Engage Artist

Sarah Tutt

Artform:
expanded drawing
Year:
2021-22
Location:
Nottingham
Email:
studiosarahtutt@gmail.com
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Project summary:

I work in the field of Expanded Drawing. My practice is research based, focusing on how Time, Gesture and Repetition can be used to question what drawing can be. These frameworks are used to attend to the lived (and live) experience of making in order to create a drawn other. Gesture is used as a way to understand, respond and instruct materials, Time as a tool for attending and revealing, and Repetition for volume, connection and narrative. Drawing is approached as the action of a point that moves, has moved or is moving, and is sometimes dissevered into its constituent parts in order to reconfigure it. I choose materials that are ubiquitous rather than rarefied, tractable rather than recalcitrant, organic rather than synthetic. I work with compliant materials such as clay, paper, graphite and ink because they move, settle and transmogrify and in doing so reveal an innate ability to perform. In working with clay, I often give the final act of drawing to the kiln.

I work in the field of Expanded Drawing. My practice is research based, focusing on how Time, Gesture and Repetition can be used to question what drawing can be. These frameworks are used to attend to the lived (and live) experience of making in order to create a drawn other. Gesture is used as a way to understand, respond and instruct materials, Time as a tool for attending and revealing, and Repetition for volume, connection and narrative. Drawing is approached as the action of a point that moves, has moved or is moving, and is sometimes dissevered into its constituent parts in order to reconfigure it. I choose materials that are ubiquitous rather than rarefied, tractable rather than recalcitrant, organic rather than synthetic. I work with compliant materials such as clay, paper, graphite and ink because they move, settle and transmogrify and in doing so reveal an innate ability to perform. In working with clay, I often give the final act of drawing to the kiln.

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