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Almost a century ago, the documentation of actions, situations, performances replaced the sacrosanct art object. Modernist idealism died. With every Surrealist or Dadaist mêlée, art and it's objects were torn, shattered, turned upside down and left to fend for themselves in a world going to hell with handcart. Glasgow-based Maurice Doherty works in this Dadaist tradition, trying it to the no nonsense clarity of conceptual art. His lens based, sculptural and two-dimensional work is always funny, but the humour is black. These are dark times. "
'The Art Of Memory' - The List Magazine, Scotland - Alexander Kennedy
Born in Ireland in 1972, Maurice Doherty graduated from the University of Ulster, Belfast, in 1997 and completed a Masters in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art, in 2001. Selected recent group exhibitions include Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, New York, (2011), Co Verlag, Berlin (2011), Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2011), Frequency Group, Chengdu, China (2011), MMX, Berlin (2010), Vulpes Vulpes, London (2010), The Project Room, Glasgow (2010) and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2009). Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at Beursschouwburg Kunstencentrum, Brussels (2010), Schalter Gallery, Berlin (2009), Futures Gallery, Glasgow Science Centre (2008), Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), Tramway, Glasgow (2006) and The Floating Series, Berlin (2006).
Maurice Doherty lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and Berlin, Germany.
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