Centre for Recent Drawing presents drawing in the context of the artist's print, by artists Daphne Warburg Astor and Jason Hicklin.

Astor provides twelve meditations, where each of the twelve monotypes is produced as part of an act of meditation following her Buddhist beliefs. The plate is treated with a simple soft ground design that provides three dimensional cues, whilst string applied to the plate before printing provides a linear form that resists figuration. The result is an embodiment and record of an internal act that can signify at once unity and contradiction.

By contrast, Jason Hicklin produces prints as the final act of a pilgrimmage. In the case of this work, Hicklin chose to travel to Tory Island, where he was interested to explore the liminal and rugged qualities of the landscape and the people; Tory island is one of the last enclaves of Gaelic speakers, far off the coast of Ireland. As a pilgrimmage, the there-and-back-again of the journey ends in the print process, where Hicklin regards the necessity of speed in the making of the work on return, even for an involved print process, as an attempt to remain close to the journey in order to present and embody it in print.

Please join us for the opening reception for this exhibition 6 - 8pm 11 June 2008 or during the exhibition 12 June -4 July 2008. Centre for Recent Drawing is open from 12 - 6pm Wednesday to Friday during exhibition times. C4RD would particularly like to acknowledge the support for this exhibition of ARTUPDATE.COM/.