Drawn Towards: an exhibition of drawings by Simon Read

Date: March 2010
Exhibition/Show Type: Solo
Media: Drawing

Exhibition Description

This exhibition was an opportunity to discuss the role that the arts can develop in articulating environmental change.

Please see The Cut Archive Artist Pages on Simon Read for more information about this artist.

I have always regarded drawing as my way of coming to grips with an idea on the assumption that if I can generate a satisfactory graphic solution, I shall have reached a more complete understanding of its subject.

These works are culled from the last thirty years of my practice and are the first opportunity that I have taken to pull them together as a single group.

More recently, I have become preoccupied by the immediacy of our environmental predicament. For me, drawing represents a way into this debate. Through it I feel able to negotiate the huge range of specialist data that might otherwise reduce me to a sense of impotence.

I am convinced that it is possible to lay claim to these issues as cultural phenomena and to develop strategies for how they can be possessed in a wider public context.

This exhibition was an opportunity to discuss the role that the arts can develop in articulating environmental change.