Roger Ackling: Stillness as a drawing method
Hughes, Dean (2024) Roger Ackling: Stillness as a drawing method. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, 9 (1). pp. 55-73. ISSN 2057-0384
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Abstract
From 1974 until 2014 the British Artist Roger Ackling made drawings on found pieces of driftwood by using the sun’s rays focused through a magnifying glass. This research article discusses the contribution Ackling made to charting an ontology of drawing through a practice of stillness. By employing this method, he provides an original contribution to the knowledge base of drawing that values ephemerality and lightness through phenomenological bracketing. An evaluation is provided as to how Roger Ackling dwells upon and makes subject the precise moment of making in drawing.
Item Type: | Article |
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Identification Number: | 10.1386/drtp_00128_1 |
Dates: | Date Event 22 January 2024 Accepted 10 June 2024 Published Online |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | conceptual art, epoché, lightness, minimalism, phenomenology, stillness |
Subjects: | CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-01 - creative arts and design > CAH25-01-02 - art |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of Art and Design |
Depositing User: | Gemma Tonks |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2024 16:55 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2024 16:55 |
URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15658 |
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