Dickie Webb

Born and raised in Buckinghamshire, UK in 1979. Dickie has worked overseas in New Zealand, North/South America, Japan and Europe for 17 years and spends half the year in New Zealand and the rest in artist residencies around the world or nestled in a mountain resort coaching snowboarding.

Through my nomadic adult life, I have learnt to adapt to different environments, constantly altering my connection to landscape. My current practice explores the potential that exists within disremembered spaces, investigating these spaces both physically and virtually for their anthropomorphic qualities. Just like a good conversation you never want it to end my connection to landscape seems to grow stronger the more I experience it.

My studio works take advantage of subtle technologies, sound and kinetic elements, disrupting our everyday sensory awareness of space. Outside the studio I introduce heterotopic objects into abandoned spaces, these forms suggest what could be or might happen and allow the mind to see beyond the relative space. These interventions feed back into my studio as case studies for better understanding about the potential contained within these sites. I intend the works to sit somewhere between the familiar and im...

2013 BA Hons Intermedia, Edinburgh College Of Art, Edinburgh, UK

2012 Purchase College,State University of New York, USA

2010 Diploma Oxford Brookes, Oxford, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

2014 Beyond Tinted, Modern Art Museum Yerevan, MAMY, Armenia
2013 One Action, Ones Actions – Cultybraggan POW Camp, UK
2013 TEXT: AS - Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Dip Your Toe – Govanhill Baths, Glasgow
2016 Early Warning - &Model Gallery, Leeds, UK
2016 Paradigm – Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
2015 Trading Places - 12ø Collective, London,
2015 Move Me - Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh,
2015 PNEM - Sound Art Festival – Uden, Netherlands
2015 Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say - LOS, London, UK
2014 THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW - Art Athina, Athens, Greece
2014 Boundaries - Artscape, Athens, Greece
2013 Unsettled Certainties - Aghias Zonis 1 Space, Athens, Greece.
2013 Best Of Degree - Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2013 Newhaven Station - Edinburgh, UK
2013 Defcon 1 Salon - Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2013 Expensive Space - Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2012 In Finite - Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2012 Kitchen Gallery - Ohio, USA
2012 ...