Adam Dix
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Statement

My work concerns itself with associations between communication technology and our desire to communicate. How we relate to and comprehend technology on a humanistic level, by analysing our response to and subsequent personification of the object of modern communication.

Here there maybe a disparity between, the desire to communicate and the subsequent physical isolation of others that technology can engender. This is exaggerated by appropriating similar traits found in the genres of science fiction and religion, by exploring ideas of ritual and ceremony to emphasise a sense of compliance or worship.

By referring to other constructed ‘belief systems’ that initiate group response, as found in the rites and customs of cult, religion and nationalism, comparisons between past and present systems of connectivity are initiated. Simultaneously emphasising “Sci- Fi” as a contemporary folklore that depicts a social psyche and also acknowledges an exaggerated response to the subject’s relationship to the ‘Icon of infotainment’. This has led to the production of several works that invite the viewer to engage in a secular celebration. A festival of communication, presided over by a Shamanic custodian that acts as a conduit between audience and transmission device. Where the phone mast and satellite dish take on the character of ‘Totem’ and the audience depicted represent a circulation of connectivity.

Purpose -
To discuss the proliferation and mediation of communication devices, that compel the user to stay constantly connected whilst negating our interpretation and influencing our response to the physical world.


Biography

b. 1967, London, UK.
Lives and works in London with his wife and two children.

Education

2009 – M.A. Fine Art Wimbledon College of Art.
1990 – B.A. (Hons)  Graphics and Illustration. Middlesex Polytechnic.

Solo Exhibitions

2004 – Urban Nature. Royal Overseas League, London
(show toured to Edinburgh 2005)
2003 – Arrival and Departure. Attendi Gallery, London.

Group Exhibitions

2012

- Unobtrusive Measures, Kunstpavilion, Munich
- Plus Art Projects Group Show, London
- The Future Can Wait, London
- Anthology, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
- Programming Myth, (2 person show with Tim Phillips) Sumarria Lunn, Mayfair, London.
- On the Horizon, New Generation of British Painters, Marine Contemporary. Venice, USA.
- Other Criteria launch edition, Group show with Matthew Burrows & Colin Glen. London.
- Jealous launch edition, at London Art Fair.

2011
- The Future Can Wait, London.
- Fratenise - the Salon, Beaconsfield, London
- Exam, Transition Gallery, London
- Catlin Art Prize, The Tramshed, London
- Unobtrusive Measures, Schwartz Gallery. London

2010
- Transmission, Haunch of Venison. London
- Keep Me Posted, Curated by Julia Royse. London.
- Catlin Art Prize, Shoreditch. London

2009
- Future Map, Hoxton Square Projects, London.
- Black Dog Yellow House Trolley Gallery, London.
- Creekside Open (Jenni Lomax) APT Gallery, London.

2007
- Jerwood Drawing Prize. London.
- Creekside Open (Victoria Miro) APT Gallery, London.

2006
- Not the Royal Academy, Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London.

2004
- Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries. London.

2003
- New, Woolff Gallery, London.

2002
- Top Twenty, Osborne Studio Gallery. London.

2000
- Discerning Eye (Peter Blake), Mall Galleries. London.

1999
- Street, Royal Academy artists. Attendi Gallery. London.

Awards and Residencies

2009 – Jealous Art Prize Residency.
2000 – Nominated for Paul Hamlyn foundation awards for visual arts.

Dix’s work has been included in the following collections:
Fatima Maleki, Anita Zabludowicz for 176 Gallery, Alasdhair Willis @ Established and Sons Ltd, Royal Collection of Monaco, University of the Arts London and other private collections.

Publications

2010 – The Catlin Guide. New Artists in the UK by Justin Hammond; Published by Catlin Holdings Ltd.
2006 – Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945’ by David Buckman; Published Art Dic.

 
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