Trout House Replica & So the Red Rose / Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre/ 11 Nov 23 - 17 Feb 24.
Trout House Replica & So the Red Rose / Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre/ 11 Nov 23 - 17 Feb 24.
Derek Tyman’s work often combines large-scale sculptural constructions or reconstructions of specific objects or spaces that refer to historical and cultural events. Artists and cultural producers, including musicians, writers, theorists, historians and activists have been invited to participate in, or contribute to projects in order to critically examine ideas of collaboration, participation and imagined communities.
Responsive to site and context, Tyman's work has been realised in many forms, including: large scale installation, sound, programs for radio, publications, billboard poster, video, a paperback novel, production of a CD with a rock band and The Mule, a one day only, nationally distributed newspaper. Solo projects have been realised nationally and internationally and work has also been included in group exhibitions and projects in Europe, USA, Russia and China. From 1997 to 2016 he worked in collaboration with artist Emma Rushton. He is currently working on collaborative projects and exhibitions with artist Andy Webster. In 2023 they were co-awarded the City of Ebersberg Art Award for their works ‘Free Tower’ and ‘Drums in the Night’ in the international exhibition ‘Brave New World’ curated by Peters Kees in Ebersberg, Germany.
Andy Webster’s work responds to specific narratives and contexts often where sound interacts with visual, constructed and spatial environments.
Working across diverse media, scales, and formats, recent projects have involved reconstructing earlier objects, fabricating partially remembered architectures and imagined structures, and reconfiguring materials and details from cultural artefacts, events and histories. Inspired by writers, thinkers, musicians and artists concerned with forms of dissent and critiques of dominant ideologies, Andy uses deadpan humour, tactical absurdity, inauthenticity and wilful inefficiency as critical tools to guide and shape his work.
Recent projects include re-enacting experiments by inventor George O. Squier to broadcast the sound of tree biodata, and the construction of a 9-metre tower as a fictional 1980s-inspired habitable sculpture for migrating birds. In 2023 Andy’s work has been shown at the I-Park Foundation, Connecticut, USA; Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK; The Volland Foundation, Kansas, USA; Ebersberg Kunstverein, Ebersberg, Gremany; Fred & Ferry Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; Albany Club, Redruth, UK; and Arte Contemporary, Tarragona, Spain.