People Places Still Life

Rubin R. Geehan

ABOUT

RUBINNINEFIVE@GMAIL.COM

B. AUG 1995
LONDON, UK
GRADUATE, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART 2017 - 2020
WRITER, FILMMAKER

BIO

Rubin R. Geehan is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works between London and his hometown Brighton. His practice, which consists predominately of written works and moving-image film, is about discovering language. His work is about finding autonomy, spirit and sensual experience in an era of acceleration. Never far from distance, home and natural spaces. He describes his work as psychogeography; being in response, and associated in practice, to his walks and runs. Ideas of the body, the mind, and the given space.

Informed by slow cinema and influenced by such works as The Green Ray by Tacita Dean, Rosa Barba’s A Private Tableaux and Margaret Tait’s Happy Bees and Were I am is here - Influenced by the romantic techniques of the past but contemporary in spirit. Stuck between things.

His Films and his written works area about shortcomings, small triumphs and breakthroughs of sorts. Clumsiness. Positioning.

They are, if by all else, about describing that thing. That certain feeling. That feeling that is so unusual to describe. And harder to tell.
When my body is good and exhausted. Here it comes like the easiest of things. And things fall as they ought to.
I can now run very far. And art too, perhaps somewhat incidentally, feels much the same. It is that thing. It feels a little like this. And I am still a little far to say for certain. The quieting sound of many things. Dull and great. In Ali Smith’s Winter her words are hectic and subtle. The words, by all manner of rules, are strange and perfectly right - this is how I want my work to feel.

His work has been exhibited at Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow (2020), New Glasgow Society, Glasgow (2019), House For An Art Lover (2019), Centre For Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2019), Wasps Studio, Glasgow (2018).

During the pandemic his work was exhibited at DS2020 (2020), Graduate Showcase (2020).

His work has also been Published in American Chordata (2018) and continues to be self-published by matter of practice.

EVENTS

Glider

06.03.20 - 06.04.20
Waterstones Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland

Hawk

09.10.19 - 11.10.19
New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, Scotland

Motherlode

14.03.2019 - 20.03.2019
Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, Scotland

Sobremesa

08.11.18 - 11.11.18 Wasps Studios, Glasgow, Scotland

DS2020 simulator, virtual degree show

01.09.20

The Glasgow School of Art’s 2020 Degree Show was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. This show is the culmination and celebration of years of study and creativity, and to lose it was a huge blow. Glasgow School of Art’s institutional response has been (at time of writing) sorely lacking.

So a group of us affected students (and generous others) have made this, DS2020 Simulator, a virtual recreation of our show that never happened, in its intended location of Glasgow’s Stow College. Our show features the work of 135 graduating students from BA fine art (painting & printmaking, sculpture & environmental art, photography), commercial design (illustration, graphic design, photography), textile design and fashion. You can freely walk around the show as you would have in real life, or select an artist’s name from the map screen to skip right to their exhibit.

Glasgow School of Art Graduate Showcase 2020

A Foreword from new Director, Penny Macbeth

27 May 2020
I am delighted to welcome you to The Glasgow School of Art Graduate Showcase 2020. We hope you enjoy our creative response to mounting a physical degree show during the current pandemic. Our digital platform enables us to share the work of our hugely talented graduates at this important moment in their careers.

As a creative community we understand and value the significance of the physical public exhibition, and its importance to the individual practitioner and their audience. Once we are able to move beyond social distancing, the GSA is committed to assisting our graduates as they enter their creative careers, supporting them to develop physical exhibitions which showcase their work. Our support will manifest itself in sponsorship and access to exhibition spaces, and our dedicated team are developing a guidance framework for this next stage as I write. Glasgow as a city thrives on the quality and volume of its exhibition and cultural programming, it is essential that the GSA and its graduates continues to contribute to this going forward and we are committed to making this happen.

The work within this exciting digital showcase represents the culmination of a student’s time with us, their unique creative journeys and signals the start of their professional lives. You will notice as you scroll through the site exploring the work of our stud

ents, that a number of them have linked their work to the National Union of Students’ Pause or Pay campaign and a group of PGT students have chosen not to submit work at this time, the reasons for which are detailed within their personal statements. We hope that these students will in time submit work and the digital platform has been developed to allow this. All students can add new work as they complete it allowing them to share with you over the next 12 months the development of their practice as they transition from graduate to professional practitioner.

Penny Macbeth
Director

Graduate Showcase link