LUDO
Preview: 21st August
Open: 21st – 27th August, 12 – 5pm, Wed – Sun & for appointment during residency dates.
Residency Period: 14th – 22nd August 2010
While acknowledging various overlaps in conceptual understanding, material usage, stylistic approaches and techniques, we all have very different artistic practices. However, an important commonality is the use of ‘drawing’, in its various forms, as an integral catalyst of our research and creative development. Whether it be sketches in notebooks, photographs, digitally produced images, small models, or video clips; we see them as important and necessary junctures between initial concepts and resolved artworks.
With a desire to expose these studio-based aspects of our output, it is our intention to give particular focus to the more immediate and preparatory aspects of our individual practices. Through the bringing together of these autonomous sketches and ideas we hope to rediscover resonance in our interests and form new conceptual relationships between works. We hope to utilise the Pigeon Wing’s project space as a site for experimentation and collaborative development.
Artists Information
Erik Smith
I am interested in the liminal substance of living – the order of a visible world and the spirit in which its stuff becomes animated (or ‘useful’ or ‘meaningful’). Absurd automatic drawing, snapshot photography and minimal diagrammatic notes of everyday conversations and events are important features of my personal sketchbook research. It follows that my work’s aesthetic maintains this sensibility of everyday pathos.
Amy Joslin
Predominantly sculptural, at times animated through performative works, my practice broadly explores relationships between object and body, ‘other’ and ‘self.’ It finds influence from structural forms found in aspects of architecture and industry, whilst also initiating a dialogue between these and the more organic and natural. My work often plays with ideas surrounding functionality in relation to form, and has recently been dominated by an exploration of ceramics; I am fascinated by this material’s versatility, its metamorphic properties and the role it has played within differing cultures. My approach to art-making is to allow work to develop intuitively, and I consider the act of creating of equal importance to the final outcome.
Steve Helm
At this stage I believe that I am building upon a mode of inquiry into how I take responsibility for practicing as an artist. I have come to realise that Art, for me, represents a resistance to economic, cultural, social and religious facts and that being an artist involves taking responsibility for a kind of disobedience when producing artwork both publicly and privately. My intention as an artist is to let go of the notion of outcome and possession and to commit myself to forms of action that lend themselves to surrender, presence, and latent excess. I attempt to use sculpture and installations as platforms or vessels that attests to these headless forms of action, that attend the hand, and also become tools for engaging with and emancipating myself from facts. I use wood and metal to try and compose formal structures and shapes that are designed for the display and/or to facilitate actions involving base/excess materials such as clay and soil.
Ric Warren
My work is an exploration of the structures and materials that compose our manmade surroundings. I believe that urban structures have effects beyond their basic functions and I try to explore the symbolic meanings of these materials and forms. In addition to investigating conditions of contemporary urbanism, I am interested in the historical and hypothetical changes of our human habitat (physically, politically, culturally, socially and environmentally) as well as the everyday maintenance and progress of our built surroundings. My resent research has focused on social separations, and how these are manifested in urban space. My work primarily aims to take the form of sculptural installations, yet I consider drawing as an equally important aspect of my creative practice and process. My interest in geometry and construction is reflected in my approach to drawing, much of which borrows the aesthetics of functional drawings (such as engineering, architectural plans and cartography).
