Finding Equilibrium

Marie Hanlon at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, March 2016

The pressure exerted when using a drawing tool can result in a heavy line or a light one – this is as important as the line’s direction. Freedom and control, motion and stillness, flatness and depth, pull against each other to generate a taut uneasy balance, a scratchy equilibrium. If asked to say what these pieces are about, the answer would be that they are not about anything which can be precisely named. There is a sense that what is going on is a slow motion process of dismantling and transforming. Recognizable forms give way as their component parts separate and combine in new configurations. Occasionally pieces carry echos of their origin, but the concern is to find something new, something previously unknown and unseen. Ambiguous space is established, it can open, it can close off, it can do both within the same piece.

Pencil and acrylic on paper and board
Dimensions variable, 2016

art installation-four abstract drawings-framed

Exhibition detail

2016
geometric-pencil drawing-on paper

Inside

pencil and acrylic on paper, 2016
contemporary-abstract drawing-irregular geometry

Trespass

pencil and acrylic on paper, 2016
abstract drawing-contemporary-linear-geometric

Enter

acrylic on paper, 2016
contemporary drawing-white lines-dark grey background-irregular geometry

Detach

acrylic on paper, 2016
contemporary drawing-pencil lines-black paint-geometric

Unequal

acrylic and pencil on board, 2016
contemporary drawing-pencil-painted lines

Overlook

acrylic and pencil on board, 2016
line drawing-pencil-black-painted lines

Open Space

acrylic and pencil on board, 2016