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.
