Ream
dal 1/11/2002 al 14/12/2002
Segnalato da
1/11/2002
Ream
Art Space Portsmouth (ex Aspex Gallery), Portsmouth
Sian Bowen's recent work reflects her interest in the potential of damage in relation to the creative impulse. Often large in scale, the paper support of her drawings act as a skin subjected to burning, folding, stiffening, staining. Marked indented and singed to differing degrees, the drawings are worked from both sides using a stylus.
Siân Bowen
Siân Bowen's recent work reflects her interest in the potential of damage in relation to the creative impulse. Often large in scale, the
paper support of her drawings act as a skin subjected to burning, folding, stiffening, staining. Marked indented and singed to differing
degrees, the drawings are worked from both sides using a stylus.
The forms in the work evolve through an intensive and intimate activity, which suggests both a physical and mental sense of pace. In a
number of drawings materials are retrieved and surfaces reconstructed as part of the making process. Wallpapers and plaster are
removed from disused spaces and hidden layers are revealed and used as surfaces on which to draw. The inherent history of the
material becomes part of the content of the work.
The intimate aspect of some of this source material (which also includes handwritten letters) is explored in relation to the artist's drawn
motifs and the public viewing of the final work. Ream brings together a disparate range of images both invented and sourced from
various moments in time. Collectively these images give a sense of a happening, a sense of time that might have been. Individually they
talk of small acts of habit and invite the viewer to re-examine notions of the hidden and the displayed.
This exhibition has been organised by Aspex Gallery, Angel Row Gallery (Nottingham) and Mead Gallery (University of Warwick) and is
supported by the Arts Council of England, National Touring Programme.
The three exhibitions which comprise this tour are drawn from a large body of new work. Each show will focus on a different aspect of
the artist's work. The exhibition at Aspex will focus on retrieval and reconstruction.
A catalogue will be published to accompany the tour including essays by Sacha Craddock and Francis McKee, priced £9.99.
Image: Siân Bowen, from Rebus series, 2002
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