Participating Artist in the ImPORT/ExPORT exchange programme with EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS
Drawing is fundamental to any work that I do. I generally find somewhere to draw and return to a few sites over a long period of time. The act of being situated allows me to make drawings , prints and paintings .
I also enjoy the layering of images , being situated outside, returning to same place to further notice and go deeper with my noticing. I think I am trying to understand through drawing initially then in making paintings there is a stage where the painting itself takes over and everything one knows is not enough. Somehow this is the crux of my creative practice and an aspect I would like to explore further
Throughout my development as an artist I have become very enchanted with the act the possibilities intrinsic in the material itself. My area of experiment concerns the ability of the material itself , both to be controlled and the complete preposterousness of trying to control inert substances to represent living experience.
I enjoy the spillages , accidents and interruptions that often are openings to another way of understanding and creating images.
I am interested in different processes and the opportunities inherent in etching , screenprinting etc for making creative decisions whilst working on an image.
I enjoy the play between what is observed and hard won through constant looking and the abstraction that seems to lie underneath the surface.
I based my application about coming to respond to a particular place through drawing as impetus for new work including elements of screen printing and etching . I would like to base my response to the act of travelling to a place everyday to make works . part of my ideas would be to establish a dialogue between my work and that of the other artists there . This may be accomplished by drawing on the same site , going for field trips to notice things .
I would like to work really hard on drawing directly onto plates perhaps working on dry point outside , making mono- prints, and also the gestural qualities of screen print in as a basis for the next days work . I imagine I will be very excited by seeing new places and am already looking at maps and wondering what it will look like , what it will be like .
I got quite excited last night about Neath sounding like Leith and being docks and about the same distance as Edinburgh docks are from the Centre of Edinburgh. I kept thinking about duality and what it could mean.
One of the ideas I find most interesting is interrupting drawings but also how interruptions are new points of departure .
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Ruth Nay Landscape screenprint
