STIRLING, SCOTLAND.- The Changing Room will feature a solo exhibition of new work by Duncan Marquiss, 22 September – 27 October. Marquiss makes beautifully-rendered works within which lie more ambiguous and sinister undertones. His source material comes from a process of collating found images that, for whatever reason, fascinate or provoke him. Images are juxtaposed and re-appropriated until they begin to resonate with each other in a poetic juxtaposition, or anti-synthesis, which attempts 'to evoke the unrepresentable. Many of these found images are chosen because they are problematic or I find them troubling in some way - my doubts become a reason to show these images'.

At the centre of the exhibition is an ambitious new film, funded through the Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Artist Film and Video Awards in 2006, shown alongside drawings and prints. Shot on 16mm, the film extends both the cinematic language and the research into cinema that Marquiss has utilised in previous video work. It explores variance of ecstatic experience; what Aldus Huxley described as ‘downward self-transcendence’, and the idea that innate human nature is a radical force in modern culture. The central sequences of the film are the memories of a solitary individual alienated from society, who struggles to reconcile culture with their innate nature.

A graduate from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2005, Marquiss (b.1979) was the youngest artist selected for Zenomap, representing Scotland at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. During November 2006 and March 2007 he was artist-in-residence in the town of Scicli, Sicily, through the ISIDEM programme. Recent exhibitions include Five Figure Position, Peter Kilchmann, Zurich and doggerfisher, Edinburgh, 2006; Where the Wild Things Are, DCA, Dundee; The Metal Bridge, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow and Solitude, Upstairs Berlin, Berlin,all 2006. His first solo show was at Dicksmith Gallery, London in 2004, with whom he will exhibit at Frieze Art Fair in October 2007 and in a solo show at the gallery in November.