Studio View: Viral Series

New work for Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing, photographed in my studio prior to framing. This is the first time the drawings have been hung together the correct way up, having been created with the paper hanging landscape.

Work in Progress: Viral II

Work in Progress: Viral II

Top: Viral II, in progress.
Below: Viral II, detail
200cm x 150cm
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vi•rus | 'vīrəs |
noun
an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host : [as adj. ] a virus infection.
• informal an infection or disease caused by such an agent.
• figurative a harmful or corrupting influence : the virus of cruelty that is latent in all human beings.
• (also computer virus) a piece of code that is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data.

da•ta |ˈdatə; 'dātə|
noun [treated as sing. or pl. ]
facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. See also datum .
• Computing the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, being stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.
• Philosophy things known or assumed as facts, making the basis of reasoning or calculation.

Work in progress: Viral II

Above: Viral II, work in progress

Work on Viral II progressed in the studio today. I continue to work on the drawing with it hanging on its side, only for it to be turned upright to its exhibition position once the work is completed. Through this process I focus on drawing the abstract forms created by the enlarged, distorted photocopy I am replicating by hand. Figurative representation of the source material - a found google image, transformed through a series of printing and photocopying processes - is not a consideration at this stage of production.

TBC on YouTube

TBC TV is now live on YouTube. The first TBC film, TBC Studio Views: Charley Peters, is a short document of the production of Viral II, which can also be viewed here on Carbon Particles. The Viral Series will be exhibited as part of TBC's forthcoming show Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing in October at the Crypt Gallery

There will be many more TBC films to follow so stay tuned...

youtube.com/watch?v=OGBA0zNE0dw

Studio News: Viral II

Top: Viral II (work in progress photograph)
Below: Viral II (detail)

Work on Viral II continued in the studio today. The finished work will be shown at Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing at the Crypt Gallery, London in October 2010.

Viral II: Progress

After two days of drawing Viral II is progressing well. Still many more days of work ahead...

Studio News: New work for Delineation exhibition

Viral I (2010)
Graphite on paper
200cm x 150cm

Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing opens in October 2010. The exhibition considers drawing as an expanded field that explores what it is to draw within the context of contemporary art practice. In the elegiac setting of The Crypt Gallery, Delineation will present works from TBC Artists' Collective that contemplate the nature of current drawing activity in physical, cognitive and virtual contexts. The exhibition will focus on the processes of drawing itself, and also assert its relevance to writing, sculpture, sewing, technology, mark-making, language, gesture and performance.

27 October 2010 - 31 October 2010
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, St Pancras Church, London NW1 2BA

Day-to-day

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