STRUAN TEAGUE

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Lives and works in London & Düsseldorf

b. 1991 in Edinburgh, Scotland

BA Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

Exhibitions

Solo and two person 2017 – Say something, Galería Kernal, Cáceres, Spain

2016 – One of the ones about nothing, with Bobby Sinclair, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2015 – Test Prints, Limited Works, Copenhagen, Denmark

2015 – an attack, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland Group

2017 – Grants 16/17, with Steven Cox, Jonas Maas, Lotte Reimann & Philipp Röcker, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany

2017 – Attitudes in Painting, curated by Steven Cox & Struan Teague with Samuel Francois, Ina Gerken, Gijs van Lith & Colin Penno, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany

2017 – So Natural!, curated by Like a Little Disaster with Gioia Di Girolamo, Andreas Ervik, Adham Faramawy, Maria Gondek, Julie Grosche, Hannah Regel & David Stjernholm, Foothold, Polingano a Mare, Italy

2017 – Iconic, Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Itlay

2017 – Fiction (With only daylight between us) v2, Curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones, Divisible, Ohio, US

2016 – 35 Works on Paper, with Dale Adcock, Andrew Birk, Kim Dorlan, Austin Eddy, Danny Fox, Gary Hume, Tal R, Josh Reames, Kristian Touborg, …, Beers London, UK

2016 – Preparations For A Journey, with Elvire Bonduelle, Matthew Feyld, Manor Grunewald, Pedro Matos, Alessandro Moroder, Steve Nishimoto, Jay Paavonpera & Wolfgang Voegele, Fifi Projects, San Pedro, Mexico

2016 – RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

2016 – Contemporary Visions VI, Beers London, London, UK

2015 – Terra 1, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland

2015 – DPC, Impact 9 Print Festival, Hangzhou, China

2015 – Edition Two, Dundee Print Collective, HMC, Dundee, Scotland

2014 – Edition One, Dundee Print Collective, Wasp Studios, Dundee, Scotland 2014 – Back & Forth, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland

2014 – Draw In, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland

Residencies

2016/17 – Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany Bibliography 2017 – Emergent Magazine, published by Adeo (print)

2017 – Strange music, self published (print) 2017 – Aujourd’hui (web)

2017 – Scandale Project (print)

2016 – DONTPOSTME magazine (web)

2016 – BOOOOOOOM (web)

2016 – XL Catlin Art Guide, published by XL Catlin (print)

2015 – MRIAYK, published by Palefroi

2015 – People of Print (web)

2015 – Mixed Republic (web)

2014 – Architecture/Abstraction, self published (print)

2014 – People of Print (web)

About

Using extremely simple pictorial materials and media, such as oil, acrylic, spray paint, pencil, collage, dripping and recycled bits of paint found on his studio floor, he delves into the unexplored possibilities of their combinations in large and small formats. Teague’s works originate as intuitions that come to him in a state of free-floating attention and meditation and take shape in the plastic materialisation of unconscious flows, in an unpredictable creative process marked by the clear-cut absence of predetermined methods. He creates self-referential visual languages where the automatism of the lines, the doodles, the gestures, the small dabs of colour on textured grounds and the off-centre compositions open up spaces of physically and possibility that defy critical dogmatism, conceptual rationalism and language as mere communication, occupying its fringes to maintain an inexhaustible poetic unfolding.

Miguel Fernandez Campon, 2017