Gillian Wylde - Fri. November 30, 2006
(born Glasgow Scotland 1966) Dirty moments/foul ameliorations, the ‘got wrong’ and other things. Gillian Wylde is an artist working with video performance activities, installation and object. A mongrel little cur practice alluding to instances appropriated from the unpopular popular, the extraordinary everyday and high vs. low art. Comedy + trauma = traumedy as a rupture in aesthetics + little investigations/big ideas of the pathetic, poetics + shoddiness. Temporalities and timing vs the rubbishy/crappy within the composite live or mediated moment like maybe a rude smell or hairy logic. Recent work includes; 2007 “Wintry” group show, Lounge Gallery London. 2007 Rules and Regs -commission South Hill Park Bracknell-’practice-led development platform supporting 4 commissioned artists to create new work in response to rules that challenge habits and stimulate creativity’ 2006 Taoh Residency Stavanger City Norway- “is kylling bogg bogg” series of video works and installation which emerged out of a 3 week residency in Stavanger City Lounge Gallery London, Midlands Art Centre Birmingham. ‘the story of my object (turdus merula merula)’ Video installation- the work developed out of an uncanny encounter with a real living blackbird and considers the uneasy and unromantic attitudes towards a bucolic and ‘abjected’ sublime nature” Gillian Wylde is currently a Senior Lecturer in Art at Dartington College of Art. g.wylde@dartington.ac.uk.
Shannon Young is a multi-media artist that lives and works in Baltimore. She received and MFA in painting from American University and will be graduating from Imaging Media and Digital Arts program at UMBC. Shannon has exhibited at Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, The Warehouse in Washington DC and 1708 Gallery in Richmond VA. 
