Kristy Gordon
'Water Drawings' 2024, Digital drawings on acrylic, handmade brass fixings.
Artist statement
These water drawings are a manifestation of my slow art practice. Like in water, there is a beautiful sense of being within a digital drawing, present there, in that moment of encounter. Digital drawing brings into focus a new kind of spatiality that is both tangible and liminal, multi-dimensional and multi-temporal. I come to the drawing from its surface – the screen – but zoom deeper into the drawing just as I dive deeper into water. Like in water, I can see through, reach through the layers to the marks made below, and respond to this situatedness within, place-finding by nearby line and mark rather than by zooming out to the entirety of the drawing. Slowness is a practice in lingering, bathing in affective spaces and atmospheres and so, I see digital drawing as a slow aesthetic experience contemporaneous with speed.
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
