Glen Ogden West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Glen Ogden is a Leeds-based artist working in sculpture and performance. His practice explores labor, value, and futility through endurance-based actions and industrial motifs, reframing repetitive work as both monumental and absurd while exposing the physical and psychological costs of a work-oriented society.
Glen Ogden’s work explores the cyclical and labor-intensive essence of human effort, using sculpture and performance to critique societal constructs surrounding work, value, and identity. Drawing from personal experiences and industrial motifs, his practice reframes mundane labor as symbolic and monumental, highlighting its transformative yet often futile rhythms.
Through meticulously crafted works - ranging from durational performances to large-scale mechanical sculptures - he juxtaposes endurance and humor to interrogate hyperconsumption, power dynamics, and the commodification of time. Ogden employs tools, rhythmic actions, and industrial aesthetics to blur the boundaries between creation and deconstruction, inviting audiences to consider the overlooked physical and psychological costs of labor in a work-oriented society.
Operating from Assembly House in Leeds, he creates immersive experiences that center on the resilience and endurance inherent in labor, challenging perceptions of progress and futility while honoring the human stories interwoven with our collective rhythms of toil and rest.
Artwork
Would You Like Fries With That? 2.0, Sculpture, 2025
Sand Timer Conveyor, Sculpture, 2025
Knights Of The Round Table, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Fire Exit, Sculpture, 2025
Lay/Unlay, Performance, 2020
After You, Performance, 2021
Sand Shifters, Performance, 2020
Would You Like Fries With that?, Sculpture, 2020
Outcast, Sculpture, 2019
Projects and exhibitions
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Shuffle 202427/04/2024 — 12/05/2024 |
Tobacco Warehouse, Liverpool | Details |
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Middlesborough Art Week 202328/09/2023 — 07/10/2023 |
The Auxiliary, Middlesborough | Details |
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Assembly House Group Show 202306/07/2023 — 09/07/2023 |
Seagulls Paint Recycling, Leeds | Details |
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ZEITENWENDE 202326/05/2023 — 01/06/2023 |
The Contemporary Showroom, Berlin | Details |
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BBA Artist Prize 202325/04/2023 — 06/05/2023 |
Kaulhaus, Berlin | Details |
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Non Essential Workers 202209/04/2022 |
Assembly House, Leeds | Details |
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Ones To Watch 202101/05/2021 — 06/06/2021 |
Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds | Details |
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Assembly House Artist Residency & Performance Showcase15/02/2021 — 21/02/2021 |
Assembly House, Leeds | Details |
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Trading Spaces - Group Exhibition21/06/2019 — 29/06/2019 |
Wellington Square & The Corn Exchange, Leeds | Details |