Living and working in Paris and Bordeaux, the artists Daniel Dewar (b. 1976) and Gregory Gicquel (b. 1975) have been making work collaboratively since 1998. Dewar and Gicquel’s practice redefines the medium of sculpture through the unlikely solutions of narrative and craftsmanship against the slick hyper-industrialized ready-made. Working with a range of materials and techniques, from weaving to carving and casting, these artists create large-scale vanitas that hover between neo-pop and ethnic folk art. Dewar and Gicquel’s pieces conflate cultural markers in order to suggest wildly fantastic tales that might befall characters such as a leather studded manta ray armed with num chucks - “Driving in the Abyss Behind a 2 Big Tits Lorry Truck Truck Mental Ray” (2006). They mis-match references as diverse as hunting and fishing lore, skateboarding, rock’n’roll and Japanese manga, all of which they carry off through their own particular bricolage aesthetic, recounting contemporary mythologies through the creation of their own ritual art objects.

Dewar and Gicquel have had recent solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007), FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France (2007), Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris (2006) and the Victorian College of Arts/Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2006). Their work has also been shown as part of Offshore at Musee d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (2006), Prix altadis-Arts plastiques at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2004), Hyperstyle at Loop, Berlin (2004) and Grand Decolette at Mary Mary, Glasgow (2004).

Dewar and Gicquel are represented by Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris.