Group show
25 March - 18 June 2006
The exhibition looks at process - the ways in which artists employ methods of drawing that are subject to random interference. Many of the works involve a form of indirect mark-making, whereby the artist relinquishes control of the final composition, leaving chance to play a crucial part in determining the image.
The exhibition includes for example, low-tech printmaking (Ian Breakwell's use of rubber stamps, Mark Wallinger's potato prints); images created by fire and smoke (Henry Krokatsis' drawings using carbon deposits from burning rags); impressions of objects (Mona Hatoum's wax rubbings) and actions carrying meaning from other contexts (Stephen Cripps' traces from explosive performances), works incorporating unpredictable drips and splashes (Richard Long's mud drawings, Ian Davenport's drip paintings), works involving an improvised mechanical system (Steve Pippin's Laundromat Locomotion series, Jem Finer's chart recorder sourcing the electrical fluctuations of a de-tuned radio) and images created through natural processes (Keir Smith's rust drawings and Tim Knowles' tree drawings).
Artists include Anna Barriball, Ian Breakwell, Layla Curtis, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Rebecca Horn, Mona Hatoum, Claude Heath, Tim Knowles, Tania Kovats, Henry Krokatsis, Richard Long, Cornelia Parker, Steven Pippin, Keith Tyson and Mark Wallinger
A Hayward Gallery touring exhibition touring to Glynn Vivian Gallery,
Swansea, UK; The Lowry, Salford, UK; The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK;
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
Related publication: You'll Never Know: Drawing & Random Interference