Seconds: the Imperfect Artwork

With Catherine De Zegher's talk at the DIT still dwelling in my thoughts, speciffically her quoting of Richard Tuttle talking about "how not to make art", I was really interested to hear about a exhibition taking place at the Wexford Arts Centre, Seconds: the Imperfect Artwork.
On the press release it states that "seconds:: the imperfect artwork, considers the nature of failure which is inherent in the creative process." To me the question of failure is very pertenent to drawing. Do we aspire to create something that we already know or see before hand or do we (as with Tuttle) try to "keep ourselves out of the work[?]" {De Zegher quoting Tuttle.}

At the Drawing Symposium at Tate Britain earlier this year (With a Single Mark), Jimmie Durham showed us several of his 'very bad drawings' which were great. To what extent is drawing explorative and involves the removal of perfection, resolution and ego? How does a mistake or accident change the slippage of the 'ground' on which it sits?

Artists exhibiting are; Ide Maloney, Lee Welch, Brian Fay, Gary Coyle, Fiona O'Dwyer, Michael Fortune, Sean Taylor, David Beattie, Aideen Barry, Cliona Harmey, Helen Hughes, Bea McMahon, Sally Timmons, Sonia Sheil, Eileen Healy, Felicity Clear, Alan Phelan, Danny McCarthy, John Langon, Martin Shannon, Mark Curran, Noel Molloy, Mary-Ruth Walsh, Simone Schneider and Simon Lewandowski.

There is a Public Talk on Sunday 10th December 2.30pm.
Paul O'Neill and Aileen Lambert discuss failure in relation to curatoring.

Free Talk Drawing Center NY Eleanor Mikus

Eleanor Mikus will be talking about her work and her exhibition From Shell to Skin on Sat Dec 2 at 4pm.
Also on Wed 29 Nov at 6.30pm there is an auction of work by a range of well respected artists to raise funds for the Drawing Center.
This event is called Drawing Gift
Artists include; Donald Baechler Matthew Bliss Robert Bordo Matthew Brannon Delia Brown Clayton Brothers Crust and Dirt Adam Cvijanovic Marcel Dzama Benjamin Edwards Echo Eggebrecht Jacob El Hanani Franklin Evans Neil Farber Adam Fowler Glenn Goldberg Mark Grotjahn Amanda Guest Arturo Herrera David Humphrey Bill Jenson Ray Johnson Zoe Keramea Shin-Il Kim Mark Licari Jason Middlebrook Jill Moser Elizebeth Murray Todd Norsten Carl ostendarp Stephen Posen Jon Pylypchuk Paul Henry Ramirez Barry Ratoff Matthew Ritchie James Rosenquist, David Shrigley, Zac Smith Philip Taafe Charline von Heyl Garth Weiser

Tod Hanson at Cell

Tod Hanson transforms the walls of galleries with a covering of intricate (wild) patterns consisting of representations of ribbon like lines, with solid colours reminiscent of cartoons and enlarged linear based wallpaper designs. Sort of cartoon William Morris.

Private View 1 December
2 Dec - 14 Jan
Cell Project Space
258 Cambridge Heath Road, London

GPS Drawings

Click on link/title to be redirected to web site which has a whole range of drawings created using GPS. Drawings include ones made by walking around cities, flying, lawnmowers and attached to animals such as dogs.

Secret Theory of Drawing in Sligo, Eire

the 'Secret Theory of Drawing' Exhibition organised by the Drawing Room, London, travels to The Model ARts Centre, includes work by artists; David Austen,Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Patrick Ireland, Alan Johnston, John Latham, Mark Manders, Matt Mullican, Anri Sala, Bojan Šarcevic, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Cathy Wilkes

Curated by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

25 Jan - 11 Mar 2007
The Model Arts Centre & Niland Gallery
The Mall
Sligo
IRELAND

I would have like to have seen this exhibition in London, to enable a comparsion with the two venues.

