Collateral Drawing curated by Bella Easton and Iavor Lubomirov

Exhibition duration: May 19th – June 13th 2014
Opening: May 19th, 2014 | 20.00
Exhibition hours: Every day (except Saturday & Sunday) | 14:00 – 20.30
Artists: Vasilis Avramidis, Bella Easton, Chris Hawtin, Iavor Lubomirov, Iris Plaitakis, Artemis Potamianou

There is an important element of drawing, other than drawing as a finished artwork, or as studies for an artwork, which is collateral to any artist’s practice. Every artist has their own unique working method that habitually causes repetitive marks to be inflicted onto their studio surfaces. Whether dripped, scratched, taped, cut, erased, smeared, hammered: all are repetitive and typically unguarded instances of the process of drawing. The wall, floor or table acts as a raw surface and means to capture these ongoing activities that the artist ritualistically performs; the remains of the method left behind is as familiar as it is often taken for granted in an artist’s practice and is rarely publicly exposed. These studio surfaces are an integral part and an extension of the drawing process, which are then discarded, or severed from the work. They hold a fascination of their own: not just as a documentation of the artist’s creative process, but as an informative insight into the relationship between what is subconscious and conscious in the artist’s drawing practice. Collateral Drawing explores the relationship between the surfaces of the artist’s studio and the artworks they produce within these surfaces, through the practice of ten artists, working in different methods. Each artist was approached by the curators six months in advance and a part of their studio was isolated with a customised temporary blank surface that could then be used to record the artists’ subconscious actions around their day-to-day creativity. These raw surfaces were then carefully removed from the studio, now to be displayed alongside an artwork that the artist produced onto them during this period.