Top left: Further North (2023 ongoing), watercolour, 41x29 cm
Top right: Further North (2023 ongoing), digital painting, 30x20 cm
Bottom left: Further North (2023), excerpts from the ongoing series, digital painting, 30x20 cm
Bottom right: Further North (2023) excerpts from the ongoing series, watercolour, 41x29 cm
Further North continues Brennan's exploration of an idea of North, begun in 2006 with the touring exhibition of miniature paintings, monumental photagraphs and readymade objects (NGCA/Sunderland, SPACEX/Exeter, University of Aberdeen. The NORTH was shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize in 2007 (Leeds City Art Gallery). 'Further North' is a suite of paintings that extend that add a new chapter to the enquiry.
The NORTH excerpts from the series, from left to right:
Wearmouth V838 Monocerotis Light Echo’ watercolour on paper, 2006, 10.5 x 14.8 cm
Horden Colliery, Supernova Remnant LMCN 63A watercolour on paper, 2006, 10.5 x 14.8 cm
Blue House Drift, Keyhole Nebula watercolour on paper, 2006, 10.5 x 14.8 cm
Brennan, T. (2007) The NORTH Sunderland: Art Editions North The NORTH (2007) installation detail, SPACEX, Exeter, UK
essays by Peter Davidson, Alistair Robinson
Antlerfolk charcoal on paper, 59.5 x 84.1 a collaborative drawing with Dean Brannagan (as Gruppen) from our 4 hour performance at AIR Gallery, Manchester, 2022.
Antlerfolk (select images), charcoal on paper, 59.5 x 84.1 a collaborative drawing with Dean Brannagan (as Gruppen) from a 4 hour performance at AIR Gallery, Manchester, 2022.
Brennan's drawing practice often explores the performative and ritual nature of drawing. There is an emphasis placed on the mediative and contemplative process as a political act whereby Brennan's observations leave minimal disruption of the environment. Short meditative walks source small stones which after been drawn are returned to their source. These drawing ceremonies at times result in miniature handmade books which offer a plank in an argument contra to the current bias toward the gigantic as found in much public art.
Annwn a 3 hour drawing performance for the exhibition and mixed media installation 'Otherworlds', Barnstaple Museum, Devon, UK, 2023
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