Lines And Strata

Monday 27 March - Wednesday 26 April 2006

Line: strip, stripe or thread
Strata: underlayering, tier, lamination, vertical depth.

“Lines and Strata” presents a cross-section of contemporary drawing practice from artists born in, living or working Wales.

The show title refers to drawing process rather than subject matter; a linear or calligraphic construction across a picture surface; built up and over-layered through a series of adjustments and corrections.

This exhibition has been selected from a submission of more than 600 works by four artists who identify drawing as central to their own art practices. They have imposed  no restrictions of size, date or medium; time-based and three dimensional have been included where the elements of drawing predominate. Consequently, both fine and applied arts are represented.

Curators' Statements

In recording our observations, certain processes are invoked; the interpretation our minds inevitably start to impose on even the most simple of marks trigger our connectedness to dreams and our collective sense of universality – the interaction between our individual minds and possible parallel universes.  
Charlie Sharp

Drawing is the use of visual media to describe, explore and explain an idea: it investigates and analyses underlying truths and lays them bare.
Carole King

Whether representation, the embodiment of abstract ideas, or [even] a concrete readable depiction, drawing is a deliberate physical response by the artist, and a bridge between the world and the imagination.
Diane Walkey

At the intersection of visual stimulus, cerebral analysis and physical interpretation via hand and arm, emerge the marks we identify as drawing. Drawing is democratic, classless, egalitarian.  It affirms individual potential in a collective world. Its means are accessible, affordable, portable. It is a fundamental human activity; timeless, essential, compulsive.
Glenn ibbitson

There will be a series of workshops and talks run by the curatos of this exhibition. All workshops are suitable for ages 16 years and above and there will be a maximum number 15 in each group.

The cost of booking one workshop is £20 and £35 for any two. As spaces are limited, please book in advance by sending cheque to:

Diane Walkey, Awelfa, Cwmins, St. Dogmaels, SA43 3HF  
or telephone Diane on 01239 621 746
Entrance to the talks cost £2 on the door

WORKSHOPS

SHAPES AND SPACES: Diane Walkey
Wednesday 5 April 10.30am - 4.30pm

ILLUSION AND REALITY: Diane Walkey
Thursday 6 April 10.30am - 4.30pm

These two workshops are designed to promote a sensitive personal response through the creative use of a variety of drawing media including collage. Composition, line, texture, tone and mark-making will be explored through objective and experimental drawing.

Requirements: range of conventional drawing materials, plus newspaper and brown paper; PVA and tape

DRAWING THE FIGURE: Glenn Ibbitson
Thursday 11 April 10am - 4pm   

A drawing workshop from the life model, concentrating on proportion, mass and volumes. Measuring tips and shortcuts.

10 minute poses and exercises building to a longer, one and a half hour study

Requirements: pencils, charcoal, pens ink erasers rulers, graph paper, nuts and bolts and string (or a plumbline!)

THE FIGURE IN MOTION: Glenn Ibbitson
Monday 24 April 10am - 4pm

Rise to the challenge presented by a moving life model . Emphasis will be placed on interpretive techniques, using a variety of drawing media in combination. Preparatory talk followed by a day of non-stop movement – by both model and students! 

Requirements: range of conventional drawing media and paper, plus colour magazines and papers.

TALKS

“SO WHAT THE H*** IS DRAWING ANYWAY?”
Thursday 20 April 7.30pm - 9.30pm 

An illustrated talk by Glenn Ibbitson on the futility of defining the practice of drawing, with particular reference to the work on display in Oriel Mwldan.

“FILMING THE DRAWING PROCESS”: a talk by Charlie Sharp
Monday 24 APRIL 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Charlie talks about the making of his film; “The Artist, his Model and the Making of a Drawing”

Winner of the £300 People’s Prize, presented on the evening by Audrey Walker O.B.E., was Trudi Finch for her drypoint etching titled Red Hen. Her charming work received the most votes from the public visiting the exhibition.

Wynne Jones of Fflach Recording Studios presented the £100 Fflach Prize to Gail Gauden for her charcoal drawing Sheltered.

Gallery Opening Times
10am - 8 pm Monday - Sunday

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Oriel Mwldan Patron Mary Lloyd Jones