Studio: Experiments

Studio: Experiments

Studio: Experiments

Studio: Experiments

12-Pages: Issue 8 Altered States

The new issue of 12-Pages, TBC Artists' Collective online is now live on TBC blog - http://www.12-pages.com/ Edited by Laura Davidson, the project challenged TBC members and their open submission to contribute to the theme Altered States.

Work generated for the brief originally stemmed from producing a series of notes brainstorming initial relationships and ideas based on the brief. I had discussed with Laura that these pieces could be uploaded onto 12-Pages blog as works in progress. However it was later discovered that this aided the narrative for the three pieces of work.

In Altered States I had become interested in exploring redundant acts that have aspirations to create and inform change.

For the best part of this year I've been working on the Residue series which explores the juxtaposition of contained gestures within abstract forms. Later works grew into creating two layers featuring ghostly geometric shapes, the Pallid series.

Residue: Pallid 

A single drawing from the Pallid series would act as signifier of information distributed, unable to reach it intended audience. 

Studio: Smaller Residue

Experimenting with smaller scale, continuations of ghostly geometric structures.

Studio: Residue Experiments

 

Exhibition News: Residue at Unit Gallery, Hong Kong

Sketchbook: Residue experiments

Residue

Residue explores the juxtaposition of contained gestures within geometric abstract forms. Unlike previous monochromatic works, grey the mediator is employed as a medium as well as a surface. 

The photograph above is the first complete series within this ongoing project. 

Studio: Residue Grey

crop details

Studio: Residue A0

Development has started on increasing the scale of the Residue series, as seen above. However, I found I had to adapt my methodology of creating such works to fit a larger scale. This resulted in forming a pool of grey pastel remains upon the studio floor.

Sketchbook: Residue Grey

 

Grey. Grey just has a clear-cut character, it does not unleash emotions or associations, grey is really neither visible nor invisible. Grey is, by virtue if its neutrality, so eminently suited to act as a mediator, to clarify, just as illustionistically as a photograph. And it is better than any other colour for clarifying 'nothingness'.

 - Gerhard Richter, Fundamental Painting, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 25th April - 22nd June 1975

The above quote by Richter maybe true when it comes to the act of painting however, this truth maybe not lend itself to the act of drawing. There are two such occasions within the 'Residue' series where grey refuses to sit in the confines that Richter has decided to place it in. Firstly emotions are highlighted by gestural act, the movement of the pastel upon a surface. Secondly 'nothingness' is depicted by the paper of which grey lays upon.

Sketchbook: Residue...

Currently unsure as to whether darker or lighter pastels work in this series. Crop details highlight the gestural movements used to create these works.

Sketchbook: Residue

res·i·due

–noun

1.

something that remains after a part is removed, disposed of, or used; remainder; rest; remnant.