EXHIBITION
Working Practice
This exhibition is a glimpse into Michelle Avison’s sustained practice in observational drawing.
Since 2001, Michelle has travelled to a Scottish island for one month of every year, equipped with sketchbooks, notepads, canvases, paper and board along with drawing, painting and printing materials including lino and etching plates. Sometimes she even takes a small press.
In a remote place full of sea and sky, Michelle spends days outside, in all weathers. As she scribbles, scratches, dabs, tears, cuts, washes, stretches and scrapes she never takes her eyes from the landscape around her. Her energy changes. No day is the same. It rains for hours. The midges bite. Monotypes, watercolours and charcoal drawings emerge. Over the weeks she feels her way into the essence of this place, revealed in a series of abstracted works that flow and collide against each other, a story of a relationship between artist, land and work.
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Collecting the Looking
“I love drawing really quickly. I love drawing in really difficult situations. I love drawing in the dark. I like what happens when you can’t see everything or when it’s passed and you have to remember it rather than drawing what it actually looks like, so it’s about the experience of looking as much as what I’m looking at.”
We talk to Michelle Avison about building a resilient artistic practice over 30 years.
Artist talk: Michelle Avison
From her inspirations to struggling to find a place to draw, Michelle takes us through a chronological history of her work, and how she learned to embrace the practice of looking in this video presentation.
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How do I feel now?
This exhibition brings together new work – animation, drypoints, drawings and video projection – made in response to Odyssey, Chris’s 100m epic charcoal drawing.
