Touching with the Eyes

Solo Exhibition, The Customs House, South Shields

August 2012

Funded by the Arts Council England, this exhibition of new work for the Sandiford Goudie Gallery at the Customs House has been made in response to my exploration of birch woods surrounding my home in the North Tyne valley.

  • Touching with the Eyes, Installation Shot

  • Touching with the Eyes, Installation Shot

  • Touching with the Eyes, Installation Shot

  • Touching with the Eyes, Installation Shot

  • Canopies, pen on tracing paper, series of 5 light box drawings, each 21cm x 16cm

  • Canopy, pen on tracing paper, 21cm x 16cm

  • Shot Paper, lead shot on cartridge paper

  • Shot Paper (detail), lead shot on cartridge paper

  • Shot Paper (detail), lead shot on cartridge paper

  • Shot Paper Fragments, Lead shot on Paper, 22cm x 22cm

  • Skin, paper pulp approx 1.7m x 3m

  • Skin (detail), paper pulp

  • Skin (detail), paper pulp

  • Trace, charcoal dust directly onto the gallery wall, 2.6mx 8m

  • Trace (detail), charcoal dust directly onto the gallery wall

Descartes talked about the eyes as tools for feeling the tactile textures of the world and for me, drawing is about ‘touching with the eyes’. The physicality of the produced mark as well as the idea that this mark is a kind of contact between myself and the subject is central to my work.