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
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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