CONSTRUCT DECONSTRUCT RECONSTRUCT

TANDEM VIDEO DRAWING ONE.
Sticks and wire.
Remixed 2021.

DRAWING BOOK ONE.
Book made 2017.
Video recorded 2021.

SCULPTURE AS DRAWING.
Paper, string, adhesive tape, detritus.
Variable dimensions. Date unknown.

Process;

Line. Shape. Mark. Sequence. Collage. Layered. Action/Gesture. Press. Gravity. Weight. De-collage.

“Painting and sculpture (and drawing of course) are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.” Philip Guston.

Drawing is absolutely integral to my studio practise. The process informs and underpins all my work. For me, drawing is not about representation, it’s more a gathering and ordering. Half seen, overlooked fragments, fleeting moments. It’s where marks, surfaces, shapes, lines and textures coalesce. Entirely process orientated and risky, it becomes a dialogue with the materials.

“To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.” Frank Auerbach.

These drawings are a consequence of walking through and out of the city, cycling up steep hills and past old factories. Periphery vision through the window of a speeding train. Late night motorway car journeys. Things at my feet, the sky above. The seen and vaguely remembered vistas and objects act as a catylist for an almost automatic way of working.

“Drawing is the primal means of communication, which predates and embraces writing and functions as a tool of conceptualisation parallel with language.” Deanna Petherbridge, The Primacy of drawing.

The directness and immediacy of drawing is where I am at my most playful.
Mark-making, cutting, ripping, punching holes, slicing, embossing.
Often the images challenge the notion of what a drawing is or can be…

“A discourse between definition and the unresolved, the systematic and chaotic, certainty and speculation.”
The Good Drawing, CCW Bright 7.

TAXONOMY OF MARKS / Remix DRAWING.
Marks on paper, mounted on foam board. Wooden shelves.
300cm X 240cm. 2024.

ARTIST WITH 10 METRE LINE. VERSION ONE AND TWO.
Stills from a performance for film. Artist, paper, mark, props.
Variable dimensions and duration. 2023.

DRAWING TESTS SET ONE.
Nine possibilities.
Drawing, acrylic paint, ink and detritus collage on paper.
Each panel – 10cm X 10cm.
2020.

CONSTRUCT DECONSTRUCT RECONSTRUCT 1.
Drawing, acrylic paint, ink and detritus collage on paper.
200 X 200cm.
2018.

DRAWING TESTS SET TWO.
Nine possibilities.
Drawing, acrylic paint, ink and detritus collage on paper.
Each panel – 10cm X 10cm.
2020.

BLACK DETRITUS DRAWING.
Found objects / detritus. String, wire, cardboard, gloss paint, MDF.
200 X 200cm.
2017.

DRAWING TESTS SET THREE.
Nine possibilities.
Drawing, acrylic paint, ink, monoprint and detritus collage on paper.
Each panel – 10cm X 10cm.
2021.

CONSTRUCT DECONSTRUCT RECONSTRUCT 11.
Drawing, acrylic paint, ink, photograms and detritus collage on paper.
200 X 200cm.
2019.

TANDEM VIDEO DRAWING 2.
Paper.
Remixed 2021.