Within Peter J. Evans practise, drawings and objects formed by diagrammatic processes and artificial systems are used to chart and delineate abstract concepts such as human relationships, memory and beauty. These drawings are often formed by repetition of simple actions that build up over time into complex structures or form ambiguous pseudo-scientific, graphical tables. A series of drawings, constructed over a number of years, forms the backbone of this show, alongside a new large scale, wall drawing, using a Japanese ink-line process.
Evans is also installing a large floor-based sculptural intervention, which occupies the majority of the gallery space. In its white room, Waveformer, 2007 takes its visual cues from a gallery or museum floor, highly polished parquet. At the viewer's feet a series of waves are breaking and sliding to rest at the end of the room as the wood rises in folds and shifts. In producing this work Evans has fused a natural, shifting, aural phenomenon with a static and silent, authoritarian material. This relationship between form and material is echoed in Supernova Moment, 2006, pictured above, in which, conversely, a parquet explosion is frozen in angular stasis by the solemnity of its substance.
This is Evans first solo exhbition for the gallery and having toured from Spacex, Exeter, it will continue on to Workplace, Newcastle in 2008.
Please note that this exhibition will be open Sunday 14th and Monday 15th October while we exhibit at the Zoo Art Fair.
