Drawn Encounters
Private View: Thurday 04 September 2008, 6-9pm
Exhibition dates: Friday 05 September – Friday 10 October 2008
Jordan Baseman (UK), Damiano Bertoli (Aus), Domenico de Clario (Aus), Simon Cooper (Aus), Maryanne Coutts (Aus), Greg Creek (Aus), Cate Elwes (UK), Michael Esson (Au), Geraint Evans (UK), Stephen Farthing (UK), Euan Heng (Aus), Melanie Jackson (UK), Roger Law (UK/Aus), Nick Mourtzakis (Aus), Tom Nicholson (Aus), Bernard Ollis (Aus), Wendy Sharpe (Aus), Anita Taylor (UK), David Thomas (Aus), Paul Thomas (UK), Andrea Tu (Aus), Paul Rosenbloom (UK), Paul Ryan (UK), Caroline Williams (Aus), Kit Wise (Aus), Marcus Wood (UK)
Drawn Encounters is the fourth exhibition organised by the gallery at Wimbledon in conjunction with The Centre for Drawing UAL. The gallery has a commitment to the development of exhibitions that inform the research culture of the College, in the subjects of Fine Art, Theatre and Drawing
Drawn Encounters has been originated to complement Drawn Encounters, Complex Identities, a two-day conference jointly arranged in collaboration with Monash University, Australia, to be held at The British School at Rome on 17th and 18th September 2008. Both conference and exhibition have grown organically from a series of exchanges between researchers in The Centre for Drawing UAL and their Australian counterparts which have explored the nature and value of drawing as a means to document, encounter and exchange experiences of place, landscape and identity. Drawn Encounters, the exhibition, examines this inter-change between the UK and Australia as an inspirational source for thematic enquiry through drawing.
Artists continue to use drawing to document and examine their experiences of location, travel, identity, disjuncture and cultural context. The drawings in this show are emphatically about encountering the present through the lens of cultural heritage. From Melanie Jackson’s virtual ‘Road Trip to Darwin’ to Tom Nicholson’s fleeting memorial of the historic encounter of William Buckley and the English prospectors led by John Batman, the drawings document both specific and culturally redolent events alongside the documentation of place.
“This exhibition evidences the vitality of drawing as a means by which artists continue to record, document and digest the world as they experience it in order to gain and share knowledge and understanding.” Professor Anita Taylor, Director of The Centre for Drawing UAL
Papers from the related Drawn Encounters, Complex identitiesconference will be streamed live into Wimbledon College of Art from The British School at Rome on the 17th and 18th September 2008.
Exhibition Information
Friday 5th September - Tuesday 9th September 2008
Wednesday 10th September 2008 10am - 5pm
Weekdays 10am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Closed Sunday
Thursday 11th September - Friday 17th October 2008
Weekdays 1pm - 6pm
Saturdays 11am - 3pm
Closed on Sundays and Bank Holidays
Exhibition Venue Information
the gallery at wimbledon
Wimbledon College of Art
Merton Hall Road
Wimbledon
London
SW19 3QA
(e) thegallery@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk
(t) 020 7514 9703
Admission Free
Travel Information
Tube: Wimbledon/South Wimbledon
Train: Wimbledon/Wimbledon Chase
Tram: Dundonald Road Tram Station
For further information on Drawn Encounters please contact the gallery at wimbledon: thegallery@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk
