Exploring the Drawing Process
RSA Finlay Room
8 July – 6 August 2006
There will be a free artist talk by Doug and Ronald on Saturday 15 July at 2pm.
Drawing is essential to the work of both Dundee based Academicians, sculptor Doug Cocker RSA and painter Ronald Forbes RSA. This exhibition looks at two of their projects which examine the process of drawing and studio practice through to the realisation of the finished works. Ronald's project takes a look at the preparation for one painting 'Relative Riddles' and Doug's 'Skins of Copenhagen' centres around a series of works made for northern ports and has been enabled through a Creative Scotland Award.
"In this exhibition, Doug Cocker and I wish to demonstrate and celebrate our respect for the drawing process, and its fundamental importance to our respective practices - a respect that we share despite the enormous differences in our work." Ronald Forbes RSA.
Doug and Ronald both welcome the respite that drawing also gives from the more practical and conclusive aspects of working off paper, in sculpture or painting. Drawing provides a 'liberty zone in which responsibility and rationality are jettisoned…Outcomes are provisional; ideas breed and usually continue to warrant re-inspection because they are possibilities rather than conclusions …. Nonetheless, these first steps from the notional to the actual are key to the whole process; the means of proposing, evaluating and modifying before moving forward into the physicality of the work.' Doug Cocker RSA
The works on display will be supported by drawings, working models, constructions, collages and documentary photography. This show comes as part of our Projects + Progress series, which explores contemporary Scottish art in the vein of collaborative and project practice.
Admission Free. Open Mon – Sat 10 – 5pm, Sundays 12 – 5pm
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Alisa Lindsay, Marketing Assistant t: 0131 2256671 e: press@royalscottishacademy.org
Web Link: http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/exhibition_frame.asp?id=123