Sol Lewitt at Lisson Gallery

Sol Lewitt wall drawings opens on Tuesday 28 Nov 6-8pm
Lisson Gallery, London
29 Nov - 20 Jan

Johnthan Monk also opens at the Lisson at the same time

Freeing the Line

details about exhibition 'Freeing the Line' curated by Catherine De Zegher at the Marian Goodman Gallery
this exhibition was on June 22 - August 26 2006

formula

Formula
22 Nov - 08 Dec
Private View 23 Nov 5-8pm
C4RD 63 Cudworth Street, Bethnal Green, London
Exhibition by two artists SARANYA CHAIKULNGAMDEE and ELIZABETH ANNE RIMMINGTON
Looks interesting click on title for link to C4RD to get more info on show

Caroline Broadhead new work

Not what i expected from Caroline Broadhead who did that wonderful dress that filled the room. She has from looking at images of the show drawings on paper, Silhouettes of the female form and other works on paper.
13 0ct - 11 Nov
Barrett Marsden Gallery, London

Jeffery T Y Lee

first solo show by Jeffery T Y Lee, Don't know anything about this artist(apart from that fact that he was in this years new contemporaries, but drawing of forests look good and I really like the domobaals space so not a white cube and have liked everything i have seen there so far.
Domobaal 3 John St. London
17 Nov - 23 Dec

Annie Cattrell

Annie Cattrell work is cool and often relating to weather or responding to science.
New Drawings, sculptures and Photographs
Anne Faggionato, London
06 Oct - 01 Dec

Antoni Tapis Grahic Works

1 Nov - 1 Dec
Adam Gallery, London

Drawing Symposium — Constructions of the visible Prince's Drawing School

11 Dec 2006 - one week symposium (very much a taught week)
As I did the drawing symposium in 2004 I feel I can comment a bit on this. Though I really enjoy and continue to develop or explore working from observation; drawing is much more than this. Glen Sujo role as a teacher and leader of this course is a refreshing approach to life drawing. I found his use of moving (talented) dancers extremely inspiring. But, to call this week a symposium is inappropriate.
The week includes contributions from Deanna Petherbridge, Barry Phipps, Dilip Sur, Bill Woodrow and Ansel Krut. Many big names, but don't feel that this week will be at the fore front of drawing research... bit I could be wrong

INSTALLATING DRAWING: David Kefford and Ansel Krut

Unfortunately I have missed this.
31 Oct - 03 Nov
Wimbledon College of Art (probably in the Centre for Drawing??)
Ansel Krut is the current Drawing Fellow at Wimbledon college of art.
David Kefford also a previous exhibitor of the Jerwood Drawing Prize. But, his objects and installations look very curious and fun. Would have loved to see this show.... as a lot of others

Christine Taylor Patten: micro/macro: 261 drawings

11 Nov - 10 Feb
Drawing Center New York
I saw these works at the much smaller Drawing Gallery, in London. Personally I much prefer Vija Celmins drawings made of tiny dots which i find fascinating. They sort of remind me a bit of the drawing in comics to show the swish of a punch or the force of an explosion. Christine Taylor Patten

Eleanore Mikus: From Shell to Skin

11 Nov - 10 Feb
Drawing Center New York
Eleanore Mikus bit like robert Ryman, folded papers, looks quite sensitive poet, very minimalist.

thoughts on drawing research

There seems to be a need to define research boundaries for drawing, but in the case of practice based research its role as a contribution to knowledge is more difficult to define or put into words, or in fact be reproducible. To me there seems to be two sides to research in drawing, one that is in the field of 'art' where its purpose is itself, and it may need no more than that to contribute, and drawing as a tool, as a means to something else. I feel that drawings on both sides can travel to the other and work in different ways, but by removing the purpose behind it's creation.
I feel that drawing as so much to offer and is so overlooked in terms of its inherent influence and nature in relation to language, culture, cognition, and development. But, these are gain through drawing, when I draw it is a result in itself it is not an attempt to gain something other than itself. These are a few unresolved thoughts.

post - it 2006

New blog on which artist Vincent Van Driver creates drawing everyday and uploads it onto his blog. I personally think post it are a better invention than sliced bread. But there seems to be a lot of work on post-its at the moment

Drawing dreams with your eyes closed

Just found about Robin Whitmore's Dream Diary blog with some drawings of dreams completed with eyes closed. Like the white on black, seems appropriate for remembered dreams. I wish I could draw that well with my eyes closed.

