New visual art season at Tramway opens with:
Eternal Rotation
Maurice Doherty        
Project Room          13 Jan - 5 Feb
Preview Thursday 12 Feb from 8pm
Galleries open Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat/ Sun 12 noon - 5pm, closed Mon

Maurice Doherty's art employs a variety of techniques - lens based, sculptural and two dimensional - to articulate an exploration of themes prevalent throughout the history of art - the transience of experience, the interplay of morality and culture, and the conflict between the beauty and banality of being alive.

In this commission for new work for Tramway's Project Room, Doherty has created a contemporary vanitas, using an everyday occurrence to throw into relief the absurdity of existence. Manipulating the viewer's experience to lie somewhere between fear and seduction, indulgence and accountability, boredom and intrigue, the work contains and objectifies the subject to create something poignant without being sentimental.

Like other works of Doherty's, Eternal Rotation is characterized by a visual minimalism, using the commonplace and the prosaic to explore the most profound and complex of universal experiences, that of life itself.

Maurice Doherty (1972) was born in Northern Ireland and has been based in Glasgow since 1999. He graduated from the University of Ulster, Belfast, in 1997 and completed a Masters in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, in 2001. Since 1997, Doherty has exhibited widely, in Britain, Ireland, Europe and the US. In 2005 Doherty exhibited in shows at Flaca Gallery, London and ak28, Stockholm. In 2004 exhibitions included the Three Walls Gallery, Chicago and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, during the Berlin Biennale .

Artist talk: Maurice Doherty in conversation with Ross Birrell

Wed 18 Jan @ 6.30pm free on first come first served basis

Exhibition supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow City Council