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Katy Dove and Victoria Morton
Sun by Ear by Katy Dove and Victoria Morton (c) Courtesy of the Artists
Tramway, Glasgow
21 March 2007, 6.30pm
Sun By Ear is an exhibition of new drawing, painting, print, animation and sound in Tramway’s main gallery space by two of Scotland’s most intriguing contemporary artists, Katy Dove and Victoria Morton, showing together for the first time.
In a stunning installation design by Glasgow-based architects Collective Architecture, Sun By Ear sees the 1030msq gallery transformed to encourage an experience of Katy Dove and Victoria Morton’s artworks as both connected and discrete, retaining the autonomy of each art work, whilst highlighting the artists’ overlapping concerns.
Katy Dove describes experience using animation, sound, drawing and painting. The starting point could be a piece of improvised music made with friends, a walk, or an open-ended drawing. Experiential reference points allow the viewer access to the work through their own experience, in the moment with no prior knowledge necessary.
Victoria Morton’s recent paintings have faces and animated parts, street corners, rooms and activity. They follow impulses of the body and the structures of internal and external spaces. She considers painting a way of registering daily experience in bouts of intense concentration.
Katy Dove (1970) studied Psychology at University of Glasgow and Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. In 2006, she had solo shows at Hales Gallery London and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. In 2003 she was one of the artists selected to represent Scotland in Zenomap at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
Victoria Morton (1971) is based in Glasgow and Fossombrone, Italy and is represented in the UK by The Modern Institute, Glasgow and Sadie Coles HQ, London. She studied painting at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated from the School’s Master of Fine Art (MFA) course in 1995. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2004), and Edge of the Real, (group show), Whitechapel, London ( 2004).