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MESSENGER, TOBY

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    caravan park, painting 1 (elliot park, arbroath) acrylic on paper, 32" x 48" 2007
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    untitled (mirror) watercolour on paper, 9" x 12" 2007
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    untitled (elliot park) acrylic on paper, 2007
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    drawing 2 (caravan park) 30" x 48", 2006
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    drawing 1 (elliot park, arbroath) 32" x 48", 2006
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    wasteground next to macdonalds drawing, 23" x 32", 2006
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    untitled (mcdonalds) drawing 4 32" x 48", 2006
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    untitled (road) pastel on paper, 32" x 48", 2006
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    untitled watercolour on paper, 2007
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    night drawing pencil on paper, 2007
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    untitled (path, evening) chalk on paper, 22" x 32", 2007
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    untitled watercolour on paper, 2007
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    untitled acrylic on paper, 9" x 12" 2007
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    untitled (elliot park) acrylic on paper, 9" x 12" 2007
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    untitled (building) arbroath pastel on paper, 22" x 32" 2007
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    untitled (car park, elliot park industrial estate) drawing, 22" x 26" 2007
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    untitled drawing 3 32" x 48" 2010
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    untitled drawing 3 (dusk) 32" x 48" 2010
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    untitled (drawing 2) drawing, 32" x 48" 2010
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    untitled chalk on paper, 22" x 32", 2007
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    untitled (evening drawing, arbroath) chalk on paper, 22" x 26", 2007
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    untitled (net curtains) watercolour on paper, 9" x 12" 2007
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    untitled watercolour on paper, 9" x 12" 2007
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    corridor (LKV, Trondheim Norway) chalk on paper, 10" x 14", 2007
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    untitled (grass bank, elliot park) chalk on paper, 22" x 32", 2007
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    untitled (night drawing) chalk on paper, 9" x 12", 2007
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    painting 3 acrylic on paper, 32" x 48", 2007
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    painting 4 acrylic on paper, 32" x 48", 2007
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    untitled (roundabout, siena) chalk on paper, 2002
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    studio floor (LKV, Norway) chalk on paper, 9" x 12", 2007
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    untitled (e.p arbroath, drawing 3) 2006
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    untitled (homage to paul nash) chalk on cardboard, 2008
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    untitled ('shell guide') drawing, 2008
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    untitled (floor stuff) oil on board, 2006
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    untitled (studio, hospitalfield) drawing, 2008
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    untitled (transmission 2) chalk 2009
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    untitled (drawing from 1st yr art school) drawing, 1997 (95" x 90")

Big dusty drawings scattered along the floor in a succession of big empty feet entangling my long johns silver spoon big time rag band randy bastard.

 

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Forthcoming exhibition: 'the effects of good and bad government' , solo show @ glasgow project room.

Preview Sat 13th August, 7 − 9pm. exhibition 14th August - Sat 20th August

 

Born in Birmingham in 1976. Studied painting BA at the Glasgow School of Art between 1996 and 2000.

 

Group shows include 'in-between' inter/media Glasgow 2005, 'Flat/Space' Babel Trondheim Norway 2007, The Aspect Painting Prize finalists show The Gallery Cork St London 2009, 'The Painted Image' House for an Art Lover Glasgow 2009, 'Hell for Leather' Glasgow Project Room 2009, and 'the pschopathology of everyday life' with andrew cranston, lorna robertson and sandy grant in glasgow project room 2011

Solo Shows include 'Freedom No.5' The Glasgow Art Club 2007.

Artist in residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim Norway in 2007, and at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland in 2006, 2008, 2010. Public art collections include Oya Helsehus Norway. I set up additional studios at Glasgow Independent Studios in 2001. 

 


Bibliography

21/03/09- Aspect Prize 'Artist Profile'. The Glasgow Herald
2007 - 'Babel 2007' - publication of LKV annual residency exhibition progam
22/12/07 'With A Hint of Munch' ('Med en anelse Munch') Review in 'Udresleavifen'. Heidi Oliv Wollamo.

Dec 2007 'Intimate Meditations'. Kristin Mandt Heim 
July 2005 'In-Between' Exhibition Review The List. Alexander Kennedy

June 2005 'In-Between' Essay (Jackie Anderson and Toby Messenger). Jack Mottram

 

 

 

 

 

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