Martin Kirkwood | Heretofore
Heretofore, 2024
Ink on paper
100 x 115 cm
Unframed
$ 2,800
Drawing, the process of working on paper, is immediate and intimate. There is little room to correct error or rework – requiring focus of intention and attention from the outset. I work towards precision more so than perfection. The drawing process engages me on three levels.
Firstly, the material or materiality; paper and ink, being in a body, breathing, utilising the eye, brain, hand interface – the body as the large brain. Secondly, the experiential and anecdotal; as I move through the world the world moves through me. This is where the function of memory can come into play; as concentration on the drawing process allows the unconscious to index, showing signs of conceptual pathway, cognitive connections, meditation. Thirdly; the cultural or historical – participation in tradition, lineage, counter- culture.
This is the engagement with art history / theory, cinema and especially music. Writing what is remembered, drawing what is forgotten.
Martin Kirkwood
BIO
Martin Kirkwood
Martin Kirkwood is an Australian artist born 1968 Sydney. He lives and works in Katoomba. Since 2001 his practice has focused on drawing and sound work. Through drawing he brings together precision, process, repetition and improvisation, while incorporating innovative mark making techniques to produce a body of work that is both conceptually and aesthetically beguiling.
Recent Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 – As perfect as a hallucination, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Curated by Lizzy Marshall.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 - Galleries Curate STPI, Singapore, Fire Water (with Suzann Victor). Curated by Mark Gloede.
2019 – Love Collage , Lot19 Gallery, Castlemaine, Vic. Curated by Tobias Richardson.
2019 - First Biennale Of International Reductive and Non-Objective Art Sydney, ‘Coterie to Coterie’, - Stores Building, Old Parramatta Jail, Sydney. Curated by Dr Billy Grunner.
2015 -Portal to K-town, Modern Art Projects, Blue Mountains, NSW. Curated by Claire Healy and Sean Cordiero.
2014- Black Modular, Modern Art Projects, Blue Mountains, NSW. Curated by David Haines and Joyce Hinterding.
