Sorcha Dallas

All of Musgrave’s recent drawings and sculptures generate an uncertain presence. His Television drawings are named after the way that the image that forms as the drawing is built up out of horizontal lines appears to be quite far away, somewhere beyond the literal surface of the paper (‘television’ is, literally, ‘seeing far’). In a similar way, the Plane drawings are images of things very nearly but categorically not continuous with the surface of the paper. Musgrave’s sculptural works aim to look unambiguously like illusions of things. Real and ‘necessary’ structural connections are emphasised rather than disguised- screw heads and wing nuts intrude on the simple illusions of buckled paper or tape. In these as in every one of his works, the imaginary is entangled in the concrete conditions of its appearance.

Musgrave graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea in 1997. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Greengrassi in 2006; Marc Foxx in 2005 and the group show ‘Draw: Conversations on the Legacy of Drawing’ at Middlesborough Museum of Modern Art, 2007. Musgrave has curated several exhibitions including ‘Waste Material’, The Drawing Room, London, 2005 and ‘Living Dust’ at Norwich Gallery, 2004. He lives and works in London.