Mary Ferguson

2007

Biography

b. 1983 Elgin, Moray, Scotland

2001–2006 MFA, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art

Previous Exhibitions:
2007 The Alberts, Arts in Motion, Evanton, Scotland
2007 Darkspace II, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2006 Pittenweem Festival of Art, Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland

Awards:
2006 Peacock Visual Arts Prize for Moving Image

Selectors' Comments:
Mary Ferguson's little pink bunnies add post-grad philosophical musing to Steve Bishop's basement chemistry. Her rabbit redux was, we all agreed, 'pure genius'. Just when you want the bunnies to shut up and be still, they lob you their wisdom. Don't blink or you'll miss the smarts.

Artist's Statement:
My work takes the form of abstracted drawings and short animations, where objects and landscapes are barely recognisable and it is the assumed function and nature of objects themselves that is questioned. 'Creation' is a short film in which a whole new world is conjured through nothing more than line and colour.

Creation (still), 2006 - 2007; DVD video, 3 mins

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Charlie Crane

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David Fletcher