Placing a spotlight on pervasive yet often-overlooked forces of masculinity, technology and consumerism.
Dodd warps dominant codes of male identity, technology and capital in order to better understand and, in many cases, believe them. His intrepid practice spans video, drawing, sculpture and VR technologies, while he has had a range of commissioned work, by institutions from the Royal Academy of the Arts to Vimeo’s Daata Editions. Throughout his works on paper and on screen, cars, corporate logos and other symbols of financial power and masculinity are subverted into fluid, rubbery forms. In his digital works, the picture quality often falls in and out of pixelated landscapes, blurring on-screen...
Bio
Elliot Dodd was born in 1978 in Jersey, Channel Islands, and now works and lives in London.
Publications
Finding a worldwide audience for his phallic artworks, in 2019 the artist was featured in China's Guangzhou Bienalle - one year after opening a solo show at MadeIn Gallery in Shanghai.
Accolades
In 2016, following his studies at the prestigious institutions, Dodd was awarded the Royal Academy Schools Award for Sculpture.