Kate McCrickard “This is my proper groun”
David Krut Projects
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The title comes from the poem Places, Loved Ones, written by Philip Larkin in 1954, where the poet asserts his rootlessness in stating “No I have never found / The place where I could say / This is my proper ground.” McCrickard takes the artistic sense of the word “ground” to express a conviction in observational drawing and figuration, two important elements of her practice. The resulting exhibition is an installation of selected sketches and recent paintings on cardboard and canvas.
McCrickard uses a sketchbook rather than a camera to record snapshots of daily life, but it is formal intrigue that drives her: the challenges of drawing movement and a range of scales; the speed of mark making. This, and seeing the bizarre in the quotidian, make each passing page come to life. Her oil paintings offer an alternate approach to mark making, sometimes defined by a preference for working with tatty old brushes onto cast off pieces of cardboard. She claims she “can spend hours working on a painting with disappointing results, only to find that a five minute sketch painted on a scrap of cardboard is more successful.”
While there is no firm procedural method to McCrickard’s practice, the fresh unmediated gestures of initial underdrawing suggest the vividness of the lived sensations from which her pictures are sourced. This compilation of sketch book pages and quickly executed paintings creates an animated environment that weaves together a series of fugitive moments into an intimate glimpse of a studio‐based artist’s life, firmly grounded in drawing.
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Schedule
from March 05, 2015 to April 02, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-05 from 18:00 to 20:00