New Works from Australian Artist Giles Ryder
TROPICAL MALICE
6 August to 27 September, 2015
H Project Space
201 Sathorn Soi 12, Bangkok
HARDCORE STILL LIVES
15 August to 27 September 2015
H Gallery Chiang Mai
Mae Rim, Chiang Mai (near the Four Seasons Resort)
In collaboration with H Gallery, Australian visual artist Giles Ryder will showcase his new works in two solo exhibitions, ‘Tropical Malice” and “Hardcore Still Lives”, the result of Ryder’s Asialink Arts Residency at Ne’Na Contemporary Artspace in Chiang Mai. Asialink's Arts Residency Program is supported by The Australia Council for the Arts.
Giles Ryder is a visual artist who is known for his installations using industrial materials: hand rolled aluminium, auto-lacquer, neon signage, and mirrored and coloured Perspex. His work has attracted attention due to its minimalism and his approach to form, colour and line.
For the installations at H Chiang Mai and H Project Space, Ryder has adapted readymade light structures from Cambodia, where they are found situated behind Buddha statues in a temple and cast mandala patterns. The artist is interested in the diverse significance of the technology as it suggests both religious worship and the hypnotic world of techno or disco music.
About the artist
Giles Ryder is based between Thailand and Australia. A graduate of Griffith University in Brisbane, he also undertook Postgraduate studies at Sydney College of the Arts and Kunsthochschule Berlin, with funding from Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. Ryder is a recipient of the ARTAND Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award in 2006 and was an Asian Pacific Artist Fellow at Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2011. Selected solo exhibitions include Black Magic (2012), Blockprojects, Melbourne; Artereal Gallery (2011), Sydney; The New Nouveaux Nullism (2010), Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane; Life without Rituals (2010), Blockprojects, Melbourne; and Vectorize (2009), Raum Weiss, Berlin. Selected group exhibitions include Be Abstract (2014), Kunstverein Schwabisch Hall & Ballhaus Ost, Berlin; Less is More (2012), Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Conflicts of Interest II (2012), H Gallery, Bangkok; and the Korean International Art Fair (2011). Public collections include Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Artbank, Sydney; and Griffith Artworks, Brisbane. Ryder’s works are included in private collections in Austria, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Munich, Leiden, Netherlands, Edinburgh, London, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. He teaches at Bangkok University International and has also taught at Sydney College of Art/The University of Sydney and King Mongkut’s University of Technology Ladkrabaeng in Thailand.
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