Richard Crow: Ancolie

Performance at South London Gallery, involves sound and music and afterwards there is a talk by the artist. 2/11/06 7-8.30pm

John Stezaker

John Stezaker opening at the approach Wednesday 6-9pm
Nov 2 - Dec 17 2006
He does photo collages and was in the Tate Triannual

International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen

check out this, don't know much about it, but going by previous years it looks quite traditional archive 2004

Square Root of Drawing

Just been to Opening of Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
ARtists include David Sherry Mark Clare, Andrew McDonald who was in British Art Show 6, Yuko Ichimura, Joy Gerrard Katja Davar Terry Smith, Ilana Halperin Susanna Heron Brendan Earley Jane Topping Daphne Plessner Eamon o'kane Gary Coyle Ricardo Lanzarini Heather Boaz Michael Pare Bjorn Hegardt Simon Wood Paul Flannery Joe Biel Zoe Mendelson Edwina Ashton Sol Kjok Florian Merkel Sally Osborn Aine NicGiolla Coda, Graham Parker, Joe Walker, Grace Weir Alan PhelanLinda Quinlan Kate Davis Liadin Cooke, David Mackintosh, `Mark Garry

Simon English at Fred, London

Simon English is exhibiting at Fred, Vyner STreet, London
'Banks Creams and the Somerset Owls' is on until 19 Nov.

Simon English also has work in the show at Mothers tankstation Dublin.

Getting on Mother's Nerves: Psychological drama and Contemporary Drawing

This drawing exhibition opened last night in a new fresh space. Had some wonderful Raymond Pettibon comic covers and prints. My Favs were, REmbrandt !! Atsushi Kaga, Royal Art Lodge, Marcel Dzama
Show on until 23 Dec.
41-43 Watling Street, Ushers Island, Dublin 8

Drawing Lecture by Dr. Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith

DRAWING LECTURE AT IADT (DUBLIN)

The second lecture at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technologyseries is by curator / writer Dr. Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith, who will talk about his curation of "The Secret Theory of
Drawing: Dislocation & Indirection in Contemporary Drawing" at The Drawing
Room, London.
Tuesday 24 October 7pm. Atrium Building, IADT Dun Laoghaire
Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire. Dublin Ireland
Unfortunately this clashes with the opening of the Square Route of Drawing at Temple Bar

slashseconds

/seconds. is an online magazine which is more art research based. it is supported by Leeds Metropolitan University
click on link to see it /seconds

Drawing is a Verb. Drawing is a Noun.

Drawing exhibition Stone Gallery, Dublin
28 Sept - 20 Nov

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006

Selectors Jason Brooks, (painter) Yvonne Crossley, Director of Drawing Gallery, Paul Thomas co-founder of The Jerwood Drawing Prize

Winners
1st Prize
Charlotte Hodes

2nd Prize
James McLellan

Student Prize
Zoe Anderson

Student Prize
James Wright

20th Sept - 22nd Oct Jerwood Space, Union Street, London
27 0ct - 6 Nov University of Gloucestershire, Pittville Gallery
11 Nov - 1 Jan mac, Canon Hill Park, Birmingham
12 Jan - 26 Feb Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery,
10 Mar - 22 Apr DLI Museum & Art Gallery, Durham
13 Jun - 20 Jul BayArt, Cardiff

Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool Biennial 16 Sept - 26 Nov 2006
Includes John Moores 24 Painting Prize
Bloomberg Newcontemporaries
and lots more click on post heading to get to biennial web site

In the City of Last Things

At Site Gallery, Sheffield an exhibition, in collaboration with the Drawing Gallery, London, In The City of Last Things drawings/animation of work by Katja Davar, Paul Noble, and Torsten Slama. I love Paul Nobles work, eventhough i have seen a lot of it, still unsure about Katja Davar's underwater jelly fish world, don't know much about Torsten Slama.

