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Artists Statement

With a central focus on space and social politics, my artworks are predominantly sculpture and sculptural installation. I utilities a number of materials / techniques and use drawing / model-making as a key part of my creative process. This process considers how our manmade surroundings have symbolic meaning beyond their basic functions and my artwork is informed by an interest in post-modern urban / social theory (from theorists such as Fran Tonkiss, Mike Davis, Slavoj Žižek, Henri Lefebvre, John Rennie Short & Owen Jones), distilled through a minimalist artistic sensibility.

Recent Exhibitions

Scott Brotherton & Ric Warren (Title TBC)

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2016: Open Glasgow Programme

April 2016 (Venue TBC)

Finite Project Altered When Open

David Dale Gallery, Glasgow 2015

Matthew Higgs / John Riepenhoff / Ric Warren
SWG3 Project Space
April 2014

Forum
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
May 2013

Purlieu
Matzine Publication
April 2013

Ric Warren
Preventative Measures: On The Spatial Dynamics of Control, Counteraction & Conflict.
Superclub Gallery, Edinburgh
July 2012

PLAZA
SWG3 Studios, Glasgow
April/May 2012

Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland
Hunter College/ Times Square Gallery, New York
October/November 2011

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

London

August 2010

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

ReSeArch

RSA, Edinburgh

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

April 2009

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

May 2008

Quotes

"Cities are physical and social constructs."
-Michael Pacloine

"The making of buildings goes together with the making of meanings."

-Fran Tonkiss

“Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology and politics; it has always been political and strategic. If space has an air of neutrality and indifference with regards to its contents and thus seems to be purely formal, the epitome of rational abstraction, it is precisely because it has been occupied and used, and has already been the focus of past processes whose traces are not always evident on the landscape. Space has been shaped and moulded from historical and natural elements, but this has been a political process. Space is political and ideological. It is a product literally filled with ideologies.”

-Lefebvre, H. 1976, ‘Reflections on the Politics of Space'

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