Alastair T. Willey

Spacial adventures in architecture and history with conceptual methods of presentation....

Through either a personal history or archival history, a reflection / projection / uncanny is created.

Works such as �The Merchandise Mart� series developed for the NEXT art fair 2009. Play with ideas of existence of a space, using the method of production ( An etching of The Merchandise Mart made from a reference image prior to the Fair. ) to look at the role of the artists as the element that eventually confirms the existence of the building through attending the fair and drawing first hand details of the building in red Biro over the etches as an act of confirming its existence.

The series was then presented in a temporary state allowing the works to be changed throughout the duration of the fair, allowing the viewer to witness the artists continued exploration.
May 2009

Upcoming.

Open open, Swiss Cottage Gallery, 24th July
CGP - Open Exhibition, 4 - 25th July
Art/ Value/ Currency - Part Two,Eastern District, New York, 31st July 2010
Tolson Museum Residency, Currently being proposed.

Selected Group Shows;

ORD[i]NANCE, Presented by the Urban Environment Office, June 2010
The Lawrence Weiner Collective, No I in Art. May 2010
2009 Retrospective, agency @ The Agency Gallery. April 2010
The Market Estate Project, London. March 2010.
Art/ Value/ Currency, The Pigeon Wing, London. Nov 2009
NEXT art fair, TheBunkerGallery, Chicago Il. May 2009
Bigger Than The Box You Arrived In, TheBunkerGallery, Chicago Il. 2009
Reasoning, The Pigeon Wing. London. Jan 2009
East Wing VIII, The Courtauld Institute of Art. London. 2007-2009
Degree Show 2008, Central Saint Martins. June 2008
End of Residency Show, Trinity Buoy Wharf London. July 2007

Publications

Study of a whorehouse. 0286. Replica Magazine - Issue 11
Study of a whorehouse. 0275. An Endless Supply - Issue 5

Press

Comment Art Review