DOMOBAAL

Born 1966, in Bedfordshire
lives/works in London.

Since 1999 Strutton’s practice has taken the form of drawing, installation, video/animation and performance. The work often uses the strategy of accrual to deal with a visual form of veneration and cultural reclamation. The resulting installations of paintings, drawings and objects become a kind of makeshift memorial, an ex–voto offering where nostalgia becomes a form of revenge. The sedimentary process creates a convoluted cosmos of effigies, mandalas, portraits and trophies, a graveyard whose architecture is sustained by anxiety. Sometimes brutal, often absurd, his approach to figuration is fractured, automatic and schizophrenic. He shares a preoccupation with ritualistic process, debased iconographies and compulsive aesthetics with the likes of Austin Osman Spare and Antonin Artaud. He is currently Senior Tutor in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He formed The Band of Nod in 1999 and was co–founder/director of 39, a project space in London together with Alan Miller. Since 2005 he has been writing and performing in his band Arthur Brick. Amongst other bookings, Arthur Brick have also gigged at the opening of The Manchester Contemporary and the first London Art Book Fair, at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2009.

Education

1992 – 1995 Middlesex University, London, BA (Hons) Fine Art

1996 – 1998 Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting

Current Academic Appointment

Senior Tutor in Painting, Royal College of Art, London.

Solo Exhibitions

2011: Opus Dopus, 24.02.12 – 24.03.12 domobaal.

2011: No Epitaph Needed, Asylum Arts, Caroline Gardens Chapel, London SE15 2SQ.

2009: I Sent You A Message But You Did Not Respond, Lucy Pawlak and John Strutton, domobaal.

2009: Donderslag, domobaa, with Arthur Brick gig at the opening.

2009: Volta NY: The Age of Anxiety, Donderslag: solo project, domobaal.

2008: Dumb Tings, Coleman Projects, London (collaboration with Stephen Dunne).

2005: Nos Cunctus Comitatus Nod 39, London (collaboration with Alan Miller).

2003: A Short History of The Band of Nod, K3, Zurich, Switzerland.

2003: 77 Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York.

2002: Sixstring Nylon, London.

2002: Hesitator, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2001: Liste with Nylon, Basel, Switzerland (solo presentation).

2000 Father, Son & Scary Ghost Nylon, London.

2000: The Land of Nod (collaboration with George Shaw) Lift Gallery, London.

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2012: The Perfect Nude, 13.01.12 – 10.02.12, curated by Dan Coombs and Phillip Allen, Wimbledon Space, London.

2012: Other surfaces, 13.01.12 – 11.02.12 a group exhibition of short films and videos, curated by Rebecca Geldard, Poppy Sebire, London.

2011: In Case we don't die, KPH Volume Project Space, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2011: Mail Art at the Memorial, curated by Pablo Ferretti at Galeria Progresso, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

2011: In Case we don't die, curated by Bibi Katholm in collaboration with Wonderland Art Space, Helen Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2011: The Tyranny of Grammar curated by John Strutton at Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK.

2010: Above the Serious, The Gallery, Stoke Newington Library, London.

2010: In Case we don't die, curated by Bibi Katholm in collaboration with Wonderland Art Space, Berlin, Germany.

2010: Legends of Circumstance, Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton.

2009: We're Moving, Royal College of Art, London.

2009: Local Meat is my Veg, Caribic residency, Hamburg, Germany.

2009: Baker's Dozen, curated by Clare Goodwin at CPG London.

2009: The London Art Book Fair, domobaal gallery, Whitechapel Gallery. Arthur Brick: invited to perform as the opening event of the fair.

2009: The Manchester Contemporary, domobaal gallery. Arthur Brick: invited to perform as the opening event of the fair.

2009: Time is a Sausage (A Show of Shows) domobaal.

2009: Peter Harris: Self–Portraits by Proxy, Mummery + Schnelle, London.

2009: Art Brussels, STAND projects: domobaal/London, De–Expeditie/Amsterdam, Tatjana Pieters/OneTwenty, Gent.

2009: Art Rotterdam, STAND projects: domobaal/London, De–Expeditie/Amsterdam, Tatjana Pieters/OneTwenty, Gent.

2008: Precious Things, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland.

2008: Parkhaus: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany.

2004: Chaime Soutine: Happy Sailor Tattoo Parlour and Barbican Centre, London.

2004: Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London.

2004: Radio Radio, The Trade Apartment, London.

2003: Hand Luggage K3, Zurich, Switzerland.

2002: Air Guitar: Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Cornerhouse, Manchester and touring.

2001: Record Collector, VTO, London, The International 3, Manchester, Espace D'Art Contemporain, Geneva.

2001: Counter2, Avco, London.

2000: Funny, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London.

2000: Visions at the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery London.

2000: Dark Pop, Five Years Gallery, London.

1999: Confederacy of Pleasures, Gallery Westland Place, London.

1999: It Looks Like Rain … (touring exhibition) The Niggendjker Gallery, Gronigen, Netherlands, The Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland, Arthouse, Dublin, Rep Ireland, Chulalongkorn University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, Ex–Teresa, Mexico City, Mexico.

1999: The British on Paper, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy.

1999: What is Love? Five Years Gallery, London.

1999: Sigil, Nylon, London.

1999: Seguridad Social, Ex–Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico.

Bibliography

2009: Review by Rebecca Geldard, Art Review Magazine, Summer Issue.

2008: Guardian Guide, review of Pentimenti, at Permament Gallery, Brighton.

2008: Irish Times, Aidan Dunne, review of Precious Things, Ireland, October.

2007: Frozen Tears III, Ed John Russell, ARTicle Press.

2007: Time Out, review of Top Twenty (exhibition of the week) August.

2005: Metro, review of Under 5s vol.3, Fisun Guner, 22.07.05

2005: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, article on London project spaces, Marianne Burki, 06.06.05.

2004: The Guardian Guide, Radio Radio, Jessica Lack, 10.04.04.

2004: Metro, Review of Birdhouse, Fisun Guner, 11.03.04.

2004: Miser and Now, issue 2, profile of 39.

2004: Fantastic Cities, Edited by Lucy Harrison, Kent Institute of Art & Design.

2002: Metro, Review of Air Guitar, 24.09.02.

2002: AN Magazine, Review of Air Guitar, October.

2002: Contemporary, Reconsidering Rock, Duncan Maclaren, November.

2002: Time Out, Review of Sixstring, Martin Herbert, October 2-9.

2002: Air Guitar, Art Reconsidering Rock Music, Milton Keynes Gallery.

2001: The Tastemakers, U.K. Art Now, Rosie Millard, Thames and Hudson.

2001: Counter, Text by Malcolm Quinn, Mrs. + Mr.Design (imprint).

2001: Contemporary Visual Arts, Review of Counter 2, Chris Horrocks, issue 34.

2001: The Big Issue, Preview of Counter 2, Helen Sumpter ,15.01.01.

2000: Independent on Sunday, Review of Father, Son & Scary Ghost, Duncan McLaren, 23.06.00.