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I’m Andrew Gallacher, I’m an artist working here at Tate Exchange – 5th floor Blavatnik building. I’m a conceptual artist and that’s why this work interests me so much, because, it is probably the first bit of conceptual art. by conceptual, I suppose I mean that the idea behind the work is the most important thing about it. Continue reading “Tate Modern 10 minute talk: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp”
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Here are two works of art.
Jean-Michel Basquait’s Untitled (1982)
and Andrew Gallacher’s Data for Data’s Sake #3 (2018)
The Basquait sold at auction for $110,000,000 (bought by Yusaku Maezawa who then took a selfie with the painting and posted it on instagram.) Continue reading “The Ten Million Dollar Difference: Basquiat V. Gallacher”
National Theatre at The Old Vic 1963-1976 is an exhibition planned in spring 2018 to display material from the NT Archive which links with The Old Vic’s Bicentenary in May 2018, highlighting an extraordinary and innovative period in British theatre history and in the practice of theatre making. Continue reading “Artwork Commission for National Theatre (rejected!)”
Muster Station is a rethinking and regrouping; an evolving group of artists that emerged as a direct consequence of the closure of their art school and the need to produce a new imagination for their agency. Continue reading “Muster Station: The School of Beginnings”
Pounding Down Your Door (2017) Installation – for Master’s Degree final show… Continue reading “Pounding Down your Door (Installation)”
reveal an intimate glimpse into the lives of the advertisers. This is advertising on the most human and least corporate scale possible.
To take these advertisements out of their original context and present them as gallery pieces is to recognise the cultural complexity of the individual and to place a value on each narrative.
In reacting both to the objects advertised, and to what is revealed about the advertiser, the viewer’s own gaze reveals reflections of absurdity and honesty, of passion and obsession. There is at once kitsch and treasure, pathos and courage.
Click on a photograph to bring up a gallery of the images.
An early art project from the HND photography course at West Kent College.