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"Hurricane Lamb" - this is a group exhibition/publication conceived, designed and curated by Agnew which brings together invited work by eight internationally recognised artists, including Michael Agnew , that took place on 9th July to 31st October 2011.

Hurricane Lamb is a group exhibition/publication conceived, designed and curated by Agnew which brings together invited work by eight internationally recognised artists: Agnew, Cranston, Dunbar, McCracken, Dant, Housley, Russell and Urqhuart (the first four based in northeast Scotland) who share an interest in narrative form. Drawing on a focus within Celtic tradition on the apocryphal – hidden writings that co-exist as multiple narratives within an overarching representation – the project challenges notions of truth and falsity. Agnew’s personal visual aesthetic – the construction of complex tableaux that set out to invite viewer interpretation – is here used to develop the project’s particular curatorial framework that embraces both creative writing and artworks.

The challenge posed by Agnew to the contributors was to explore in both images and words the extremes of fantasy and realism, drawing on the ritual of storytelling as “an imaginative pact between speaker and audience” (Carl McDougall) http://discussionsart.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/visual-art-fact-and-fiction/.

Each artist contributed two works for exhibition that feature a personal inquiry into the idea of the book as object or as a means of reinterpreting fictional strategies for the creation of artworks. The publication also included contributions from the novelist/theorist Sean Ashton, curator Iain Irving and Rachael Kennedy, general manager of Duff House, the William Adam mansion that is the northeast outstation of the National Galleries of Scotland.

https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/handle/10059/646. The curatorial approach initiated by Agnew has resulted in new studio practices in relation to making that challenges audience (general public, academics and artists) perception/knowledge of actual and imagined spaces within his artefacts, resulting in an invitation to curate an exhibition, From Mies to Foster

at the Georgina Scott Sutherland Library, Robert Gordon University (2011)

http://www.rgu.ac.uk/about/art-and-heritage-collections/exhibition-archive

http://www.rgu.ac.uk/news/a-journey-through-time and present a solo exhibition of nine works at the Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen (2012/13)

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