A space to experiment for a few weeks. That is what Drawing Room has become for nominated artist Ciara Phillips. I was keen to get a glimpse of her work in progress and learn how she approaches such an opportunity.
She began by reading and making lots of notes on large sheets of paper which she stuck to the wall.
She also put up some proofs of previous work. She said that she works in a context specific way by responding to situations.
She's doing a lot of screenprinting. That is her background. Drawing is immediate, print creates distance and in the process something happens.
Here at Drawing Room she has very limited materials and has had to improvise. She is working in a very open intuitive way allowing things to happen that she doesn't understand. Its a sort of abstraction, an experience in and of itself, a way into the process. Abstraction is the opposite of information.
Why are so many artists now interested in printmaking? Is it a need for structure? Or the need to be physically making instead of conceptualizing? But art is the product of a critical process of thinking. Or is screenprinting a manifestation of nostalgia like desaturated colour?
To begin and continue not knowing the outcome.... to let the work lead....
I am interested in Phillips' use of text and how words can be visually powerful.
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