This month we are exploring lines. Be it a drawing using a variety of materials - pen, pencil, wire, wool. words or 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?
Artist name: Paul Alty
Title: End Titles (Laser Harp)
Media: Laser, smoke machine, mirrors & trussing
Description: The piece is a live music performance played on a laser harp. The laser beams are coherent lines which, if aimed into space, would continue forever into the ever-expanding cosmos. Playing the music on the harp introduces breaks to the solid lines, so somewhere in space there are green laser lines forming a kind of linear morse code, which is the melody to my 'End Titles' track.
Instagram: @waxapul
Artist name: Brut carniollus
Title: Linear 225
Media: digital graphics, original digital UV print fron digitally created source
Description: A series of minimalist graphics exploring the line element
Instagram: @carniollus
Artist name: Lee Hardman
Title: Figure Study
Media: Oil on paper
Description: For me, process is the defining line. I am a figurative painter and drawing, in the traditional sense, does not form part of my aesthetic. Instead, the line for me is a boundary, the contrast between colour or tone.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leehardman_uk/
Artist: Lucie Jestrabikova
Title: Paravane, Sediments collection 2019/2020
Media: drawing sculpture
Description: Sometimes I have a feeling that my interaction with the outside world is connected only thru a transparent wall. Visualization of distance was transformed into the game of shadows and light, surfaces to variation of colour and rhythmic frequency. From the touching experiences happened only an imaginations game and memories on stories where I meet them and how they already communicated with me.
What is this wall and what means for us, is it protection or prison? Can I call it a private space? Is it really a private space?
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/borders_standing_artist/
Artist: Jack Lawrence
Title: Knots
Description: Black ink drawing. I tie myself in knots as I hate you so but I love you with all my heart. I start to draw and the lines pour out of me, The pen is my catharsis.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacklawrenceartist/
Artist name: Chelsie Dysart
Title: Imperfect figures
Media: Oil paint and charcoal
Description: I do not consider my work to be produced in the form of a self-portrait. Instead - I see them as the exploration of the self through visually exploring the spatial space and existence of not only the physical bodies but also the emotive state. My work expressively portrays a personal response to personal situations in an energetic, unlaboured manner which holds sense of truthfulness which is unapologetic and raw.
Instagram: Chelsiedysart.art
Artist name: Patricia Figu:
Title: Tranbordar
Media: Mixed media sculpture on paper
Description: Transbordar (Portuguese for “transcendentalist”), a very personal work that allowed [her] to evolve as an artist. (It is a big chain made from papier–mâché packed in dictionary pages. The chain is exactly [her] height and all the words represent [her] life and [her] many roles, guided by reason and emotion, sometimes deep, sometimes shallow.
Instagram: @art_of_patfigueiredo
Artist name: Grant Lambie
Title: False Flag Attacks from 1931 to present day, 2020
Media: Tapestry Size: 44cm x 60cm
Description: Each red cross is the location of a proven False Flag Attack. If the attack is by another country, then this is indicated by a connecting brown tread. Of course we do not know all of the False Flag Attacks (by their very nature) that have happened.
“A false flag is a covert operation designed to deceive; the deception creates the appearance of a particular party, group, or nation being responsible for some activity, disguising the actual source of responsibility”.
Instagram: @grantlambie
Artist name: Molly Lambourn
Title: Welcome to my World
Media: Pen on Ceramic
Description: This installation piece, which consists of over 30 ceramics was produced during a period of deep anxiety. Drawing was and continues to be my mechanism for processing the world, thoughts and exploring them, releasing the negativity. I loved the freedom of bringing my work onto 3D surfaces, I love their unremarkable nature and how they serve as portals into my mind.
Instagram: mollylambourn
Artist name: Adriette Myburgh Art-Architect
Title: Fighting Monsters Fade into Air
Media: Digital media
Description: 'Fighting Monsters Fade into Air' is a virtual exhibition created from recycled commercial architectural drawings that were originally used to illustrate high density urban development proposals. I use my architectural practice as a springboard and experimental ground for my fine art practice. I mine what lurks behind the technical rigour and digital smoothness of architectural drawings, by cutting, transforming and folding parts of them, to form transgressions that illuminate and reveal other realities beyond the surface level. The architectural drawings are partly destroyed, often transfigured so that only glimpses of the originals remain. Each drawing has the potential to reveal what is hidden between the dichotomies of abstract and figurative, digital and analogue and can either gesture towards a 'positive change' or a 'monstrous becoming'. I use drawing as a medium to expand architecture into art and art as a lens to turn architecture inside-out. ©Adriette Myburgh
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adriettemyburgh_art/
Artist name: Evangeline Boore
Title: Wrinkles and Creases
Media: Embroidery on cotton bedsheet
Description: My practice invites viewers to look closer at patterns and forms on the skin, and see value in the imperfect and mundane. I like to combine digital line drawing with traditional arts practice to explore different contexts in which I can translate lines and marks from the body to subvert the conventional idea that ‘flaws’ should be hidden rather than highlighted.
Instagram: @artevangeline
Artist name: Gideon Conn
Title: Continuous Line in Ply
Media: Plywood
Description: 'Continuous Line in Ply' is cut by hand with a jigsaw from a single sheet of 18mm birch plywood. The piece is about exploring the material and discovering capability outside of it's design, and turning something flat and easily measurable into something voluminous and unrestricted.
