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Five2Watch: Drawing/Sculpture


For #Five2Watch this week we've selected five artists who have made work that considers the linkages between drawing and sculpture, featuring: Vincent James, Naomi Harwin, Harriet Hill, Aimee Nelson and Joe Hancock.


Border Control, 2018

Vincent James

Tissue paper and cardboard.

Vincent James

 

Boundary (II), 2016

Naomi Harwin

Wire drawing.

Naomi Harwin

 

Schematic, 2011

Harriet Hill

Site specific sculpture and installation based on the idea of the public gallery space surrounded by private studio spaces; the static nature of the finished artwork against the activity of the creative process.

The felt sculpture evolved from drawings over gallery floor plans. The floor was painted, leaving 'shadow' lines of old floor paint.

Harriet Hill

 

Drawing Machine 3, 2018

Aimee Nelson

Wooden ruler, wind up mechanism, third hand tool, LED torch

Exhibited in 66% There, Catalyst Arts, Belfast

Aimee Nelson

 

Catawampus Schematic, 2014

Joe Hancock

digital drawing

A schematic layout of the columns for 'Catawampus', in plan view.

Red=new columns
Grey=original cast iron column


CATAWAMPUS

foam core plastic pipe, urethane paint, retroreflective glass beads

A site-responsive sculptural installation.

‘Catawampus’ was a site-responsive installation in Federation House, Manchester – the former headquarters of the Cooperative Society. On each floor the ceiling was supported by rows of cast iron columns. Working from on-site measurements and original building plans, I made a series of 12 columns dimensionally identical to those already in place, and arranged them according to the same layout, only skewed around an imaginary centre point. Each of the new columns was coated with retroreflective glass beads (ordinarily used to add reflective qualities to road marking paint), thus allowing them to become reflective according to the lighting conditions.

catawampus
[kat-uh–wom-puh s]

Adjective

Out of alignment, crooked, skewed, askew, awry, off-kilter.
Positioned diagonally, cater-cornered.
Fierce, destructive.

 

Joe Hancock

 

Published 15 May 2020

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