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Entangled Practice David Dixon 31 July - 4 September 2010, inclusive Wed - Sat 10am - 5pm. Art Jericho, 6 King Street, Oxford, OX2 6DF Preview Friday 30 July, 6pm - 8pm. David Dixon is a nationally exhibiting installation artist, currently based in the South of England. Uncertainty, impermanence and the active role of subjectivity are central to his work, which refers to modern physics and cognitive science. More recently, this work has been evolving into an increasingly process-oriented exploration, often expressing itself through the use of particle-based materials such as dyed rice-flour and quartz powder. He uses the impermanency of the unfixed dust, and it's potential to be damaged, in order to frame the work as a process rather than a discrete object. The use of books is also an important element in his work. As well as being multi-facetted cultural devices, rich with associations of history, knowledge, identity and memory, he also uses them in a sculptural way, emphasising their phenomenological aspects. The installations he builds grow organically, usually starting from a set of initial conditions. These conditions can be an environmental or contextual element, such as the architecture of the room. They regularly stem from a particular scientific model that he is working with at the time.