Comprising sketching, painting, architectural drafting, rendering, photography and installation, the works of Trace: Architectural Musings negotiate the role of drawing as an art, a process and a practice. Exhibition curators, architect Leonie Matthews and John Curtin Gallery coordinator Amanda Alderson, positioned Trace as an experimental model. Four artists and four architects were invited to explore the nature of drawing without a prescribed medium, nor the need for a definitive outcome.
The qualities of precision and uniformity associated with digitally-produced drawings underpinned the exhibition, together with the comparative liberation ascribed to hand-drawn techniques. The result is a series of musings that reveal the internal and physical essence of drawing. The inquiry into the act of drawing in each work is twofold; firstly, it describes a ‘drawing in’ or internalisation of thoughts and influences, and a ‘drawing out’ of physical material to unpack these ideas. The resulting works, Matthews explains, ‘are the drawings before the drawings – these are the drawings the client will never see.’ The works, therefore, suspend the trajectory of each participants’ creative practice. They offer a tangible moment to observe the varying role that drawing plays in the interrogation and maturation of an idea.
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