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A celebration
of lines drawn
and marks made
The Finding Lines exhibition began
with a sequence of creative acts.
Use these pages in and out of the gallery. Scribble on them, doodle in them
Andrea Hadley-Johnson
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TAXONOMY
Categories Collected
Receding lines Self-making lines Lines that fade, erode and wash away
Spokes, spikes and spines Lines that create other lines Lines made without colour
Lines that divide Granular lines Unknown lines
Edible lines Tangled, twisted and chaotic lines Dreamy lines
Accidental lines Lines with momentum Lines of isolation
Lines that are growing Broken lines Wiggly wavy wonky lines
Lines that interrupt the sky Deliberately beautiful lines Lines that leave a trace
Land lines and lines underfoot Lines for lines sake Fragmented lines
Lines that are cast Lines that pop Lines that crackle
Lines that are made Lines made with light Time and time again lines
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@timothy_shore
Axisweb.org/p/timshore
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Fainting
Pencil, newsprint and carbon paper
2017
TIM
TRACING
Fainting
2017
Artists Statement
CONCENTRATING
COPYING
Fainting is a new iteration of a I draw with the aid of a simple tool
previous series of Luddite drawings. (a ruler) - and complete it in one
Each drawing is the result of a sitting - or standing, as I reach across
durational and physical exercise that and around the A1 paper to rule the
GHOSTING
relies on concentration and stamina. many closely packed lines that form
It is always imperfect, because in the drawing. The drawing becomes an
doing it I can never match the rules I activity about drawing itself, about
have set myself or the precision of a stamina and duration and drawing
computer (although the carbon copy correctly. I use carbon paper so that
nods to the perfect copying of the each drawing automatically creates
photocopier and the printer). a copy of itself because I want to
say something about production and
DRAFTING
Each drawing is a copy of its original.
automation and how the machine
The carbon copy is an automatic
became the substitute for the hand.
record of the act of drawing and
it captures and replicates all the
CORRECTING
mistakes I make: the slips, smudges,
misalignment and movement. The
ing words
drawing is of nothing - not some thing
- and the copy of the drawing is a
COUNTING
Visit the Tumblr blog to
read more about the Luddite
record of my all too human fallibility - jigged drawings that
of a desire to make mistakes and get inspired this body of work:
things done. DMFindingLines.tumblr.com
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LIZ
Pouring Mountains
Charcoal on paper
2017
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@lizatkin
lizatkin.com
CRUMBLING
Artists Statement
ing words
#CompulsiveCharcoal Pouring Mountains
To occupy my hands I create free During the Finding Lines launch I
1 minute drawings on discarded created a large performative drawing,
newspapers on public transport. this improvised drawing will remain
I create up to 60 a day and give the at the museum for a fragment of
drawings away to fellow passengers time and then exist digitally on the
as an act of kindness and as DMFindingLines Tumblr pages.
WIPING
advocacy for Compulsive Skin Picking Pouring Mountains transposes the
and mental health. In the last year, urge and energy of my compulsive
Ive created more than 10,000 free skin picking into a visceral charcoal
drawings in London, New York and drawing. These textural mountains
Singapore. This is the first time these are a radical re-thinking of a way to
drawings have been shown in manage the disorder, the physical
a gallery space. act of drawing helps to release
tension through my hands and onto
the paper.
SMEARING
Art has become a tool for recovery
after Compulsive Skin Picking
dominated my life for more than
20 years. Drawing refocuses my
hands and mind wherever I am,
reimagining the body-focused
repetitive behaviour of skin picking
into artworks.
FRACTURING
Pouring Mountains
PRESSING
Lenka Rayn
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OBSERVING
Artists Statement
SUGGESTING
the delightful encounters with
happenstance captured in the
unexpected and uncontrollable
qualities of the blind copy. This
deliberate courting of the accidental
helps tobringsthe drawings to life
and makes way for the possibility of
discovery. For this exhibition, I have
chosen a selection of these drawings
and grouped them into visual stories.
