Drawing may look like a simple art form, but it is deceptively difficult. There is so much that can be done with a pencil or charcoal.
While I have always considered form and the three dimensional to be something that I see well, line is beautiful, whether controlled or loose. Its mark making possibilities are astounding. I am loving line. These artists use line and marks in very different ways, and a lot can be learned from their practice.
Gorgio Morandi (1890-1964) Italian
Morandi was born in Bologna, Italy and displayed talent at a very early age. His influences included Cezanne, Picasso and Derain. He uses cross hatched lines beautifully to capture traditional simple still life and landscapes subjects.
Jim Dine (1935- ) American
Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and moved to New York in 1959. Dine was linked to the American Pop Art movement along with Claus Oldenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichenstein and others. He used everyday objects in his drawing and actual objects in his paintings......what a master mark maker!
Hong Chun Zhang ( b. 1971 ) China
Hong Chun Zhang was raised in the People's Republic of China and began her professional training in Beijing. She currently resides in Kansas, USA.
The idea of my graphite hair drawings and oil paintings is about humour, beauty and repulsion. To me, long hair not only looks beautiful, but sometimes it can be very unattractive in particular settings such as hair in the hamburger, egg, wineglass, cigarette, toothpaste and sink. I combine hair and daily used objects to evoke different feelings and emotions through a surrealistic approach."
Hong Chun Zhang was raised in the People's Republic of China and began her professional training in Beijing. She currently resides in Kansas, USA.
"Since I came to live in America, I have been making “connections” between China and the US. This second series is about the duality in the personal and cultural realms. I attempt to show the differences and similarities between the two cultures by juxtaposing the daily used objects from my own perspective.
The idea of my graphite hair drawings and oil paintings is about humour, beauty and repulsion. To me, long hair not only looks beautiful, but sometimes it can be very unattractive in particular settings such as hair in the hamburger, egg, wineglass, cigarette, toothpaste and sink. I combine hair and daily used objects to evoke different feelings and emotions through a surrealistic approach."
This is a powerful use of graphite!
...and in the same way Lucienne Rickard uses thick layers of graphite to build form into the material.
Lucienne Rickard (b. 1981 Lithgow NSW) lives Hobart
"..... using controlled and repetitive pencil strokes on often large sheets of drafting paper, Lucienne captures the velvety textures of bird and beast and the theatrical richness of the clothing of the human protagonists. Highlights appear in the images where she repeatedly works and rubs back sections of the drawing with her fingers and where subtle changes in mark direction create differences of tone. The painstakingly and intensely physical nature of this process emphasises the ideas of physicality and transience in her use of imagery. In all of her works, Lucienne presents the viewer with richly detailed, textured and challenging works that unite themes of beauty, death, brutality and obsession."
In 2014 she has been selected to participate in "Primavera", the Museum of Contemporary Art's annual showing of bold new work from young Australian artists.
The nuances of the surface of these lustrous graphite drawings are very difficult to capture photographically. Talking to Lucienne at the Melbourne Art Fair she said that Peter Whyte has a very expensive attachment to his camera that is worth more than the camera itself and is the only person who has managed to draw out the details of the surface digitally for reproduction. Another powerful use of graphite!
Laura Hindmarsh ( b. 1987 W.A. ) lives Hobart
Originally from Western Australia, Laura moved to Hobart several years ago. I first cam across Laura's work in the Hobart Art Prize in 2013. We look for balance, tension and the use of line in traditional drawing, but this digital work creates tension through the pursuit of a line.....which can be frustrating to watch because it is impossible to repeat and predict exactly what someone else does...even if it is yourself! I find this work quite mesmerising....
"My practice is an ongoing inquiry into the nature of perception and representation. Historically my work is informed by experimental music, expanded cinema and meta-fiction; works that demonstrate their own process and condition of existence. Primarily I work with video installation and performance however my practice is not medium specific and also uses drawing, social exchange, photography and text.
My work is driven by an interest in process; compositional techniques that work with duration, repetition and layering. Segments of time are recorded, looped and overlaid as counterpoints that can interact with one another. Past and present moments build like a palimpsest yet as these layers synch and lapse out of continuity with one another a ‘charged moment’ occurs.
This way of working brings mediation and experience together as a mode of enactment rather than subject. Layers of action and inaction, chance and structure reveal the nature of the work, not as an idea, but as an experience to be undertaken by artist and audience, both being equally involved in it’s construction and meaning."
Wall drawing 2013 - digital work
"Wall Drawing (window) documents the struggle to record a view before me as I use my past self to recall and prompt a drawn landscape. The resulting video combines spatial concerns of representation (recto/verso) with the process of drawing (seen/scene). Recorded several months apart and overlaid the two selves work together to translate a sketch of a sketch of a landscape once viewed."
"Wall Drawing (window) documents the struggle to record a view before me as I use my past self to recall and prompt a drawn landscape. The resulting video combines spatial concerns of representation (recto/verso) with the process of drawing (seen/scene). Recorded several months apart and overlaid the two selves work together to translate a sketch of a sketch of a landscape once viewed."
Lindsay Broughton (b. 1944 ) lives Hobart
Lindsay was my art teacher at Launceston Matric quite a few decades ago. I admire his three dimensional drawings done on a large scale! His finished surface is built up of layers that look like the granite it is are representing. This work is currently in an exhibition at Despard Gallery called Drawing Now from 6 August - 6 September 2014.
After Pere Lachaise oilstick on paper 223cm x 151cm
Raymond Arnold (b. 1950 Melbourne) lives Hobart
As a collector of Raymond's work, I am inspired by his use of line, texture and his use of binary notions to express his concepts....the source of his inspiration is embedded in his love of the Tasmanian landscape, and his work deals with underlying themes such as life and death, earth and sky and the implications of our relationship with the places that we live. He is based in the west coast mining town of Queenstown, which has been the source of his inspiration from many decades and his work uses the textures of the landscape there to express his ideas.
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