Happy New Year!! 2023 and welcome to issue no 33!!!
This month we are exploring lines. Be it a drawing using a variety of materials - pen, pencil, wire, wool, words or other methods - sculpture, mark making, writing, music, film , performance or a philosophy as we mark time, journey and cross over and connect. Lines are everywhere, line of thought, a line in the sand, stand in line, and line up. Will your lines join or be discordant?
We ran this theme 18 months ago and were overwhelmed by the response. We had so many amazing submission, so we thought we would run it again!! This time we had even more submissions which are even more creative, inventive and down right jaw stopping amazing.
Artist: Paul Blenkhorn
Title: γ#127 (gamma#127)
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Description: This is a rather small (20cm x 20cm) abstract expressionist artwork. To me its decomposing lines fit well with your call for work. I do not wish to comment further as I do not wish to place too much of an interpretation in the mind of the viewer.
Artist: James Mellor
Title: The Schism // mixed media, sculpture, photography
Description: Wire as a material is intriguing to me as a template of sculpture as there are many possible outcomes and forms you can create by hand and editing. The surrounding of the wire can be seen as claustrophobic as the idea of the nothingness of black open spaces is horrifying as the scariest depiction of what in your mind can imagine is scarier than what is in a form of reality.
Instagram: @jamesmellor06
Artist: Jacqui Jones
Title: Life Line / Media: Wood & Metal
Description: This piece is taken from my 'Life Line' series, delivering climate crisis graphs on a challenging and emotive level. Scorched into the surface of this piece is a NASA graph plotting global surface temperatures for the last 100 years. Scar like, the line continues on its upward trajectory, a reminder that humanity has left its mark.
Instagram: @jacquijonesart
Artist: Philip Michael Wolfson
Title: Transitional Geometries X,
Media: ink & acrylic on paper
Description: The Transitional Geometries examine an active transformation which changes the physical situation of a given system of form and motion. The interconnection between outer and inner spaces, or spatial dimensions, becomes the arena of action - perception becomes exploration. Investigating the irrationalities of line, form and geometric transition has a relevance to the formation of thought patterns, actions and resulting social awareness - which in turn effect the actualities of a more built environment.
Instagram: @philipmichaelwolfson
Artist: Lorenzo Belenguer
Title@ White #12 (inspired by shamanic rituals)
Media@ Oil on metal on white concret
Description: White #12 portrays the lines of energy followed by a Shaman in their session. Shamans are very sensitive to energy, they can "see" it and follow it through according to the intention of the ceremony. My sculptural drawing intends to honour that and to make the visible invisible.
Instagram: @lorenzobelenguer
ArtistL:Julian McKenny
Title: Use of Land
Media: Acrylic and graphite with collage elements on paper.
Description: Use of Land is a series of images that respond to the loss of traditional market gardens which once fed our cities, in particular looking at Ashton Moss in Greater Manchester, where new out of town shopping and Ikea have overwritten the farmland with lifeless road systems. The work is made using a collection of straight edges and templates and I allow a residue of paint to leave extended marks as I layer these linear features.
Instagram: @mckenny.art
Artist: Hanna ten Doornkaat
Title: Dividing Line
Media: gesso, waxed cotton thread, acrylic, rope, jute bag, stretcher frame
Description: The line and the questioning of what constitutes drawing has been at the centre of my work for many years. I have recently put down pencils and pens to experiment with a different medium, thread and needle to draw lines with. The general idea of the line remains the same yet the process or the execution has become even more time consuming and can be quite painful at times.
Instagram: @hannatendoornkaat
Artist: Tyler Wilson
Title: HOMOTOPIA(S) // Media: Digital Image
Description: I was interested in how statistical lines could be used to invoke a sense of sincerity to my concept and visualisation of HOMOTOPIA(S). The work and title in question was made as an overall visual representation of how I envision a utopia of myself as a homosexual man in a world rife of cynicism and consumerism. Exploring aspects of authority and control.
Instagram: @theunenrolledwilson
Artist: Beatrice Gillies
Title: Fences // Media: Photography
Description: I looked at the way wire fences are shaped, the visible lines that are woven together. where lines meet, part and meet again. Using image and thread I have made tactile pieces of work that can be held and looked at from both sides.
Artist: Vanja Mervič
Title: At the beggining was a straight line
Media: photography/video
Description: Growing up and living by the border, separating East from West, one is undoubtedly conditioned by it. The border existed only in a geopolitical sense, not geographically. It is an everyday presence which makes you adept and modify your believes and questionings on daily basis. Crossing the border daily makes you realise that the border is actually not real, it is a phantom line. It does not exist in the reality even though it is physical and very touchable. Where the border line lives and thrives is in the thought and in the mind.
Today, when all the physical aspects of the borders, walls, fences, are gone, the line still exists and it might be even stronger than ever before. With the absence of its physicality, it grew stronger.
Instagram: @VanjaMervic
Artist: Anna Clarke
Title: Purple Bliss // Media: Acrylic on canvas
Description: An intuitive artwork - I often start a piece without any concept and the process itself guides me to the next steps and completion. I love the freedom and fluidity of loose lines and the shapes and space they create. This piece is a semi-abstract take on a landscape.
