DRAW Space acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation upon whose ancestral lands our ARI now stands. We pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these places.
Group Show / WALK WITH ME 6pm Thursday 28 November to 5pm Sunday 22 December Curated by Melinda Hunt
An non-profit, artist-run platform to make, see and experience contemporary drawing.
Exhibition Essay by Lisa Pang
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Why Walk
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Walk with me. It’s an invitation to move with me through space. The ‘me’ is the artist-as-researcher, but it’s also you, my guest, as you join in walking with me. You might be a walker participating in the project, or a spectator of the outcomes of my walk. The exhibition project Walk With Me at DRAW Space is not conceived around the primacy of drawing but of walking. Walking is an open-ended, revelatory and essentially curious activity. When we walk, we move between locations and while we might have a destination in mind, it’s an active process subject to all manner of chance, so we can’t predict exactly how it will go. What will be encountered, observed, remembered, found? Paul Klee may have famously quipped that in drawing a line he was taking a dot for a walk, but here, these artists are out walking in the world as a generative process for their dots (practices). Their creation and subsequent arrangement of dots and lines are photographs, objects, transcriptions, maps, and other visible marks, exhibited as an outcome of their walks. These outcomes are shown as drawings, however - and this is critical to their interpretation - they are drawn because of a deliberate inquiry by that artist-researcher and in that sense are somewhat incidental.
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Curator and walking artist Melinda Hunt explains that the intent in selecting these 6 research projects was to gather artists for whom walking is an aid to research. Within each practice, drawing sits inside other research processes, and alongside other outcomes, not exclusively drawing. As such, the exhibition will be active; drawings, artefacts and a range of documentation made as a consequence of walking with me will be presented. Walk With Me takes place in the context of lines walked in human and in art histories. People first walked as the only means of transport, expedition and mass migration. Pre-industrially and spiritually motivated, pilgrimages were pathways to salvation walked by many and which exist still. With the industrial age, artists 1 Page Page 21