Jocelyn McGregor
Vale
08.12.22 - 28.01.23
Opening
08.12.22, 6-9pm
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Forth is pleased to present ‘Vale’, a solo exhibition by Jocelyn McGregor. ‘Vale’ is the culmination of McGregor’s time in Nottingham as part of the New Contemporaries Studio Bursary at One Thoresby Street. Over the course of this residency Jocelyn has produced a new body of work spanning sculpture, installation and performance-as-radio-play. These all draw upon aspects of the natural world considered unnerving, to explore the basis of our nostalgia towards it.
In Jocelyn’s sculptures, miniature landscapes (themselves a Nottingham mainstay at Warhammer World) merge with the human body, collapsing an established hierarchy and distance between the rural and urban. Elsewhere in the exhibition this continues, as the barrier between the gallery space and the natural world begins to disintegrate and elements of the artist’s native Cumbria resituate themselves in Nottingham.
Jocelyn McGregor (b. 1989, Lincolnshire) currently lives and works in Cumbria. She studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University and completed her MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Recent exhibitions include Mantle at Castlefield, Manchester UK; Trespassers Will Be Detected, at Dnipro Centre for Contemporary Culture, Ukraine; Rain Wetting Thirst at Lewisham Arthouse, London; A Field Guide to Getting Lost at The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece; and Mei Yahn Yu, at Kaitak Centre (AVA), Hong Kong. Recent commissions include Earthing, for Sculpture in the City: Aldgate Square Commission 2022-23. Awards and residencies include: The Lee Alexander McQueen: Sarabande Foundation Emerging Artist Award 2017, selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018; Artist-in-Residence as part of the British Council SWAP UK/Ukraine Residency Programme 2019-20; Artist-in-Residence at One Thoresby Street, for the New Contemporaries Studio Bursary 2021-22.
Full documentation to follow.
