EXHIBITIONS 2021 EMERGENCE. Rise Art. Soho, London
2020 MK CALLING 2020. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2019 CONVERGENCE. MA Fine Art Degree Show. University of Northampton
MA FINE ART STUDIO SHOW. Avenue Campus, University of Northampton
INTERMISSION. Grosvenor Centre, Northampton
QUICKLY MOVING. NN Contemporary, Northampton
2018 CVAN PLATFORM GRADUATE AWARD. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
RISING STARS. Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
FREERANGE. Truman's Brewery, Brick Lane, London
DEGREE SHOW. Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, Northampton
2017 ROOTS. Avenue Gallery, Northampton
PUBLICATIONS 2021 Simulated: Quasi-Human Artefacts of Post-Digital Data Generation
& TALKS [Artist Talk] DigitalPaintingPhotography International Symposium
2019 The Artist and Herself: A Dialogue on Reflection
WithoutEnd Symposium 2019: Breaching Discourse. Postgraduate Research Symposium
AWARDS 2018 [Shortlisted] CVAN Platform Graduate Award. Nominated by MK Gallery
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2021 Thomas, D. Ferrer, S. Digital Life. VAINE Magazine, Issue no.04. August 2021.
Abbie Schug is a visual artist based in Suffolk, UK, whose research considers the translation of visual data between painterly and digital interface-based medias. Her primary concern is the visual representation of the human being and the mediation of this data through mechanism, media and mind.
Her ongoing body of work titled After the Image oversees the creation of “virtual beings” - painted translations of data that visually resembles the human being. This practice of metarepresentation consciously addresses the natural and mechanical mediation of visual data, the abstract genealogy of images, and the co-dependancy between artist and interface.
Influenced by Science-Fiction cinema and literature, Schug is currently translating images of quasi-human computer-generated simulations to question the reflective characteristics of painterly and digital interfaces, and further how self-projection generates quasi-being. Schug’s “virtual beings” exist as a hybrid of painted, photographic and digital media; counteracting the instancy of digital culture to develop a conscious awareness of the inherent illusionism of image-making processes and its remnants.
Schug is a graduate of the University of Northampton with BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Drawing (2015 - 2018) and MA Fine Art (2018 - 2019).