Roderick Buchanan
Roderick Buchanan (born 1965) is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography. After attending Thomas Muir High School, Buchanan studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s, where he was part of a group later described as "The Irascibles", which included fellow students Douglas Gordon, Ross Sinclair, Jacqueline Donachie, Christine Borland and Martin Boyce. Work in Progress (1995) is a set of photographs of amateur Scottish footballers wearing the team shirts of Inter Milan and AC Milan.
Roderick Buchanan
- Born
- 1965
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- photographer · television producer · filmmaker · multimedia artist · video artist · video installation artist
- Movements
- contemporary art
- Education
- Bishopbriggs Academy
- Languages
- English
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Roderick Buchanan (born 1965) is a Scottish artist working in the fields of installation, film and photography. After attending Thomas Muir High School, Buchanan studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s, where he was part of a group later described as "The Irascibles", which included fellow students Douglas Gordon, Ross Sinclair, Jacqueline Donachie, Christine Borland and Martin Boyce. Work in Progress (1995) is a set of photographs of amateur Scottish footballers wearing the team shirts of Inter Milan and AC Milan.
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Roderick Buchanan (born 1965) is a British filmmaker, multimedia artist and photographer, among other activities.
The filmmaker studied at Bishopbriggs Academy. Roderick Buchanan is associated with contemporary art.
Languages used include English. Works by the filmmaker are held at Tate.
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His 2004 film about Indian and Scottish soldiers, History Painting, was commissioned by the British Council for the 11th Indian Triennale. In 2000, he won the inaugural Beck's Futures prize for his work Gobstopper, a video of children trying to hold their breath while being driven through Glasgow's Clyde Tunnel. In 2004 he was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award. He has had solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2000) and the Camden Arts Centre (2005), and his work is held in the collections of the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland. In 2011, Buchanan exhibited Legacy at the Imperial War Museum in London. The work, a video and photographic installation commissioned by the museum, depicted Scottish bands from the Irish republican and British Unionist communities performing in Northern Ireland. In 2017, Buchanan was commissioned by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art to spend time in Corby meeting second and third-generation Scottish immigrants who moved to England to find work in the steel industry, through long engaging with standing football supporters clubs.
Roderick Buchanan is recorded with the occupation video installation artist. Recorded with the occupation television producer. Recorded as photographer, television producer, filmmaker, multimedia artist and video artist.
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1965
Roderick Buchanan was born on 1 January 1965.
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- 1.Map Magazine. Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir. 2007.
- 2.Neil Mulholland, The Cultural Devolution: Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003, p144.
- 3.Scotland, National Galleries of. National Galleries of Scotland − Collection. www.nationalgalleries.org.
- 4.britishcouncil.org
- 5.Plagens, Peter. Britannia Rules The Wave. Newsweek. 2000-05-07.
- 6.Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Awards for Visual Arts 2006. www.phf.org.uk.
- 7.Exhibitions Tour: Anne-Marie Watson. Camden Art Centre.
- 8.Tate. Roderick Buchanan born 1965.
- 9.Legacy: Roderick Buchanan - Imperial War Museum London. artlyst.com. 2011.
- 10.OOF EVENTS - COLLECTIVE FAILURE. OOF GALLERY.
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