Drawing is a partly external spatial visible touchable processing system, receiving impressions and marking out, on potentially shared surfaces. Drawing puts out and feeds back in ways that couldn’t occur internally. Unforeseen options become apparent and there are new choices to make. I want to join in, with patterns, bodies and objects, grown and constructed, within the constellation of things. So I draw and make pictures. Someone else might sing.
“to touch is always already to reach out, to fondle, to heft, to tap, or to enfold, and always also to understand other people or natural forces as having effectually done so before oneself, if only in the making of the textured object.”
(Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Touching Feeling, Duke University Press, 2003, p. 14)
I studied Fine Art at Slade School of Art, London. I’ve previously worked at University of the Arts London as a Mentor, and at Goldsmiths, University of London, as a Teaching Assistant. I’ve spent time working in the studios of several artists where drawing plays a key part in iterative processes.
I’ve exhibited work based around painting. For example, paintings made to be seen as captured through photographs of those paintings alongside other things. A book of painted images of gates, with cuts in the pages so that turning each page creates animated shapes of light.
I look at how pictures butt up with the contexts in which they’re placed, and how we live amongst pictures and the situations they create. Through observational drawing on site I’ve been studying how a space open to the public in the City of London hosts and frames its visitors within the particular structural and symbolic environment it offers.
I’m interested in the representation of three dimensional space in two dimensions and how scenarios morph and reconfigure, planes hinge and line up differently, depending on our position, angle and drawing system. A current focus is practising technical drawing skills for animation, in order to play between still and moving images.
As a tutor working with students on drawing courses I bring an interest in drawing across the board, including how drawing may be practised in private and public contexts and professional fields, and roles that could be taken up by people who draw.
