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 - 06.04.20Waterstones Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland
Hawk
09.10.19 - 11.10.19New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, Scotland
Motherlode
14.03.2019 - 20.03.2019Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, Scotland
Sobremesa
08.11.18 - 11.11.18
Wasps Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
01.09.20The 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
BOOKS
Twenty two (hundred)
English170 pp.
paperback
8×10 in, 20×25 cm
Self Published, Feb 16, 2018
Glider, Written
English6 pp.
Handmade paper
5 x 21cm .
Handbound, Embossed by hand.
Below; Page 1.
Winter issue
American Chordata6, 2018
We are not the same
English42 pp.
softback, photobook
8×10 in, 20×25 cm
Self published, May 18 2015.
SELECTED WORKS
Lighter than Air
2020, Super 8, colour film,transferred to HD, digital sound; 3. 1/2 min
54
2020, Super8, Colour, digital sound, transferred to HD;2min loop
Three years, Laurel Place
2019, Mini dv, colour, digital sound; 4 min 
Untitled Greek film
2019, Super 8, colour film, transferred to HD, Digital sound, 4 min
Good Country
2018, Super 8, colour film, transferred to HD,silent; 4 min
Green House
2018, Digital/Super 8, colour film, HD, Digital sound;6 min
Joshua
2018, Super8, Colour film, transferred to HD, silent;2min
SITE
January Morning
East Sussex, 2020
Medium Format, Digital Colour print
Catcher
2016
35mm, Digital Colour print
Kilpatrick hills
Scotland, 2017
35mm, Digital Colour print
Arders
England, 2016
35mm, Digital Colour print
STILLS
Gill under the skylight
Photograph from seriesWe are certainly not the same 2015 35mm, Colour Digital print
William
Photograph from series We are certainly not the same 201535mm, Colour Digital print
JAJH
2018
35mm, Colour Print
GR
2016
35mm, Colour Digital print
Right back there
Photograph taken from biographical series; And all of us. Coming of our age, 2018 - ongoing,
35mm, Darkroom print
ob in his flat
Glasgow, 2019
35mm, digital/colour dark room print
Jay
Glasgow, 2019
35mm, colour print
Taejoon
2015
35mm, Digital print
Ini
Rome, 2018
35mm, Digital Colour print
841 x 1189mm Print exhibited at Subremesa 2018
MH
2015
35mm, Colour print
Before the Glasgow Blizzard
Partick, Glasgow 2018
35mm, Digital Colour print
841 x 1189mm Print exhibited at Subremesa 2018
Berg
201435mm, 420 x 594mm Darkroom print
Peas Corner
2014
35mm, Digital Colour print
Marks
2013
35mm, 420 x 594mm Darkroom print
Sfsd stilll life
2020
Medium Format 120mm, Digital Colour scan
Little Old Guardia
A child looks down toward the dungeon. I realise, only once I am home and my film is developed, that this is infact the case.
Rome 2015
35mm, Digital
Colour scan
I can see the cold and everything else
A irreverent series about finding pictures of nothing and everything, 2015
35mm, Digital Colour print
Shifting Boarders
2014
Etching, ink on newsprint, 297 x 420
2014
Etching, ink on newsprint, 297 x 420
Image was made in response to the conflict in Syria and how the steadily escalating war was leading to both the government and multiple ethnic groups seizing the chance to redraw their own boarders. The image was made in solidarity to the Kurdistani plight in attempt to communicate the bureaucrasies behind its ultimately flawed shape.
Hawk Poster
2019
Poster, 297 x 420, 841 x 1189
Scratch on 120mm Negative Film
Original image by Alex Rogers
The idea behind the poster was to create a clean recognisable image. Using heavily reduced content to counter over complication. Shaping a poster that could ultimately stand juxtaposed against an often grey autumnal Glasgow.
2019
Poster, 297 x 420, 841 x 1189
Scratch on 120mm Negative Film
Original image by Alex Rogers
The idea behind the poster was to create a clean recognisable image. Using heavily reduced content to counter over complication. Shaping a poster that could ultimately stand juxtaposed against an often grey autumnal Glasgow.
Bauhaus research paper
2013
Newsprint, 297 x 420
Physical cut and paste to Digital using photographs from Bauhaus members.
2013
Newsprint, 297 x 420
Physical cut and paste to Digital using photographs from Bauhaus members.
A Million Mountains
2015
Paint on glass, 148 x 210,
later adapted into a Poster, 841 x 1189
Image was made in referance to the years dipleted snow fall (2013)
2015
Paint on glass, 148 x 210,
later adapted into a Poster, 841 x 1189
Image was made in referance to the years dipleted snow fall (2013)
MOTHERLODE Poster
2018
Poster, 1189 x 1682
3rd year exhibition poster.
2018
Poster, 1189 x 1682
3rd year exhibition poster.
Canal, ‘contemporary printmaking’ poster
2017
Poster, 841 x 1189
Printed on newsprint like the original image. The posters were then displayed on street walls, painted with adhesive glue.
2017
Poster, 841 x 1189
Printed on newsprint like the original image. The posters were then displayed on street walls, painted with adhesive glue.
Holding Oneself
December 2019
Poster, 841 x 1189
Self lead series of posters aimed at challenging the hollow use of language surrounding the centre/centre right campaigne trails. Using the posters as a means of distrupting the rhetoric left behind, throwing caution to the wind, both linguistically and commercially.
December 2019
Poster, 841 x 1189
Self lead series of posters aimed at challenging the hollow use of language surrounding the centre/centre right campaigne trails. Using the posters as a means of distrupting the rhetoric left behind, throwing caution to the wind, both linguistically and commercially.
Halva
2020
Poster, 841 x 1189
Cover poster for a show that never saw the light of day (covid 19)
2020
Poster, 841 x 1189
Cover poster for a show that never saw the light of day (covid 19)
More or less than real
2015
Handbound 148 x 210/Newsprint 210 x 297
A self lead zine, based on the slides of my late grandfather.
2015
Handbound 148 x 210/Newsprint 210 x 297
A self lead zine, based on the slides of my late grandfather.
Lykov
2015
Charcoal on newsprint, 297 x 420
Inspired by the Lykov family of six who fled to rural russia in fear of prosecution. The family effectively spent forty two years in complete isolation. They continued to live alone in the Taiga until discoverey in 1978, by which time a world war had passed them by. The work was made using minimal materials on a large scale. It was then scanned into parts and reconstructed digitally to become a series of Posters.
2015
Charcoal on newsprint, 297 x 420
Inspired by the Lykov family of six who fled to rural russia in fear of prosecution. The family effectively spent forty two years in complete isolation. They continued to live alone in the Taiga until discoverey in 1978, by which time a world war had passed them by. The work was made using minimal materials on a large scale. It was then scanned into parts and reconstructed digitally to become a series of Posters.