Claude Heath

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'When you follow the movements of a football across a flat TV screen you sometimes have the sensation that the ball is going in a certain direction when it turns out to have a different arc altogether and ends up at the feet of a different player than you had first thought. Its true movements are hidden by the flatness of the screen until it arrives at some particular part of the pitch. This same kind of sensation sometimes happens while drawing, when you attempt to compress the sight and touch of a solid object onto various parts of a flat surface'.

Claude Heath, Statement, Centre for Drawing, October 2001

The works on this website are all related to drawing. There are drawings of heads, made by blindfold drawing; plants, using use my eyes to scan as fingertips might do; aerial views of landscapes, made from stereo photography; and of galaxies, using a 3D Atlas of the stars.

The latter used new digital drawing processes,recording my freehand drawing movements that were made in real three-dimensional space. All of these drawing processes were chosen for their element of unpredictabilty and their capacity to find new things out. Sometimes an extended process leads to installations of wall drawings, and painted canvases.

Works shown are in private & public collections (listed) or the artist.