Working Drawings

A new ongoing body of work, ‘working drawings’ on leftover or found pieces of plasterboard. They are wall drawings for any and no wall. They are composites of drawings, offcuts of cut paper, found images and other marks made in a growing variety of ways onto the painted surface. Parts get added, moved or removed, they are working drawings, drawings made while working, by working.

Images slowly build around the other things that happen in the studio, in this way the drawings become a marker of a slower passage of time, an accrual of momentary moments, periods of more, less and no intensity. Marks of time, of gesture and of my body moving through and across the studio and picture plains. Life-time.

The preparation of these boards (cutting down, tidying up, painting etc.) is a kind of work, the images are constructed on materials of construction and utilise materials of work or that are worked upon. They attempt to capture and satisfy my need to feel like I am ‘working’ but also in that they are and probably will always be works in progress, until they can’t be anymore, because they are dismantled or leave the studio.

A collection of drawings were on show for Plymouth Art Weekender 2024 in Royal William Yard, Plymouth.