About the work

And then, drawing a relates to recent work where through visual and textual interrogations of various structures I seek to reveal ideas and systems that shape and impact the built environment. Working with everyday materials assembled in situ or rendered as diagrams these explorations reveal a long-standing interest in the performance of production.

And then, drawing a employs a method derived from a process of delineating, with coloured adhesive tape, the planes of a found object – in this instance a broken and discarded fragment of a wooden pallet. During the awkward process of marking around it, tiny particles of dust from the pallet are caught in the tape. The resultant disrupted surface along these fractured lines comprises then the image – a space in flux.

Date and country of birth

1949, GB

Career Highlights

Represented by Hollybush Gardens, London, UK. Is a Professor Emerita at Central Saint Martins.

Public collections: Arts Council, London, UK; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Government Art Collection, UK; British Council Collection; and Arts Council Ireland Collection.

Recent solo exhibitions:

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2022);

The MAC, Belfast, Ireland (2021);

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2021);

Hollybush Gardens, London, UK (2020);

Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2019).

Recent group shows:

Found Cities, Lost Objects, Leeds Art Gallery and touring, UK (2024);

Women in Revolt, Tate, London, UK (2023).