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ROB CHURM - Ethanol Buzzgrid
Installation View, Ethanol Buzzgrid, Rob Churm (c) Courtesy of Sorcha Dallas. Photo: Ruth Clark
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
15 July 2009, 6.30-7.30pm
Rob Churm’s monochromatic drawings are composed with equal parts energy and discipline: densely worked cross-hatching and detailed expressionistic forms are anchored by blank space and crisp graphics. The scenes detailed by his pen are various and often surreal: a giant rose crying in the rain, a Japanese symbol being interrogated under a bare bulb, the words ‘lightning bolt’ buoyed up by a knitted Op Art cloud. Most of all, Churm’s work reverberates with the night atmospheres of the Glasgow bars and clubs where he plays a three stringed guitar and sings in an inimitable style for the band Park Attack. Churm includes intricately drawn posters for dates played by various local bands as part of his oeuvre.
Churm was born In Epping Forest in 1979 and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2001. Selected exhibitions include a solo at Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, and group shows at Broadway 1602, NY (If Not Now), Whitechapel Project Space, London (with SeriPop), The Changing Room, Stirling (DIY:Design it Yourself), Alt Gallery, Newcastle / Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (Harry Smith Anthology Remixed), Collins Gallery, Glasgow (run run), and Glasgow Print Studio (To Bring Forth and Give). Discography, Park Attack: Half Past Human’, (2006), released on Textile Records and Ba-Da-Bing! ‘Last Drop at Hideout’, (2004)