Joe Graham

Joe Graham

Transformation through drawing might be the best way to describe my work. For the most part I draw, and sometimes I make things that draw for me. Very occasionally I make an object that relates indirectly to a drawing I have made, in an effort to extend that drawing in some other way.

My process is key to what I do - I work in sequence, and I copy; two factors that allow any drawings I make to evolve and mutate. Make a drawing, copy that drawing, print the drawing. Small mistakes accrue, other marks get added, and a line is plotted between the subjective and the objective. A book is a good format for these, as is a file binder.

Ultimately I make work in this way because I am searching for a flexible method to discuss my ideas and observations. If drawing can be described as the excercise of imagination on line, then I would describe my method of working as the creation of a space to take that excercise.

Currently I am studing for my MFA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Art, London.

From 2003 - 2004 I was co-director of the Century Gallery in Cremer St, London

From 1999 - 2002 I studied BA Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, London

Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

2009

Athens Video Art Festival, Athens Greece

Olympic Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
Slade Technology Fayre, Slade Research Centre, London, UK

2008

Neither Here Nor There, Concrete at the Hayward Gallery, London (solo)
Scratch/Itch, The Centre For Recent Drawing, London (solo)

2006

Condo Development, The Natural Light Window, Toronto (solo)
Six Pictures From China, Fly Gallery, Toronto (solo)

2003

The Impressionables, Century Gallery, London
Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London
Small World, The Start Gallery, Brighton