SQUARE ROUTE OF DRAWING

Exhibition including an awful lot of good drawers. (i am not sure that being good drawer is really the most appropriate thing to say, perhaps some of my favourite bad drawers would be better)
Exhibition is at Temple Bar Gallery Dublin.
PV 24 Oct 6-8pm
24 Oct - 2 Dec

Michael Newgass

Opening at Millias Gallery Southampton is Time Lines 29 Sept - 11 Nov an exhibition investigating walking.
PV 29 Sept 6pm-8pm
talk by artist Thur 26 Oct 7.30pm

Andy Coolquitt

Andy Coolquitt, American artist starts three week residency at Outpost gallery in Norwich.
Residency is called Hugh Grant Potato Marathon

Sound bad but good

Princes Drawing School Drawing Year Exhibition

This years Prince's Drawing School Postgraduate students exhibit their years work.
sept 27 - Oct 8 2006
Exhibition is at the Prince's Drawing School

pixel and pen drawings for this years big draw

Go to link below to create your own drawing on 'myth'
http://www.mhillman.co.uk/thebigdraw

Wimbledon College of Art MA Shows

Wimbledon College of Art MA Degree Shows open on Friday 8th September along side, the drawing exhibition,
MAYBE A DUCK ... MAYBE A RABBIT... curated by the Drawing Fellow Ansel Krut, with drawings by Jemima Burrill, Ansel Krut and Walter Swennen, and in the Centre for Drawing also at Merton Hall Road is UNTITLED: CUBE BODY performance and installation by Jordan McKenzie.

Wimbledon College of Art MA Drawing students web site now LIIVE

This years Wimbledon College of Art MA Drawing students are showing imgaes of their drawing research on the new web site
http://www.drawingdrawing.co.uk/ in preparation for the culmination of their intensive Masters year.

The Secret Theory of Drawing: Dislocation & Indirection in Contemporary Drawing

New Show, that looks really interesting and has some of my favourite artists in it.
At the Drawing Room but does not open until 5/10/06 - 19/11/06
Artists include: David Austen, Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Alan Johnston, John Latham, Mark Manders, Matt Mullican, Anri Sala, Bojan Sarcevic, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Cathy Wilkes.

Lines of Enquiry: Thinking Through Drawing

15 July - 17 September 2006
Drawing exhibition at Kettles Yard, Cambridge
click on link for more details, includes work by non artists (as well) such as drawings by architects and scientists.

Ultimate Drawing Exhibitions

The Stage of Drawing: Gesture & Act

Joelle Tuerlinckx: Drawing Inventory

Drawing the Line: Reappraising Drawing Past and Present selected by Michael Craig-Martin South Bank Centre
Line as Language: Six Artists Draw - R.Krauss (before my time almost, but wish I could have seen this one)

drawn out

Space Station Festival

This looks really interesting and fun FESTIVAL 14 Jul - 6 Aug 4 weeks of performance curated by.. wk 1. Dave Beech wk2. Andrew Hunt wk 3. Ali MacGilp wk 4. Sally O'Reilly -- hosted by Mark McGowan!!!!

