About the exhibition
In 2011 The Bristol Gallery invited me to put on a substantial solo show, installed throughout their large double fronted gallery on Bristol’s historic harbourside. The gallery is part of Bristol's Millennium Square development, a kind of new museum quarter for the city, designed and built as part of the UK's millennium celebrations.
The gallery encloses 9,000 sq ft of space, with huge windows along its street frontage, and as such presented a beautiful opportunity to hang some of my larger pieces right here in Bristol, my adopted home town.
Lovely to be featured in the local media too, including an interview with Lynette Quinlan, arts editor at BCFM radio, which you can listen to on Soundcloud here.
Work in situ
An interview with Lynette Quinlan, BCFM
The Hum, BCFM interview
An edited excerpt from a longer interview with BCFM arts editor Lynette Quinlan. Link to read the full text below.
LQ Okay, I think that’s really interesting that you mentioned that you draw them on the computer, because I think a lot of people when they see computer art or think about computer art, digital art, they think that the artist’s skill has somehow, is somehow being done by the computer? And a lot of people still think that drawing is kind of the pinnacle of the artist’s skill. But you’re saying that you draw with the computer?
CE Yes. I think both of those are true. Drawing is, probably, the pinnacle of the artist’s skill, and certainly the computer is being used as a tool for drawing. Obviously some people think that drawing will always be charcoal or pencil on paper, and other people think drawing is more of an activity about line making, and really what I’m doing is I’m making lines in a three dimensional space, in a kind of sculptural way, so I’m describing shapes using line, and then choosing views of those drawings and using those as the basis for the new images.
I think the drawing process is about examining the line, exploring the line, making the line, making the mark, making the expressive marks and getting them onto the paper. So I do call it drawing, but obviously the computer does make that controversial. Computing really is a modern way to make marks which I totally embrace, other people eschew, and you have to choose for yourself whether you think it’s a valid tool. It does allow you to edit, re edit, colour, recolour, move and really get to exactly where you want to get to in terms of image making, and you know, employ these amazing new tools in a creative way.
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Interview with Lynette Quinlan, BCFM, May 2011
Link to exhibited works
