This drawing documents a train journey. I drew the vertical lines continuously as I travelled, drawing them freehand and trying to make them as straight as possible. I drew at a table, facing towards the back of the train. The wobbles in the lines correspond with movements that the train made as we traveled. They… Continue reading Line drawing (return from Birmingham)
These building-based drawings were a project I did in the mid-1990s near Bermondsey, south London. They were architectural interventions using polyurethane household pipes (white - overflow; grey - waste; black - rainwater). They were fixed onto walls in public sites without permission, and most of them are no longer in place. The piece in the… Continue reading Pipe drawings: Bermondsey
This drawing was made on the ?th of May, 2017, while watching Match of the Day. The heavier marks in the drawing occurred by accident, when the nib of the pen was overloaded with ink. Each time such a mark appeared, a note was made of what was being said by the commentators and /… Continue reading Transcription drawing: Watching Match of the Day
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