Monday, July 16, 2007

Knight's Move Journal

While visiting David Risley gallery I discovered a new drawing journal 'Knight's Move Writing is Drawing'. I loved it's large size, just black text on cream paper, not many pages. In the 'Editorial, A Zero Velocity of Reading?' by David Howells (July 2007), he states.
"[W]e propose instead of an expanded sense of writing as drawing that does not consign itself to a marginal category such as concrete poetry or liberated typography,[but one] that operates instead from within the "prison-house of language" itself."

I am looking forward to the next edition. For more information click on link above.

Anka Dabrowska + Emma Holden

Anka Dabrowska

http://www.julietgompertstrust.co.uk/artists/Dabrowska/index.html
http://www.sevenseven.org.uk/Artists_files/AnkaDabrowska.html

Emma Holden and Anka Dabrowska both exhibited together in 'Geography is a Flavour' at Baldwin Terrace run by August Arts. I was struck by both their work. If I read this correctly they will be both exhibiting separately later this year at sevenseven, in East London.

Emma Holden's work was organic grewing pencil of repeated pen marks. One piece was like a delicate dragon without eyes but drawn on a page from the financial times.

Anka Dabrowska's delicate water colours and fragile pencil lines are often on different grounds such as paper bags. Though the lines and the execution are delicate the subject matter is of things remembered from Dabrowska's past such as military helmets camouflaged.