Death By the Sea - Glen Pudvine and Dominic Watson

11th June 2021 - July 10th 2021

The mind evolved in the sea. Water made it possible. All the early stages took place in water. The origin of life, the birth of animals, the evolution of nervous systems and brains, and the appearance of complex bodies that make brains worth having. The first adventures on land took place 420 million years ago, perhaps earlier. But the early history of animals is a history of life in the sea. When animals did crawl onto dryland they took the Sea with them. All the basic activities of life occurring in water filled cells bounded by membranes. Tiny containers whose models are remnants of the sea.

Glen Pudvine

Glen Pudvine b.1989 Chester, UK graduated in Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2011 and completed an MFA at The Royal Academy Schools in 2019. He has been selected for New Contemporaries 2017 and for the Mahler/Lewitt residency in Spoleto, Italy. Since graduating he has exhibited in a group show at Lychee One gallery London called ‘Young monsters’ curated by Marcelle Joseph and his first solo exhibition at J Hammond Projects titled ‘Slugulus The White and The Penance of Saint Glen’. Pudvine currently lives and works in London and co runs the artist led project space, PLAZA PLAZA in Elephant and castle.

Dominic Watson

Dominic Watson was born in Sunderland, UK 1986. He studied sculpture at Camberwell College of Art, London, and then an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2014. Since graduating he was selected for New Contemporaries 2013 as well as the London Open 2015. Watson was a recipient of the John Kinross Fellowship, 2014, awarded by the Royal Scottish Academy and received a Fellowship in Contemporary Art Practice from the British School of Rome in 2017. His work is part of the RSA and the Ingram Collections. Watson currently lives and works in London, where co runs an artist led project space, PLAZA PLAZA in elephant and Castle.