Thursday, 28 November 2013

Drawing Presentation with Notes





I chose this drawing because it caught my attention in the Gallery as soon as I saw it.

I recognised the image from the orbit tower from the 2012 Olympics, but was seeing it in a completely different way. 

The piece is about 1.5 x 2 m

It was 1 out of 60 other drawings to be shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing prize.

The artist was inspired to do draw orbit because it had a really interesting structure.

This piece is just one of a series of large-scale drawings portraying the progress of the London 2012 Olympic site in the east end.

To me, the most interesting aspect in this drawing is the over-use of line. I'm really interested on line in my own work - She uses line really well.

Explosion on line

The thought the artist put into it really shows– she wanted us to view its development and unique form from every angle and that works really strongly with her style of drawing as well. 

This drawing was a conclusion of many much smaller observational sketches of the structure that were done over the period of time when it was being built. Barnes would draw everything from different viewpoints over many months then head back to her studio and try and compress them into one huge piece.




Scale of the drawing compared to others in the Jerwood Space Gallery as part of the 2013 drawing prize.

 
I decided to make the presentation very visual, I used photos of the drawing I'd chosen and a two and half minute video of the artist talking about her work and how her was inspired to draw it.
 
The notes that I have included on this post are the notes which I had in front of me when giving this presentation.
 
I think that the audience preferred watching a video of the artist talking about her work rather than me talking about what I had found out about it. It makes a lot more sense to hear what the artist makes of their work, because no one knows as well as them what it is about.
 
Images of work from(accessed on 12th November 2013):
 
 


 
 

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