John Wallbank

19 Nov 2015-9 Jan 2016

Overview

John Wallbank’s sculptures and drawings are a compelling exploration of the gap between thinking and doing: between thought and a material object. He starts by working out or remembering something, and the work advances as a conglomeration of notes to himself, realised in the most immediate and efficient means. Just as a drawn line proceeds from head to hand so its sculptural analogues: a slice, fold, gap or seam, are made manifest. Similar analogies might be drawn between colour and material or surface treatment. This could result in a vast sculpture or a small paper work, but they are united in a singular approach to making that does not demarcate boundaries between thinking body, tools and materials - much as picking up and using a stick, we feel as if we are touching the world at the end of the stick, not (usually) as if we are touching the stick with our hand.