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Sian Bowen, Artist

Sian Bowen, from “Gaze” series, 2007,
 palladium, silver and pigment on laser cut and pin pricked paper mounted in lightboxes.“Dust has implications about time, about something that can both cover and be removed from a surface. It can transform our understanding an object or a space – and how it is located in time.”

Sîan Bowen – extract from interview with Tony Godfrey, August 2010

Dust on the Mirror is the title of a current international group exhibition in which I am taking part at Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham and which has been curated by Tony Godfrey and Neil Walker. Taking its title from the Bhagavad-Gita in which Krishna uses the metaphor of dust on the mirror to explain levels of spiritual consciousness, this exhibition brings together five artists from the eastern and western hemispheres.

Given the central role that the ephemeral is plays in my current project at the Rijksmuseum, the opportunity to participate in the exhibition and gain insight into how themes of transience have been explored by the other exhibiting artists, Donna Ong, Chris Cook, Susan Derges and Charwei Tsai, was very revealing.  Further information on the exhibition can be found at:www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibitions.html  

Image and text source is Suspending the Ephemeral.  Link here. 

Jasna Guy, Artist

"Working with stamps and linocuts is very addictive – repetition, the basis of the process, allows for large areas to be produced within a relatively (that’s relatively) short space of time (compared to hand drawing, of course). I’m up to 9,000 bees to date and counting!

At the same time, I can cut new stamps as the muse strikes me, thus maintaining some of the individuality inherent in hand drawing. The repetition involved in creating the patterns contributes to the unity of the total piece, but further, each act of stamping or printing produces a unique imprint – the pressure applied to the paper, the amount of ink on the stamp and even accidental movements and slips of the hand create a variation in each print.  From clear impressions to strange blobs, I never quite know what I’m going to get!"

"I’m experimenting with a new way of adding the blue to the image -brushing the powdered soft pastel directly onto the surface of the scanner, and then also adding it to the petal before scanning.  Prior to this, modifications (scribbles, etc.) other than the tattooing or scribing of text with a stylus never really touched the actual petals since additions and annotations were added after-the-fact in Photoshop, or to the surface of images printed and then rescanned."

Images and text source Jasna Guy.  Link here. 

Bumblebee, Artist

“The ‘newspaper stand’ is soon becoming a forgotten way to communicate with the public. With more online news subscriptions being made, newspaper companies are leaving these structures abandoned. I want to use this endangered specie as a new way to communicate with the public once more. This is achieved using the concept of ‘site specific’ in the real world as well as the online world, and also by introducing a different concept of ‘time specific’. This technique helps to create a story on the street as well as the webpage in which the images are added to. Each newspaper stand represents a single page in the story “The Story of How Things Came to Bee”. Once the newspaper stand is placed back in the location from which it was originally borrowed from, a picture is taken at the exact time in which the story takes place. By adding the images to the webpage it allows for a narrative to bee created by using ‘notes’ (these are viewed by scrolling over the image) which can not bee seen on the street. Lastly, a map showing the locations of the newspaper stand is sited as well, allowing the online viewer to travel to each location and view these scenes in real life.”

Read more: http://www.unurth.com/The-Bumblebee-Interview#ixzz2cFeDyejD

Sally Booth, Artist

"Booth works on semi-transparent materials, which she says reflects her own sight: “Because I’m visually impaired I see things a bit soft and out of focus. I use a lot of line drawing and simple shapes because I don’t see the detail. I found this method echoed my vision in some way. “For me it’s like that all the time but it’s quite beautiful. On the one hand it makes things more difficult but at the same time there’s a softness to it.”

Image and text source Visit London.  Link here. 

Image source Museums Sand Heritage.  Link here.

Allerton Towers, 3 layered tansparent drawings made on location,
pen on acetate on hanging rail, 127 cm x 91 com approx.
Image source link here. 

Ugo Rondinone, Artist

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Artist

Untitled, 1980, clear glass jar with lid containing 5 pieces of paper with type-written text and black string.

David A. Reeves, Artist

Paper cut silhouettes.
Source is Feel Desain.  Link here. 

Eva Wittocx, Artist

Found here, I Love Sticky Tape.

Peter Clough, Artist

Untitled Drawing (with Balsa, Acetate and Sharpie), 2011
Sharpie on acetate, balsa wood, black duct tape, packnig tape, scotch tape
12" x 12

Untitled Drawing (with Cardboard and Xerox), 2011
House paint and graphite on cardboard, xerox, digital ink-jet print on high-gloss paper, electrical tape, packing tape, scotch tape
14" x 10"

Untitled Drawing (with Cut Saran Wrap), 2011
Digital ink-jet print and pen on printer paper, sharpie on saran wrap, double-stick tape
8 1/2" x 11"

Maggie Taylor

“Using 19th century tin-types, photographs, and images, she scanned them on a flatbed scanner. She then combines them with some other images that she photographed, acquired, or other objects that she scanned. These images are then composed, combined, and colorized by using the Adobe Photoshop program. In a typical image composed by Taylor, there can be as many as 40-60+ layers." Article by Douglas Eby. Link here to read more.

A lot more to see on the website. Link here.

Johnnie Dady, Artist

"I set myself a short exercise: to cut and fold a large cardboard box into the form of a vespa [at real scale] that was parked outside the studio. I intended the cardboard to remain as a continuous piece so the task had to be approached by folding rather than being constructed from fragments. I wanted, if possible, to retain the identity of the box. Having managed to realise a version of the scooter I then repaired and reinstated the box to its former volume." Link here for more images.

My London Studio [2005]

aquarelle pencil, biro, gesso, pins, tracing paper on paper
1080 x 1000 mm
Link here for more drawings.

Link here for more of this body of work.

Tsuyoshi Tane, Tears Wall, 2009

Link here.

Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing

Exhibition Description:

The Irish Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of some 250 works on paper, by more than 80 leading international artists, across a wide range of generations.

This private collection of works comes from the Spanish collector Mercedes Vilardell, which she assembled over the past few years in parallel with the increased interest in drawing as a medium. Vilardell has brought together works by such celebrated artists as Francis Alÿs, Louise Bourgeois, Dorothy Cross, Tracey Emin, William Kentridge, Martin Kippenberger, Gerhard Richter, Luc Tuymans and Lawrence Weiner, demonstrating the renewed importance which drawing has assumed in contemporary art over the past decade.

The curator Enrique Juncosa, Director of IMMA and himself a published poet, highlights the close relationship between drawing and poetry. Many different approaches to the art of drawing are to be seen, from the expressive to the conceptual, focusing especially on its experimental nature.

There are also a wide variety of techniques represented, from line drawing to collage, embroidery and text. Some have been created with conventional tools, such as pencil, ink or watercolour, while others have employed more unusual materials, including foodstuffs and bodily fluids. Link here.