I have an exhibition (event details below) opening soon at the Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Tasmania.

The exhibition, entitled 60 Linear Metres is of 75 drawings, representing the first results of The Drawing Experiment — a personal exploration in intensive drawing using unconscious processes.

Each image is the result of an almost daily practice of “drawing in the midst of life”— drawing while attending to other things, watching TV, eating dinner, or talking to my partner. I aim to be distracted from the drawing process and to not enter into any conscious planning of my mark-making until an image leaps out at me from the page. After that, I only do enough more so that others can see it also.

Many of the images which are now emerging from this process are self-portraits — reflections on life from a woman in middle-age. The mood of the drawings is one of irreverent but gentle self-regard. I try to take myself lightly, showing myself as a sad lion, a cow, an empty party dress, a child, or a woman with a lumpy body. I am amused by my life and by my own drawings.

Exhibition details

Fine Arts Gallery
Ground Floor
Student Union Building
University of Tasmania
Sandy Bay TAS

Dates: Thu 5 Nov 2009, Fri 6 Nov 2009, Thu 12 Nov 2009, Fri 13 Nov 2009, Thu 19 Nov 2009
Time: 9 am – 4 pm, Thursdays; 9 am – 3.30 pm, Fridays.

A Mid-way event will be held at 5.30 pm on the evening of Thursday 12 November, introduced by John Ingleton (MFAD), President, Hunter Island Press.

An electronic version of the flyer for The Drawing Experiment is available here as a PDF file.

angela