MA Spring/Summer Art Lecture Series TALK:
Speaker: Katja Davar
Date of lecture: Wednesday 2nd May 2012 at 5.00pm.
Location: Woodlane Lecture Theatre, Woodlane Campus, University College Falmouth.
This lecture is presented to coincide with a solo exhibition of Cologne based, British artist Katja Davar entitled, Scattered Plots & Routes We Take, at Newlyn Art Gallery. Davar will talk about her recent work including a newly commissioned animated drawing for Newlyn Art Gallery.
Katja Davar’s works are intuitive yet simultaneously highly staged. She creates surreal hand-drawn worlds combining analogue and digital techniques. Metaphors, symbols, scientific and art-historical references merge to form her specific visual vocabulary – a possible framework for the comprehension of our increasingly complex world.
Davar has been commissioned to make a new animated drawing for the exhibition. For this she will be choreographing selected and abstracted data from the Newlyn Tidal Observatory, from where the world sea level is measured. For Davar drawing always comes first and is an intuitive way of subtly unveiling the fragility and complex nature of the world. As she has commented: “Drawing is about interpreting the world at a pace determined by oneself. It’s about deciding which truth to believe”.
Born in London in 1968, Davar studied painting at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art. She currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany. She has participated in various exhibitions in the UK, Germany and throughout Europe, including a solo exhibition entitled, Forking Ocean Path, at the Drawing Room, London, in 2006, and Even Ghosts Ring Bells Under Water, Galerie Vera Gliem, Cologne in 2012.
Scattered Plots & Routes We Take is curated by students from the MA Curatorial Practice Course, University College Falmouth in partnership with Newlyn Art Gallery. The exhibition opens at Newlyn Art Gallery on Saturday May 5th – June 16th 2012.
Throughout the duration of the exhibition we will be asking ‘What does drawing mean to you?’ In celebration of the most simple and basic of tools, we are inviting visitors to donate a pencil and leave a comment about their personal experience of drawing.
Please pick up a ticket from here. A free ticketed event.
For further information please contact: Telephone 01326 255983 events@falmouth.ac.uk. W: www.falmouth.ac.uk/events
Scattered Plots & Routes We Take 