Owain Train McGilvary is an artist from Ynys Môn and is based in Glasgow. He usually works with moving image, drawing, collage and painting. His projects pay particularly close attention to cross-disciplinary collaborations and reconfiguring existing archives. Previously he has worked with wrestlers, drag artists, musicians, writers and other visual artists to create multimedia, multilingual and multi-imaginative works. Driven by counter cultural activity, the artist devotes his projects with people over long periods of time through building trusting relationships that continue beyond the legacy of the work.
His most recent projects include working from an amateur photographic archive of a Welsh gay bar and a collaborative work examining the gaps, holes and absences within a national museum archive. His practice to date seeks to work through a growing image archive, both personal and appropriated, that embraces the onslaught of image circulation, often turning to images of transgression, then made surreal.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include a duo exhibition with Bobbi Cameron for Glasgow International, a solo presentation at Pontio Arts Centre and joint exhibition with Dylan Huw at Mostyn Gallery. Recent exhibitions include I’m finally using my body for what I feel like it is made to do at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2022); Galeri, Caernarfon (2021); CARU’N DDWYS at Ty Pawb, Wrexham; TheNewBridge Project, Newcastle and The Glue Factory, Glasgow (all 2019). In 2022-2023, he was a Wales Venice 10 Fellow supported by Artes Mundi, Arts Council Wales and Disability Arts Cymru. He holds an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art and a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins.
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| 1 | I'm attended as a portal myself | 8 | 4 |
| 2 | Fel gwacter | 6 | 3 |
