More movie-inspired images, this time biro drawings for a piece entitled ‘Fall’ – my contribution to ‘Get Me Out’, an exhibition held at the Empire Gallery, Hackney, London in 2008.

 

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◄▼ More movie-inspired images, this time biro drawings for a piece entitled ‘Fall’ – my contribution to ‘Get Me Out’, an exhibition held at the Empire Gallery, Hackney, London in 2008 (left).

 

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(One of the films on which some of these images are based is suitable only for persons of 18 years old or over.)

 

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What started as an attempt to make a project using drawings made from a hearing at a UK court of law, turned instead into one in which stills from two movies were reinterpreted as biro drawings.

 

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I started with two films - one of which is a real favourite of mine - 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - and another, which although I think it's a brilliant film is almost painful to watch and is regarded by many people as highly controversial in its handling of its subject matter - 'Trainspotting'.

 

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I didn't really know where the drawings were going. In a way I still don't! In some ways they bear no resemblance to their starting points - the act of rerendering a scene or a character by looking at a still and mark-making kind of cuts them adrift. But I suppose there is an undercurrent of moralizing going on. The more I watched both, the more I started to see visual similarites and coincidences - shooting the dog for one, up against the wallpaper, another, aside from concerned parents!

The idea was to ‘edit’ together drawings made from two movies: To Kill a Mockingbird and Trainspotting, to do a take on loss of innocence/parental anxiety.