Drawing as Slow Conversation
Drawing and Mixed Media Collage.
Greyscale Plastic, (florist plastic, cartridge paper, wooden batons, rubber washers, wooden blocks, screws) 2024.
From left to right: Speckled Eye, (cartridge paper, photocopy, wooden batons, rubber washers, wooden blocks, screws) 2024.
Keyhole 2, (wood vaneer clipboard, mechanic’s clip, cartridge paper) 2024.
QU2, (Chinese calligraphy paper, cartridge paper, wooden batons, bulldog clips, oil pastel, rubber washers, screws) 2024.
The Writers' Room, Florence Trust London
Publication: Writers' Room WWild Pansy Press University of Leeds.
Image credit: Ben Jennaer
In December 2024, Louise Adkins and Benjamin Jenner completed a month-long residency at The Writers' Room, Florence Trust in London, where they developed a series of large-scale wall- and floor-based compositions in response to the studio space's architecture and layered histories. Throughout the process, they conceptualized these works as an ongoing dialogue - between one another, the materials, and the emergent forms within the studio. The resulting compositions represent an embodied language shaped by the actions and behaviors that defined and described their cohabitation of the room. The peculiar logic of this "slow conversation" challenged their preconceived notions of construction and composition, ultimately generating a site-responsive, "extralinguistic" vocabulary of forms.
Publication: Writers' Room WWild Pansy Press University of Leeds.
Image credit: Ben Jennaer
In December 2024, Louise Adkins and Benjamin Jenner completed a month-long residency at The Writers' Room, Florence Trust in London, where they developed a series of large-scale wall- and floor-based compositions in response to the studio space's architecture and layered histories. Throughout the process, they conceptualized these works as an ongoing dialogue - between one another, the materials, and the emergent forms within the studio. The resulting compositions represent an embodied language shaped by the actions and behaviors that defined and described their cohabitation of the room. The peculiar logic of this "slow conversation" challenged their preconceived notions of construction and composition, ultimately generating a site-responsive, "extralinguistic" vocabulary of forms.
