Tracks & Traces 1

These drawings explore the physical nature of the built environment and a hidden quality of movement within, and between, spaces and places. They question the boundary between drawing and print, drawing and impression, drawing and inscription. When is a drawing not a drawing? Can a work be both a drawing and a print? 

Sculptors drawings tend to have a dynamism and physicality to them that balances the physical qualities of three dimensional work: these drawings, however, are a subtle response to the three dimensional world that surrounds us. 

The drawings were made for the Line/s of Enquiry exhibition and symposium at Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham and have subsequently been shown at BayArt, Cardiff. The exhibition included artwork, writing, research, and exploratory materials responding to the disused Honeybourne Line in Cheltenham.  Produced collectively with other members of ‘Walking the Land’ over a full year the group approached the Honeybourne Line as unchartered territory, mapping “the past, present and future of this … public space”.