Performing Drawology
Artist-In-Residence
A gallery-based intervention.
Over the course of one month, artists were invited to spend time in the Bonington Gallery creating lines, marks and tones that explore and respond to the space through a variety of drawing processes.
The exhibition celebrates the expanded field of contemporary drawing and includes works on paper, performance, moving image, installation, projections and three-dimensional drawing.
Vantage points were made available throughout the gallery to encourage visitors to witness and engage with the work as it continuously unfolded and took form.
The artists welcomed responses from the public and designated specific discussion events where visitors were invited to meet the artists and pose questions about the work taking place.
Each artist in residence left their responses to the space in the space, and subsequent artists built on and around those interventions.
For more information about the exhibition and a full list of participating artists, visit www.boningtongallery.co.uk
Small hand-held lasers were used to trace and ‘draw’ over edges of structures in the gallery. Marks remained visible only while the drawing was being made.
A transitory exploration of the gallery, its surfaces and the viewing position of visitors.
Light Intervention onto exisiting gallery objects.
Red and green hand held helium neon lasers.
Artists included: humhyphenhum, Lorraine Young, Catherine Bertola, Joe Graham, Andrew Pepper, Martin Lewis, and John Court.
The month started with humhyphenhum (Deborah Harty & Phil Sawdon), who were the first to enter the white space; drawing with paper and moving image to create a three-dimensional drawing that traces in, on and through the surface of the empty white space.
Lorraine Young and Catherine Bertola followed, spending two days and three days respectively on the developing drawing. The third week saw contributions from Joe Graham, Andrew Pepper and Martin Lewis.
John Court was the final invited artist to enter the space, spending three days drawing in the Gallery.
Finally, humhyphenhum returned to the space to complete the drawing and prepare for a closing night celebration on Thursday 11 February, where visitors could view the final collaborative drawing.
Performing Drawology was curated by humhyphenhum and forms part of the ongoing research project by Deborah Harty entitled Drawing is Phenomenology.
In addition to the residency, informal discussions with the artists, student workshops and outreach events also took place.
Exhibition Reference
Date: 15 January – 12 February 2016
Title: Performing Drawology – Artist in Residence
Location: Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
