C.18th Elm Chippendale Country Upholstered Side Dining Chair Georgian George III (Anonymous 1760-182...

Stuart Middleton

BornNationalityBased In
1987BritishGlasgow
Biography

Stuart Middleton works in drawing, painting, sculpture, text and animation. His practice continuously raises questions about human nature and systematic behaviour. By using storytelling as a research tool, he examines the themes of responsibility, capital, gender, class and cruelty. Middleton creates spaces where one is able to observe how fiction enters popular culture and provokes social division; how metaphors originate and impact the formation of one’s identity; how violence and aggression come to be institutionally normalised. His eccentric and odd sculptures feature twisted bodies; his installations take the shape of actual mazes; and his texts tell absurd scenarios placed in corporate settings. Middleton’s work is conceptual, surreal, frightening, humorous, and powerfully resistant to artistic conventional classification. ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled
Stuart Middleton
Untitled, 2015
70 x 70 x 15cm
G40
Stuart Middleton
G40, 2021
48 x 69.5 x 2.5cm
Lower Croft Nimrod
Stuart Middleton
Lower Croft Nimrod, 2018
64 x 88.5 x 2.5cm
Cotonhall Landmine Raspberry
Stuart Middleton
Cotonhall Landmine Raspberry, 2019
64 x 88.5 x 2.5cm
Family Histories: The Victorians
Stuart Middleton
Family Histories: The Victorians, 2019
70 x 110 x 75cm
G09
Stuart Middleton
G09, 2021
48 x 69.5 x 2.5cm
It is our duty to toughen up, but not at the expense of empathy
Stuart Middleton
It is our duty to toughen up, but not at the expense of empathy, 2019
35 x 122 x 90cm
Sad sketches 2
Stuart Middleton
Sad sketches 2, 2014
70 x 125 x 125cm
Steel yourself, but don't forget to make time for intimacy
Stuart Middleton
Steel yourself, but don't forget to make time for intimacy, 2020
35 x 122 x 90cm
Untitled mural (custom commission)
Stuart Middleton
Untitled mural (custom commission), 2018
Amaroo Pommy
Stuart Middleton
Amaroo Pommy, 2023
102.5 x 116 x 4cm
It is labour alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man
Stuart Middleton
It is labour alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man, 2023
116.5 x 201.5 x 5cm
Personal effects and things that are biographical in amongst material that might be understood as generic without clear separation under compression (Kebab)
Stuart Middleton
Personal effects and things that are biographical in amongst material that might be understood as generic without clear separation under compression (Kebab), 2024
55 x 311 x 56cm
Hard wired server clock movement parts (face missing), museum case linings (cotton, vegetable dye), monofilament line, mounted on wooden panel
Stuart Middleton
Hard wired server clock movement parts (face missing), museum case linings (cotton, vegetable dye), monofilament line, mounted on wooden panel, 2024
221 x 99.1cm
C.18th Elm Chippendale Country Upholstered Side Dining Chair Georgian George III (Anonymous 1760-1820)
Stuart Middleton
C.18th Elm Chippendale Country Upholstered Side Dining Chair Georgian George III (Anonymous 1760-1820), 2025
100 x 57 x 53cm
Pinguis Jeremiah
Stuart Middleton
Pinguis Jeremiah, 2025
66.1 x 85.5 x 4cm
Biennals
Glasgow International2016 - Glasgow
Glasgow International2016 - Glasgow
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