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Six Polydexterous Drawings of Rodin Sculpture 'The Age of Bronze'

By  Saranjit Birdi 2025

This video is a documentation of six ‘polydexterous’ drawings created with hands and feet drawings. They are of the sculpture 'The Age of Bronze' by Auguste Rodin (1887) and took between thirty minutes and six hours respectively. The drawings were created as a submission for Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 2025. With thanks to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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'Cogn: I' - Exhibition at the Drum, Birmingham March-April 2015

'Mapping Bones 1' - Installation and Exhibition at ORT Gallery 15th November 2018

This drawing was created live over four days through August 2012 and is part of an ongoing series titled 'Limits'. begun in 2011 at the Folkestone Triennial Fringe Festival. The process was to stand on the paper and draw using both feet, overall the drawing took around 12 hours. The fun part was meeting the locals in the hustle and bustle of the market nearby and in some cases creating portraits of them as they looked down at the work. The work was video documented.

'Limits' series - Foot drawing of St Martins Church and Bullring, Birmingham

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