Thirtysecond Drawing Drawing

Private collection, Seattle. This one of the larger drawings made after a suggestion from Nicholas Logsdail, one of a series of collaborative drawings produced by the artists over an approximately ten year period. The process involved the artists working over or with or against each others' individual practice. So they would swap positions at intervals offering up what each had done to the other to be altered, added to, destroyed. This, interestingly, rather subverts any notions of the individual artist creator 'genius' and, in my opinion, goes beyond even those aspects of randomness or chance that artists may introduce to facilitate the emergence of the 'surprise'. Because the input of another is completely uncontrollable it forces the creation into an entirely new space that could not have been foreseen by either of the collaborators. It was a process that took three months for each drawing, working most days in that period. Clearly this put the surface of the work under tremendous duress. The artists would use pencils, graphite sticks, erasers, bits of wood, graphite dust. It was found that the only paper which would bear up was Arches Aquarelle 300gsm, specially imported at the time on a roll, cut to size, stretched on a board and mounted on a heavy duty easel for the duration. This drawing is big, and very heavy. It has been framed to archival standards with a film barrier and acid free blotting between the work and the frame backing with specially treated fillets at the edge to hold the piece back from the glass. The frame is 2 inch solid ash with a pine sub frame for extra strength.

Drawing:Graphite on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:60 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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