Market Gallery is pleased to present Studio Projects 22 and 23, featuring recent
GSA MFA graduates Kari Stewart and Kate V Robertson.

Studio Project 22 – Kari Stewart

Kari Stewart’s practice takes the forms of video and drawing to investigate our
relationships with various institutions, highlighting life within the cracks of these
institutions and investigating the power structures and mythologies inherent
within them. At Market Gallery, Kari will undertake a project that will take ‘the
sea’ as a starting point for exploring relationships with landscape and simulated
spaces.

Kari Stewart received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Recent
exhibitions include Die Show im Oktober, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2009)
and The Cinema is Nicholas Ray as part of the 2009 Glasgow Film Festival.

Studio Project 23 – Kate V Robertson

For the Market Gallery Studio Project 23, Kate V Robertson will build a giant
rock, which will sit awkwardly, imprisoned in the gallery space. The process of
building the rock will be visible to passers-by during the residency, making the
artist’s rather haphazard process a performance of sorts. The rock in this work
refers to the myth of Sisyphus, whose task of pushing a boulder up a mountain,
only to see it roll down again, was the basis for philosophical theories of futility
and the absurd.

Robertson's works often demonstrate failure, futility and pointlessness, in a
variety of materials both ephemeral and concrete.

Kate V Robertson received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2009.
Recent solo exhibitions include Pieces at Galerie Feinkost, Berlin (2010) and
What Structures at Intermedia, Glasgow (2010).

Studio Projects 22 / 23
Residency - 9 August – 10 September.
Preview – 11 September, 7-9pm at Market Gallery.
Exhibition - 12 September to 9 October.

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