Glen Ogden

Glen Ogden is an artist from the United Kingdom, He graduated from Leeds Arts University with a BA in Fine Art amidst the pandemic.  He works from his studio at Assembly House in Armley where he creates labour intensive durational performances; fuelled by satire, repetitive and futile actions. Each linked through a fictional narrative. He creates sculpture as a condensed method to explore his own experiences and thoughts around the worker.

Ogden’s socially engaged practice explores the role of the working man in historic and contemporary society, through performance and film - imbued with a sculptural understanding of space, time and locality. He seeks to emphasise the work, rest, work, rest mantra of our time, through repetitive and cyclical structures that evidence the physical manifestation of humans as tools. 

His latest series of work, “Non-Essential Workers” (2022), utilises social observations of the current climate to combine three performances (Sand Shifters (2020), After You (2021), Lay & Unlay (2022)) to contradict how we aim to achieve something meaningful, lasting and well appreciated in our career paths. Juxtaposing theatricality with the mundanity and repetitive nature of work, to explore themes of power, exploitation, classism and wealth through a series of labour induced scenarios; discussing our time as a resource and its worth in contemporary society.

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