Sketch Book for the Artist

Scalpel-drawn This book-bound drawing was inspired

by the story of a foreign butterfly wrongly introduced

to Great Britain in 1912, then hunted down and

destroyed. Ideas of introduction and removal led

Clare Bryan to research historical plans and aerial

drawings of London showing its population growth

since Roman times. On turning the pages of City,

progressively more and more paper is drawn away

with a scalpel to show the expansion of human

settlement around the river. The edges of each page

(cropped here) fade into the solid paper of an

unpopulated landscape.

City

2001

117 / 8 x 111 / 2 in (300x 290 mm)

CLARE BRYAN

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CLARE BRYAN
3ritish artist, printmaker graphic designer, specialty
bookbinder, and visiting professor at numerous art
schools. Her recent paper photographic, and digital
print-based works reflect upon the histories and
poetry of "left behind and in-between spaces."

Cut line This is a small section of a preparatory

5-ft (1.5-m )scroll. The horizon was drawn with a

scalpel, undulating a cut^1 / 16 -^1 / 8 in (2-3 mm) wide. The

work is illuminated by standing its lower edge on a

source of light.

Landline

2003

271 / 2 x 59 in (70 x 150 cm)

CLARE BRYAN