Dr Dan Drage
- Mary Modeen
- Apr 5, 2021
- 1 min read
Dr Dan Drage thinks of his art practice and research as happening within and between places, materials and times. His work seeks to demonstrate and embrace a way of being-in-the-world which is fundamentally and essentially incomplete. As such, he seeks an inter-relationality: everything is revealed as a being-with, existing as both particular and yet deeply inter-connected. Dan explores this relational view of reality through both installations and works-in-paper as mechanisms of thinking and knowing. His art process emphasises the participation of both the artist in the work, and of the art in the world. Rather than viewing the work of art as a static, distinct object, his work assumes an ongoing process and relationship with the world— the pieces are not separate from the world, including the viewer, and indeed non-material realities.
In 2024 Dan completed a PhD (Porous Boundaries: Practicing the artistic and theological value of material limitations) with DJCAD, University of Dundee, in collaboration with the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Originally from Colorado, USA, and having lived in Vietnam for over a decade, Dan continues to live and work in Scotland.
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