Stewart Macindoe
I graduated in Sculpture from the Glasgow School of Art in 1977 and in 1994 graduated from Winchester School of Art with an MA in Painting.
I make non-figurative drawings and paintings which reference both natural and artificial structures.
Tented
Oil & carbon pencil on paper
49cm x 49cm
Helen Cass
Helen Cass (b.1974 Ludlow) Studied Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Fine art and Drawing, Oxford University(1993-96) and MA in Fine Art at Aberystwyth, University of Wales (1999-2000). Has worked in Education alongside studio practice since 2000. Currently member of ‘Fold’ Artists’ Collective (Artists working in Rural Environments). Has work exhibited widely, selected exhibitions include at Jaggedart, London, Gallery 57, Arundel and Corners Gallery Ithaca NY. Recently included in ‘Lines of Empathy’ project exhibited at Patrick Heide, London and Close Ltd, Somerset. Awarded the Drawing Prize at the RWA Open in 2023 and exhibited in Paper Works RWA Bristol.
She lives and works in Herefordshire, UK
Statement
I work in a process-based way with line, repetition and surface as my central concerns. The materials and actions I use have some connection to the domestic, agrarian routines and rituals of previous generations of my family as well as to the more universal human need to leave a trace and reveal a truth. I am excited by the minutest variations of material and procedure that produce ‘difference’ through repetition. I live on the same land that was worked by four different generations and while looking at old maps of the farm I began researching changing field shapes, different ploughing methods and became fascinated by the folds and refolding of the maps and how it drew me to the potential of 'surface.’ The seen and the unseen are held in the same surface.
I make work by scoring, folding, stitching, staining and drawing with a fine mapping nib. The line is drawn as close to the line before as possible. A quasi-mechanical activity which is doomed to imperfection, but creates a field of frisson/noise/interference that is specifically autobiographic. Therefore the most systematic procedure is not merely pure process – it is actually producing a drawing that is intimately expressive.
Displacement Grid 61 x 68cm
Mapping 32 61 x76cm