/ / / Ric Warren / / /: Marks on Maps, 2011

Artists Statement

My work is an exploration of the structures and materials that compose our manmade surroundings and I am interested in investigating aspects urban theory. I believe that urban structures have effects beyond their basic functions and I try to explore the symbolic meanings of these materials and forms. In addition to investigating conditions of contemporary urbanism, I am interested in the historical and hypothetical changes of our human habitat (physically, politically, culturally, socially and environmentally) as well as the everyday maintenance and progress of our built surroundings. Cities are constantly in the process of change; reorganising, demolishing and rebuilding. It is from these adjustments that I source much of my inspiration.

My work primarily aims to manifests itself in the form of sculptural installations, yet I consider drawing as an equally important aspect of my creative practice and process. My interest in geometry and construction is reflected in my approach to drawing, much of which borrows the aesthetics of functional drawings (such as engineering, cartography, or architectural plans). My installations are concerned with creating spatial relationship between work and the viewer and therefore scale is an important aspect of my work. Spaces that are visually concealed or made physically inaccessible intrigue me and I try to explore these concerns within my practice. Often exploring themes of exclusion, I am interested in structures that effect to conceal, edit, remove, obstruct, imprison, or deny access. I am also interested in distorting functionality by exploiting of the formal tradition of sculpture to occupy space rather than create it. My structures and models often attempt to mimic the language of architecture, or intervene with it, to create structures that hold space but do not offer it.

Recent Exhibitions

UNREST
(with Caroline Gallacher & Keith Allan)
Intermedia Gallery (CCA)
October 2011

THE SHOW IS OVER...
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle
September/October 2011

characters in search of an exit
MOT International, London
July/August 2011

MM: Friday
Mobile Museum, V&A, london
July 2011

Gallacher&Warren: Nothing Fades Quicker Than Yesterday's Ideas About Tomorrow.
(Collaboration with Katherine Gallacher)
Shop Unit, Stockwell Street, Merchant City, Glasgow.
July 2011

Ric Warren
Borders, Boundaries & Barricades:
Redeveloping Geographies of Division
David Dale Gallery & Studios, Glasgow
April, 2011

Members Show
Generator Projects
Dundee
February 2011

LUDO
Pigeon Wing Studio Residency

G&W: Futurity

Glasgow Science Centre / Pacific Quay

April-May 2010

ATypicalRoot (Glasgow International Art Festival)

Artists in Residence

Edinburgh Printmakers Studio

March-May 2010

(Funded by RSA & SAC)

FUTUREPROOF

(in collaboration with Katherine Gallacher, curated by PLACE Projects)

Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

December 2009- January 2010

September/October 2009

Constructs
Whitehouse Gallery, Glasgow
August/September 2009

Documents
Che Camile, Glasgow
July 2009

Oxford Fashion Week: Concept Show

FREVD, Oxford

5th May 2009

Il Dolce Far Niente: Aperto Studio

The Sweet Doing Nothing: Open Studio

Clydebrae Studios, Glasgow

RSA New Contemporaries

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

February 2009

Modern World

Gallowgate, Glasgow

January 2009

Animal Apparel

Hakuna Matata, Florence (Italy)

November 2008

AAF Recent Graduates

Battersea Park, London

October 2008

ROAR!

Bargehouse Gallery, South Bank, London

19th September 2008

Leeds College of Art & Design

18th September- 2nd October 2008

Old & New

Pentagon Galleries, Glasgow

25th September 2008

Artoscopic 2

St Leonard's Railway Tunnel, Edinburgh

22nd August 2008

Place 03 - Pastoral

Woodlands Road, Glasgow

16th August 2008

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh

9th-25th August 2008

LindArt Artists Colony

Lendava, Slovenia

20th July- 20th August 2008

GSA Degree Show

Mackintosh Building, Glasgow

June 2008

Of Multiple Occupancy

Berkeley Street, Glasgow