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Drawn Together
15th August - 11th September 2004
Drawn Together at the RWA in Bristol this summer features Peter De Francia, Paul Thomas, Nigel Temple, Bronwen Bradshaw and the RWA Collection. The five exhibitions that make up Drawn Together are based in the tradition of drawing and the direction in terms of sketching that many artists have taken.
Featuring a major exhibition of Peter de Francia’s work, which includes both his drawings and his paintings. A former Professor of Painting at the RCA, de Francia has work in the Tate collection and his seminal work “The Bombing of Sakiet” is currently on display in the Tate Modern. He has influenced many students including Paul Thomas, Thomas’ drawings based on the Iliad and the Odyssey like de Francia’s acknowledge classic and historic identity as a basis for his work.
The exhibition was curated to reference types of drawing – from the life drawn pencil sketch, its development into collage and then to assemblage. Throughout the exhibition drawing is used as a tool for note taking, recording, illustrating and expressing.
Literary material is used as a source in an illustrative sense in Paul Thomas’ works and in Nigel Temple’s work in a literal sense, where because of their tactile nature, decaying books are used. Bronwen Bradshaw’s line drawings evoke mood and movement, translating sounds and movement into pattern.
Curated from the RWA’s collection, Drawn Together is an exhibition, which highlights key aspects of the transition from drawing as an illusion aspiring to the three-dimensional and the three dimensional object becoming a sketch. Whilst a sketch captures a moment or an atmosphere an object can often represent an artist’s response or idea with more intimacy and immediacy.
Admission Charges: £2.50 Adults, £1.25 Concessions, Under 16’s free of charge
Educational Events:
15th August at 2:30 pm: Gallery Talk. Paul Thomas will talk about his work.
22nd August at 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Story telling session based on the tales of Troy (particularly suitable for ages 5 – 11).
For further information please contact Fiona Swadling at the RWA : fiona.swadling@rwa.org.uk