Making connections between
DUPLICATING
events like this becomes a visual
representation of thinking back and
remembering.
susankester.co.uk
@kester_susan
REPEATING
Pencil on duplicating paper
Impression No. 86 & 88
ing words
2017
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stephencarley.co.uk
@stephen_carley
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CUTTING
Photogram 28
STICKING
Mixed media
2016
Artists Statement
SAMPLING
for me, a studio based process led into audio 'versions' through
dialoguebetween myself and the recorded, sampled, edited and
materials. These drawings have looped arrangements.The audio
absolutely everything incommon starts as recognisable riffs from a
with rural and urban landscape bass or tuned percussion or even a
and are definitely not abstract voice but become deconstructed
images.Theyresonate with half via a desktop sampler. Chopped up,
remembered images and sounds of tuned up or down, looped, reversed,
Sheffield, the Peak District,Cornwall, made more granular.Both elements
motorway journeys, walks in the sun, areconstantly egging the other on
the sky through the attic window, to choose the less obvious.To
WALKING
bikerides,cracksin the pavement. enable all the insecurities and
doubts of the working process to
Mixed media processes dominate
show themselves.
with the use of pencil, charcoal,
chalk, lead powder,and masking tape My current drawings are very large
on paper, and as a consequence of a little over eight feet wide and five
exploring 'what drawing is, they now feet high. It is physically demanding
ing words
include fluid materials such as paint, to make and move about. In fact it is
varnish, dark room processes and almost ridiculous, but this takes me
found'urban detritus' manipulated out of my comfort zone.
via the drawn visual language of tone,
line, texture, shape and form.
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DEEPENING
Artists Statement
ing words
Im fascinated by human beings.
As a writer, speaker and coach
specialising in creativity I use art
as a means of giving voice to that
which words alone cannot express.
STEVE
My current work explores the role
that the super ego/inner critic
plays in stifling creativity and how
REFLECTING
we can shine a positive light on
shame through art. I use my art as a
backdrop for talks and this year am
speaking at TEDx and Cannes Lion
on the subject of the Inner Critic.
My big artistic influences are Daniel
Johnstone, David Shrigley, Lynda
Barry and my 10 year old daughter.
Here Ive drawn that guy directly
EXPERIENCING
onto the gallery wall. He represents
my innocent and curious creative
spirit who is at the mercy of my Inner
Critic and wondering if he deserves
to be in the gallery.
stevechapman.org
@stevexoh
MASKING
CREATING
Section from:
Inks on paper
Mask
2017
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INNER
Over one thousand wonderful mark
makers took part in the coproduction
of Finding Lines, exploring drawing
and the feelings we experience when
we craft a line. Our charismatic inner
critic telephone is nestled in the gallery
replaying some of the words shared.
Telephone Credit:
Music composed by Adam
McCready at Poetical
Machines, programming
by Karl Bock at
Limelight Productions
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Im a writer. By day, I help
@nickparker
nickparker.co.uk
brands and businesses tell their
stories. By night, I write my own
short stories, very very slowly.
My collection The Exploding Boy
NICK and other tiny tales was hailed
by the Guardian as astonishing,
funny and strange, and proof
that the short story is still a
public good. Which was nice of
them. Many years ago, I worked
briefly as a cartoonist for Viz.
I doodle. A lot.
