Roderick Buchanan

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Roderick Buchanan (born 1965 [1] ) is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography.

After attending Thomas Muir High School, [1] Buchanan studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s, where he was part of a group later described as "The Irascibles", which included fellow students Douglas Gordon, Ross Sinclair, Jacqueline Donachie, Christine Borland and Martin Boyce. [2]

Work in Progress (1995) is a set of photographs of amateur Scottish footballers wearing the team shirts of Inter Milan and AC Milan. [3] His 2004 film about Indian and Scottish soldiers, History Painting, was commissioned by the British Council for the 11th Indian Triennale. [4]

In 2000 he won the inaugural Beck's Futures prize for his work Gobstopper, [5] a video of children trying to hold their breath while being driven through Glasgow's Clyde Tunnel. In 2004 he was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award. [6]

He has had solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2000) and the Camden Arts Centre (2005), [7] and his work is held in the collections of the Tate [8] and the National Galleries of Scotland. [3]

In 2011 Buchanan exhibited Legacy at the Imperial War Museum in London. The work, a video and photographic installation commissioned by the museum, depicted Scottish bands from the Irish republican and British Unionist communities performing in Northern Ireland. [9]

In 2017 Buchanan was commissioned by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art to spend time in Corby meeting second and third-generation Scottish immigrants who moved to England to find work in the steel industry, through long engaging with standing football supporters clubs. [10]

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References

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  2. Neil Mulholland, The Cultural Devolution: Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003, p144. ISBN   0-7546-0392-X
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  4. britishcouncil.org
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  8. tate.org.uk
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