Roderick Buchanan

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

After attending Thomas Muir High School,] 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, Jaqueline Donachie, Christine Borland and Martin Boyce. [Neil Mulholland, "The Cultural Devolution: Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century", Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003, p144. ISBN 075460392X]

"Work in Progress" (1995) is a set of photographs of amateur Scottish footballers wearing the team shirts of Inter Milan and AC Milan. [http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/result/0/68068?artistId=16723&artistName=Roderick%20Buchanan&initial=B&submit=1 nationalgalleries.org] ] His 2004 film about Indian and Scottish soldiers, "History Painting", was commissioned by the British Council for the 11th Indian Triennale. [ [http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-art-international-biennales-xi-indian-triennale.htm britishcouncil.org] ]

In 2000 he won the inaugural Beck's Futures prize for his work "Gobstopper", [Peter Plagens, "Britannia Rules The Wave", [http://www.newsweek.com/id/83997?tid=relatedcl "Newsweek", May 8, 2000] ] 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. [ [http://www.phf.org.uk/news.asp?id=133 phf.org.uk] ]

He has had solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2000) and the Camden Arts Centre (2005), [ [http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=100121 camdenartscentre.org] ] and his work is held in the collections of the Tate [ [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2738&page=1 tate.org.uk] ] and the National Galleries of Scotland.

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