Category: Art
Drawing Crowds is an exciting new drawing exhibition that has been curated by artists Eleanor Bedlow and Carne Griffiths (a contributor to Amelia's Magazine). An open brief called for submissions that tackled exploratory drawing – from automatic processes to expressionist mark making – around the theme of a journey. The results are being shown in a newly established gallery, The Stone Space, in Leytonstone, East London. If you liked the Jerwood Drawing Prize this should be right up your street!
25 artists were chosen to display physical work in the gallery, and include Amanda Lawson, Asa Medhurst, Asmi Kazmi, Carla Wright, Chetan Kumar, Claire Meharg, Cos Ahmet, Dan Neamu, David Farnham, David Harker, Debbie Locke, Edward Jeavons, Fuad Ali, Gillian Swan, Heenam Kim, Jane Rutterford, Jen Leonard, Jillian Knipe, Joanne Tidey, Julie Caves, Mary McFerran, Morgan Tipping, Nic Boin Nic Blair and Patricia Rozental. In addition to the selected physical works a collection of all submitted drawings is being shown on an online gallery. Follow Drawing Crowds on twitter too @DrawingCrowds
Find out more about some of the artists involved here:
Carla Wright: Nomad
This drawing is from a series of drawings exploring walking and psycho-geographical mapping of place, in regards to nomadism. Often thought of as wanderers or drifters, nomads actually have fixed circuits and stable relationships to their environment. I am interested in examining architecture and place though drawing and walking. In contrast to my other, more archival works, this series is about no place in particular, more about marks tracking an alternative way of life.
Heena Kim: An Oriental Way
I use my imagination to transform the invisible into the visible world. Using my imagination, I build up an imaginary world by reconstructing and modifying images I see in my dreams and interesting elements in my life. However, I am not fully able to clarify the source of my work’s form and narrative, as my imagination is ‘an emission of my unconscious’. My physical and spiritual experiences, including creating an imaginary world as a child, and the psychological oppression I experienced in London among heterogeneous cultures and various races, transform into a visual language through my imagination. Even I think that this new world and narrative created using my experience and imagination sometimes appear awkward. This provokes my curiosity, which I explain as “To do work means a journey to explore my concealed self; to witness my self disclosed through work.”
Joanna Tidey: Diary
A diary I write in when I feel I need to offload my feelings. Taking my thoughts out of my head where no one can access them to onto paper. In writing over and over one page making the text illegible takes my feelings from unaccessible – accessible – unaccessible again. It is a way of offloading my feeling without text being visible. The text becomes more mark making and the marks, density of lines and entry show the state of mind and thoughts- each page is dedicated to a day- and the drawing produced reflects on the mental journey of which I go through.
Debbie Locke: Machine Drawing
I’m particularly interested in using experimental drawing techniques to explore what transpires when something as clinical and exact as measurement, is exposed to chance and random interference. Within my work, I often use autonomous drawing machines, created from adapted children’s toys. ‘100 lines: Machine Drawing’ comes from creating a kinetic drawing machine which travels across the paper a set distance, rotates 180° and travels back, continuing this process for 100 journeys, making lines with a pen as evidence of the process. Based on clinical data alone, the lines should be perfectly parallel and identical in length, however, by adopting, in part, a ‘Heath Robinson’ approach in the mechanism’s assembly, I can challenge the notion of the infallibility of machines and add an element of play to the work. This hopefully enables the resulting drawing to escape the confines of its initial deterministic methodology and achieve the unexpected.
Opening times:
Thursday and Friday 2pm – 6pm
Saturday 12 – 5pm
Sunday 12 – 4pm
Private View: 10th November 6pm – 9pm