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Debra Swann

Place of birth London
Country of residence United Kingdom

Appealing directly to the allure of our own curiosity, the work reflects on our desire for fantasy. Based in a need to escape the everyday, our fascination for the unexplained blurs the relationship between fact and fiction. Here, fantasy draws on reality and creates a strange authenticity and value, in turn questioning our belief systems and our trust of scientific research.

I have become particularly interested in collections and museum-logy. I am interested in the person who started 'the collection' the philanthropist, the explorer, the scientist that has left relics, a sum of scientific learning for us to ponder over. A compulsive fascination that led to a desire to collect, to seek meaning and discover the unknown. The process by which history is written becomes established as truth.

Solo Exhibitions
2006 Curiosity Shop Coleman Project Space, London
2003 I am a Scientist Zeppelin Project Space, ECAV, Sierre, Switzerland
2002 Recent Work Hampstead High Road, London

Group Exhibitions
2007 Text and Work The Arts institute At Bournemouth
Meeting Place Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth
Comedy of Errors ’Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2006 Paraphernalia APT Gallery, London
2005 Open Day Braziers International Artist Workshop, Oxfordshire
Dreaming of a White Arts and Business, 60 Gainsford St, London
2004 Death of Romance 17 - 21 Ganton Street, London
Stuft The Red Gallery, Hull.
Animal Ferme Asile, Sion, Switzerland
2003 Ex Voto Schloss Leuk, Leuk, Switzerland
Glitch (part 1) Forum D’Art Contemporain, Sierre, Switzerland
Glitch (part 2) K3 Project Space, Zürich
Hand Luggage K3 Project Space, Zürich
2002 Mother The George, Tanners Lane, London
2001 The Collection 264 Brompton Road, London
MA Degree Show Goldsmiths College, University of London
2000 Ripe Municipal Market, Brighton
Hung, Drawn and Quartered Phoenix Art Gallery, Brighton
In and Out Municipal Market, Brighton
Clevelands Cafe/Bar, Trafagler Street, Brighton.
1999 Lustre Changing Room Gallery, London

Education

2000 - 2001 M.A. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
1996 - 1999 B.A. (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), Hull School of Art, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside
1994 - 1996 Art and Design Foundation, Waltham Forest College

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2008!, 01.Aug - 20.Sep.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Cut n Shunt, 20.Jun - 27.Jul.08, Contemporary Art Projects

Events Debra Swann and Craig Fisher, 26.Jul.08, 3 p.m., PV Cut n Shunt, 19.Jun.08, 6.30 - 8.30pm

 

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