Sketch Book for the Artist

Projections

SOME DRAWINGS ARE MADE entirely of illumination that

floods drama into the viewers gaze. Here, garbage and chaos

are piled and exploded in rooms full of event. Noble and

Websters witty and often subversive drawings are also

contemporary art installations. For each work, they select

and arrange familiar items of street detritus into what appears

to be an unpleasant pile. The immaculate drawing is only

revealed when the beam of a projector casts the shadow

of the heap onto a wall. Below, composed garbage produces

a calm, haloed portrait of the artists seated back to back.

In one of Rackhams great illustrations for Lewis Carroll's

Alice in Wonderland, a kitchen explodes in our faces. Pans fly oft

the stove, plates shatter, hearth implements crash at our feet,

and smoke billows around the agitated jives of the Duchess, the

Cook, the Cat, and Alice. In both works, narrative is delivered

through the air, via the animated clutter of our material lives.

TIM NOBLE AND SUE WEBSTER

British artists who collaborate using neon, refuse,

and projectors to create their anarchic punk

satires of modern life."Anything that...kicks

against the mundane things that close down your

mind is a refreshing and good thing." (Tim Noble)

Drawing with light it is important to think about what you

can draw with, and on, and in. Pencil on paper is timelessly

important but only the beginning of possibility Here we see

the combination of three-dimensional space, junk, and a

projector. Think about what else you could use: a laser in

smoke, for example, or even the office photocopier.

Real Life is Rubbish

2002

Dimensions variable

TIM NOBLE AND SUE WEBSTER

GATHERINGS