Untitled
Doodle your own Pen on paper
signature doodle below. 2016
WORKS Fainting
Tim Shore
Pencil, newsprint and
carbon paper
2017
Journeys 51, 54, 57
Stephen Carley
Drawing and mixed media
2017
LENT BY:
MUSEUMS SHEFFIELD
Sketch for Looking
Towards Mornington
Crescent Station, Night
Beach in Cornwall
Victor Pasmore
Pen and ink on card
1950
LENT BY:
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS
TRUST ON BEHALF OF
BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL
At the Coal Face
Finding lines etc 14 Tree 5 Henry Moore
Frank Auerbach
Fainting Stephen Carley Maggi Hambling Pen, ink, chalk, wax crayon,
Crayon and pencil on paper
Tim Shore Post camera edits Ink and charcoal on paper pencil and scraping on paper
1972-1973
Film Daniel Parry 1975 1941-2
2017 Video
2017 Nude
Drawing From Life: Au Clair de la Lune
Horace Brodzky
Pouring Mountains Model in a Studio Jean Cocteau
1937
Liz Atkin Are Some Lines Maggi Hambling Pen and ink on sheet
Pen and ink on paper
Charcoal on paper Self Conscious? Pencil and gouache on paper printed with music and
Drawn live on July 14 Steve Chapman 1966 lyrics of a song
2017 Pen directly onto wall Reclining Woman 1956
2017 Gustav Klimt
Coiled Rope No.2
Pencil on paper
#CompulsiveCharcoal Prunella Clough
Liz Atkin Inward facing smile Gouache and chalk on paper
Charcoal on found Steve Chapman Couple on a bench 1952
newspapers Inks on paper George Fullard
2017 2017 Pencil on paper
Steelworks
1959
L.S.Lowry
Impressions Mask Chalk on paper
Susan Kester Steve Chapman Dove of Peace 1960
Pencil on duplicating paper Inks on paper Pablo Picasso
2017 2017 Biro on paper
Untitled Drawing 22
1950
Jane Harris
Impression No. 21 & 22 Inner critic phone Pencil on paper
Susan Kester Poetical Machines & Head of a Lady 1999
Pencil on duplicating paper Karl Bock Dante Gabriel Rossetti
2017 Museum object, Pencil on paper
Winter Trees
bespoke composed music Elisabeth Vellacott
and voice recordings Pencil on paper
Drawing for audio 6
2017 1969
Stephen Carley LENT BY:
Mixed media ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION,
2017 Untitled SOUTHBANK, LONDON. The Road to Beasthood
Nick Parker David Shrigley
Pen on paper 8.6.00
Marker on paper
derbymuseums.org
Museum visitors Ink on paper
Photograms 17, 9, 28, 19 Ben Nicholson
2017 1965
Stephen Carley Pencil and wash on paper
Chemicals on light 1950
sensitive paper
2016
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Choose a drawing you are drawn to and create your own version right here.
Consider which drawing tool to use and notice the lines as they emerge onto the page.
Wed love to build a twitter gallery so please share with the hashtag #FindingLines
WONKY
Sometimes a blank sheet of
paper is just too intimidating
to draw on, so we played with
closing our eyes and drawing
a self portrait. Try it.
THANKS &
thank you to Liz Atkin, Stephen
Carley, Steve Chapman, Susan
Kester, Tim Shore and Nick Parker
for creating a most incredible
collection of new drawings with
passion and creativity.
Thank you to the thousands of
fabulous people who joined us on
this coproduction journey to enable
a rich and experimental insight into
Draw a shadowy image Draw what you doodle drawing and wellbeing.
while you are on hold
Find a reflection of something Thank you to our partners at
and draw it Open a book and draw Birmingham Museums, Sheffield
an illustration for it Museums and the Arts Council
Draw some fierce marks
Draw something that Collection, Southbank Centre,
Draw a machine
makes you smile London for loaning such a
Draw something that is moving stunning and important collection
Close your eyes and
of drawings to inspire and admire.
Draw an outdoor draw your face
scene in the rain
Draw your mood right now
Draw the most gentle
Draw your mind
tangle of lines
Imagine and draw your
Look out of a window and
favourite person from memory
quickly draw what you see
Draw in colour the sounds
Draw a dizzy line onto a
you can hear
crumpled piece of paper
Draw your finger
Draw the minute detail of
something you are wearing Draw a journey
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derbymuseums.org
@derbymuseums
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