Drawing near

Selfportrait as a house

More about my upcoming solo "Strange things travel with you"

Drawing is the central axis of my work which unravels the scribbles of its beginnings into customised constellations in which drawing becomes a metaphoric journey. The drawings in this exhibition move between layers of intuition, thought and language, and alternate between the double horizon of absence/presence, speaking/silence and space/place. These themes draw together my conception that drawing is above all an approach: a way of thinking.

When I work I conceive of every gesture as a drawing in a space, whether on paper, or by combining and shaping materials the concern remains the same: I am drawing. The way objects and fragments are set up in a space is similar to setting up relationships between individual lines and traces in a drawing. Each object functions as a drawing within the drawing, like constellations within constellations of material.

I connect the physical and psychological aspects of drawing with journey. There is a direct correlation between travelling across a landscape and the path of a graphic mark which transforms a blank page into an imaginary space. The path of a gesture of one's hand across a page can be traced in the same way we can map our journeys across the landscape of a place. In this sense travel is as much a gesture as drawing is. I tend to understand travel as a gesture that enables one to re-view one's own position socially and politically within a particular geographical locality. In this sense drawing can be used as a tool which allows the mind to wander along the more distant paths of memory and imagination to return with a more acute awareness of the present.

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Studio (Bijou, Woodstock)

I am currently completing preparations for my next solo exhibition Strange things travel with you. The show comprises of drawings made during resent resedencies in Belgium and Finland as well as a large scale installation based on these drawings.