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Reality Check - Artists and Venues
Reality Check brings together sixteen of British art's rising stars, in an exhibition which presents the very latest developments in UK-based photography and video installation

Artists in the exhibition are:

Roderick Buchanan, video (b. Glasgow, 1965) won the Beck's Futures Prize, 2000

k r buxey, video (b. Reading, 1967) has shown at Ibid Projects, London

Phil Collins , photography and video(b. Warrington, 1970) was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Award in 2001 and is currently on a PS1 scholarship in New York

Alan Currall, video (b. Stoke-on-Trent, 1964) has had solo exhibitions at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Graham Fagen, video (b. Glasgow, 1966) has had solo exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum, the Henry Moore Institute and Matt's Gallery

Ori Gersht, photography (b. Tel-Aviv, 1967) is the subject of a forthcoming solo show at Art Now, Tate Britain

Dryden Goodwin, video (b. Bournemouth, 1971) recently exhibited at Art Now, Tate Britain

Luke Gottelier, video (b. London, 1968) has shown at the Window Gallery, Prague, Entwistle Gallery and Bethnal Green Police Station

Saskia Olde Wolbers, video (b. Breda, 1971) has had solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, and forthcoming at Gallery Tydehall, Helsinki

Nigel Shafran, photography (b. London, 1964) has had solo exhibitions at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo and Fig-I, London

Lesley Shearer, photography (b. Glasgow, 1968) recently graduated from the Royal College of Art

David Shrigley, photography and drawing (b. Macclesfield, 1968) has made solo shows at Camden Arts Centre, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Bard College, New York

Keith Tyson, installation (b. Ulverston, 1969) has had solo exhibitions at South London Gallery and Kunsthalle, Zurich

Michelle Williams, photo (b. London, 1979) participated in Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2001

Shizuka Yokomizo, photography (b. Tokyo, 1966) is the subject of a solo exhibition at Museo Arte Contemporanea, Rome in 2002

Bettina von Zwehl, photography (b. Munich, 1971) has exhibited at the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Victoria and Albert Museum and Victoria Miro Gallery

Reality Check venues:

Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia 29 Aug – 6 Oct 2002

14 Wharf Road, London 24 Oct – 24 Nov 2002

Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic 6 Mar - 8 Jun 2003

Poland Bunkier Gallery, Cracow 23 Jun - Aug 2003

Latvia Arsenals, Riga 24 Oct -23 Nov 2003

House of Artists, Zagreb 16 Jan - 16 Feb 2004

Reality Check is curated by Kate Bush, Senior Programmer, The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Brett Rogers, Head of Exhibitions, British Council, Visual Arts.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue featuring an introductory essay on the exhibition by Kate Bush and individual texts on the artists by Brett Rogers. All orders should be directed to Cornerhouse Publications or your local arts bookshop.

For further information please contact Brett Rogers

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