Lawrence Nash RWA
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About the work
Line Work with Photo-Montage:
Each drawing is by hand and uses coloured pencil on
paper. Each photo-montage uses these drawings and combines them in a layering process
using photoshop.
Line and repetition are used as the most basic, modest and archaic
means of mark making. There is no striving for progressive improvement or perfection
within the work; each line is drawn without correction and blips and errors are accepted
and nurtured. In the Photo-montage work this is offset by the copying process which
is necessarily ‘perfect’.
The process follows simple rules that indicate a way to
start, a way to continue and a way to finish. There is a meditative attitude, a relaxed
control, where the act of mark making itself provides the stimulus to continue.
The
spaces between the lines are as important as the lines themselves, acknowledging
the blank background of the paper and allowing for new errors to appear and for older
ones to blossom or dissolve. The work changes at distance, where the lines visually
merge and are then perceived as a solid mass or background. This then gives prominence
to blank areas of the paper that are conceptually constructed within each piece.
The work is unhurried, taking its own time. It is a call to quiet and reflection.
The viewing experience evolves, rather than being instantaneous and only one or two
muted colours are used per piece.
These drawings, while retaining the background
of the paper, consider the forces of structure, composition and totality normally
associated with painting.
Photo-Montage:
In the Photo-montage work Photos are selected,
copied, mirrored, rotated or merged. Using Photoshop they are then Layered with Line
drawings.