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GEOFFREY FARMER The Last Two Million Years 24 May - 1 July 2007 Geoffrey Farmer November 4, 2003 Photo collage Courtesy Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Vancouver-based artists, Geoffrey Farmer will be presenting a project with the working title, The Last Two Million Years. Farmer is known for producing large-scale eclectic works that are characterised by their interpretive structures, meticulous research and transformative qualities. Specific literary or cinematic narratives anchor the projects, which are continually revised, altered and adapted from exhibition to exhibition. These specific narratives become the conceptual engine and are used to generate and contextualize the processes and materials produced, acquired and presented. The Drawing Room exhibition is an excerpt from a larger ongoing project that bases its conceptualization on the interpretation and adaptation of a book that the artist found abandoned on the street. Using the publication as a template, Farmer is organising an exhibition structure that incorporates curatorial strategies and interpretive gestures to represent the publication in the form of a project. Geoffrey Farmer is an artist who is based in Vancouver and continues the tradition established by Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham and Jeff Wall, who have all developed international practices whilst remaining based in the city of Vancouver. The Drawing Room is planning a publication to accompany the exhibition which will take the form of an artists’ book.
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