Michael Landy: Welcome to my world 1 Dec 2004 - 15 Jan 2005 11 Duke Street, St James's

Michael Landy's first exhibition at Thomas Dane, WELCOME TO MY WORLD - built with you in mind, can in many ways be seen as an epilogue to Semi-Detached, his monumental commission at Tate Britain, London. There, he created a meticulously detailed, full-size replica of his parents' Essex home. At Thomas Dane, he brings together more than thirty new drawings as well as new video and photographic works. Both the Tate commission and the new exhibition concentrate on a highly emotional and personal theme: the life and universe of Michael's father, John Landy.

At the end of the Seventies, John Landy suffered a serious mining accident when a tunnel roof collapsed on him. This event left him severely disabled and unable to resume any significant physical activity. He has remained confined to his house ever since.

Michael Landy is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented draughtsmen of his generation, and drawing has always been a crucial part of his work. Some time before deciding to reproduce the house for the Tate commission, he had begun obsessively to draw John Landy's portrait, including studies of his arms and feet, as his own vibrant testimony to his father's condition. It is perhaps not by chance that, in treating this intensely personal subject, Landy chose for the first time to use colour in his graphic work. Ten of these often moving, sometimes disturbing portraits will be on view at the gallery.

Also in colour, and on coloured paper, are twenty individual, hyper-realistic depictions of objects which surround John Landy and make up his daily universe. They are as various and idiosyncratic as a squashed moth, a battery, a pillbox, lighter-fluid and - with conscious reference to a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer - a comb with a few wisps of hair clinging to it.

All these objects appear again in two further works included in the exhibition: Shelf-Life, a video which, in a single travelling shot, explores John Landy's bedroom shelves in close-up; and a photo-collage which was the study for this work.

Finally, the exhibition will feature a large photograph of Landy's parents standing in front of the Tate installation.

Michael Landy was born in 1963 in London, where he still lives and works. After studying at the Loughborough College of Art and Goldsmiths College, he participated in the seminal 1988 exhibition Freeze. His first major project, Market (1990), consisted of a large-scale assembly of generic market stalls, artificial turf and plastic bread crates, installed in the vast disused Building One in East London. His 1996 Scrapheap Services, now in the Tate collection, is a room-size installation of a fictional 'people-cleansing' company. His most widely known work, Break Down (2001), took place in an empty department store on Oxford Street where, after creating an exact inventory of all his possessions, he set about systematically destroying them over a two-week period.