| I use drawing as a very accessible, flexible and direct way of making artwork. In theory you can use a burnt stick or other basic item to create marks; I tend to use black oil pastels of various colours and sizes as they give me an immediate strong line, which is almost impossible to rub-out. So once I make a mark I’m committed to it. My work has often been described as urban and visually strong. I’ve been influenced by comic books, pop art, Van Gogh and urban signage. |
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Here the banana skin drawings are glued onto cardboard. The irregular shape of the sheet of cardboard emphasises the three-dimensional aspects of the drawings. |
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Here’s some updates to partially-finished work and another version of yellow banana skins – a previous version is on display at LAPIEZA in Madrid.
The Rose bush drawings are mounted on a single white board, intended to blend into a white wall as are the Forge glove drawings, which show the disintegration of the welding gloves. Rose tree drawings
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I am preparing work I will be submitting to the Jerwood drawing prize. This drawing of banana skins is very similar to a piece of work I made for LaPieza gallery in Madrid. I would prefer to mount each banana skin on the wall individually, but for practical reasons I will need to mount this work on a white board for transportation to the competition. Each drawing is on yellow cartridge paper, which has been glued to cardboard cut from old boxes. When mounted each drawing will be raised up from the mounting board on a chunk of thick cardboard. |
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Here yellow skeleton and sack trolley drawings are combined. This is now a lot more about physical objects than flat drawings. The objects are drawn life-size from an anatomical plastic human skeleton and a sack trolley, using a stick of black oil pastel straight on to white and yellow cartridge paper. Each drawing is mounted onto cardboard and cut-out. 
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The filter canister is detachable and so effectively a separate object to the mask, and so I drew it separately. The masks are drawn with white oil pastel on black paper and the canisters with black on yellow paper. All of the drawings are cut-out on thrown-away cardboard and elevated away from the wall. 
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By bringing the drawings out into the room and away from the wall I hope to liberate them from the flat existence usually associated with drawing. Are these drawings now sculptures? I think they are both drawings and sculptures and perhaps it’s a shame to have to differentiate between the two. 
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