Pencil, graphite & wax on paper, 180cm x 180cm

 

 

I graduated from the University of Bath in 2006 with BA (Drawing) 1st class Hons

 

Final Show:       works using pencil, graphite & wax on paper

                                 artist's book

 

Dissertation:   “ Painters who think like polar bears –

                                   a discourse on white paint ”

 

For my degree show I developed two series of works, one small scale and one large, using many labour-intensive marks, which I described as slipping and sliding with the humble pencil.

They could be categorised as still-life or natural history drawings in that I was working from an object, a ram’s skull, but during the process something else entered the work.

 

However much a drawing arises out of close observation and is rooted in representation, it can never be that thing. There are at least six sites of

 slippage – between object and sight, sight and brain, brain and hand, hand

 and tool, tool and surface, surface and image. These places seem to be

where the essence of the image resides, where it becomes ‘another’,

something that slips and slides in and out of being through the process

of drawing, in which elements of fiction skulk.

 

 

 

                   

 

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