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Drawing Interiors

29th November - 21st December 2008
Thurs - Sun, 10am - 6pm, other times by appointment

Admission: Free

 

Exhibition Preview: 28th November, 6-9pm, all welcome

 

Artists Fran Richardson and Ruth Wallace have different approaches to similar themes of absence in a domestic setting.

 

Concerned with the relationship between corporeal and psychological space, Fran’s drawings are a visual enquiry into our perceptual experience of the domestic interior. Central to the work is the role memory plays in eliciting the complex emotional responses that can cause our experience of the spaces we inhabit to become fluid and unstable, undermining reality to evoke a strange sensation of perceptual confusion.

 

Ruth makes large-scale drawings in charcoal, graphite and mixed media. Her recent work, which centres on portrayals of women’s clothing, explores the dichotomy between absence and presence and the homely and the disturbing in relation to the domestic interior. It also addresses issues connected with memory and female identity and is informed by the distinctive visual style of film noir.

 

Fran Richardson
Untitled – Lamp 3, 2007
Charcoal on Fabriano 5
101 x 58.5 cm


Fran Richardson
Untitled – Bed 5, 2008
Charcoal on Fabriano 5
95 x 66 cm


Ruth Wallace
Untitled (Dress 2)
mixed media on paper
173 x 99 cm


Ruth Wallace
Untitled (Dress 4)
charcoal on paper
188 x 125 cm

 

 

For further details about Fran's work visit www.franrichardson.com

 

For further details about Ruth click here