Artist Steven Claydon's Seleceted artwork and biography at The Saatchi-Gallery

About Steven Claydon BIO.
Steven Claydon is drawn to the often-overlooked moments in history where art interfaces with politics. His paintings include references to Vorticism, with his sculptures and posters referring to monuments and memorials from the turn of the last century. His work has a faux-antiquated feel, often with the artist deliberately attempting to distress the works, imbuing them with their own sense of history. Recent exhibitions include a solo statement at Art Basel, a solo show at White Columns, New York and ‘Rings of Saturn’ at Tate Modern, all 2006. Claydon lives and works in London and is represented by Hotel, London

Steven Claydon Exhibitions
2003 Nibs. Group show curated by Steven Claydon, Hoxton Distillery, London
R.I.P. photographic contribution with Neil Chapman for the Box of the Uncanny, a multiple produced by Christine Walter, Munich.
Strange Greeny from The Sum of the Earth, video screening at Kunstwerk, Berlin
The Sum of the Earth, exhibition of sculpture, installation, video and sound, with Neil Chapman, Hoxton Distillery, London E8
2002 Grey Field Bulge/Tin Foil Blanket, contribution with Neil Chapman for The Poster The Show +1,
group exhibition Hoxton Distillery London
2001 Stepped Series In Response To A Nothing, contribution with Neil Chapman, group exhibition, The
Poster, The Show, The Hoxton Distillery London
It Grows Away, collaboration with Neil Chapman, The Hoxton Distillery London
Loud Like Nature, ADD N TO (X), installation and video, La Box, Borges, France
2000 One Geocrab, film screening as part of Night Stop Cinema, The Week of Small Miracles,, London
Five works in lieu of a particle accelerator, installation with Neil Chapman, Greengrassi, London
1999 The Opposite of a Good Idea, performance with Neil Chapman, Inventory, Volume 3, issue 2, launch, Guy’s Hospital London
ADDING N TO (X), installation and performance, February and April, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France
1998 Shrimp-Ice Briefing, Live Arts Event, collaboration with Neil Chapman, ICA, London SW1, 30/5
ADD N TO (X) Dinner Music for Electronic Quartet, ICA London
Live performance of group composition to the film, Paper Moon, in collaboration with Barry Adamson, Nick Cave and Pansonic, Royal Festival Hall, London.
1998/99 Its A Curse Its A Burden, video installation in group show curated by Glenn Brown, Approach Gallery, London
1997 City Of Gold, Mister Chicks, Peripheral Visionary, Group Show, Eindhoven, Curated by Colin and
Lowe and Roddy Thompson, Holland, May.
Steven Claydon is drawn to the often-overlooked moments in history where art interfaces with politics. His paintings include references to Vorticism, with his sculptures and posters referring to monuments and memorials from the turn of the last centurySteven Claydon is drawn to the often-overlooked moments in history where art interfaces with politics. His paintings include references to Vorticism, with his sculptures and posters referring to monuments and memorials from the turn of the last century
Steven Claydon is drawn to the often-overlooked moments in history where art interfaces with politics. His paintings include references to Vorticism, with his sculptures and posters referring to monuments and memorials from the turn of the last century

Claydon’s portrait is a composite of three heroic busts of political figures from this time, each embodying radically opposing beliefs. Through this literal hybrid, Claydon incites the current revivals of genetic engineering and post-modern eclecticism as plausible validation of Frazer’s theories.Claydon reinforces his sculpture’s historical stature while belying its association with outdated fashion. The peacock feather operates primarily as a formal device, adding a surreal and dilettantish air to the impoverished authoritarian relic.Claydon exhumes the ‘veritas’ of artifacts, undermining their value and truth through his witty and complex material juxtapositions.

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