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The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands: Group Exhibition held 1 November 2012 to 13 December 2013.

This was an international group exhibition focusing on paper works held at Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco which promotes the work of established and emerging artists in an international context. Granell contributed 3 pieces to the exhibition which was curated by the British artist Eric Butcher.

Research Imperatives

To explore different ways of rubbing out as mark making and how history or meaning can be recaptured from the most recent incarnation of a work.

‘Paper works’ is normally a term used to denote works on paper such as drawings, provisional studies, and gouache; often where the physical fact of the support is of nominal importance or back grounded. In such work, paper is used for the sake of convenience, cheapness or immediacy rather than for any more fundamental quality of the material.

The Exhibition brought together a group of artists for whom the material structure and qualities of paper were a fundamental consideration; the exploitation of these characteristics provided a crucial part of the driving force of the work. The exhibition explored the relationship between specific materials and marks, as one solution to the multiple means in drawing’s continued evolution. One of drawing’s most powerful attributes is its potential for diversity, which it has time-shared with its relation: painting.

The work explored some of the relationships between the mark and its support, and the ‘neutrality’ of a piece of paper, attempting to foreground the possibilities of its presence as a ready-made object or surface. Painting traditionally involves a process of accumulation or addition, whereas these drawings are about removal or reduction. The drawings stand out as geological or archaeological metaphors; the study of artefacts and structures and their ability to reveal meaning and interpretation.

Portfolio

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(i) Images of the exhibition

(ii) Images of the work taken from Toomey Gallery website

(iii) Date of dissemination – screenshot from Toomey Gallery website