Where Drawing Meets Photography: A Collaborative Project Supported by AN

Charley Peters & Eddie Otchere, Untitled Photograph (2014),
Shot on vintage Kodak Eastman cine stock repackaged as 35mm stills film.

I am currently collaborating with photographer/photographic printer Eddie Otchere on an AN funded project exploring the relationship between drawing and analogue photography. The project is being documented on AN's Artists Talking website:
http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/3999807

Project News: A Message to... Marfa

Marfa, Texas, located at 30°18′43″N 104°1′29″W

TBC members Laura Davidson, Charley Peters and Beverley Bennett are currently working together on a collaborative project, A Message To... Marfa. Marfa is a town in the desert of West Texas, founded in the early 1880s as a railroad water stop. Marfa Army Airfield was located east of the town during World War II and trained several thousand pilots before closing in 1945, the abandoned site still being visible 16km east of the town. In 1956 the film Giant was filmed in Marfa, famously the last film featuring James Dean, who died before filming was completed. The city is now best known for housing Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation, occupying more than 10 buildings and permanently exhibiting work by artists including Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Richard Long and Roni Horn. 

A Message To... Marfa involves Peters and Bennett, in London, providing Davidson with a list of instructions for actions that she must undertake in Marfa. These actions will generate material that Davidson will send back to Peters and Bennett, which they will curate and interpret to generate a remote 'drawing' of Marfa. The project will be realised over the next two months, and published online shortly afterwards.

Exhibition News: She Blocks the Highway

Charley Peters & Eddie Otchere, Untitled Street Intervention (2011), C-Print and Drawing

This month the international art project She Blocks the Highway opens at Fontanian Studios, Hong Kong. The exhibition will feature works based on artists' captioned visual interpretations of a fictional event written by exhibition organiser Wai Man Leung. My collaboration with photographer Eddie Otchere, Untitled Street Intervention, will be shown as part of the project. The exhibition features work from artists in China, UK, Germany, Finland and USA.

Project News: 'Slice' Visual Essay, a collaboration with Beverley Bennett

Charley Peters, Sketches for Slice (2011), Pencil Crayon on Paper

I am currently collaborating with artist Beverley Bennett to produce a visual essay as part of the publication associated with the international Slice project, featuring artists from London and Lahore. During a studio session this week we generated a series of drawings in response to the performative 'drawing in space' produced by TBC Artists' Collective in Catherine Wheel Alley, London. The works produced this week in the studio will be developed over the forthcoming weeks and published in September to coincide with the opening of the Slice exhibition at Rich Mix, London.