Ken Grant
Where we are now cast stone, steel plate, bronze plate, laquer
Green Fuse cast pigmented stucco Double Light cast bronze Sequence II steel plate
DUNE
An Exhibition of Selected Sculpture a retrospective of sculptural works
Seeded Column cast stone, cast stucco, bronze
Magpie Code enamel on aluminium
Bird
A collaborative exhibition of framed works of drawings directly from spring bird song
The selection of these drawings revealed at least some of the factors or ‘elements’ of drawing that appear to release fluency. At some point in practice there appears to be sufficient background or development for improvisation to emerge naturally. In this case with line and with materiality including the paper and then with specific structures developed through years of drawing from dance, choreography, contemporary music and more recently a study of graphic scores.
The drawings record unique sequences of events -non repeating information recorded as graphic notations guided by directional sound and soundspace. These sounds are variable in intensity, urgency and significance though always being ‘signifiers’. A strong calligraphic element and use of ‘sumi’ space, emphasise pivot points around which sound rotates and anchors directly and physically. The drawings also transcribe distance and proximity. The artist’s ‘view’ of these sounds is topographic and sculptural.
These are small scale drawings and are moments and not ‘fields’. They function somewhat like sumi in that they are fluid and have a textual content. There is strangeness in the complexity of this moment which is properly reflected in the drawings. Here artistic structures have met a very sophisticated and developed language of sound, hopefully learning something on the way.
Birdwork is an edition of 60 reproduced selected drawings made in the spring dawn chorus
redtarnpress
Twelve
A joint exhibition of 24 works, of Selected Drawings from
Rambert Dance Company reheasals
A celebration of 30 years support.
Selected Drawing Twelve
The exhibition entitled “Twelve” comprises of twenty four of the drawings made during Rambert’ class and rehearsal, primarily from tours to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal and the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, and also at the Lowry, Salford and at Sadler’s Wells. The work has been selected to reflect the necessity of practice, as required both by drawing and in the work of the dancers during ‘class’. Due to the volume of drawings produced the selection process itself has a complexity of its own, which is now integral to the exhibition content.
The proposed joint exhibition comprises 12 + 12 aluminium framed works, further supported by a folded Introduction leaflet and Information framed as a A1 poster. The works are approximately A3 and A3 Square in dimension. As drawings these are not direct representations of particular works or choreography but have more to do with the core processes of drawing, working with movement and physiology as a source of information.
