The Drawing Kit
The Drawing Kit
Ok, So I’m super proud of this… it is an idea, a concept and my response to being responsible! Climate pressure, human demand on resources is an issue. So is waste, in both life and within the arts.
After many years of working with waste A4 documents, ( SPIKE IT project) or utilising the gallery office waste for new context driven work, I knew I needed to further address these concerns in the studio.
Throughout my trajectory many materials and artworks have been reprocessed (Ash Steps) or represented, or altered. This thinking developed into the idea of the Drawing Kit; a pallette, a tool kit, a materials bank, that has formed the basis of all subsequent installations. This layering of material experience onto an already embedded history, is satisfying and is someway towards acting out a responsibility to resources.
The kit is used to lift drawings off the page into a physical space in a human scale, in order for me to inhabit the drawing. A ‘drawing spine suspends unified lengths of paper lines and this repetition presents form, as both presence and absence. Relying on gravity, the works are purposefully unstable and inherently precarious.
Working with the kit is a physical act, it has an immediacy, is responsive to change, expands with environmental elements of light and shadow and air .Possibilities are explored and expressions made. Works remain unfixed.
The Kit
Housed in crates and transportable.
1m and 2m lines. wood spikes, stainless steel rods- various lengths,
MDF double layered shapes with multidirectional flush mounts.
Pre kit- White Stage:
Current Kit examples:
