Sorcha Dallas

As co-curator of Switchspace, a voluntary organisation that transforms vacant Glasgow properties into temporary exhibition spaces, Sorcha Dallas has been ardently committed to the Glasgow visual art community since the late 1990s. For the inaugural annual programme of her new gallery, Dallas has chosen to represent and promote the practices of six artists drawn from this milieu and entourage. Each could be seen to share a common interest in an opulent and perhaps romantic approach to their furtive and esoteric subject matter. Most adopt an ambivalent (and often camp) engagement with conventional media such as painting, sculpture and drawing. A fluid variety in the handling combines to produce multivalent installations and environments. The significance of their work falls equally on the haptic and the optic, on making and taking, on making things and making things up.

Born in London in 1973, Alex Frost studied fine art at Staffordshire University (BA 1995) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA 1998). Frost has enjoyed solo shows and residencies in Glasgow and Bristol, exhibited in group exhibitions in Edinburgh, Dundee, Manchester, Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, New York and Melbourne and was recently selected for East International. Frost lacerates the sensual anxiety of architectural and sculptural archives. Scorning monstrous lampoon, his drawings and sculptures rediscover the play, gusto and timbre of the preliminary stages of modernist art and design, the multifaceted spatial imaginaries of paper architecture and jewel-like decorative materials used in Art Nouveau model making.