Untitled
Degree show piece just after installation, lovely lighting at that time
petemay asked: I think that the drawing of the building through the cracked pane of glass is fantastic! I think that it gives it a whole new depth that you really capture in the pencil!
I think that the sticking up with masking take is also in keeping with the work, but for the degree show i think that a framed drawing would work best.
How funny I’ve really have mixed feedback on the cracked glass drawing and the tape on the corners - I agree for display (esp at degree show) that’s not appropriate, but I don’t think I would frame it either - definately something to think about! Mucho appreciated Tumblr King - one love x
Las Palmas
pencil on tracing paper
Perspective is important in my drawings but so is the space around the image
UEA
pencil on tracing paper
Southend Airport
pencil, tape and perspex
Car park
pencil, tape and perspex
Crack
pencil on tracing paper
Solar panel drawing #2
pencil on tracing paper
Solar panel drawing #1
pencil on tracing paper
Drawings from photographs I took during a road trip from Portugal to Spain in summer 2010. I think these drawings are quite sweet and delicate in their scale - both are on A4 tracing paper. The A4 size format is a ready made so has it’s set backs (format does need consideration for exhibition-worthy and saleable pieces) but for my own mapping and exploration of ideas I find it adequate. In a funny way there are aspects about the images scanned that I like that you don’t get with the actual pieces (e.g accentuated colours and gradients that the scanner picks up, dirty marks), but the original drawings have a more tactile and delicate aesthetic of course. The fact that both papers are ripped and have selotape, for me, only adds to the work.
Scans from a sketchbook I had a couple of years ago in which I first started making the ‘sellotape drawings’. This sketchbook became a kind of visual journal having images representing places and spaces I have visited, most with a sense of loss, loneliness, abandonment and nostalgia. The book itself is now nowhere to be seen these scans are all I have left.
