Drawing as a forum for collaborative exchange

Richard:

We have reached a point where actual physical exhibition is in fact to be reality. After popping down to meet Ross at Superclub in Edinburgh (and battling through the festival crowds on The Royal Mile), and after attempting to call in Ross on Skype to show him the space there, we are now booked in for a three-week exhibition beginning October 28th. Now we have a new focus and new works are beginning to formulate, as well as new curatorial incisions in to how my work will go next to Ross’s (or underneath, on top of, or leading too).

Another set of photographs then just for now. And also a chance to publish some of our ideas in the upcoming issue of Drawing Paper (based in Liverpool and distributed UK-wide), Drawing Paper 4 will be published in time for the Jerwood Drawing prize: both Ross and me have submitted a collaborative piece that is representative of how one artist’s work frames that of the other, or crosses over that of the other.

Ross, these other images are recent studio ‘conference images’, collaging drawing in process with set displays of found and used objects. The two images look in to and borrow slices of each other, much like our creative process. I am wondering how these images might make an appearance, or whether they are perhaps just strange capsules or reference points for me to expand on when the time comes to build and install. Its as if they’re zip files for eventual floor-based works.