STROBED

when: Thursday 1 July 2010, 6pm.
cost: free.
where: Tin Sheds Gallery. 154 City Road, Chippendale.

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Sandra di Palma

from Tin Sheds Gallery:

Michael Esson

The survey exhibition Wanderlust – A Drawing Dialogue is of the inspirational process and experience of over 30 years of Esson’s drawing practice in forensic investigation forging links between art, anatomy and surgery. This exhibition concentrates on the last ten years of travel and his highly original drawings focus on the study and expression of the human figure. Esson is concerned with the body, its functions, its frailties and above all mortality.

Esson has described his own practice as :

“grappling with incoherent thoughts, sometimes collision of ideas. It is a way of inventing personal narratives, creating graphic dialogue, and discovering images hidden on the tip of memory…. The drawings are like private conversations, suggesting possibilities, offering propositions and testing relationships. It is an interior monologue rather than public announcement at this stage. The drawings explore the potential of a theme, the conversation meanders and the process remains fluid, conjuring hidden and unexpected narratives. This dialogue is not a matter of finding equivalents in line and marks for ideas constructed by, or with words. I would prefer it to be a matter of …see what I think and how I think, rather than hear what I think”.

Exhibited widely in Asia and Australia, Esson is the Director, International Drawing Research Institute at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, and has expensive teaching in the discipline of drawing as an investigative art. Born in Scotland and studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Esson is Professor of Drawing at Lincoln University, UK, and also a Guest Professor at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Art, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang and a Consultant Professor at Dong Hua University, Shanghai. China.