Series of silverpoint drawings.

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Series of silverpoint drawings.

Punton, Lesley (2008) Series of silverpoint drawings. [Artefact]

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Creators/Authors:

Punton, Lesley

Abstract:

A series of "durational drawings" made in silverpoint that explored and connected processes of walking, landscape and climatic phenomena.

The work featured in a number of exhibitions, and was seen in it's entirety at a solo exhibition at R O O M, May - June 2008, featuring 17 works in the series. Lesley Punton is represented by R O O M in the UK and in Europe.

The initial, first works in the series were featured in Next Level magazine immediately prior to solo exhibition, and at Zoo Art Fair. The show also travelled as a solo exhibition to EKAC, Scotland in July 2008, and some of the works featured in "Mapping the Terrain", Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow, Nov 2008, and in "Back to the Things Themselves", a 2 person exhibition (with Judy Spark) for Glasgow International festival of Visual Arts, (GI) 2012, at the Briggait, Glasgow.

The work will also feature in a monograph on the artist's work, due for publication in Autumn 2013.

Official URL:

http://www.roomartspace.co.uk/past_detail.php?eventID=97&eventType=exhibition&theartist=LESLEY%20PUNTON

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Artefact

Additional Information:

Tamsin Clark of Studio Voltaire, (then of R O O M) wrote about these works: “Drawing is a process which Punton likens to the rhythm of walking. The method of marking a surface is a mapping of sorts which she tackles with the diligence of a climber en route to a summit. Her drawings touch the canvas so lightly that at first glance they might appear almost blank. The artist would certainly encourage the metaphors of mist, snow, cloud and void that the encounter with her works readily conjures up. One piece entitled Thin Air aptly voices this preoccupation. These drawings seem to demand a slow, patient response from the viewer that in turn mimics their painstaking creation. She comments: ‘I suppose there's always been part of my practice that builds upon repetition and variation...in that obsessive intensity that comes from persistence’. For this solo exhibition at R O O M Punton presents her recent rhythmic works which seem sympathetic to a tradition of abstract minimalism, but also have the reference of landscape omnipresent. ...In the vertical pull of certain panoramas the teeming flow of a mountain stream or the rough grains of bark might be recalled. The mottled, map-like contours of her drawings are testaments of flux and impermanence, even conjuring the turbulence of her Highland skies.”

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silverpoint drawings

Schools and Departments:

School of Fine Art > Fine Art Photography

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