David Edgar - Charcoal Drawings

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My work is fundamentally about an interest in drawing. Working exclusively with charcoal on paper and large in scale, I explore the physicality of drawing aspects of place and landscape, identified through notions of place theory. Specifically the drawings reflect intense and prolonged experiences within place and the significance of one’s selfhood against natural immensity. Within this I explore atmospheres of isolation, imprisonment and entrapment, and expansiveness in an antagonism of place exemplified in obsessive scribbly techniques that dominate and simultaneously articulate the pictorialism in the work. The place that informs the subject matter for this body of work is Tasman Island, located off the southeast coast of Tasmania. Visiting and drawing the place alike engenders within me a deeper connection to place and the natural environment and after 10 years of travelling to it I feel like this connection is still young but with time it reveals itself more and more each day.

 

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