Drawing Related Shows

Dicksmith Gallery, George Henry Longly, - 29/07 http://www.dicksmithgallery.co.uk/

The Drawing Gallery, Nigel Eillis / Nick Fox, 'This Longing' - 3/8 http://www.thedrawinggallery.com/

Eleven 'Pathos & Ethos' Drawings by Clara Drummond, Grant Foster, Massimo Franco, Oona Grimes, Jaemi Hardy, Vanessa Hodginson, Henry John and Eve Peasnall, 5/7- 4/8 http://www.elevenfineart.com/?pageid=4

Ben Brown Fine Art Motion on Paper: Drawing and works on paper 5/7- 22/9 http://www.benbrownfinearts.com/exhibit.htm

Ellen Gallagher at Hauser and Writh only on until 22/7
http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/index.php?showone=1&exhibition_id=330&setloc=LONDON&PHPSESSID=b6ddcc12017ee6df91260ff4c3dbb8bd

selection of shows opening this week

ARCHEINTURE Camden Arts Centre Jul 14 - Sept 17 http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home_noflash.asp

MODERN ART Summer show 14 Jul - 13 Aug http://www.stuartshavemodernart.com/exhibitions_future.html

The Recycle Design Company

Check out Jiska Hartog and Michiel Henneman recent project in the Centre for Drawing.
click on link to be redirected to their web site

'Muscular Pet'

Exhibition at the Mashed Potato Gallery in the Old SeagerDistiller , Brookmill Road, Deptford
Private View Thursday 20 July 6-9
Exhibition 21 - 24 July 12 - 6 Mon - Sat 12-4 Sun

Clink on exhibition title for more info about this exciting innovative show

images from 'dysfunctioning'

Work completed by Lucinda Holmes in the Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art

'Dysfunctioning'

12 – 16 June, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, Merton Hall Road.
Open to the public Tuesday 13 June 3-4pm, Thursday 15 June 3-4pm
Private View Friday 16 June 4.30pm – 6.30pm

I am exploring the act of drawing as a negation, more specifically an act that covers textual information within diagrams. I am interested in how theses acts of deletion change the reading of pre-existing printed diagrams. What is the relationship between the mark and the ground, when the line is already in the ground and the mark is a covering of the same colour and value as the ground? In the Centre for Drawing I am exploring how to display these drawings and their relationship (through placement) with their context and each other.

Lucinda Holmes
Currently studying MA Fine Art: Drawing, at Wimbledon.

Banks Voilette

Maureen Paley, Herald Street, London
2 June – 23 July
I really wish I had seen the performance. According to the press release “Stephen O’Malley and his band sunnO))) [played] on stages, with the focus involving a singer named Attila Csihar in a sealed coffin, on vocals throughout”. Downstairs is the remains of the performance with shiny black stages dirty with dust stuck to dried beer and perhaps sweat. There are more remnants on the floor a battery, bits of paper, and more dust. As you go in right in front of you is the coffin that the singer must have been in, there was a piece of paper with words on it, but I couldn’t understand it. Upstairs all the musical equipment has been cast in salt, but it looks like it has been frozen and is covered in cartoon ice dusting. It was almost as if the band had been zapped by an alien and all that was left was their inorganic equipment was frozen in the process. There were also drawings of the band from photographs but you could see anything of them. They seemed to work like advertising posters in a concert hall. Fascinating show.

Richard Forster, Cell Project Space,

258 Cambridge Heath Road, London
20 May – 25 June 2006

This show didn’t really do it for me, or maybe I am just missing the point all together. In the central room were chair frame like things that were painted shiny pink and cream. They were on and surrounding glass with a floral pattern cut into the surface and an arrangement of luminous tubes on top of it.

Anthea Hamilton, ‘Athens’

IBID PROJECTS, 210 Cambridge Heath Road, London
21 May – 16 July 2006

Anthea Hamilton transformed familiar objects into what looked like ritualistic or totemic sculptures. I found myself wondering ‘well in this religion what do snooker balls represent of mean?’ Hamilton’s work had a real weightlessness and delicacy to it. The way I walked around the gallery was changed by the floor being sanitized by lots of white tiles covering it and a foot up the wall. It did seem a bit like a bathroom, but I was when I first entered unsure if I was allowed to bring my uncleanness into this especially pure space. I do have a bit of a thing about things you can get in stationary shops, so I especially loved the Olympic rings in cello tape. Transforming, collecting and balancing seem to be very important in Hamilton’s work.

