Drawings on paper and panel

The group of drawings shown in this exhibition represent a selection of works made at various stages throughout recent years.

There is a sense that what is seen here is a slow motion process of dismantling and transforming. Recognizable forms give way, their component parts separating and combining in new configurations. Occasionally pieces carry an echo of their origins, but the concern is to find something new, something previously unknown and unseen. Ambiguous space is established, it can open, it can close off, it can do both within the same piece.

The pressure exerted when drawing a heavy line or a light one is as important as the lines direction. Freedom and control, motion and stillness, flatness and depth, pull against each other to generate a taut uneasy balance, a scratchy equilibrium. If asked to say what these pieces are about, the answer would be that they are not about anything which can be precisely named. Through rhythm, lyricism of line and asymmetrical structures, something new is sought.