Author: magdalenawisniowska

drAwn 2gether: Dan Wallis

Plan of Coiled Object

The process of drawing is fundamental to my practice as a sculptor. It can at times direct me rigidly so I can practically construct an object and at other moments be a fluid and abstract spatial origin.

I have been making these cut out drafts of objects for a while now, they help me develop complex structures and visualise a spatial hierarchy of a virtual object.

Perhaps the use of a scalpel to draw instead of a pencil or ink blurs the line between two dimensions and three with its resulting depth. However the information taken from the resulting pictorial image does not rely on the carved dimension only the line removed or added as vinyl.

The image primarily illustrates two things; one face of a three sided object and a coloured detail that rotates around these three faces.

The resulting image seems abstract yet is actually a diagram or map of a potential thing.

Daniel Wallis 2014.

drAwn 2gether: Joanna Phelps

DiomiraDiomira

Diomira…a city with sixty silver domes…the multicoloured lamps are lighted all at once.

(Italo Clavino, Invisible Cites)

Cut or torn, carefully placed or hidden between layers of pattern; the various components merge to form a no-mans land where they can create and inhabit a space of their own.

The title of this piece is borrowed from ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino.  Calvino’s imagined cities provide a quasi-narrative for this work that locates itself somewhere between the realms of drawing, painting and collage.

Joanna Phelps. 2014