Thursday 10 February 2011

The Drawing Room

As stated in the official website, The Drawing Room "is dedicated to the investigation and presentation of international contemporary drawing". We visit The Drawing Room aware of the mission and of the precise commitment of the gallery. We meet Mary Doyle, co-director and curator of the gallery. After a brief introduction of our project, knowing our interest and hypothetical budget, she takes out from the open-shelf of the office three boxes. The boxes contains a considerable amount of drawings in stock, all drew on A4 format paper. These drawings are donated from the artist, have a good sale prize and the earning goes in support of The Drawing Room.

The co-director and curator Mary Doyle
opens the boxes and puts the drawings on display.

There is a lot of material to check and consider:  from drawing produced with the recognizable techniques of drawing to artworks that definitely don't belong to the traditional idea of drawing. So that we handle a landscape - pencil on paper - by Rachel Cattle, a watercolor by Jocelyn Clarke, an abstract pencil and graphite on paper by Ana Genoves, a nude - brown ink on paper - by Marco Livingstone. But also an inkjet on paper by Sara Mackillop, a monoprint on paper by Boffey, a stencil by Tom Woolford or a wood veneer on paper by Ray Cooke. The prizes are really affordable. You could purchase a drawing from the prize of £150 upwards.


Checking the drawings on A4 paper format.

The curator show us then the different publications and catalogues that The Drawing Room produces for the exhibitions. In particular she introduces us to the work of the British artist Adam Dant. What really amused us about his production is not only the accuracy, but also the unexpected dimension of the drawings. For instance, the drawing Wall Street English (2001) - exhibited in 2003 in The Drawing Room - reaches the measurement of 244x244cm.
The gallery has in stock a series of sepia ink drawings by him. They measure is 36x38cm. and, unframed, they cost  £1.700.

Adam Dante The people who live on the plank
artist's book. As his drawings also the book
exceed the standard dimension.

At the end of the meeting, we are invited to what is described as the most  interesting event organized by The Drawing Room: the Silent Auction Event. This could be an opportunity to purchase a drawing for the project, but, unfortunately, the date of the auction is long after the opening of our exhibition. We will anyway try to attend this curious event.


Visit The Drawing Room website:
http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/

Michele Drascek

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