Glaistor Ennor Graduate Art Awards 2016
Site specific self drawing box made to the dimensions of Sanderson Gallery and posted from the artist to the gallery.
To Osborne Lane, 2 Kent Street, Ballpoint, mounted paper, cardboard box model, 1:12, postal system, 985mm x 860mm x 130mm
Site Specific work – Wallace Gallery Morrinsville
Tracked (series of 5), Ink on mounted paper, 455 x 610 x 150mm Posted from the artist’s studio to the Wallace Gallery Morrinsville.
Main Gallery Floor Plan: Wallace Morrinsville, Graphite on board, 565 x 775mm
Morrinsville to Morrinsville : Three weeks in a car. Graphite on paper, 740 x 705mm
Posted drawing box made to dimensions of Bay C, 1:100
Sent to site 01 12 2015
Enlargement 100:1
Posted drawing box made to dimensions of Bay C, 1:100 amplifies and formalises the incidental motions made during travel to a specific site, the studio bay assigned to me for my final Masters submission, by a wheeled pen in a box.
Chance movement becomes the force for the drawing and this subsequent spatial re-imaging of the marks made.
Distance and duration are integral to this procedural recording, which subsequently encompasses the viewer and the site alike through the use of drawing as a device for capturing and considering movement, energy, the incidental and the procedural.
Appendix (Seven)
Vehicle drawing with seven lines
Van, paper, seven drawing devices (wood, wheels, pen cartridges)
Drawing is a representation of process movement and energy. Journey, the space between departure and arrival, has its own momentum which can be transcribed, recording not only the distance and duration of that travel, but also formalising the incidental movement as line.
Appendix (Seven) worked as an active element to my MFA final submission; Posted drawing box made to dimensions of Bay C 1:100, and showed a method of recording journey as line alongside a more spatial rendition of the process.
On the 22nd of January, seven drawing devices were introduced to a van and the vehicle followed a route, tracing the path from my studio to the site of the MFA exhibition. Its arrival at this destination coincided with the opening night, and during the preview evening the work remained in the car park beside the entrance. At the conclusion of the open night the van was driven to its finishing point at the site of the ’and (&) per se and’ exhibition where it remained for the duration of the two shows.
This work was a linkage between the sites as well as a visual explanation, an ‘and’ or addition to a work which uses the same basic principal as its starting point; drawing as a device to capture and consider movement, energy and the incidental.
Posted Drawing Box (Wallace)
Ballpoint, paper, cardboard box, postal system (drawing device: wheels, wood, pen cartridge) 610 x 450 x 150mm 1.2 kg. Photo courtesy of artsdiary.co.nz
This work was journey specific and was created en route to the Wallace Awards by placing a wheeled drawing device into a box containing mounted paper and posting it to the venue.
The drawing is created by the accumulative marks made in transit between departure and arrival. This compression of journey into drawing is produced through both duration and distance and can be understood as both cartographic and seismographic in nature.
Because the work was selected for inclusion into the travelling show the drawing process continued in transit between venues, allowing the drawing to evolve over the course of the exhibition and become not just a record of the box’s journey from artist to Wallace, but also encompassing the time spent travelling with other artworks.
Rose Meyer 