Contact:
stanleybuglass@gmail.com
@stanbuglass
Bio:
Stan Buglass (b. 1999, London, UK) lives and works in London, UK.
In my recent work, I explore the complexities of deindustrialisation and the managed decline of Great Britain through working-class mythologies, forgotten masculinities, and national symbols. I use painting and sculpture to layer decaying infrastructure alongside fragmented automotive bodily forms. I employ both old and new industrial processes, such as foundry work and automated CNC carving, to reflect on Britain’s industrial and cultural past alongside imaginings of a new industrial futurism.
Within my work, I emphasise current forms of cultural entropy and the sociology of ghostly generational memories, in order to monumentalise declining working-class cultures of production. My formal investigations emerge from reflections on personal and familial experiences of work and take shape as process-heavy cross-sections of architecture, sites of labour, machines, and the cultural residue of managed industrial decline. I earned my BA from Central Saint Martins in 2021 and my MFA from Arizona State University in 2026.
Solo Exhibitions:
2026
- The Ruin, ASU MFA Thesis, Step Gallery, Phoenix, USA
2024
- Auto Deco, Death Of Man / Śmierć Człowieka, Warsaw, PL
Art Fairs:
2024
- Hotel Warszawa Art Fair Room 111, Death Of Man / Śmierć Człowieka, Warsaw, PL
Group Exhibitions:
2025
- Unsuspected, Northlight, Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Phoenix, USA
- Play, Rat Gallery / Galeria Szczur, Curated by Kamil Mizgala, Warsaw, PL
- Memory Stick, Queue Gallery, Miami, USA
- Oculus, LOMEX, Curated by Jake Hasapopoulos & Sam Smith, NYC, USA
- Buiro, … Online, https://www.biurowebsite.com/
- Continuous Artifact, Everybody, Tucson, USA
2024
- Weird Flex, Humanities Institute ASU, Curated by Juan Obando, Phoenix, USA
- Crash Club x U22, Death Of Man / Śmierć Człowieka, Warsaw, PL
- Out From The Grey, Curated by Stan Buglass, Phoenix, USA
2023
- Slash Of Blue, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
2022
- Memories Of A Social Club That Doesn’t Exist, ZÉRUÌ, London, UK
- Silver Sunsets, Usual Business, London, UK
2021
- Latent Traces, Changing Room Gallery, London, UK
- Vestige Astray, 213 Kupfer, London, UK
2019
- Interface, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
Collections:
2025
Northlight, Phoenix, USA
Awards / Residencies:
2025
- Martin Wong Award, 1st Place Painting
2021 - 2023
- Associate Studio Programme, organised by Double Agents, London, UK
Publications:
2022
- Memories Of A Social Club That Doesn’t Exist, ZÉRUÌ, Catalogue, London, UK
2021
- conversations., Introduction by Hector Campbell, London, UK
Curatorial Projects:
2024
- Chica, Alongside Juan Obando and Villamil y Villamil, Phoenix, USA
Press:
2025
- ‘Oculus,’ Artforum, Review by Theo Belci (PDF)
Education:
2023 - 2026
- MFA Sculpture - Herberger Institute, ASU, Phoenix, USA
2018 - 2021
- BA (Hons) Fine Art - Central Saint Martins, UAL, London, UK
2017 - 2018
- Foundation Diploma - Central Saint Martins, UAL, London, UK