Iteration Part II.V
T J Bateson
Galleries 4 & 5
14 September - 2 October 2016
Opening Wednesday 14 September, 6.30-8pm
Iteration Part II.V continues Tim’s exploration of innovating aesthetic qualities through mechanical processes.
The presence of the machine, an apparatus that utilises mechanical power containing several parts each with a defined function, works together with the artist to perform multiple drawing tasks. Artists’ tools are as varied and plentiful as artists themselves and the reasoning behind their usage just as diverse. For me, the attraction to tools was born out of a physical struggle to make art, the result of a temporary disability that introduced a new understanding of the automated/mechanical mark.
In the creation of the works in this particular exhibition, the machine-generated power transfers force to the paint, hitting the paper and, through gravity, a natural force shapes the ‘splat’ which in turn forms the drip. Repeated, layer-by-layer, the drawings are formed over time, each layer responding to the last and referring to the presence of the artist over time.
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