Artist Registry
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Liam Allan’s practice focuses on manipulated information. Through layers of mistruth, damage and misdirection, Allan distorts the clarity of his drawings in an attempt to question intentionality and documented authenticity.
Beginning with research in online and physical archives, his source materials, comprising photographs of contemporary and ancient artifacts, are digitally altered and amalgamated to create new objects that are fictionalized and difficult to accurately place.
These carefully crafted compositions are then drawn in pencil on paper, isolated within an exilic void consisting of thousands of vertical pencil marks.
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Liam Allan (b.1987, Scotland) studied at Edinburgh College of Art and The Glasgow School of Art. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
His work has been exhibited at venues including: Zyrland Zoiropa, Berlin; Perrotin, NYC; Perrotin, Paris; Jerwood Space, London; The Glasgow Project Room and ICA, London. He was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2011 and completed a Royal Drawing School Residency in 2014.
In 2017 he began publishing a series of limited edition “Publications for Commuters” — quarter-fold newsprint publications featuring artists’ writing and imagery; they are distributed for free on the New York City Subway system.