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. Graduated from Glasgow School of Art (2003); and University of Glasgow (1999). Select solo exhibitions include The faces of older images, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2017); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2016); for myself & strangers, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2014); Images, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2010); Present Future, Artissima Art Fair, Turin (2008); and New Work Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2006). Select group exhibitions include NOW, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2018); L’immagine e il suo doppio, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence (2018); Transparency, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2017);Geographies of Dust and Air, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2016); Signal Failure, Pace, London (2015); Drawing: Sculpture, The Drawing Room, London (2013); Tracing the Century: Drawing from Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2012).
Anna Barriball (b. 1972, Plymouth) lives and works in London. Graduated from the Chelsea College of Art (2000); the Winchester School of Art (1995); and Falmouth School of Art (1992). Select solo exhibitions include Art Centre Pasquart, Biel/Bienne (2018); Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium (2017); New Works, Frith Street Gallery, London (2016); Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen (2013); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2013); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2012); Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (2011); and Frith Street Gallery, London (2009). Select group exhibitions include Find your world in ours, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2018); Apparitions: Frottage and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, The Menil Collection, Houston and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015-16); Drawing Now, Albertina Museums, Vienna (2015); Drawing: The Bottom Line, S.M.A.C.K., Gent (2015); Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London (2015); Silver, Frith Street Gallery, London (2014); i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (2013); OSL Contemporary, Oslo (2103); Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London (2013); Drawing: Sculpture, Drawing Room, London (2013); Slow Looking: Contemporary Drawing, Tate Britain, London (2012); and Prospects and Interiors: Sculptor’s Drawings of Inner Space, Henry Moore Institute/Leeds City Art Gallery (2008). Her works are held in public collections including The Arts Council Collection, London; The British Council Collection, London; The United Kingdom Government Art Collection; Herning Museum, Herning; Tate Collection, London; UBS Art Collection, London; and RISD Museum, Rhode Island.
Alice Channer (b. 1977, Oxford) lives and works in London. Graduted with a BA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London (2006) and MA Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (2008). Select solo exhibitions include A Coin In Nine Hands - Part 5 - Alice Channer: Carapaces, Large Glass, London (2018); Early Man, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2016); R o c k f a l l, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2015); Soft Shell, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau; Invertebrates, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (2013); Out Of Body, South London Gallery, London, (2012); and Inhale, Exhale, The Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (2010). Select group exhibitions include Der Flexible Plan, Das Rokoko in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Morsbroich, Morsbroich (2018-19); The Shape Left By The Body, Sunday Painter, London; Actions: 'The Image Of The World Can Be Different', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (2018); ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017-18); Rest In The Furrows Of My Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg; Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London (2017); In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2016); and The 55th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice (2013). Her work is held in public and private collections including Arts Council Collection, London; Tate, London; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Aïshti Foundation Collection, Beirut; D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Chalandri; and Guggenheim.
Aleana Egan (b. 1979, Dublin) lives and works in Dublin. Studied Fine Art Painting at Glasgow School of Art. Select solo exhibitions include A House and Its Head, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2017); Shapes from Life, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (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), 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); Contemporary Drawings, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, curated by Drawing Room (2015); Dukkha, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2014); The Line of Beauty, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013); Aleana Egan / Lucia Nogueira / Bojan Sarcevic, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2013); and Drawing: Sculpture, Drawing Room, London (2013).
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).