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. 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. Select solo exhibitions include Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium (2017); Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (2016); 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). Select group exhibitions include Drawing Now, Albertina Museums, Vienna (2015); Drawing: The Bottom Line, S.M.A.C.K., Gent (2015); Apparitions: Frottage and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, The Menil Collection, Houston and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2015); 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); Slow Looking:Contemporary Drawing, Tate Britain, London, UK (2012); and Prospects and Interiors: Sculptor’s Drawings of Inner Space, Henry Moore Institute/Leeds City Art Gallery (2008). Her work is held in 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. Barriball is represented by Frith Street Gallery.
Alice Channer (b. 1977, UK) lives and works in London. Studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, and MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Solo exhibitions include Early Man, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2016); Half-life, Lisa Cooley, New York (2015); Rockfall, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (2015); Soft Shell, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2013); Invertebrates, Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom (2013); Cold Blood, Lisa Cooley, New York (2012); Out Of Body, South London Gallery, London, (2012); Body Conscious (2011); Worn-work, The Approach, London, (2009); and Inhale, Exhale, The Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, as part of Glasgow International, Glasgow, United Kingdom (2010). Select group exhibitions include The 55th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Encyclopedic Palace, and exhibitions at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK; Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany; the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Public Art Fund, New York; Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany; Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Raven Row, London; Tate Britain, London; Stuart Shave Modern Art, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Lisson, London; Hayward Gallery Touring, United Kingdom. Her work is included in the Arts Council Collection; the Tate Permanent Collection; the Zabludowicz Collection; the Aïshti Foundation Collection; the D. Daskalopoulos Collection; and the Guggenheim Museum Permanent Collection.
Aleana Egan (b. 1979, Dublin, Ireland) lives and works in Dublin. Studied Fine Art Painting at Glasgow School of Art. Select solo exhibitions include A House and Its Head, Kerlin, Dublin (2017); Shapes from Life, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (2015); 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). Select group exhibitions include Curve of a hill, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2017); Sculptors’ Drawings, Alma Zevi, Venice (2017); Out there thataway, CCA Derry (2015); Contemporary Drawings, Kettles Yard Cambridge curated by Drawing Room (2015); Dukkha, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2014); Vestibule, 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. Select career highlights include exhibitons at Kunsthalle Basel; South London Gallery; Kunstmuseum Bern; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall; Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim; Galerie Denise René, Paris; Sommer & Kohl, Berlin; and Standard Gallery, Oslo. He produced two permanent public sculptures at Kings Cross St. Pancras Station with Art on the Underground (2009 and 2011). He is represented in England by Hollybush Gardens, London.
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).
