Graeme Gerard Halliday

Hallidonto’s (Graeme Gerard Halliday) work relates to his “Cyborgia Manifesto” his main focus is drawing; The essence of the cyborg became my own. The cyborg image has been an integral part of my childhood. The cold war had just ended – the cultural landscape of the 80's, was very much rooted in the future, the inherent feeling of that time was dystopia from the cartoons/films, I watched as a kid, the advent of console gaming: Nintendo, etc. The image of man was always his metamorphism into the machine, or the machines taking over. I identified with the cyborg image, I wanted to be one. I identified with the concept of such a being and it has informed my work to date. They are infantile and simplistic in their appearance but not in their construction, being drawn in one continuous line. My visual discourse is motivated by transcribing the sociological constructions of our age, the evolution of the flesh its reflection of the coming state of mankind, flesh anxiety, the departure into a new being.

Duncan of jordanstone, Dundee, GB, Time based Art,

2018
Here East - Plexal - New Realities : VR performance & paintings and panellist
RBSA : Royal Society of Birmingham Artists NEXT WAVE exhibition

2017
Cyborgia Manifesto, Joseph Fine Art solo exhibition.
VR Drawing performance: Imagination Festival Central Saint Martins

2016
Transcending to the Void. Halli-Hara exhibition Thames Side Studios September 2016

2015
Broken Minds Exhibit – Mother Studio’s, Hackney, London
ArtFix: Painting- Performance, Soho, London
Wearable Matters, Brooklyn, New York

2014
Gallerie Weissraum, Kyoto, Japan. Solo Exhibit.
Wilberforce Trust, York, Exhibit and Auction for charity.

2013
TOMS: The Art of giving
Vogue Fabrics, Dalston, London
RAW; Natural Born Artists. Showcase. First European Opening,London
Alpha Art Gallery, Edinburgh

2012
Edinburgh Art Fair. UK
Alpha Art Gallery Edinburgh, UK
Namsong International Art Fair , South Korea

2011
Rumble Above The Clouds Church of St. Paul, New York City, USA.
Whitelines: Drawing Exhibition; Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh
St Cecilia’s Gallery, New York, Brooklyn USA.

2010

Sphere Gallery, London
White Heat; Kaleid Editions, London
The Foundry, London Exhibition of New Drawings
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