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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Photos by Juan Barte

Posing with AK47 drawings at LAPIEZA, Madrid.
March 2012.

Photography by Juan Barte.
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Telephone for Fabelist Synaesthesia exhibition

February 21, 2013

This work was created for the Fabelist’s synaesthesia exhibition. Dates will be announced soon.

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Yellow telephone handsets – work in progress

October 13, 2012

The flex moves chaotically as it is fixed to teh handset. I’ve been working on drawings of a telephone handset on yellow paper. I’m locating an old-style base, which will likely be in a different colour. I’m intending to show some interaction between the handset and the base.

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Ganesha Drawings

October 8, 2012

These Ganesha drawings form part of a work in progress called “Magical objects”. More pictures of more related drawings will be posted here soon.

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Drawings of the dismantling of a football

June 30, 2012

These are drawings of an official Premier League no 5 football, drawn in various stages of being dismantled. The orange bladder can be seen as the football come apart. Approximately 3.5 mts x 1.5mts.

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Photos by Juan Barte

April 23, 2012

Posing with AK47 drawings at LAPIEZA, Madrid.March 2012. Photography by Juan Barte.

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Ground Floor Left Gallery: Figuratively speaking (group show)

March 13, 2012

You can see two pieces of my work at the Ground Floor Left gallery in Hackney, East London: Yellow Skeleton on a stand and AK47 drawings. They’re part of a group show with several recent graduates and a few other artists called Figuratively speaking. The exhibition runs 14th – 18th March 12-6pm. Map and directions.

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Video of Acacia seed pod drawings at LAPIEZA (Part 2)

February 23, 2012
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Video of Acacia seed pod drawings at LAPIEZA (Part 1)

February 23, 2012
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Black and white Kalashnikov AK47 drawings at LAPIEZA

February 23, 2012
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‘Acacia seed pods’ at LAPIEZA

February 22, 2012

During both an artist in residence and exhibition at LAPIEZA I took a walk through Casa de Compo park and saw a lot of seed pods from the many Acacia trees there. I collected a few and drew them at LAPIEZA.  This gave me an opportunity to develop the way in which I hang my [...]

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