Showcase: Tim Dalzell

Tim Dalzell studied Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art (2014). After graduating he co-founded the YAKA collective, an art collective that aims to connect with emerging artists and preliminary spaces around Glasgow. Through this he helped to deliver their first exhibition So It Is (2014) which featured the work of 30 artists across four venues. Dalzell was selected for the recent New Contemporaries exhibition at The Royal Scottish Academy and was awarded the Sir William Gillies Bequest Award. He was also selected for a follow-up show New Scottish Artists (2015), which recently opened at The Fleming Gallery, London. Upcoming exhibitions include 'if any, before' (2015) at The Telfer Gallery, the GSA Phoenix Show (2015) and Black Hole (2015), an upcoming project with the YAKA Collective.

Of his practice he says, “I’m interested in how the development of virtual space, accessed through media such as the internet, games consoles and 3D modelling software, has in recent years provided the opportunity for the creation of entirely new environments and situations. I’m particularly drawn to those that create a psychedelic atmosphere through their inability to truly replicate reality. When making work, my interest falls towards content that has been rapidly abandoned in the manic development of digital space. By recycling forgotten imagery and translating it into tangible three-dimensional space, I aim to reinvigorate ideas, drawing attention to the compelling awkwardness of rudimentary computer graphics. Whilst I employ digital processes to assist in the making of work, the construction primarily relies on the hand and so minor inaccuracies are inevitably maintained within the forms themselves. Yet these flaws ultimately add further translations to the original ideas, allowing the work to expand its own discourse and provide a more weighted spectacle.”

At 32,000,000 Metres (ii) (2015) reveals a physical cross-section of a suggested place, in order to conceptually construct an environment that, through our imagination, is projected way beyond the discernible edges of the installation itself. The ambiguous forms, despite their blatant artificiality, trigger strong associations with exotic landscapes.

Rich 16khz shows at the Phoenix Show and will explore the identity of AT&T’s voice-generated American male ‘Rich’. The voice has already been made infamous through its use in millions of videos online, but this new work will assign both appearance and personality to the mysterious character through the use of various computer applications. Though the entire identity will be created through synthetic means, the media that allow Rich to exist will all maintain elements of human touch.