drawings
Over the course of the MA, I have found drawing to be integral to my practice in a way that in previous years it had not. This required a reframing of sorts; I stopped viewing drawing as a practice that ran parallel to ‘making’ and began to see it as a part of the same process. The drawings occupy a kind of fictionalised version of the world in which my sculptural works exist. Below are a selection of drawings made within Unit 3.
pen on paper
20 x 30 cm
pen on paper
20 x 30 cm
Interviewed by Sophie Raikes for Bad Copies: The Drawings of Phyllida Barlow, the artist talks about developing the qualities of sculptural work through drawing, and how the use of colour for this purpose is as important as the use of line: “colour can be a kind of mass”. For me what’s interesting about this mass is how it can exist in tension with the flatness in my drawings.
pen on paper
20 x 30 cm
pen on paper
20 x 30 cm
risograph
21 x 15 cm
pen on paper
21 x 15 cm
pen on paper
15 x 15 cm
acrylic and pen on paper
20 x 30 cm
pen on paper
30 x 30 cm
In the development of the Lipsum Skins work I have been thinking about archive, containment, hanging displays and packaging as mechanisms for dealing with objects that in some way exist in a past.
pen and pencil on paper
30 x 30 cm
pen on paper
20 x 30 cm
pen on paper
20 x 30 cm
Imagery development for our MA Research Festival: Metabolizer. The theme of the event refers in part to a fictional biological machine through which information can be metabolised.
pen on paper
20 x 30 cm
collage and pen on paper
30 x 30 cm
Raikes, S. and Barlow, P. (2012). Bad Copies : the Drawings of Phyllida Barlow. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute.