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    • The Wheatcroft Barrow
    • Wolf Land
    • Gardener's World
    • The Great Blue Stone
    • The Colossus of St Nicholas Cliff
    • The Cloughton Stone Circle
    • His Dark Materials
    • The Four Pillars of St Thomas's
    • Magazine Storage Facilities
    • The Water Margin
    • Piggeries, Pottery Fakeries and Parliamentary Trickeries - A Strange History of Peasholm Park
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My 1994 TV Drawings

While the pandemic rages on (and off) and  we’re all watching more TV, I thought it was an appropriate time to show my old TV drawings.  I made them in 1994 using the same drawing techniques I had previously used for drawing landscapes (see landscape drawing in the drawings section). The technique was a kind of a mixture of automatic drawing and observation. I was interested in recording journeys and making images while moving through the landscape at speed. Drawing quickly changing images off the TV while sitting still seemed a natural progression from the way I was drawing the moving landscapes. I was using what I had learnt from studying cubism; describing landscapes from different angles as I moved through it, and this seemed to have the same dynamics I was interested in. 

Back then the shape of TV’s was square. In my drawing each images is made up of smaller drawings. I liked the random subject matter the TV presented especially through the adverts. I thought I could best record this by putting the drawings along side each other. It was great fun to turn the TV channels over at random points which I felt made the drawings more interesting.

These drawings where shown at a one-off  exhibition at Scarborough Art Gallery in 2008  I think.  Here is a kind review. 

"In recognition of last months Rotunda re-opening. Curious Collecting at Scarborough Art Gallery contains various artists responses to the notion of collecting and exhibiting...sitting in the middle of all of this is the monumental installation by Tony Cragg titled 'New Stones'. Craggs work fits in well with David White in the coffee lounge. Both are looking at everyday throwaway stuff (in White's case, hundreds of TV programs) and making it into something both endearing and enduring." - Art for Argument, Hightide 2008 

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