An Alphabet of LA

Location

Country: USA
City: Los Angeles
Place: British Consulate-General

Writer, performer and artist Donald Urquhart was born in 1963 in Dumfries, Scotland. He moved to London in 1984 and started collaborating with performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery. Urquhart embraced Bowery’s drag-performance world and set up the underground club night The Beautiful Bend, which he ran throughout the 1990s. Interest in the imagery and artwork for the flyers, illustrated booklets, and posters for this club has resulted in a number of exhibitions of Urquhart’s darkly humorous pen and ink drawings. As an artist, Urquhart has exhibited widely with work included in group exhibitions such as The Black Album, at Interim Art, London (2004), Publish & Be Damned, Cubitt, London (2004) and I Still Believe in Miracles, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2005). He was nominated for Becks Futures prize in 2005.

Places

United States of America, Los Angeles, California

Subjects

cowboy, Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Tom and Jerry, actor/actress, cigar, cinema, female portrait, male portrait, text-based work, rose, astronomy, dog, mouse, man, woman, shoe, pistol, chateau, observatory

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), ink, Ink drawing

Artist

Donald Urquhart (1963 - )

Title

An Alphabet of LA

Date

2010

Medium

Ink on paper (in three parts)

Dimensions

Three panels, height 59.3 cm, width 41.9 cm each

Acquisition

Commissioned from the artist via Herald St Gallery, May 2010, completed July 2010

Inscription

signed, dated and inscribed verso on each sheet

Provenance

the artist (commission)

GAC number

18338