Graham Dolphin‘s practice spans drawing, object-making, film, sound, text, and curation. At its core lies an ongoing investigation into identity as a constructed idea, examined through the lens of popular culture. The figure of the fan recurs throughout his works, serving as a symbol of new forms of spirituality emerging in a secular age.
Dolphin works directly with the objects, sounds, and imagery of popular music and wider cultural ephemera, reframing them through acts of meticulous, handmade labour. Through this process, he shifts materials from low to high culture, exposing the economies of cultural value and the structures of capitalism that sustain them. A precise conceptual framework underpins each fabrication, disrupting conventional understandings of skill, illusion, and authorship.
Across drawing, object, film, sound, and text, Dolphin’s practice is always led by a conceptual foundation. This extends to curatorial projects and collaborations with musicians, artists, and writers, presented in gallery, museum, and non-traditional art spaces.
For wildpop Dolphin discusses these ideas and how they are manifest with particular reference to his work in film and sound.
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