Scott Donohue

Scott Donohue


About

Born 1982 Newcastle upon Tyne. Currently living in Newcastle after graduating with a first class BA/hons in fine art in 2004. He recently featured in DIGIT magazine under the title of 'New British Talent', after winning the NOISE festivals elements competition. Donohue states "My creative energy is fueled by a fascination with technological development, and its implications for the future. Technology can be used to empower individuals, and heighten creative freedom, but it can also be used for control and annihilation. It is the ambivalence and uncertainty of scientific progress that provides the catalyst for my work. I embrace the freedom of my imagination to celebrate and critique my experience of the world."

His creative process involves making large installation works, which he then photographs and recycles into paintings and 2D mixed media imagery. When creating installations he likes to think of them as "machines that refuse to be repressed by reasons comprehension."

Technology has been seized upon as a possible means to unite reason with imagination, and eradicate uncertainty. He hopes to mock our faith in technologies potential to create a coherent certain world. Donohue's work is not simply about naively labeling scientific progress as holistically negative, but recognising the positives in that which remains uncertain. The idea of the human mind as imperfect and incontrollable has influenced a desire for rational mastery over our own human nature. He likes to imagine us slaving over the development of artificial intelligence for thousands of years, using the language of science and the laws of reason, but always failing to compute our own human nature. Little do we know that intelligent thought dwells in the corner of a dark, damp, skip or with in a pile of rubbish hoarded in the back of an old mans garden like a mound of treasure. It lays waiting for the right moment to engulf us in our past technological conquests.
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Work
Selected Bibliography-2011

Solo Show, Barkollo Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Diverse-City, Mandella Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

2010-Common Ground, A&I Gallery, Hollywood, 933 N. Highland Ave, Los Angeles, United States.

Secret Artist exhibition, NOISELAB, Manchester, England

2008
Common Ground, Huan Tie Art Museum, Beijing, China

2007

The Gateway to the Quarter project, Finkle Street, York, UK.

The Brain Project, Trieste, Italy.

2006

Solo show, People Love Machines, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Bongo Club, Scotland.

Noise Festival Exhibitions, The Urbis Gallery, Manchester, UK.

Mystery artist Exhibition, Switch Gallery, London, UK.

2005

People Love Machines, Black Sun Press, The Side Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

Field of vision, Extremes, Institute for New Media, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Epoch Exhibitions, Meeting House Square, Dublin.

2004

Field of Vision, Lab Gallery, New York, USA.

Sakaide Grandprix Drawing Exhibition, Japan.
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Education
Fist class ba/hons fine art

Friends

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  • Hayley Lock
  • Andrew Barton
  • Peter  Ravn
  • Philip Harris

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Mixed Media

Scott Donohue
United Kingdom
Original $7,000

Consciousness

Drawing

Scott Donohue
United Kingdom

People Love Machines

Installation

Scott Donohue
United Kingdom
Dys-functional mass
Virtual Utopia Goes Bonkers
Pandora's box
Consciousness
The Flowers of Evil
something/nothing

Events & Exhibitions

Events

Future Shows: I am currently working on a book titled 'People Love machines' as well as a website exploring the same ideas:
www.peoplelovemachines.co.uk

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Favorite Art

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    Polka dots
    The Bridge
    Where is my cell?
    Kitten In Bad
    Disaster Box
    gates
    Figures at Ebb Tide
    Two Figures Lying in a Shallow Stream