Jeannie Driver: Transient and Unfixed Drawing Installations

1. Outside In.

2.Drop.

3. The Space Between.

4. The Space Between.

4. Degrees of Ambiguity.

4b.Degrees of Ambiguity.

4c. Degrees of Ambiguity.

5. Flat Corner

6. Cyclical Flow.

7. With Draw (Film still)-

8. Lines of Passage.

 

Images

1.    Outside In, The Unstable Line exhibition, AIR Gallery, 2022.

2.    Drop, Aspex Gallery Residency Space, 2021.

3.    The Space Between, Dazzle and Disrupt Exhibition, Quay Arts, 2020.

3B. The Space Between, Quay Arts, 2021.

4.    Degrees of Ambiguity, Courtx, Durational Drawing, interacting with vinyl drawings installed onto the gallery windows.

4b. Degrees of Ambiguity, Courtx, interacting with vinyl drawings installed onto the gallery windows.

     4c. Degrees of Ambiguity, Courtx, interacting with vinyl drawings installed onto the gallery windows.

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5.      Flat Corner, Dazzle and Disrupt, 2021.

6.      Cyclical Flow, Art House 1, 2019.

7.      With Draw. (Film still)….Film With Draw 136/30464

8.    Lines of Passage

Jeannie Driver is a contemporary visual artist, living and working in Britain.

Born in 1966, Driver attended art school at 16, before leaving for Madrid. On her return she graduated with a Fine BA in 1998, (first class) and was awarded a scholarship for her MA in 2000 (distinction) from the University of Portsmouth. At this stage, as a single parent, Driver’s concerns in the role and relationship between art, artist and audience, initially played out in the public realm. Projects include; SPIKE IT –studying relationships and behaviors in offices and participatory digital drawing projects, Turning Portsmouth on Its Head, and Extra Mural.

Driver moved to a studio practice in 2010 focusing on the material, conceptual and value systems of (waste) paper documents, leading to her Hard Graph Series of works. Exhibitions include, Preparing the Site,(2016) The Bank Space, London, Lines of Passage, Salisbury Arts Centre, Ubiquitous Materials, (2012), South Hill Park, When Contents Become Form (2013) Arybyte Galley, I think this must be me. FOUNDD, Woolf Gallery, London.

Winning a DYCP award in 2017, Driver developed her sustainable Drawing Kit, based on systems and rules for the Lifting the Drawing off the Page series of installations and film. Recent solo and group, exhibitions include: Dazzle & Disrupt, Quay Arts, IOW, (2021). The Unstable Line, Air Gallery, Manchester, (2022). Edge to Edge, Cello Factory, London,(2021) Iterations, Art House 1, London, (2019).

Jeannie Driver’s post minimalist works utilize materials imbued with processes and metaphorical references to present works as drawing, installation, sculpture, and film.

Lifting The Drawing off the Page’ body of works develop from drawings on the page, as an intimate and personal ritual, where each line raises and falls in harmony with the breath and where multiple lines become form, barriers, openings and space for imaginary navigation.

Transversing the two and three dimensions drawings are reinterpreted utilizing systems, rules and measurements to create transient, 'un-fixed' drawing installations reliant on gravity that shift in time and space. This interest in sequence and repetition flows throughout her work, in both the utilitarian material and the processes she employs. Traditional drawing materials of charcoal, graphite and paper present an anonymous but dominant presence; as line becomes object, dust becomes surface, and space as form. Created in scale relationship to her own body, Driver’s wall installations present opportunities for visual perception that alters with viewers gaze and position.

Inspired by the drawings and approach of Sol Le Witt, Legia Clark, Jesus Rafael Soto, Driver has developed her ‘drawing kit’: crates of charcoal coated shredded lines, and forms, that are presented as transient works in numerous wall drawings. This approach is underpinned by Drivers concern with a ‘responsibility to materials’ and enable others to recreate installations with the kit supported with templates and drawing sequences. See more of her work at www.jeanniedriver.com and on Instagram @jeanniedriverartist.