Garry Doherty. Supervisor of Prof. Doc, Fine Art, UEL
Garry Doherty has evolved an interdisciplinary creative practice that exhibits work over a range of display platforms such as Painting, sculpture, Installation, video and photography. His works mobilise the dialectic concerns of the Sublime tradition contesting terror with beauty. He chooses historical subjects and attempts to redeem terror and trauma from socio-political themes featuring Muslim communities mediated to a western audience.
The work addresses his own cultural perspective as a Muslim and acknowledges the necessity to foster an effective spirituality that activates compassion, in order to redeem traumatic events in history. His strategies oppose imminence with transcendence, a paradox that endeavoured to forge salvation with trauma, recovering its redemptive power through beauty.
Beauty acquires an antithetical position in which it attempts to liberate pain from terror, beauty necessitates order, and seeks wholeness. The work endeavours to invoke catharsis in the audience by detaching the passions from the viewer and simulating a conscious wisdom that restores empathy 3 and redeems a moral fortitude through self-awareness. – Doherty attempts to create transcendent works of art that galvanise the experience of the sublime as a force for change. (copy right, ArtistsUEL.com)
The work addresses his own cultural perspective as a Muslim and acknowledges the necessity to foster an effective spirituality that activates compassion, in order to redeem traumatic events in history. His strategies oppose imminence with transcendence, a paradox that endeavoured to forge salvation with trauma, recovering its redemptive power through beauty.
Beauty acquires an antithetical position in which it attempts to liberate pain from terror, beauty necessitates order, and seeks wholeness. The work endeavours to invoke catharsis in the audience by detaching the passions from the viewer and simulating a conscious wisdom that restores empathy 3 and redeems a moral fortitude through self-awareness. – Doherty attempts to create transcendent works of art that galvanise the experience of the sublime as a force for change. (copy right, ArtistsUEL.com)
Artist Statment
In the last ten years i have been a Demonstrator in Fine Art resposible for teaching technical skills and methods of production for Fine Art Practice. Since 2007 i have been working as a part-time Lecturer, teaching Illustration and Exhibition Design to Graphics and photography students for D.A.V.C.
My two main areas of interest are: Contemporary initatives in drawing and curatorial practice.With a specific interest in developing new spaces or platforms for artworks to exist in.
I am the Director of a Muslim Charity The School of Sufi Teaching with a particular remit in promoting cross-cultural education and dinamic spiirituality.
My two main areas of interest are: Contemporary initatives in drawing and curatorial practice.With a specific interest in developing new spaces or platforms for artworks to exist in.
I am the Director of a Muslim Charity The School of Sufi Teaching with a particular remit in promoting cross-cultural education and dinamic spiirituality.
GARRY DOHERTY
Professional Doctorate Fine Art. UE.L. (4the Year).2011
M.A. Fine Art Manchester.1986.
(1ST Class B.A Hon’s) Fine Art Hull. 1984
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Ozone Gallery Belgrade, Serbia. “The Dream Of Zoran Djidic”
2008 'Future Perfectʼ, Asni Gallery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Exhibited paintings and drawings from the project.
Joint Exhibitions
2015 Summer, Taiwan ( TBC)
2014 HaiGallery,Taipei,Taiwan. Wavelength. Painting Installation
2014 Q-Park Installation Exhibition, London. 100% Sculpture. Co-curator. (frieze week) installation.
2013 Ozone Gallery Belgrade Sebia. Amongst the Ruins. Installation
2013 Q-park Installtion Exhibition, London (friezePeriod) Big Deal. Video installation.
2013 Le Salle Magazanne Gallery, Venice Bienalle, Italy. The Colony. Co curator. Installation.
2013 Artoll Gallery International Summer Exhibition. “Nature.” Installation.
2013 Professional Doctorate Exhibition – Final Doctorate Assessment. U.E.L.
2012 Directional Forces Exhibition. Art-Toll Residency. Dusseldorf, Germany. Exhibited three paintings
and a installation.
2012 East To East. Co-curated with H. Roberts and S. Mooney. Exhibition of student work U.E.L
2012 Annex Gallery, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. Exhibited a textile print and a painting.
2012 East to East. Co-curated with H. Roberts and S. Mooney. Exhibition of student work U.E.L
Nadak Gallery, Singapore. Exhibited a textile print and a painting.
2011 A.V.A. Gallery, U.E.L. Installation of drawing and video object.
2010 Stones of Menace, church, London, curated by Jon Purnell, one day exhibition - Invited artists, film
makers, architects and guest speakers . Installation of large drawing(8x3m). Future Perfect
2010 Proffessional Doctrate Summer Showcase, A.V.A. Studios, U.E.L. Exhibited five paintings entitled
Munich
2010 Off The Clock. Magnificent Basement Gallery, London. Presented large drawing Future Perfect
2010 Off The Clock. The Pavilion, Mile End Park. London. Installation of large drawing (6x3m), Future
Perfect
2010 Middlesborough, presented five paintings entitled Munich
2010 Riseomamatic. Unit Twelve, Concord way, London, installation of large three dimensional
drawing.
