David Rushton / Art As Conceit

David Rushton’s 'Art as Conceit' utilises intricately constructed scale models to provoke questions about social history and new ways of working in art. David Rushton was a founding editor of Analytical Art. He subsequently worked as a member of Art & Language from 1972-1975, notably on the Art & Language Indexes.

Rushton began producing intricate scale models of art and social incidents in 1965. When he moved to Scotland a decade later he split his time between an analysis of art education and communications, latterly working on policies and legislation affecting a more localised TV in the UK. Since leaving Art & Language he has developed the making and display of 1/24th scale models of interiors to explore social conflict, art trade and new ways of working in art.

'Art as Conceit' features two models relating to factory and gallery work set within a confrontational industrial landscape. A version of this exhibition was initially shown as Motorshow at the New 57 Gallery (now The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh) in 1979.