Mark Selby - Drawings

Drawing:

To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading
To take or pull out
To bring about deliberately, to provoke or elicit a response
To extract or take for one's own use
To make a likeness of on a surface, using mostly lines

All of the above are right and wrong when describing my approach to drawing. It's more like mining, with filth and mess and water and crawling around on hands and knees, 'digging' back down to the surface to find the seam that will yeild an image.

Mostly based on places in and around Nottingham, these images throw up black, solid obstacles; put barriers in your way and only brief glimpses of light and exit.

Do you feel trapped and do the escape routes lead anywhere that might give you some space?

Cerne Abbas Giant.

Okay, so this is not Nottingham but the linea nature of this ancient work echos through time to the modern world of the plans, the bluprints of monumental 'brutal' structures and power
Drawings from the 1998 series

High Rise Flats

FFF - Function Finds Form or rather Force Finds Form. Grand designs of social engineering that you will obey!
Drawings from the 1996 series
Drawings from the 1998 series