La Petite Mort - a project in progress

This drawing is part of La Petite Mort, a new series of ink on paper drawings that I'm working on at the moment. This one is nearly done and there are more to follow, but as you can imagine they're pretty time consuming, hence no posts of my own work for a while. But I'll keep dotting and keep posting...

Peephole

Self Portrait In Motion

Square Drawings

Biro spheres cont...

Biro spheres

Sketchbook continued

Sketchbook page

This nude combines my interest in drawing the figure with the fact I like to grid things up and break them down. That it's divided into different units also makes the act of reading the drawing more like a graphic novel or a storyboard, more sequential. I like the idea that deconstructing or destroying an image, especially that of a person, can actually force the viewer to spend more time looking at it, one step back to get two steps forward...

Ellipsis: Reverb drawings

Here are the Reverb drawings for Ellipsis... The music manuscripts underneath the drawings are my A level music compositions, A grade thank you very much. Whereas Lapsed Saxophonist expressed some sadness about my previous life as a musician, Reverb takes the perspective that creativity finds a different outlet at different times in one's life, so I melded the graphite mark making of writing manuscripts with that of drawing.

Ellipsis: Sketchbook Experiments Drawing with Stitch

More squares

Sensing a theme? These are random images, but I like what happens when they're displayed sequentially.

Sketchbook: tonal squares

Squares and graphite - two of my favourite things. Playing around with tone and mark making in my sketchbook.

Drawing for Atomised

This was a drawing project that formed part of the research for Atomised. I used one of the photographs described in the video, deconstructed it through printing with acetate and then drew the results in graphite. It relates to themes of repetition and distortion that were the backbone to the project.

Pixels

A closer look at the pixel drawings that accompany Atomised. Graphite on paper.

Installation: Atomised

Atomised is a dual screen video installation with accompanying graphite drawings, exploring memory and the deconstruction of imagery through artistic and mechanical reproduction.
City Lit, Holborn, London. 24 to 26 March 2010.