2010 Postcards To America, exchange exhibition between New York State University and U.E.L.
2010 Proffessional Doctrate. Work in Progress Exhibition. A.V.A.Galery. U.E.L The first Installation of
Drawn films, comprising of drawing, object and video.
2010 Unreliable Narrative, Vyner Street Gallery, London.Group show. Installation of drawing object and
sound piece.
CURATION
PUBLICATION
ARCHITECTURE
SUFISM
Additional scholarly activities
content Reference: UEL Staff website
Professional Doctorate Fine Art. UE.L. (4the Year).2011
M.A. Fine Art Manchester.1986.
(1ST Class B.A Hon’s) Fine Art Hull. 1984
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Ozone Gallery Belgrade, Serbia. “The Dream Of Zoran Djidic”
2008 'Future Perfectʼ, Asni Gallery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Exhibited paintings and drawings from the project.
Joint Exhibitions
2015 Summer, Taiwan ( TBC)
2014 HaiGallery,Taipei,Taiwan. Wavelength. Painting Installation
2014 Q-Park Installation Exhibition, London. 100% Sculpture. Co-curator. (frieze week) installation.
2013 Ozone Gallery Belgrade Sebia. Amongst the Ruins. Installation
2013 Q-park Installtion Exhibition, London (friezePeriod) Big Deal. Video installation.
2013 Le Salle Magazanne Gallery, Venice Bienalle, Italy. The Colony. Co curator. Installation.
2013 Artoll Gallery International Summer Exhibition. “Nature.” Installation.
2013 Professional Doctorate Exhibition – Final Doctorate Assessment. U.E.L.
2012 Directional Forces Exhibition. Art-Toll Residency. Dusseldorf, Germany. Exhibited three paintings
and a installation.
2012 East To East. Co-curated with H. Roberts and S. Mooney. Exhibition of student work U.E.L
2012 Annex Gallery, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. Exhibited a textile print and a painting.
2012 East to East. Co-curated with H. Roberts and S. Mooney. Exhibition of student work U.E.L
Nadak Gallery, Singapore. Exhibited a textile print and a painting.
2011 A.V.A. Gallery, U.E.L. Installation of drawing and video object.
2010 Stones of Menace, church, London, curated by Jon Purnell, one day exhibition - Invited artists, film
makers, architects and guest speakers . Installation of large drawing(8x3m). Future Perfect
2010 Proffessional Doctrate Summer Showcase, A.V.A. Studios, U.E.L. Exhibited five paintings entitled
Munich
2010 Off The Clock. Magnificent Basement Gallery, London. Presented large drawing Future Perfect
2010 Off The Clock. The Pavilion, Mile End Park. London. Installation of large drawing (6x3m), Future
Perfect
2010 Middlesborough, presented five paintings entitled Munich
2010 Riseomamatic. Unit Twelve, Concord way, London, installation of large three dimensional
drawing.
2010 Postcards To America, exchange exhibition between New York State University and U.E.L.
2010 Proffessional Doctrate. Work in Progress Exhibition. A.V.A.Galery. U.E.L The first Installation of
Drawn films, comprising of drawing, object and video.
2010 Unreliable Narrative, Vyner Street Gallery, London.Group show. Installation of drawing object and
sound piece.
CURATION
- 2011. Curated and initiated group exhibition of four Prof Doc students, entitled UNRELIABLE NURATOR. Vyner street Gallery, London.
- 2010. One of the Co-coordinators with Prof Doc Program of End of Year Open Seminar with invited critics, writers ,artists and gallerists. AVA Studios, UEL.
PUBLICATION
- 2010 Invited to participate in round table discussion on the theme of artists who have worked for other well known artists. OFF THE CLOCK. Resonance F.M. London.
- 2012. Invited to participate in a video interview about creative practice. Presented at Muslim Council of Britain annul Leadership dinner, Millennium Hotel London.
ARCHITECTURE
- 2010. Building Riad in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.-(Second stage of build).
SUFISM
- Director of a Muslim charity –School of Sufi Teaching. Co-ordinate and teach weekly meetings and lead retreats throughout the year.
- 2011 Completed writing preliminary teachings for new students for School of Sufi Teaching.
Additional scholarly activities
- Director of The School of Sufi Teaching.Represenative of Shaykh Hazrat Azad Rasool, Nashbandii- Mujadiddi Order, London. Teaching Islamic Spirituality.
- Board member of Munir Foundation, Ethiopia. Dedicated to the renewell and restoration of the ancient Islamic city of Harrar, Ethiopia.
- Associate member of Muslim Council of Great Britain.
content Reference: UEL Staff website