AMBULATORY
DRAWING
Drawing whilst walking makes it possible to record the visual and physical experience of moving through the landscape. During this activity the artist becomes part of the environment alongside the other flora and fauna living there, and the drawings become visually dynamic records of this immersive experience.
Using a harness to hold a drawing board in place whilst walking facilitates drawing with both hands. This creates a fully embodied continuum between land, air and artwork that blurs the boundary between walking and drawing. Consequently, the process becomes physically dynamic allowing the reciprocal action of ground and hips or wind and upper body to prompt and lead the drawing in unexpected directions.
The uncertainty of this activity can be overwhelming. However, when one learns to yield to these unchoreographed movements, the emergent drawings begin to exhibit characteristics that could not have been created had the artist not become ‘stillness in motion'.
(Exhibition statement: 'Stillness in Motion' Cromer Artspace 2023)
EDUCATION:
BA Fine Art (1st Class) Canterbury College of Art 1996
MA Art & Design in Education (with distinction) Institute of Education London 2006
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Solo:
2024 'Ambulatory Drawing: Salthouse' - St Nicholas Church, Salthouse, Norfolk, UK
2023 'Stillness in Motion' - Cromer Artspace, Norfolk, UK
2022 'Recent Drawings' - The Old Workshop Gallery, Corpusty, Norfolk, UK
2015 'Transient' - St Nicholas Church, Salthouse, Norfolk, UK
2007 'Vir Domesticus Sublimis' - Habitat, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
2006 'A Sublime Fallacy' - The Granary, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
1999 'Artist in Residence' - Round Tower Gallery, Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus
1996 'Permanent Installation' - Pfizers Pharmaceuticals, Sandwich, Kent, UK
Joint:
2008 Horace Blue Gallery: 'Object and Image' (with Simon Wright), Norfolk, UK
2005 The Cut Arts Centre: 'New paintings' (with R. Greenhalgh), Halesworth, UK
Group:
2023 Bayfield Sculpture Trail: 'Ambulatory Drawing', Norfolk, UK
2023 The Yare Gallery: 'Yet Better Built', Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK
2021 The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral: Norwich 20 'Horizons', Norwich, Norfolk, UK
2019 The Undercroft Gallery: 'Metamorphosis', Norwich, Norfolk, UK
2018 Cley 18: 'The Greater the Distance the Clearer the View', Norfolk, UK
2017 Cley 17: 'Connectivity', Norfolk, UK
2015 Open Studios: The Crooked Rose, Aylsham, Norfolk, UK
2010 Salthouse 10: 'Time and Motion', Norfolk, UK
2008 Galerija Vojvodanske banke: 'Gruppa 20', Novi Sad, Serbia
2008 Halle aux Toiles: '50 Artistes d’Aujourd’hui', Rouen, France
2006 Salthouse 06: 'Interregnum', Norfolk, UK
2005 Fringe at the Factory: 'Four Room Installation', Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Competitions:
2007 Celeste Art Prize (Exhibition Catalogue) - Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
1995 Unipart Reflections of Technology Awards - Paddington Station, London, UK
Collections:
Pfizer, UK
Private collections in the UK, Cyprus and Malaysia
MEMBERSHIPS and VOLUNTARY WORK:
Norwich 20 Group - 2006 to present
North Norfolk Exhibition Project - committee member 2006-10