Tamsin Morse

One in the Other, 45 Vyner Street, London
11 May- 18 June 2006
Sometimes I get a bit self indulgently dismissive of painting; this show temporarily stopped it. Tamsin Morse paints people less mountain scapes, that initially look normal but then you realise that sections of the mountain seems to be floating. Their cool pinky colour reminded me of Cezanne’s Mount St. Victoire. Though unlike Cezanne that paint is applied in tiny colourful dots, the physicality of the paint is not something Morse celebrates. It is sort of a Romantic sci-fi landscape where the world is lit but there is no warm sunshine.

Dr Lakra at Kate MacGarry

9 June – 15 July
I didn’t find Dr Lakra’s tattooed objects not disturbing enough. I sort of felt that the embellished images should start to bleed, in a similar way to how shrines (often in India) have apparently started to produce blood, or is it milk? It was almost like looking at a collection of anthropological specimens, or outsider art. It was also too clean. I wanted more mess and goo.

The Wrong End of the Telescope

10 June – 9 July, Three Colts Gallery, Bethnal Green
Open Fri, Sat & Sun 12-6
Artists Anna Boggon, Silke Dettmers, Helen Maurer

It is an absolutely stunning show, linked by a dolls house view of the world. Personally, I didn’t feel any connection to ‘homeliness’; dolls houses are not homely, they are surreal, slightly scary but fascinating. Anna Boggon’s wardrobe dolls house room was consuming. I spent ages looking at it kneeling on the ground still unable to work out what was really where and which way up. It reminded me in retrospect of Leonora Carrington’s paintings, where this feminine world is suddenly disrupted by some weird addition like a giant sunflower. Helen Maurer’s objects on an overhead projector, which make an image, were great. I loved the way that something so tiny and delicate seemingly had so much power as it was projected to life size on the wall. I liked Silke Dettmers box with a window in it. I found it strangely disturbing as it didn’t allow me the pleasure of a tiny world inside; from within inside the box someone could watch me, but I could not see them.

Brett Cody Rogers ‘That Void/What Void’

May 18 June 18 2006
Luminous drip paintings that I found not ugly enough

Crust and Dirt

Crust and Dirt's Instant Drawing Machine
Opens at The Drawing Center New York, 17 June -22 July
PV 16 June 6-8pm

You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference

A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition
25 March - 18 June Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
29 July - 24 September Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea
30 September - 19 November The Lowry, Salford
1 Dec - 7 Jan 2007 The New Art Gallery, Walsall
13 Jan - 25 Feb Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle

Artists: Anna Barriball, Anne Bean, Ian Breakwell, Paul Cassidy, Stephen Cripps, Layla Curtis, Ian Davenport, Tracey Emin, Dave Farnham, Jem Finer, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Mona Hatoum, Claude Heath, Rebecca Horn, Tim Knowles, Tania Kovats, Henry Krokatsis, Richard Long, Alice Maher, Cornelia Parker, Steven Pippin, Damien Roach, Ed Ruscha, Keir Smith, Keith Tyson, Marl Wallinger, Klaus Weber, John Wood and Paul Harrison

The Passing Clouds, Dalston Presents

Monday 19 June 06 8pm
At The Passing Clouds Foundation, Corner of Kingsland Road and Richmond Road, behind Uncle Sam's Pub.
tube Old Street/Liverpool Street

Performance by Mat Cahill "Together we Can Work It Out!"

Video Short by Justin Virdi "An Ugly Woman From Chorley"

Both approaching their work from a background of drawing.

Free Range

Went to the Design week opening last night. I was shocked by the huge amount of space available and the streams of students there. It quite literally took up the whole of the street!!!

Next week is the start of the photography weeks. I am hoping that there will be as much energy as there was last night.

