Hi Julie,

Thanks for your feedback. I’m glad it seems like a natural extension to you. It has been a bit of a leap into the unknown for me, still is really and I’m not sure of where it will all end up going, at the moment the work is dragging me along a piece at a time.

Also very pleased that it can be of use to students. I think getting them interested in drawing is so important,  even if they don’t end up following a creative path.

Nick

On 3/06/10 6:35 AM, "WOODWARD, Julie" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Nick,
These are such an interesting extension from your residency and a natural extension from the work you have on your website, which I have enjoyed looking at and also used with my students to stimulate drawing from the field.
I would like to show these to my year 13 students who are just beginning their folios and are looking for drawing methods to establish themes in their folios.
Thank you,
Julie
 
 

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Subject: Antarctic Time-Lapse Drawings
Dear All,

I have just put online a series of short experiments I have been working on creating Time-Lapse drawings of the Antarctic Landscape. They can be viewed here:
http://www.vimeo.com/album/231684

In 2008 I spent 8 weeks as an Artist in Residence for the Australian Antarctic Division drawing frantically as I journeyed in and around the continent. On my return, the challenge has been to try and capture some of the Antarctica I experienced.  Out there, you have a constant awareness of movement and time. Some of it is so slow - gigantic icesheets flowing towards the sea at seemingly imperceptible rates –  but then, you can also watch the sea water become ice, and weather fronts moving across the horizon.  And the majority of what makes up the landscape is frozen water. It’s defined by this ever-creeping whiteness – in compositional terms, a mass of negative space. How to deal with this in the drawings I was making?

At the start of the year, in response to this dilemma, I began to play with making very short animations, sort of time-lapse drawings of the landscape. Not sure where it is all going, it’s early days, but I thought I would share it with the Drawing Research Network.
(apologies to people who are also on my ‘Drawing South’ mailing list and will have already received an email about this work. Not meaning to bombard you with stuff).


Thanks

Nicholas




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NICK HUTCHESON
P 03 9752  1639
M 0435 208 648
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