Threads Maryanne Coutts Articulate project space June 27 - July 13 2014 Artists Statement I am curious about the intimate relationship between whole and part. Where does the single entity end and the complex unity begin? How can a machine with its discrete components make something that is organic, analogue? When does one day blend into the next? Google Earth has the capacity for a fluid transition between fine detail and a broad overview where near and far, whole and part, behave the same. As a canvas it can enable me to move seamlessly between close up images of individuals and distant views of patch-worked relationships and networks. I hope that one day these drawn connections might reflect the real way that those links stretch across the globe. My long-term interests in the representation of time and the wearing of clothes have both come into this exhibition in ways that are new for me. The spaces between the days, the bodies and printed marks all leave a place where I can indeed be curious, explore and delight in what I do not know. The Works

Threads

This work started with photographs of groups that I am in. I invited the people in those groups to send me photos of groups that they are in, but not me . and so on. Ultimately it is my ambition that the project will exist on line, but for the moment it is manifest here in other ways. Firstly, it can be viewed on the computer screen as it is mapped across Google Earth. The drawings have also been printed and pinned to the wall as both a close up view of a single group (the wonderful people who run the gallery) and as a collage of the many drawings that will continue to be added throughout the life of the project.

Breaking News

Since the 1st of January this year I have drawn the clothes of someone in the news media every day. I aim to continue this project for the rest of the year.

Critical Mass

Projected animation and photographic slide show.

Whole

Watercolour drawings of mouths