Instagram: @gideonconn
Artist name: Gideon conn
Title: Yellow pipes
Media: Oil on canvas
Description: I love the shapes, colours and overall aesthetic of roadworks. When extracted from their surroundings, the pipes transform into a pop art assemblage.
Instagram: @gideonconn
Artist name: Sam Owen Hull
Title: Rdp/21
Media: Acrylic, collage and embroidery on 300gsm paper, 2021
Description: My work contrasts the speed of gestural brushstrokes and the slow precision of hand embroidery. It explores the spaces in between the many polarities that we exist within.
The lines of the thread anchor the floating marks made by paint to the surface, layering thoughts of freedom and constraint, illusion and solidity.
Instagram; @samowenhull
.Artist name: Lucy Bevin
Title: Pile
Media: Pencil on prepared sanded, painted wallpaper
Description: My drawings are made from arranging cloth and piles of fabric into sculptural forms, they resemble these forms in a corporeal and visceral manner like an internal organ or crepe paper skin. The drawings are made onto sanded and painted wallpaper which in turn alludes the house being a second skin and the home being written on the body.
Instagram: @lucybevinart
Artist name: Zelga Miller
Title: Drawing Thoughts
Media: Words, moving image and Ink
Description: I was asked ‘why drawing matters’ & my response was, is ‘when doesn’t drawing matter?!’ From this I wrote the words, actually they just tumbled out if me like a release of steam. Then I read my words, my feelings there on the page, they felt lyrical, poetic & I wanted-to then Draw to them. So I created ‘Drawing Thoughts’ - a passionate combination of my writings, my drawing & my moving image.
Instagram: @zelgamiller
Artist name: Abi Lewis
Title: Zappydoo
Media: MS Paint animated illustration
Description: This is a short animation:
A short zap of animation, illustrated in MS Paint.
/ electric lines / ideas spark / connections made / until I lose / my thread / of thought
Instagram: i.am.abi.art
Artist name: Steve Hines
Title: Immeasureable
Media: Drawing/Sculpture: found steel measuring tape, steel bearing with ball bearings, reclaimed panel plywood, white emulsion. (sits flat on the floor).
Description: The objects and materials were reclaimed during a studio residency and were found separately. The tape measure is as found as it was broken and had partly uncoiled. I thought that it made a beautiful line and sculptural shape. I like the relationship between the units of measure of the tape and the parallel lines on the white board. The final arrangment reminds me of a cosmic image and if one thinks of space then this is immeaureable, which is also the status of the tape measure in its present state - unusable for its intended purpose.
Instagram: @stevehinesartist
Artist name: Saranjit Birdi
Title: Relative Lines -1 and Mapping bones
Media: Drawing, performance, and video
Description: 'Relative Lines-1' (2015) expresses the relationship between our evolution from primates and that of drawing and drawing tools. The 8-hour foot drawing is documented in a short video (see https://vimeo.com/139162632). This work developed into a series of drawing performance works 'Mapping Bones' 2011-2019 https://youtu.be/hFwpgscfn2k
Instagram: @saranjitbirdi
Artist name: Sadegh Aleahmad
Title: Construction worker
Media: Photography
Description: The idea of this work is to capture the eternity that exists between two parallel mirrors. My practice is performative and explores how mirror sculptures displace the architecture of the surrounding environment. The biggest difficulty was maintaining social distancing with the person holding the mirror sculpture.
Instagram: @sadegh.alef
Artist name: Lara Buffard & Sara Koller
Title: Expanding the lines in the limit.
Media: Photography
Description: I closed my eyes and opened my body to the limit of the rope. Tangled bodies in a peaceful space. Where do contradiction’s starts?
A collaboration between two performance artists Lara Buffard and Sara Koller.
2020
Instagram: @LaraBuffard
Artist name: SOPHIE HARDISTY
Title: Broken lines in nature by Sophie Hardisty
Media: Mixed media on paper
Description: Continuous line drawing - exploring the unbroken line with nature through creating surface texture between the use of mark making and collage. Integrating line texture and our connections with both.
Instagram: @sophies_emporium
Artist name: Samuel Joshua Richardson
Title: Photoluminescent Room
Media: Documentation of Performance/ photography, glow in the dark paint on interior walls of a room, photons charged with a UV light
Description: This piece attempts to expand the possibility of photography through overcoming the institutionalised idea of photography used in established practice, by using photoluminescence on a large scale to create an immersive performance of light and representations that disappear. A UV light is used against the walls to draw lines with light through charging photons.
Instagram: @samueljoshuarichardson
Artist name: Hanneke Wetzer
Title: Resurrection
Media: Black and white photography
Description: I went into the woods to search for lines. I chose black and white to rule out colours to emphasize patterns. I accidentally stumbled upon the making of a brand new forest with line shaped protection for the baby trees, which gloomily looked like a weird graveyard to me instead.
Instagram: @wtzr79
Artist Name: SHAANTHI RAJAH
Title: Can't you see it??
Media: Nylon rope, wire and nail polish
Description: A sculptural collection of anthropomorphic drawings inspired by nostalgic objects from my childhood, such as silly bandz. The playful lines within the work are further emphasized by its unified line drawing shadow.
Instagram: @s.y.rajah