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Retractor and colour pencil on Surrey cartridge
70 x 100 cm
2023
Through persistent drawing in one location and in the most signifying moments of my drawing in the National Gallery over the last ten years, I have come to recognise the symbolic-semiotic duality posited by Julia Kristeva - essentially the factual-emotional exchange behind all effective and fulfilling communications. The work ranges between distinct poles - at one end, the abstract density of the ‘junk-line’ approach - an immersive effect where the objective semi-emerges from the all-over graphite wiring, at the other, a minimal outcome that is impossible to plan but is so satisfying when it takes hold. The best of both is achieved in a state of gestural jouissance with an accompanying intuited relinquishing of intellectual agency.
Retractor and colour pencil on Surrey cartridge
70 x 100 cm
2023
Through persistent drawing in one location and in the most signifying moments of my drawing in the National Gallery over the last ten years, I have come to recognise the symbolic-semiotic duality posited by Julia Kristeva - essentially the factual-emotional exchange behind all effective and fulfilling communications. The work ranges between distinct poles - at one end, the abstract density of the ‘junk-line’ approach - an immersive effect where the objective semi-emerges from the all-over graphite wiring, at the other, a minimal outcome that is impossible to plan but is so satisfying when it takes hold. The best of both is achieved in a state of gestural jouissance with an accompanying intuited relinquishing of intellectual agency.