Graham Dolphin, Chanel Genesis 2007, Scratched Poster. Courtesy the artist and Seventeen

GATESHEAD, UK.- BALTIC presents Newcastle based British artist, Graham Dolphin's first solo public gallery show in the UK. Repeater will be the first in a series of exhibitions by young up-and-coming artists, living and working in the region.
Repeater will bring together several strands of Dolphin’s practice. These encompass the meticulously made and inscribed record albums, the altered magazine covers and his video and sound pieces that use found footage and sounds from pop culture and the world of fashion and film.
Dolphin often works directly onto ready-made objects such as vinyl records and fashion magazines. He scratches passages of minute, immaculate text into their surfaces. Working with a wide range of media, he transforms fashion, film and music icons into artworks that reveal the obsessions of the world of mass culture. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20313

Graham Dolphin, Untitled (Vogue, June 2001 - Sewn), 2002. Magazine, thread. Courtesy the artist and Seventeen