Instagram: @annaclarkeart
Artist: Zou Desbiens
Title: Self-organizing symmetry
Media: Wet collodion photogram on glass
Description: There is a long experimental process behind this image. First, hot, liquid glass was poured through a metal mesh to then be received on a cold steel plate. This process causes a rippling texture to the surface of the glass that was served to create this image. Here, in wet collodion, is the imprint of the light that passes through this artisanal glass plate.
Instagram: @zoudesbiens
Artist: ERNEST STRAUHAL
Title: Untitled 5 // Media: Pen and ink on paper
Description: Drawing references from environments both real and imaginary, I incorporate landscape, gesture, and chance in my works. I create meditative visuals through automatic drawing to create a reprieve from the cacophony of commercialism and consumerism in the 21st century.
Instagram: @erneststrauhal
Artist: Mary Griffiths
Title: Crypt Shibari
Media: Chalk and charcoal on coloured paper
Description: A visual response to the Japanese art of tying with lines and ropes. The model was tied and suspended from a crypt ceiling.
Instagram: @Maryaspdengriffiths
Artist: Rosalind Lowry
Title: The Heartbeat of Trees or El latido del corazon de los arboles
Media: Mixed media
Description: Created during my residency at a dead forest on the shores of Lake Epecuen in Argentina in 2022. This site specific installation is based on new research on the heartbeat of trees. The line follows the recording of the heartbeat of a Magnolia tree, and is dedicated to the resilience of all tree's, despite the demands of man.
Instagram: @rosalindlowry
Artist: Darren Clarke
Title: Scar Tissue
Media: Manipulated Digital Photography
Description: The land has many tales to tell throughout the year. As the seasons progress, the ground, like one's brow becomes more furrowed with experiences. This is a meditation upon the landscape and the phenomenology of being. It's all about not how people speak about the landscape but how the landscape speaks through people.
Instagram: @dpicto_
Artist: Jenny Klein
Title: Supergirl
Media: Photography and hand stitch
Description: I regularly combine photography and stitch in my practice. This image is from a series in which I took photos of myself while dancing and balancing. The lines added are suggested by the shape made by the figure, creating an ambiguous struggle – is the woman trapped or escaping?
Instagram: @jennykleinthread
Artist: Fernanda Morales Tovar
Title: Vestiges Media: Oil on canvas
Description: 2015, Oil on canvas, 85 x 100 cm
Vestiges, this work is part of the series of oil paintings: Archaeologies of the environment, it is a series of oil paintings by Fernanda Morales Tovar, which has emerged since 2014 and continues her current work. In it, Morales explores the existing analogies and dialectics in the environment that promote the conjunction of nature and urban devices in everyday life. Through a visual archaeology that is based on the interpretation and proposal of signs of intersection of places, humans, stories, the ruin and the landscape; Through the use of pictorial values such as descriptive and schematic levels of representation, rhythm and colour. To be alternative landscapes, mediated by the imagination, that imitate the future of individuals in the face of the daily illusion that each one faces.
Instagram: @fernandamoralestovar
Artist: Xin Huang
Title: I BURIED BOMBS IN ALL AREAS EXCEPT ON THIS LINE // Media: Vinyl cut
Description: This work is a mockery and rebellion against manipulation and oppression during the pandemic. Since I can no longer trust the official guidelines, I must overthrow them completely. So, the whole work is like fiction, and all the pieces are fake; these works combine to become manipulated world created by me, the artist. Do you choose to follow my ridiculous guidelines, or do you not care at all? Wait… you think you have chosen to see this work, but the moment you step into this room, you have become a part of the game.
Instagram: @fanwutuobang
Artist: Patrick Bryson
Title: Travels in the Imagination
Media: Pen on paper
Description: A spontaneous drawing exploring the freedom of travelling through the imagination
Instagram: @artnanog
Artist: David Kirkman
Media: Acrylic pen and paint on canvas
Description: Combining abstract and urban art, this process see's the mass of organically created ideas and colours defined by the lines drawn around them, signifying the line of thought. The complete abstract becomes more defined maybe even recognisable. As I draw each line it is almost like clarity of thought washing over the painting.
Instagram: @dkirkmanart
ArtisT:Nikki Allford
Title: Otherworlds
Media: Earth Electrical Tape, table
Description:
As a Maker and Installation artist , my practice involves time consuming , repetitive processes, with an obsessional attention to detail.
Structures are built from the accumulation of lines and tape . The resultant pieces can be read as abstract, or as hinting at other qualities - perhaps reminiscent of organic plant growth.
Tape rolls are often left in situ. This simple gesture contextualises the forms so that the materiality of the piece-the very products it is made from- are clearly referenced. This act anchors the work to both method and maker.
Instagram: @nikkiallford_art
Artist: Lucas Rebelo
Title: Vamos apenas ser irritantes
Media: Digital art
Description: I made this image using sound spectrogram and transforming it into a mandala-esque pattern. Spectrogram are basically lines of sound.
Instagram: @luqalbuq
