- Venue
- The Mission Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, September 10, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, October 30, 2011
- Address
- Gloucester Place | Maritime Quarter | Swansea | UK | SA1 1TY
- Location
- Wales
Drawing us into illusionary worlds, he often devises spaces that take on a new history: a space which might tell the story of an ecological disaster or of an often overlooked moment in nature. He leads us to question whether what we see is real, art or something more complex that sits in between. He creates detailed and precise work, highlighting environmental and ecological issues and often confronts the viewer with an environment more akin to a film set. Instead of conforming to the expectations of a gallery space his work invites us to view it in a way that questions our relationship with the environment and our acknowledgment (or not), of our responsibilities. Within Duncan’s practice, all manner of materials are utilised as the artist attempts to capture moments within nature. By juxtaposing the man-made with the natural, and substituting the natural for a man-made equivalent, he highlights the disconnection between real and fake and the complexities of contemporary experiences of the real and the fake.