PHOTO WEEKS Opening: Thurs 15 June/ Show: Fri 16 June - Mon 19 June
Opening: Thurs 22 June/ Show: Fri 23 June - Mon 26 June

Postgraduate Drawing Shows

Wimbledon School of Art
MA Fine Art: Drawing
Private View Friday 8th September
Saturday 9th - Thursday 14th September (except Sunday)
10am - 8pm Saturday 12pm - 4.30pm
Merton Hall Road, London, SW19 3QA

Camberwell College of Art and Design
MA Drawing
Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 July 2006
Wednesday - Friday 10am - 8pm; Sat 10am - 4pm
Drawing is at Wilson Road, London SE5 8LU

Princes Drawing School Postgraduate year in Drawing (Oct can find exact dates)

notions of drawing

Jose Abad, Corinna Till, Melanie Titmuss, Simon Wess, Michael Schwab, Naomi Kashiwagi, Renata Fernandez, Naoko Tagai, Helene Kazan, Serap Isik, Izzie Hall, Sian Robinson, Heather Crowther, Dana Brintz, Nicola Pomery, Christina Mitrentse, John O'Connell

Private View Thur 8 June 6-9pm
CIP House, Exhibition Space Passage 133 Peckham Rye Lane Peckham SE15 3SN

The Reliance + Seventeen

Until It Makes Sense; Drawing as a Time Based Medium curated by James Brooks
3 May – 10 June
Seventeen, 17 Kingsland Road, London E2 8AA

Caroline Achaintre, Anna Barriball, Wolfgang Berkowski, James Brooks, Susan Collis, Christopher Cook, Graham Dolphin, Amande In, Des Lawrence, Jason Martin, Guillaume Pinard, Emma Torkington.

This is an exhibition of works by artists who use drawing to explore duration of time. Including the pencil frottage works by Anna Barriball, which though the fill the entirety of the page, but the flat plain is broken up by trace of the contact with the surface which the paper was pressed against. It was interesting to see Caroline Achaintre’s drawings, which made me wonder about their relationship to the woven rug works that I saw at the Showroom last year. Susan Collis work ‘The Oyster’s Our World’ which stood unassuming in its placement in the gallery space, had really classy secretive presence, with is double take, as what looks like paint splattered is in fact inlayed corals, pearls and diamonds; I need to go back and look at ‘100% Cotton’. Chris Cook’s series of framed watery drawings at the back of the gallery investigated simply the properties of the materials and the process of making repeated marks. Looking at Chris Cook’s work I was reminded of practicing letters at school getting the right form of letter and comparing the process of production of each letter to how it looked, and how it looked in comparison the last. I am definitely going back for a second look; as I don’t feel that I have done everything justice. I did want there to be more of a presence in the centre of the gallery space, but this may not have been appropriate for this exhibition. This show is only on until 10th June.

Disintegrating Hand and Other Works Alex Pollard
27 April – 18 June 2006, Reliance, 2nd Floor, 336 Old Street, London EC1V 9DR

A new space run by the same people who run the Approach. Light with conventional white walls, open plan but intimate. The exhibition was liberated free and fun. When I first went in I was struck by the wall drawing where the ruler and the pencil that drew the line were still there. Later to discover that they weren’t really. The majority of the work looks as if it has been made from drawing materials such as old rulers, rubbers and pencils, but they are bronze or plaster that has been painted to look like these objects. These objects, which aren’t what they are, make up animals and paintings, but reference other artworks in the process. Very interesting show, in a great new space.

nighthaunts

cool project commissioned by artangel by Sukhdev Sandhu

The Laundy

P/v 25 May 7.30 - 11.00, 5 Fountayne Road, N15 4QL, nearest tube Seven Sisters
apparently it is 40%performance, 25%art, 20%sound and 15%fun, but you have bring a small item of laundry to get in.
very curious!
Show runs 27 May - 4 June, but is then more art, contemplation and 10%tea.

