Claude Heath

Press release Wimbledon School of Art 2001

'When you follow the movements of a football across a flat TV screen you sometimes have the sensation that the ball is going in a certain direction when it turns out to have a different arc altogether and ends up at the feet of a different player than you had first thought. Its true movements are hidden by the flatness of the screen until it arrives at some particular part of the pitch. This same kind of sensation sometimes happens while drawing, when you attempt to compress the sight and touch of a solid object onto various parts of a flat surface.

Working from plants now, it will also be interesting to see whether it is possible to set them down just as they are, but as if rendered by a three-dimensional computer programme that has taken a holiday from mathematics.'

Claude Heath, resident at the Centre for Drawing from October 2001

 

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