Jock Mooney @ Bongo Club

Gallery | 12 Aug 2008

 

For our Festival Showcase, The Skinny presents a selection of works by Jock Mooney, who graduated from ECA in 2004 and has since been living in Newcastle and London, making and exhibiting his unique works of sculpture, drawing, film and performance both locally and internationally. Jock describes his work thus:

"My sculptural works and installations are comprised of numerous small-scale hand made objects. In the case of my ongoing project 'Inventory', the bombardment of data currently numbers over 1,500 individual elements. Presented en masse to the viewer, these apparently random images are drawn from a wide range of sources, including mythology, religious iconography, historical occurrence, popular culture and mundane reality. Taken from similar sources, my drawings and random lists written off the top of my head, function in parallel to the sculptural works and share the same stream-of-consciousness aesthetic."

After the Showcase, Jock will be exhibiting in Edinburgh again in September as part of a group show in Evolution House. Upcoming London shows include The Future Can Wait in the Truman Brewery in October, and a collaborative exhibition with his father John Mooney in the Whitecross Gallery in November.  

To see more of his work, go to 

www.jockmooney.com

A selection of Jock's drawings will be exhibited in the Bongo Club throughout the Edinburgh Festival.

Check out some pictures from the opening event/book launch on Thursday 7 Aug below.