JAMIE SHOVLIN
United KingdomJamie Shovlin (b. 1978) is interested in the tension between truth and fiction, reality and invention, history and memory. He is an artist whose work combines extraordinary facility as a draughtsman, printmaker, painter and writer with conceptual complexity and playfulness. His painstakingly researched and executed works merge inherently flawed systems, pseudo-scientific exactitude and doubtful philosophical propositions with the seemingly objective experience of the archive. Through his projects Shovlin questions how information becomes authoritative and explores the way that we map and classify the world in order to understand it.
Shovlin studied at the Royal College of Art and lives and works in London. Institutional solo exhibitions include 'In Search of Perfect Harmony' at Tate Britain, London (2006) and 'Aggregate' at City Gallery, Leicester; Artsway; Talbot Rice Art Gallery, Edinburgh and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (2006/07). He is going to have a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Rome (MACRO) in October 2010.
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