- Venue
- One Church Street
- Starts
- Friday, February 14, 2014
- Ends
- Saturday, March 8, 2014
- Address
- 1 Church Street Great Missenden Bucks HP16 0AX
- Location
- South East England
An Unexpected Wobble: A solo show of drawings and sculpture by the artist Alan Franklin, is the focus of a new exhibition, Precession, by fine art gallery ‘One Church Street’, opening on 14th February 2014. The drawings originate from simple, familiar processes and repetitive mark making, but result in works that are temptingly intriguing, delightfully unexpected and profoundly meditative. The idea of a wobble suggests an unpredictable, or perhaps an accidental divergence from a dynamic system. Franklin’s works play subtly with the fault in a rule, or a slip from the expected. By combining a playful use of ordinary materials (such as elastic bands, birdseed, salt or sugar) with simple, pre-determined processes, Franklin embarks upon a drawing. Certain initial or ongoing conditions (such as the availability or cost of a material, the ambient temperature that will affect the flow of ink from a biro, or the random choice of colours from a box of paints) begin to cause events (wobbles), which create surprise and visual interest. Franklin is mindful of such determinants, allowing the unexpected, and even conspiring to invite a particular cause to create a startling effect. This inventive and whimsical approach is the hallmark of all his work.
