Artist: Scott Donohue
Statement:
A simultaneous laugh and cry, People Love Machines is a glimpse into a dytopian future, dominated by absurd technology. Our desire to reach technological perfection has led to world dominated by anarchic machines. “ We want to be gods, to be able to change shape and form at will. Virtual reality assures us that we can, that we can reach the sun without melting our wings.” Kiersta Fricke
Using a diverse range of media the artist creates images that are often a satirical response to modern societies obsession with machines. “I like to imagine us slaving over the development of artificial intelligence, but always failing to compute our own human nature. Little do we know that intelligent thought dwells in the corner of a dark, damp, skip. It lays waiting for the right moment to engulf us in our past technological conquests.”
Biography
Currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne Scott Donohue graduated from Northumbria University in 2004 with a BA Hons in fine art. Since then he has exhibited both installation and mixed media work, in various gallery spaces throughout the UK and over seas. Exhibition highlights include Grandprix Drawing Exhibition (Japan),'The Wow Signal' (Newcastle upon Tyne), Field of Vision, Lab Gallery (New York), and Epoch Exhibitions (Meeting House Square, Dublin).
Working with large inter active installations, mixed media and paint on canvas his art feeds off science fiction, and our obsession with technological progress to depict an absurd future. He is currently working on a book titled ‘People Love Machines’, and developing an inter active website.
Images
Becoming, arcylic on canvas, 2005
The Flowers of Evil, mixed media on canvas 2006
System Failure, inter-active installation, 2005
T.V Takeover, mixed media on canvas, 2005
