Artist-in-Residence: Derrick Guild, Website of the Lux Art Institute, 2009

Born in 1963 in Perth, Scotland, Derrick Guild received a BA degree and his Post Graduate Diploma from Duncan of Jordanston College of Art and Design, Dundee.

His paintings and objects reference European still life of the 15th to the 19th centuries. The drama, allegory, and naturalism inherent in this period speak of dilemmas in the human condition. By juxtaposing objects or presenting them individually, Guild is referencing ideas of love, loss, religion, beauty, geo-politics, colonialism, humor, longing, death, absurdity, and decay. His works are classical, formal, and at the same time contemporary in their sense of dislocation and ambiguity.

Guild has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including the following solo shows: “Sense is Hard” at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness. Orkney, 1999; “Picnic Hamper for Heaven” at Perth Museum, Scotland, 2007; and “Bread Paintings,” 2000 and “Pre-Ascension,” 2007 at the Allan Stone Gallery, New York.

Group shows include “Food for Thought,” 1999 at the New Jersey Centre for the Visual Arts; “Blind Sight” at the Titanic Gallery, Turku, Finland, and “Guilding the Summertown,” 2005, at RSA Projects, Edinburgh, Scotland.

He has been the recipient of many awards, including the Maude Gemmell Hutchison Award RSA, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, and the Villiers David Foundation Award.

Having taught at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee since 1992, Guild is currently residing and working on the Island of Ascension in the South Atlantic.
In Studio

Thursday, May 28, 2009 through
Saturday, June 20, 2009
ON EXHIBIT

Thursday, May 28, 2009 through
Saturday, August 1, 2009
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Derrick Guild b. 1963

Working in a style that links mystery, irony, and realism, Derrick Guild channels the Dutch Rococo and seventeenth century Spanish painting in contemporary depictions of everyday objects. By heightening the quotidian and familiar to new levels of poignancy and perplexity, Guild imbues objects with an uneasiness that defies conventions.

Derrick Guild was born in Perth, Scotland in 1963. From 1983 to1987, he attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, in Dundee, Scotland. Guild briefly taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a visiting lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art.

He has received numerous awards and accolades, including Diadem Architects Centenary Award in 1984, the Royal Scottish Academy Sir William Gillies Bequest Award in 2004, a Carnegie Trust Award in 2005, and was inducted into the Royal Scottish Academy in 2010.

Guild has had solo exhibitions at Paton Gallery, London, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, and Allan Stone Gallery, New York. Guild lives and works in Edinburgh.