Moving around the Dan Graham pavillion in the sunshine at Lisson Gallery was a good way to start Friday. It followed an intense week of prep and a presentation to staff and students (with questions) on studio practice and contextualisation.
Question. Reflect. Précis. Answer.
There is a hyper-real intensity about this stage of the degree. Past discoveries and experiences and future hopes are swirling around and about the current struggles. I feel I have a 1000 paintings that need to be made, perhaps that it why I am relating to drawing at the moment. It enables thoughts, records hunches, brings rhythmic order and facilitates play.
After seeing the work of Jorinde Voight Konnex and Spencer Finch and Dan Graham at Lisson, I spent time at Drawing Room with the work off Franz Erhard Walther, for him, ‘…drawing is not a static medium but rather a materially fluid generator of work processes, conceptual experiments and imaginative participation.’* The show, and that particular space, was like being in his studio, a place of ongoing investigation.
It feels important to me to not lock things down in my work or to try to ‘complete’ too much but to create openings.
Good times.
*Stephanie Straine, Franz Erhard Walther, Drawings- Line/Frame/Action/Drawn Novel. Drawing Room
http://www.lissongallery.com/#/current/
http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/exhibitions/franzerh…
