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Malvern Exhibition of Contemporary Art |
Di Cope |
| Exhibition of BA Final Work BCU 2009 |
| When I consider Nature’s tireless insistence on reclaiming surfaces with minute organic intricacies such as lichen or algae, I am filled with respect for its ingenuity to colonise. This large-scale drawing on collage is a response to my sense of sublime awe when I also consider the vastness of landscape comprising this detail. |
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| ‘Drawn from photographs’ could describe how the work is created but this also implies trying to capture photographic likeness. I select my own macro-lens photographs which become new points of reference when they are cut with scissors, out of square format, into stone shapes, away from their original likeness. I scatter them randomly across the surface, colonising the area as nature would. Selecting mainly surface characteristics, I draw out of each one with water-colour washes and fine-line pen. I spontaneously reference archives of my imagination, creating an expression of abstraction on to paper, as Kandinsky may have done. |
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| I believe that by presenting an unframed, unglazed, accessible visual field I endorse the viewer’s own sense of drawing being a natural primary instinct; contemplation at close range may enliven the viewer’s own perception of the complexity of nature. |
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| dicope@hotmail.co.uk |
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