Adam Dix
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Statement

The accompanying images that are presented to you here are from an ongoing body of work which sets out to investigate the associations between technology and our need and fascination with it. I have concentrated on the arena of telecommunications looking at its impact on society.

By examining futuristic past predictions of the 21st century and the subsequent representation of that imagined future, I intend to look at our reliance on consumer technology, highlighting the insecurity and vulnerability of man caused by our desire for aspirational, consumer products.

Using nostalgia for a science fiction future, and also the present abundance of consumer technology, the work represents a visual language that emulated optimism for a future vision: a creation of a world where the human race would live in a technological utopia. Obviously we know this not to be true, but the work sets out to look at and convey an almost absurd distorted view of a contemporary techno culture by morphing past dreams and present aspirations together.

It is this embodiment of a contradiction that presents itself within our understanding of today’s communication technology, which is where my interest lies. The contradiction I believe is, the conflict between the unification and physical detachment of a person’s engagement with communication technology. How can these two elements work together as well as oppose one another, simultaneously unifying or at least implying unification?

The paradox of a need to communicate while remaining physically isolated by the very object of connectivity has led my investigation into describing behavioural responses with regard to communication, how we relate or comprehend technology on a humanistic level. In doing so I have found other areas that are representative of galvanising people into a group response, that project a sense of ritual, coveting, sect and in extremes, fanaticism.


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

2010 – Keep Me Posted. Curated by Julia Royse. London.
2010 – Catlin Art Prize. Shoreditch. London
2009 – Future Map. Hoxton Square Projects, London.
2009 – Black Dog Yellow House. Trolley Gallery, London.
2009 – Creekside Open (Jenni Lomax) APT Gallery, London.
2007 – Jerwood Drawing Prize. London.
2007 – 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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