Final Show Proposal

24th May

I keep updating my ideas. I want to focus on drawing as this has been the spine of all my work. My thinking is

a triptych of three 10x1.5m drawings

1. Graphite on paper as a continuous drawing - places, lines, considering drawing and the picture plane through frayed edges, maybe punched holes, inconsistent edges

2. Compost story - long piece made in the garden in collaboration with the compost heap. This may decay, which I can use and present it in bits, the creeping, crawling idea, the quilt and mycelium network of drawing fragments all over the walls and creeping out of cracks and windows

3. A third drawing that isn’t quite clear to me yet

I am also feeling a strong desire to show the cast cabbage leaves but I am not sure yet how to present them. I have been playing with visual ideas and photographed some of them here. This needs lots of work after the written assessment is submitted.

I am also wondering about a paper lace drawing, which maybe more readily presented than the leaves.

The tracing paper drawings of dead lavender are emerging and I must resolve how to present those too.

12th May

This has changed on a weekly, if not daily, basis lately so I must focus what I will show.

Ideas at this stage

• Paper lace, a hanging

• Tracing paper drawings

• Hives of cast paper

• Hanging mycelium book

• Animation

• Mycelium drawing directly on the wall

• Long trace narrative

I have booked the local village hall on Friday 20th June for 2 hours so I can have the opportunity to hang and look at work as a sort of dry run and video it so I have a record of how I want the work shown. The hall is large and light but old fashioned so definitely not a beautiful white space but I feel happy that I can see how the work could be presented. The hall is barely 2 minutes walk from home so no transportation issues and might give me an idea of how easy/difficult work will be to drive up to London.

Thoughts about the show

I am inclined to do something I will rarely/never get the chance to do - like draw on the walls or show something hanging or a bit off-centre. I have 3 shows coming up, which will be classic gallery painting shows so there’s really no point in indulging that sort of presentation further, but rather I would love to come up with something interesting, unusual, perhaps a bit more imaginative. That said, I want to be mindful of energy levels and how much space I have for making something enormous or cumbersome that will be condemned to the loft for all eternity so I am looking for a balance between something out of the ordinary but without indulging in a piece that is so out of synch that it doesn’t particularly serve a purpose.