Joshua Petherick,'Nachinat-Glazz-Smot-Messel-Vareet-Dorogoy' (2012). Installation view, Glasgow Subway. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
For 'Melbourne in Glasgow', Joshua Petherick presents a series of posters on Glasgow’s Subway system. A series of ambiguous ‘advertisement’ works, whose titles, all derived from Nadsat, the constructed teenage argot of Anthony Burgess’ 'A Clockwork Orange', punctuate various sites throughout one of the world’s oldest underground systems, the Glasgow subway, a system often referred to by locals as The Clockwork Orange. Works are situated at Buchanan Street, Kelvinbridge, Kelvinhall, Partick, St Enoch and St George’s Cross stations.
Joshua Petherick,'Nachinat-Glazz-Smot-Messel-Vareet-Dorogoy' (2012). Installation view, Glasgow Subway. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
Joshua Petherick (born 1979, Adelaide, Australia) melds modern technologies and a variety of media to create playful riddles, fictions and questions – each designed to engender a critical appraisal in the way we encounter and value things, pictures and words.
Solo projects include ‘Saratogian Bedding’, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, and ‘Simultaneous Solitudes’, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne (both 2011), ‘Joshua Petherick’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art at Mirka Tolarno, Melbourne and ‘Nom Abbamon’, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne (w. Christopher L.G. Hill) (both 2010), ‘Bootleg at The Manor’, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne, and ‘Austin & Petherick’, Neon Parc, Melbourne (w. Nick Austin) (both 2009). Projects include Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; CCP (Centre for Contemporary Photography), Melbourne.
Project Details
For Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, The Common Guild presented five new projects by Melbourne-based artists in collaboration with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne.
‘Melbourne in Glasgow’ was presented by The Common Guild as part of a major collaboration with ACCA, Melbourne for 2012 and 2014, coinciding with Glasgow’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games.
