As mentioned in my previous post, the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) functions not only as a gallery and resource for contemporary drawing practice, but also supports practitioners through residencies and exhibitions. One such artist is Greig Burgoyne who teaches on the BA Fine Art course at UCA Farnham. Burgoyne has exhibited internationally, developing renown for his wall drawing installations. Vast constellations of drawn images cover entire gallery spaces, creating vectors, tensions, and disturbances as viewers may venture to construct meaning. His residency took place this summer (July and August) accumulating in an exhibition entitled The Thule.
‘The drawing installations have offered me great scope for expression and reflection, but have become perhaps a signature approach. I fear they have allowed my practice to wander too deeply into a semiotic mindset, decapitating concerns of imagery from materiality or how they may exist as drawing. For this residency, I want to be less in the position of stylistic scavenging, composing and reconfiguring imagery, and get closer to a sort of tabular rasa of drawing – the relationship to line. Of course line measures, confines, contains, extends, envelopes and this will be the starting point. So I’m revisiting line, but also, making a mark, making more marks, that shift between confirming and disrupting the territory of wall or at this stage, the territory of the paper in the relaying of mental processes.’
Greig Burgoyne – drawings from C4RD residency 2012
There’s a visual poetry to Burgoyne’s drawings from the residency, with his scattered yet structural marks. Almost as if you’re reading sheet music. They remind me of John Cage’s drawings….
Bit naughty of me, but I can’t seem to find much information about this particular piece (above) but thought it was relevant with its organised chaotic feel. Returning to Burgoyne’s work, his drawings suggest a strongly developed visual language. Often his drawings function as installations, encasing the viewer in a storm of bold line and colour. For more of his work check out:
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