Handel Street Projects 14 Florence Street, London
N1
John Plowman Shroud Drawings
11 February – 6 March 2015 Wednesday – Friday
12:00 – 18:00 Saturday 10:00 – 13:00 and by
appointment
Private View Tuesday 10 February 18:00 – 20:00
Handel Street Projects is pleased to present a collection of new
drawings by British sculptor John Plowman. As a sculptor, Plowman
has an innate instinct for objects and the spaces they inhabit
whether real or imagined. His work over the last 30 years has
explored the dynamic between two and three dimensions, the made and
the yet to be made, through sculpture, installation, performance or
importantly drawing of which he states that ‘All my drawings
are really drawings of the last sculpture I (n)ever
made.’
Plowman’s current show, ‘A Life Drawing’, at
Nottingham Castle Museum, comprises of a selection of his own
drawings made since the late 1970’s, juxtaposed with a
selection of drawings from the archive of Nottingham Castle Museum
and Art Gallery. A lot of the drawings he looked at in the museum’s
archives were about place albeit representations of specific places
geographically located. This experience has highlighted for Plowman
the influence on his practice of his geographic location at key
points in his career and life. The collection of his drawings
reflect how geographies have impacted and informed the drawings
produced. Following his move in 2013 from Lincolnshire to Brighton
this exhibition is a reflection on this aspect of Plowman’s
practice. The series of drawings exhibited have been made during the
last 12 months in his new studio. They form a distinct body of new
work in which Plowman has developed a process of pencil on tape on
paper which allows him to mimic the trope of the gestural pencil
mark, the layering of these marks without his pencil touching the
surface of the paper. The imagery contained within each drawing has
been generated by the process he has employed and reflects his new
geographical (urban) location.
John Plowman practice encompasses both studio and curatorial activity
(http://beaconartproject.org)
through which he explores his interest in the production of art and
the site(s) of its production and exhibition. Since 1980 he has
exhibited in and curated numerous one person and group exhibitions
in this country and abroad. http://www.johnplowman.com/
John Plowman, rdhs no.4, 2014, pencil on tape on paper, 39 x 30 cm
