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Roderick Buchanan

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Roderick Buchanan (born 1965[1]) is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography.

After attending Thomas Muir High School,[1] Buchanan studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s, where he was part of a group later described as "The Irascibles", which included fellow students Douglas Gordon, Ross Sinclair, Jacqueline Donachie, Christine Borland and Martin Boyce.[2]

Work in Progress (1995) is a set of photographs of amateur Scottish footballers wearing the team shirts of Inter Milan and AC Milan.[3] His 2004 film about Indian and Scottish soldiers, History Painting, was commissioned by the British Council for the 11th Indian Triennale.[4]

In 2000, he won the inaugural Beck's Futures prize for his work Gobstopper,[5] a video of children trying to hold their breath while being driven through Glasgow's Clyde Tunnel. In 2004 he was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award.[6]

He has had solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2000) and the Camden Arts Centre (2005),[7] and his work is held in the collections of the Tate[8] and the National Galleries of Scotland.[3]

In 2011, Buchanan exhibited Legacy at the Imperial War Museum in London. The work, a video and photographic installation commissioned by the museum, depicted Scottish bands from the Irish republican and British Unionist communities performing in Northern Ireland.[9]

In 2017, Buchanan was commissioned by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art to spend time in Corby meeting second and third-generation Scottish immigrants who moved to England to find work in the steel industry, through long engaging with standing football supporters clubs.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir". Map Magazine. 2007. Archived from the original on 6 March 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2008.
  2. ^ Neil Mulholland, The Cultural Devolution: Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003, p144. ISBN 0-7546-0392-X
  3. ^ a b Scotland, National Galleries of. "National Galleries of Scotland − Collection". www.nationalgalleries.org. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  4. ^ britishcouncil.org
  5. ^ Plagens, Peter (7 May 2000). "Britannia Rules The Wave". Newsweek. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  6. ^ "Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Awards for Visual Arts 2006". www.phf.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  7. ^ "Exhibitions Tour: Anne-Marie Watson". Camden Art Centre. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  8. ^ Tate. "Roderick Buchanan born 1965". Tate. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Legacy: Roderick Buchanan - Imperial War Museum London". artlyst.com. 2011. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  10. ^ "OOF EVENTS - COLLECTIVE FAILURE". OOF GALLERY. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
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