fun web sites

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/
http://www.instantdrawingmachine.com/home/home.html

fun drawing web sites as mentioned by Lawrence Rinder at Tate Drawing Symposium

drawing spaces: picturing knowledge

This is an interactive artwork, and they want poeple to give their diagrams, maps and plans that they use in thier subject area.
Sounds really interesting, collaboration with Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Portsmouth University.
Hartley Library, University of Southampton, 16 May - 27 June 2006

Daylight and Dust, Deborah Harty, 24 May - 2 June
Centre for Recent Drawing, 63 Codworth St. Bethnal Green London, E1 5QU p/v 6-8 25 May 2006

myspace

R. has set up a myspace dedicated to drawing
Please click on link to view the drawings that have been posted already

Drawing Quarters 2006
Practice-based drawing symposium
includes, Ann Christopher, Roger Conlon, Peter Lord, Emma Stibbon
Bristol School of Art, Media and Design, 11-14 July

The Drawing Room, Katja Davar Forking Ocean Path
May 17 - Jun 25
large scale animations and drawings
Tannery Arts, Brunswick Wharf, 55 Laburnum St, E2 8BD

The Drawing Gallery,
Christine Taylor Patten, May 16 - Jun 21
mirco/macro: 251 drawings
37 Duke Street St James, SW1Y 6DF

'Notions of Drawing, An Exploration'
Jun 8 - 30, 2006
Group show reflecting on the possiblities of drawing.
Artbust@CIP House, Copeland Indust Pk Exhib Room,
Peckham Rye Lane, SE15 3SN

Tate Drawing Symposium 'With a Single Mark: The Models and Practice of Drawing'
Friday 19 May, 14.00 - 19:00
Saturday 20 May 10.00 - 16.30

particpants include: Catherine de Zegher, Jean Fisher, Michael Newman, Alain Badiou, Luis Camnitzer, James Elkins, Richard W Hill, Pam Johnston, Julie Mehretu, Avis Newman, Lawrence Rinder and Richard Tuttle. Bryony Fer?

Patrick Ireland ‘Drawing from Four Series’ Apr 27 – May 16 Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Crosshatched drawings of things like folds

Fred Sandback Mar 18 – May 14 The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Spacial Drawing

1:1 Apr 8 – May 22, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge

Niki Russell : RE DRAWN Apr 21 – Jun 4 MOOT, Nottingham

Ian Skoyes / Vic Moreton / Stephen Dunn Apr 28 – Jun 4, VINEspace, London

Laura Owens 27 Apr – 27 May Sadie Coles, London

If They Didn’t Exist You’d Have to Invent It Apr 5 – May 14 Showroom, London

Juan Tessi ‘Thumbnail Gallery Post’ Apr 22 – May 27 Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London – includes wall drawing

Robert Hawkins at The Residence
Apr 19 - 30
drawings of famous haunted ruins
168a Victoria Park Rd

Juan Tessi at Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd
Apr 22 - May 20
PV 20th April
11 Howland St, London

Anthony McCall: Drawings for Between You & I
at Peer 99 Hoxton St,
Mar 24 - Apr 22

Drawing Links at The Drawing Room
Mar 23 - Apr 30
An exhibition of emerging artists

Edward Allington at The Drawing Gallery
Apr 11 - May 11
67 Duke Street St James

Writing In Strobe at Dicksmith Gallery
Mar 30 - May 6
curated by Andrew Hunt, includes Terry Atkinson, Aline Bouvy & John Gillis, John Latham, Jonathan Monk, Sue Tompkins and Eva Weinmayr
74 Buttesland St, Hoxton

Shining - Close In Value
Apr 1 - May 6
Drawings from Germany
Broadbent, 25 Chepstow Corner, London

Walter Cascio: Touching the void
Mar 29 - May 20
at Barbara Behan
50 Moreton St, London

Sol Lewitt at Adam Gallery
Apr - May 6
24 Cork Street, London