Kaye Donachie Epiphany 2002 Private Collection. © The Artist Courtesy Maureen Paley, London enlarge

Kaye Donachie uses found footage of rebellious and revolutionary groups as source material to investigate group dynamics and power structures. In the Triennial she is showing Epiphany, Red and Blue and Your untold dreams I love to see. They are all based on a rare film documenting counterculture groups. Donachie considers painting an appropriate medium through which to probe radical beliefs and their paradoxes. Her interest lies in manipulating cultural references that have, over time, become embedded in our collective consciousness. As she explains: 'The references operate like narrative structures '. In this way, she uses cultural icons to bridge complex relationships between the past and present.

Biography

Born in 1970 in Glasgow
1995–1997 Royal College of Art, London
1995–1996 Hochschule der Künste (H.D.K), Berlin
1989–1992 University of Central England, Birmingham

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Lives and works in London