Sound Lines
29 August to 14 September
Opening Thursday 28 August, 6-8pm
Sound Lines is a series of drawings made during a
textile field trip in Gujurat, India (February 2014) and at a Land Art Project
in Fall, Norway (July 2014). The chinagraph drawings and rubbings were made on a tour of textile
factories, workshops and museums in Gujurat. They were made “on the run”, in buses,
museums, artisan studios and ancient mosques, temples and traditional step
wells. There are line drawings of colourful and intricate embroideries from
Ahmedabad’s Calico Museum and others from the Rabari
embroidery workshop at Kala Raksha; the rubbings were made at Gandhi ’s ashram, in markets and woodblock workshops. The drawings were made in Norway as research for a site specific work
titled ‘Birch Bridge’. The materials for
the work–birch wood, hemp, brooms and pans–were
found in situ, except for a woollen fleece bought from
Tasmania (my birth place) specifically for the project. Carbon paper was used
to copy each drawing and rubbing, the carbon copy becoming in turn the
foundation for a new work. A number were made
in response to sound works by composers in the project; other artists
collaborated in drawing. Each collection of drawings
was made in a particular location, over a three week period in the company of
artists and designers. Gathered together, exhibited side by side, they are a
diary of images, conversations, history, fast impressions…grounds
for a deeper understanding of a new place and the complex layers of history
that go to make up each site’s identity. Land Art
Project Participants: Boyd, Alison Clouston, Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang, Kaisu
Koivist, Egil Martin Kurdol, Kjell Samkopf
Image: Sue Pedley, detail, carbon paper, 2014.
http://www.suepedley.com.au/
