Graham Dolphin's work appropriates objects and icons of the fashion and music industries, reforming them into assemblages that reveal the obsessions and formulas underwriting the temporal world of mass culture. Text works include: every lyric from the Beatles back catalogue hand written over the iconic cover of the White Album. In another text work, Dolphin takes every word from a single issue of Vogue and scripts them onto a single page, which has the same dimensions of the magazine. Dolphin's drawings compile every 'product' (shoes, cosmetics, etc.) traced over each other onto a single page. Film works include: gathering 1,500 images of Kate Moss merged into 60 seconds and footage of 100 Fashion Shows shown in a mere 100 seconds. These compulsive actions transform and disrupt the surface aspirations of popular culture and the glamour industry.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Graham Dolphin, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2010
Burn Away Fade Out, Seventeen, London
2008
6 Sheet, SEVENTEEN, London
2007
Repeater, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2006
33 1/3, SEVENTEEN, London
2005
BOUDICCA Animate Collected, Exploded and Condensed, David Risley Gallery, London
2005
Everything in Vogue, MIMA, Middlesbrough
2002
Everyword In Vogue, Five Years, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Schunk@Pinkpop, Schunk, The Netherlands
2010
Spasticus Artisticus, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2010
Read Only Memory, Winkleman Gallery, New York
2010
PARTY!, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2009
Word, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis
2009
Inkubator II, Durham Art Gallery, Durham
2009
V-Effect / In and Out of Place, Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin
2009
Pattern Recognition, Leicester City Gallery, Leicester
2009
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society, London
2009
Mark Making, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, USA
2009
Timecode, DCA, Dundee
2008
Microwave 6, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2008
Kill Your Timid Notion, DCA, Dundee
2008
THE KRAUTCHO CLUB / IN AND OUT OF PLACE, 176, London
2007
Case Study, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
2007
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
2007
Becks Fusions, Video Pod, Trafalgar Square, London
2007
Plus, Museum Weisbaden, Germany (Vordemberge-Gildewart Award)
2007
When We Build, Lets Think That We Build Forever, The Zabludowicz Collection, BALTIC, Gateshead
2007
Ultrasonic International II, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
You Shall Know Our Velocity, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2006
Beyond the Valley, Beyond the Valley, London
2005
Seventeen Presents..., Seventeen, London
2005
They call us lonely when we’re really just alone, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
2005
The Space Between the Sole and the Heel, Globe Hub, North Shields
2005
Interference, The Great Unsigned, Waugh Thistleton Architecture, London
2004
Carlos, winter 2004, pub. John Brown Citrus publishing, London
2004
Practice, High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne
2004
Dream Ticket, T-shirt commission, MIMA, Middlesbrough
2004
The Great Unsigned, Zoo Art Fair, London Zoo, London
2004
PILOT 01 International Art Forum, Limehouse Town Hall, London
2004
Plasma screen programme, Arts Council England, North East offices, Newcastle
2004
Quest magazin collaboration with Mandarina Duck, Qvest Magazin, No. 14
2004
QSL, audio publication and temporary radio show, pub. MIMA, Middlesbrough
2004
ArtExpo 2004 > Mexico, Observatorio Centro Experimental, Mexico
2003
ArtReview, collaboration with Mandarina Duck, ArtReview, September, pub
2003
ReSound, Stroud Valley Arts Space, Stroud
2003
Translator, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
2002
Rapture: Art’s Seduction By Fashion, Barbican Gallery, London
2002
The Mind Is A Horse, Bloomberg SPACE, London
2002
Grotesque Idyll, Kinnijoe Space, Hamburg
2002
The Difference Between You and Us, Five Years, London
2001
Drop Out, Five Years, London
2000
Felt-tip, Zwemmer Gallery, London
2000
Introduction Service, Zwemmer Gallery, London
1999
Kill Yr Idols, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
1999
Accelerator, Southampton City Art Gallery, touring to Arnolfini, Bristol, and Oldham Art Gallery
EDUCATION
1991 - 1994
BA Fine Art Painting, Bath College of Higher Education
1990 - 1991
Foundation in art and Design’ Chetwynd Centre, Stafford
