Drawings

I’ve been drawing since I was eight years old, it’s a very immediate way of recording points in time, requiring only the most basic of materials.

I often draw with black oil pastel, it gives an immediate thick black line and offers a wider range of marks than ink. Sometimes I’ll use poster paint to add colour or  leaving a drawing in it’s monochromatic and default black and white state, producing a diagrammatic effect.

An aspect of drawing I enjoy is it’s simplicity; you can pick-up a stick and draw in the sand or dirt, or burn a small piece of wood, and make impressive marks on a smooth surface. In this context here’s something quite primeval about drawing.

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LAPIEZA gallery exhibition

LAPIEZA 16 – 19/02/2012.
LAPIEZA
Calle de La Palma, 15
28004 Madrid
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I’ll be displaying some AK47 rifle drawings and making some work in Madrid to show in the LAPIEZA gallery.

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LAPIEZA gallery exhibition

February 3, 2012

16 – 19/02/2012. LAPIEZA Calle de La Palma, 15 28004 Madrid Map  I’ll be displaying some AK47 rifle drawings and making some work in Madrid to show in the LAPIEZA gallery.

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Rosetta Window Gallery exhibition

February 3, 2012

Installation: 11/02/2012. Official opening: Thursday 1st March from from 7-9pm. Ends: 27/03/2012.  Works will change over the lifetime of the exhibition and will begin with the following pieces of work: Yellow skeleton – left-turn Black and White AK47 Coloured AK47 Russian gas mask Forge gloves Sack trolley Rosebush Some objects are idolised, others are used every [...]

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Coloured Kalashnikov drawings

November 26, 2011

Latest drawings of an AK47 in my studio.

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Kalashnikov AK47 drawings

November 12, 2011

These are multiple drawings of an AK47 assault rifle, drawn using oil pastel on paper on cardboard. The rifle was a tough object to warm to, likely due to it’s purpose, so I often felt separate from it while I was drawing.The drawings were made viewing the rifle from various angles.

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Drawing at the Ragged School Museum

October 9, 2011

In late August I spent 3 days working at the Ragged School Museum in Mile End, east London.I drew some objects from the museum, creating several line drawings, which were available for visiting children to colour in.

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Football shirt drawing

October 1, 2011

This is a football shirt, in this case it;s Queens Park Rangers, a football club in West London. I’ve drawn it so that the colours are separated, the white parts of the shirt in front of the blue sections.

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Man-bag drawings

September 30, 2011

It’s a bag I often use to carry a book and other essentials.Here I’ve partially cut-out the drawing on cardboard and left them standing out on the floor.

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Banana skins on cardboard

August 13, 2011

Here the banana skin drawings are glued onto cardboard.The irregular shape of the sheet of cardboard emphasises the three-dimensional aspects of the drawings.

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Update: Yellow Banana skins, Rose trees & Forge glove drawings

July 22, 2011

Here’s some updates to partially-finished work and another version of yellow banana skins – a previous version is on display at LAPIEZA in Madrid. The Rose bush drawings are mounted on a single white board, intended to blend into a white wall as are the Forge glove drawings, which show the disintegration of the welding [...]

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Yellow banana skin drawings – After LaPieza [work in progress]

June 4, 2011

I am preparing work I will be submitting to the Jerwood drawing prize.This drawing of banana skins is very similar to a piece of work I made for LaPieza gallery in Madrid. I would prefer to mount each banana skin on the wall individually, but for practical reasons I will need to mount this work [...]

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