An exhibition of new work by Lynn Hynd and Sara Barker within the surroundings of a garden and wooden shed. The garden is an extension of the artists studio, the threshold across which the external world is contemplated. Using the conceptual and visual framework of the garden the work will explore how the languages of flatness and space, painting and sculpture, and interior and exterior space are collapsed and re materialized through an active engagement with ‘process’ in our individual practices.
Continuing the development of printed plaster and paper work, I seek to explore the complexities of language that occur through the process of 'making'. Advancing out of a focused investigation surrounding the relationship between line and form, my practice sits within a larger dialogue between painting and sculpture, solid and void within two and three dimensions. An interest in visualising the serial, rhythm of the process embedded within the printed work contributes to a depth of enquiry to how the material and the 'act' sit together within the boundaries of artistic practice. The material and raw processes sit on the surface of the works, agitating the operation of thought. Focusing on an interest in the processes and operations that render form and content unstable, the new works pulse within the confines of their material, technical and theoretical boundaries.
As Michael Newman writes: 'Drawing, because of its status of becoming (blot becoming mark, mark becoming line, line becoming contour, contour becoming image, image becoming sign...the direction of this movement being always reversible) posits a continuum of sense, from one sense of "sense" to the other'. The work tries to catch hold of this transitional sense of becoming, arriving at a structure in which space, edge, and shape have become actual rather than depicted. It is this breakage and sense of collapse that is of most importance, as the materials build new forms as they translate backwards through the gesture, returning to a state of action and realisation.
