I Sing the Body Electric: Drawing and Painting Active Bodies in an Active Workplace
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2017
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Banks, Charlotte Susan
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This project explores how drawing and painting based on extended
observation can render vitality. Having embedded myself in my
local automotive repair workshop, I made a large number of
experimental paintings and drawings. I tested how forms of
figuration and abstraction varied in their ability to convey the
vitality of the scene and the painter’s presence.
The investigation led to a final body of paintings in which areas
of figuration broke down, allowing other elements such as gesture
and colour to be freed from form, and to convey energy, rhythm,
noise and rotation. This particular capacity of drawing and
painting means that those practices still have a place to play in
the depiction of everyday workplaces—currently, largely, the
province of photography and documentary filmmaking.
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gestural painting, figural painting, genre painting, vitality, embedded research, everyday, mechanics
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