This publication features an essay by Anna Lovatt that sheds light on the history of the relationship between drawing and sculpture and suggests how:
"Moving beyond the familiar trope of “drawing in space,” [the artists] explore alternative dialogues between drawing and sculpture that include, but are not limited to, the condition of linearity... I will identify four alternative points of contact between the two practices: structure, scale, surface and slightness. These are not intended to be all-encompassing or mutually exclusive categories, but to indicate the multifarious connections between drawing and sculpture being explored today."
Published in 2012 by Drawing Room, London, and Leeds Art Gallery to coincide with the exhibition Drawing : Sculpture, a partnership between Drawing Room and Leeds Art Gallery.
Sara Barker (b. 1980, Manchester) lives and works in Glasgow. Recent exhibitions include Frauenzimmer, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2011); Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow since WWII, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art; Pink Caviar: Recent Acquisitions, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Drawing: Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery & The Drawing Room, London; Tracing the Century: Drawing from Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool (all 2012) and The Geometry of Things, GAK Bremen, Bremen (2013). Mary Mary has recently published the artist’s first publication, ‘8 works (made at home).
Anna Barriball (b. 1972, Plymouth, UK) lives and works in London. She studied at Winchester School of Art and Chelsea College of Art and Design. Barriball’s work hinges on minimal interactions with objects and often steps between the parallel languages of drawing and sculpture. Her interventions produce objects that combine a minimalistic rigour and the seemingly endless endeavour to make sense of the world of objects by empirical study. Selected solo exhibitions include: Frith Street Gallery, London (2013); Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen (2013); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2013); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2012); Milton Keynes Gallery (2011); and Frith Street Gallery, London (2009). Selected group exhibitions include: Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London (2015); Silver, Frith Street Gallery, London (2014); i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (2013); OSL Contemporary, Oslo (2013); Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London (2013); Drawing: Sculpture, Drawing Room, London (2013); and Prospects and Interiors: Sculptor’s Drawings of Inner Space, Henry Moore Institute/Leeds City Art Gallery (2008). She has work in many public collections, including: The Arts Council Collection, London; The British Council Collection, London; The Government Art Collection, UK; Herning Museum, Herning, Denmark; Tate Collection; UBS Art Collection; and RISD Museum, Rhode Island, USA. Barribal is represented by Frith Street Gallery.
Alice Channer (b. 1977) lives and works in London. Channer completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, and an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, both in London. Solo exhibitions include R o c k f a l l, Aspen Art Museum, USA (2015); Synthetic Fibre, Approach, London (2014); Soft Shell, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2013); Invertebrates,Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire (2013); Cold Blood, Lisa Cooley, New York (2012); Out Of Body, South London Gallery, London (2012); Body Conscious (2011) and Worn-work (2009) at The Approach, London; and Inhale, Exhale, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, as part of the Glasgow International (2010). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany; 55th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Italy; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Raven Row, London; Tate Britain, London; Stuart Shave Modern Art, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Lisson, London; Hayward Gallery Touring, UK. Her work is included in the Arts Council Collection, the Tate Permanent Collection, and the Zabludowicz Collection, among others. She is represented by The Approach, London and Lisa Cooley, New York.
Aleana Egan (b. 1979, Dublin, Ireland) currently lives and works in Dublin. Egan studied Fine Art, Painting, Glasgow School of Art, 2003-1999 and Stillorgan Senior College, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, 1999-1998. Selected solo exhibitions include: Galerie Konrad Fischer, Berlin (2015); There are all sorts of lives, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2014), The Sensitive Plant, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2013), day wears, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2012), nature had an inside, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2011), Aleana Egan (At intervals, while turning), The Drawing Room, London (2011), and Art Basel Statements, Basel (2009). Selected group exhibitions include: Dukkha, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2014), Vestibule - outdoor work commission, Merrion Square, Dublin (2014), The Line of Beauty, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013), Several Species of Small Furry Animals gathered Together in a cave and grooving with a Pict, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin (2013), Francesco Arena / Aleana Egan / Rudolf Polanszky, Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe (2013), Aleana Egan / Lucia Nogueira / Bojan Sarcevic, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2013), Drawing: Sculpture, Drawing Room, London (2013), A Reader of Materials and a Writer of Forms, MOT International, Brussels (2012), The Alchemy of Material, Landesmuseum Muenster, Germany (2010), Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, New York (2010) and Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2009, Jerwood Space, London and touring.
Knut Henrik Henriksen (b. 1970, Oslo, Norway) works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include: Solo: Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2012);Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (2012 & 2009);Hollybush Gardens, London (2011 & 2006);Denise Rene, Paris (2010) and Standard, Oslo (2006); Group: 2012: Museum für KonkreteKunst, Ingolstadt, Germany; 2011: Rectangle and Square – From Picasso to Judd, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland; Abstrakt Skulptur, Georg Kolbe Museum, DE; Space Oddity, Kunsthalle Andratx CCA, Mallorca, Spain.
Dan Shaw-Town (b.1983, Huddersfield, UK) lives and works in New York and London. Recent solo exhibitions include: Unosunove, Rome (2011); China Objects, Los Angeles (2011); Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles (2010). Group exhibitions include: Room East, New York (2012); Surface/Tension, Lisson Gallery, London (2011); Library of Babel in and out of place, 176 Gallery, London (2010); MOT, London (2010); Tactile gaze, Unosunove, Rome (2010); Seventeen Gallery, London (2010); and Contested Ground, 176 Gallery, London (2009).
