The Drawing Kit
Jeannie has developed her palette as a sustainable Drawing Kit that has been used in multiple installations and films.
The kit to date comprises of 1m and 2m doubled over lines. wood spikes, stainless steel rods- various lengths, rotational spines and MDF shapes with multidirectional flush mounts or french cleats.
The paper lines created from paper documents shredded on a security level two domestic shredder where originally created for the installations
and since been coated with layers of charcoal, forever embedding the data.
Jeannie has used this palette as a way to interpret her intricate drawings on paper into human scale installations. Creating new suggestions of space these works utilise, gravity, shadow and light as additional elements.
The unfixed nature of the line is an important element of the work, not only as a referential analogy for life. but through the works inherent instability and precariousness that reacts to environmental draughts, sound and the audience movement.
Several of Jeannie's installations including, Cyclical Flow 120/19,800><120/19,800 and Cyclical Drift are considered as durational drawings that shift over the course of the exhibition.
Each installation is accompanied by a drawing plan mapping out the stages.
Similarly With Draw 136/3064 collapsed throughout the course of the exhibition. The sound becomes an additional element as the paper falls to the floor, often to the surprise of the viewer.
At times The Drawing kit is used in the studio as a reactive tool for mentally processing situations that then manifest as physical interactions. The immediacy of changing and altering the work in this personal performance is aided with rotational drawing spines.
In Conversation is a sereis of photographs that document one particular relationship.
The drawing kit as a sustainable and reinterpret-able medium has been influenced by works and ethos of Sol Le Witt, and of Legia Clark’s Bicho’s series.
