4th-7th August
Lesley Halliwell is perhaps best known for her enormous, labour intensive drawings made using a simple Spirograph wheel from her childhood. One of the reasons she originally began working with the Spirograph was nostalgia for pattern making & design from her childhood: from the fabrics and wallpaper around her to the drawing games she used to play as a child.
Still in keeping with the use of basic materials available in any high street stationers, her work on The Drawing Shed replaces biros and paper with chalk and board and the Spirograph kit with stencils. The drawing itself, reminiscent of a 1970’s wallpaper, wraps itself around the outside of the shed beneath an imaginary picture rail. With an Alice in Wonderland-like translation of scale, Halliwell’s drawing returns us once again to the familiarity of childhood spaces.
For more information see:
www.axisweb.org/artist/lesleyhalliwell
www.aliciadavid.com
www.lesleyhalliwell.co.uk
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Spirograph Wallpaper (detail), pencil on paper, 2002, 125 x 145 cm.
Split, 2411 minutes, Biro on paper, 2009, 240 x 700
cm.
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