alexander Millar

“A variety of different things will go into an installation I put together: video, sculpture photography and often found objects. I try to break down that sense of reassurance that everyday materials and objects give us in their habitual context and shed light on some of the anxieties and desires their dislocation can bring about. It’s with a sense of humour and pathos, however, that the work seems to be most interrogative, and ideas around the theatre of the absurd and tableaux vivants (living pictures) are a continuing preoccupation of mine. What often results is a quite musical arrangement of forms that uses a minimalist rule of extremes in its construction. I continually try to do this, however, with a nod to the very fallible longing for monumentality and beauty that is frequently tied to this artistic tendency. In this sense, I see the work I make as trying to re-present my artistic process, sometimes literally, from the ground up.”

 

Alexander Millar graduated from Painting and Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art in 2012

He lives and works in Glasgow and currently has a studio at Studio Warehouse

He is currently exhibiting with the Travelling Gallery in the group exhibition Turquiose Heid, touring Scotland until June 2013

He was selected for the Catlin Guide 2013 – a book of promising recent UK arts Graduates, curated by Justin Hammond.

www.alexhmillar.com