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

by Paul
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 on a white board for transportation to the competition.

Each drawing is on yellow cartridge paper, which has been glued to cardboard cut from old boxes. When mounted each drawing will be raised up from the mounting board on a chunk of thick cardboard.

Yellow skeleton and sack trolley drawings

by Paul
Here yellow skeleton and sack trolley drawings are combined.
This is now a lot more about physical objects than flat drawings.
The objects are drawn life-size from an anatomical plastic human skeleton and a sack trolley, using a stick of black oil pastel straight on to white and yellow cartridge paper.
Each drawing is mounted onto cardboard and cut-out.
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Russian gas mask drawings

by Paul
The filter canister is detachable and so effectively a separate object to the mask, and so I drew it separately.
The masks are drawn with white oil pastel on black paper and the canisters with black on yellow paper. All of the drawings are cut-out on thrown-away cardboard and elevated away from the wall.

Sack trolley drawings

by Paul
By bringing the drawings out into the room and away from the wall I hope to liberate them from the flat existence usually associated with drawing.
Are these drawings now sculptures? I think they are both drawings and sculptures and perhaps it’s a shame to have to differentiate between the two.

LAPIEZA: Relational cloud – drawings of junk art objects

by Paul

While displaying ready-made works, yellow banana skins and black and white banana skins,  I drew some of the junk art objects in the gallery and 2 items (crash helmet and gloves) provided by visitors.

– images courtesy of LAPIEZA, Madrid.

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