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Graphite on paper on foil
180 x 200 cm
2022
I make large scale, semi-sculptural drawings with graphite on damaged paper, in which I explore the relationship between mark-making in drawing and mining. Extensive site visits to open-pit coal mining regions form the starting points for an exploration of the role of drawing within larger issues concerning landscape, geology and the ecological crisis. My drawing practice is based on a painstaking manual process that becomes a means of slowing down time, allowing the audience an opportunity for an embodied, sensory experience. In the drawings I draw around the crumple lines in the paper, in a form of "reverse excavation”, meticulously replacing the raw material graphite back onto the damaged surface. In doing so, a vein appears, comparable to a vein of coal or precious ore. This vein is composed of blank paper, however, suggesting that value may lie within a space of imaginative potential, as opposed to the finite depletion associated with excavation practices.
Currently based in Brussels, I teach in the Fine Arts department of the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Graphite on paper on foil
180 x 200 cm
2022
I make large scale, semi-sculptural drawings with graphite on damaged paper, in which I explore the relationship between mark-making in drawing and mining. Extensive site visits to open-pit coal mining regions form the starting points for an exploration of the role of drawing within larger issues concerning landscape, geology and the ecological crisis. My drawing practice is based on a painstaking manual process that becomes a means of slowing down time, allowing the audience an opportunity for an embodied, sensory experience. In the drawings I draw around the crumple lines in the paper, in a form of "reverse excavation”, meticulously replacing the raw material graphite back onto the damaged surface. In doing so, a vein appears, comparable to a vein of coal or precious ore. This vein is composed of blank paper, however, suggesting that value may lie within a space of imaginative potential, as opposed to the finite depletion associated with excavation practices.
Currently based in Brussels, I teach in the Fine Arts department of the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands.