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Series of Silverpoint Drawings

This work, a series of silverpoint drawings, translates experiences of landscape, place and climate attained through walking and mountain climbing. The work attends to notions of time, duration and endurance within vast landscape. Completed in May 2008, the primary showing of this work was at ROOM, London in a solo show. Precursors to the main series were exhibited at ZOO, Burlington Gardens and published in Next Level, London, No. 12, October 2007 (ISSN 1476-4369). See also Zoo Art Fair ISBN 978-0-9554034-1-5. Works in the series have since been purchased by Doris Lockhart Saatchi, (co-founder Saatchi collection) Marie Donnelly (trustee of the Tate Gallery), and Adam Fritsch (private collector, Colorado). This work was also toured to East Kilbride Arts Centre for a solo show, 5 – 27th July 2008. I gave a public talk on the work there on 6th July 2008. There was also a gallery education week 8 – 12th July where art classes were carried out within the context of the show by local community arts organisations. These silverpoint works were also subsequently shown in, “Mapping the Terrain” in the Mackintosh Gallery, Oct – Nov 2008. One work, "Flurry", was exhibited in a two person show "Back To The Things Themselves" with Judy Spark for Glasgow International Festival of the Visual Arts at The Briggait, April-May 2012. This was also referenced in a piece by Magdalena Chau in The Daily Serving, 3 May 2012. The silverpoint drawings will feature within a larger monograph of the artist's work due for publication in Autumn 2013. The book will feature critical essays regarding walking as an aesthetic practice from Dr David Watson, (Sydney, Australia) and a critical text on the artists work by the poet Thomas A Clark. (UK), and a prose poem on walking by poet Alec Finlay (UK).