Artichoke House →

September 08, 2015

West Dean College

Artichoke House 2014 George Charman — *Artichoke House* 2014 George Charman

Opens September 20, 2014

Private View: Thursday 20 September

Situated in the grounds of West Dean College (West Sussex), Artichoke House is a pavilion/camera obscurer informed by an unsigned sketch by Edward James, founder of the Edward James Foundation and West Dean College. Taking as a starting point, James original plan for Artichoke House, whilst also drawing inspiration from his monumental concrete forms at Las Pozas in Xilitla Mexico, Artichoke House 2014 is concerned with reviewing and renewing a surreal proposition as a means of exploring the ontological relationship between image and object.

West Dean College: West Dean, North Chichester, West Sussex P018 0QZ

Derwent Drawing Prize →

September 08, 2015

Mall Galleries

A Straight Line To The Touch 2013 George Charman — *A Straight Line To The Touch* 2013 George Charman

15 September – 20 September 2014

Private View: Thursday 15 September, 6-8pm

The Derwent Art Prize aims to reward excellence through showcasing the very best works created in pencil. From 58 countries worldwide, 79 works by 61 artists were chosen for exhibition by the panel of selectors comprising: Kate Macfarlane (Co-Founder and CoDirector of the Drawing Room); Professor Anita Taylor (artist, Co-Founder and Director of Jerwood Drawing Prize and Dean of Bath School of Art and

Mall Galleries, London SW1

A Straight Line To The Touch Is Worth A Circle To The Sight →

September 08, 2015

Centre For Recent Drawing

7 November – 7 December 2013

Private view: Thursday 7 November 6-8pm

Centre for Recent Drawing is pleased to present a solo exhibition of large-scale graphite powder drawings by the British artist George Charman. The common thread that runs through Charman’s drawing practice is a curiosity in the mechanics of illusionary space. This most recent series of drawings takes as its starting point, the axonometric grid. Through a process of division and sub-division, Charman dismantles the axonometric grid to reveal a series of equally diminishing equilateral triangles. These triangles are employed in a subversive manner by Charman to shift the grid away from its original intention – understanding three-dimensional space through a linear form of projection – and instead layers and overlaps the grid to reveal dimensional arrangements constructed from perceived tonal shifts brought about by the relative proximity of one shape to another.

2-4 Highbury Station Road, London N1 1SB