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Wheelbarrow Piano

Will Cruickshank: February 23rd - March 16th 2008

Will Cruickshank: Wheelbarrow Piano
February 23rd - March 16th 2008
Preview Friday 22nd February at 6 pm

Pallas Contemporary Projects is pleased to announce the first 2008 exhibition
in the gallery program. Wheelbarrow Piano is the first exhibition of work
by UK artist Will Cruickshank in Ireland. Cruickshank's practice involves
finding ways of passing time, which moves between a kind of play or hobby
and a more serious endeavour. The resulting objects and actions are personal
adventures or investigations, often rooted in physical laws of nature, but
combined with more romantic ideas concerning how art is made and time is
spent. Cruickshank tries to respond to specific environments and contexts
intuitively, with an elemental directness, economy of means and a generous,
deadpan absurdity. This economy has leads to decisions and direction being
guided by what appears under the nose of the artist - 'a series of pieces
are developing with the use of my van, my turntable, a favourite record,
and a xylophone…'



Will received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture) from Manchester Metropolitan
University, 1997. Group exhibitions include: K3 Project Space, Zurich;
Jessica Murray Projects, New York; SOAP Gallery, Japan. He attended
Braziers International Artists' Workshop in 2006 and since has moved his
studio to a working farm in Essex. Most recently the artist spent three
months on a residency in Yunnan Province, rural China, working in a small
town near the Tibetan border.




Bunting and Burners 2007


Flying bike 2007


Rainbow 2006

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