Curated
by Matthew Macaulay, Classroom, Coventry
Artists
include
Louisa Chambers, Chris Daniels, Lisa Denyer, Andrew
Graves, Trevor Sutton, James Faure Walker, Jonathan Waller, Anthony Whishaw,
Gary Wragg
To draw
is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
Henri Matisse
James Elkins in correspondence with John Berger wrote
that drawing is the ‘invaluable record of the encounter of a moving, thinking
hand with the mesmerising space of potential forms that it simply called a
“blank sheet of paper”.’ Drawing was once considered in the Western academic
tradition, to be the foundation of art education, and the mother of all the
arts. The importance placed on drawing has been abandoned by most art schools
as an irrelevant activity of a time past. John Elderfield in 1982 described
drawing as the most resistant of all the modern arts to define. This exhibition
takes its focus from the way in which eight painters individually approach
drawing.
Images of some of the artworks in the exhibition below:
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| Artworks by Louisa Chambers |
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| Jazzy II, Louisa Chambers |
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| Innermost, Louisa Chambers |
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| Folded Form I, Louisa Chambers |
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| Artwork by Trevor Sutton |
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| Artwork by Andrew Graves |
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| Artworks by Chris Daniels |
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