JOHN MONTEITH

*1973

My art practice considers new ways of understanding our urban fabric as a constantly evolving lived space, one which continues to shape our collective imagination.

Multi-disciplinary artist John Monteith works across photography, video, sculpture, drawing, painting, textiles, collaboration and curatorial initiatives, encompassing an interdisciplinary approach in his practice. Across these medias and throughout his career he combines a highly formal aesthetic with rigorous conceptual underpinnings, employing processes that include layering, reducing, distorting, cropping, rearranging, and flattening. Taken as a whole, Monteith’s art practice considers new ways of understanding our urban fabric as a constantly evolving lived space. One which continues to shape our collective imagination.
Informed by Andreas Huyssen’s notion of the “urban palimpsest” Monteith’s works are based on various relational sites of urban social exchange that reference memory, history, queerness, time, space and erasure.

Works of John Monteith have been shown at Galerie Wenger for the first time in 2013.

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