Lapieza: Junk

Drawings of work gloves
Drawings of casting gloves. Oil pastel on paper on cardboard.

 

28th October – 23rd December 2010
Lapieza. Palma. 15, Malasana, Madrid, Spain.Using the theme “junk” I acquired a pair of old gloves used in a forge to cast artworks for other artists. I’ve drawn those gloves and then started taking them apart, drawing them as they disintegrate.
A third piece of work is inspired by a disused old fruit juice carton.

Photos from Animate Objects #2 exhibition

The Animate Objects #2 exhibition opens tomorrow afternoon. I may add a never-before-seen piece of work, ready for the opening.
Here are a few pictures of the show…

Rucksack drawings

Me standing in front of rucksack drawings.
Standing in front of my rucksack drawings.
This is my rucksack, one that I carry around with me a lot of the time.

As with my other drawings I used black oil pastel on paper, which I’ve then glued to card and cut-out to give a three-dimensional effect; which I hope brings some of the physical characteristics of objects back to the drawings, otherwise drawings can have a habit of looking rather flat.

Exhibition: Animate Objects #2

Animate objects #2 Cut-out drawings of objects by Paul Doeman.
13th – 22nd August Wednesday – Sunday 12-6pm

You’re an animate object, a sum of many parts. Just like a rucksack, chair or ladder you can be taken apart. What is it to be an object? Is what something is just the product of its many functions?
Animate objects was the name of an exhibition I put on in 1998; this show is named  “Animate objects #2” with a view to continuing some of those ideas.

Life-size drawings in oil pastel on paper and cut-out, dance and show-off the personalities of some of the objects that surround us.

The exhibition is at 242 gallery, 242 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9DA.

Closest Tube: Bethnal Green.  National railway: Cambridge Heath station. View Larger Map

Animate Objects #2 Exhibition
Animate Objects #2 Exhibition

Collapsible chair
Drawings of a collapsible chair - drawn with oil pastel on paper, cut-out and mounted on cardboard.

Speedball dissection drawing

Discection of a speedball: Drawings. 10 drawings of a boxing speedball in black oil paste, cut out and put on cardboard.
These speedball drawings continue the boxing theme.  The speedball was bought on eBay and drawn in various stages of decomposition.
This speedball was designed to be fastened to the ceiling and floor via two rubber lines and small leather straps.