While displaying ready-made works, yellow banana skins and black and white banana skins, I drew some of the junk art objects in the gallery and 2 items (crash helmet and gloves) provided by visitors.
– images courtesy of LAPIEZA, Madrid.
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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While displaying ready-made works, yellow banana skins and black and white banana skins, I drew some of the junk art objects in the gallery and 2 items (crash helmet and gloves) provided by visitors.
– images courtesy of LAPIEZA, Madrid.
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Life-size drawings of banana skins, raised out from the wall.
Banana skin drawings in yellow. Black oil pastel on paper on cardboard. |
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I’m experimenting with more three-dimensional drawings of objects. Here drawings of a sack barrow show the movement of the object over time. The drawings stand in free space, mounted on cardboard. I’ll continue drawing this object in a way that describes its function and movement. |
I’ve moved the drawings away from the wall and out into free space. This is the most 3-dimensional of my drawings so far.
I plan to do a lot more of this; combining ideas I’ve had in the past, like cardboard arrows, with my object drawings.
Here the skeleton is turned to it’s left, the action is illustrated by the red cardboard arrow.