Finding my Language

This 2011 show was based on work I made during 2010 and 2011, ‘finding my language’       

I am a landslide waiting to fall
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm

Anni Albers (1899-1994), a German-American textile artist and printmaker, wrote in 1982 about choice of materials:

“Something speaks to us, a sound, a touch, hardness or softness, it catches us and asks to be formed. We are finding our language, and as we go along we learn to obey their rules and their limits… the more subtly we are tuned to our medium, the more inventive our actions will become. Not listening to it ends in failure … material is a means of communication. The listening to it, not dominating it, makes us truly active, that is: to be active, be passive. The finer tuned we are to it, the closer we come to art.”

Are you the one that I’ve been waiting for?
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm

It seemed like a good idea at the time
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm

If I ruled the world
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm

With hope in your hands
Mixed media drawing on paper; image 560mm x 760mm

In the ink of the night
Monoprint, water-based ink & graphite; image 560mm x 455mm

Suddenly night time has begun
Monoprint, water- and oil-based inks; image 1015mm x 490mm

I will always be there
Monoprint, water- and oil-based inks; image 900mm x 665mm
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