Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen launches an exciting double bill of new work on Friday night 22 February 6pm.  The exhibition runs at the gallery from 23 February to 5 April 2008.

Over a Barrel by Edinburgh-based photographer Owen Logan and Memory Maps by David Rushton continue Peacock’s mission to bring the very best in contemporary art to the North-east.

Owen Logan’s show presents a new perspective on the oil economy and David Rushton showcases work made during his time in the Tillydrone area of Aberdeen as part of a Peacock artists residency.

In the year of the 20th anniversary of Piper Alpha, photographer Owen Logan's new work Over a Barrel raises serious questions about the relationship between the global oil economy and democracy. Logan, a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, is a well-known commentator on the Oil Industry. His photo-essays are the result of meeting the people behind the industry in energy centres as far flung as Patagonia, and Venezuela and the Niger Delta. The result is Over a Barrel a series of powerful images that are sure to spark debate.

The main gallery features Memory Maps by Edinburgh-based artist David Ruston who has recently completed a six-month artist residency in Aberdeen’s Tillydrone. A founder member of the Analytical Art group in the 1960s and later a member of the seminal conceptual artist group Art & Language, this is his first solo show in Aberdeen. Memory Maps includes a series of fascinating small-scale models. They include interiors of an artist's workplace; the artist's studio, a gallery, museum, factory and classroom. Beautifully detailed and powerfully realised the models tell the stories of the material conditions of work in art and make wider questions of memory, fabrication, and temporality concrete.

Lindsay Gordon: Director of Peacock Visual Arts said: “We are very excited about the new shows. Peacock’s mission is to host exhibitions that give art-goers and general public alike the opportunity to engage with visual art. Logan and Rushton’s work fulfill this mission in very different but equally exciting ways and we’re looking forward to a great exhibition run.”

Memory Maps and Over a Barrel run from 23 February to 5 April 2007 at Peacock Visual Arts, 21 Castle Street, Aberdeen, AB11 5BQ

Events: Artist's Talk by David Rushton Thursday 13 March 6pm, Carbon Generations - Talk + Discussion with Platform London and Owen Logan Thursday 27th March, 7pm

For further information please contact Elly Rothnie, Campaign Director: 0781 7570 321 or email elly@peacockvisualarts.co.uk