Strange Things Might Work Ali Bramwell, Paul Cullen, Peter Nicholls

Dunedin based artist Ali Bramwell will curate a show of fellow sculptors' drawings that focuses on the process of producing work; the ongoing dialogue between theory, concept and practice. Making Art is often mythologised. However, by exhibiting drawings and small sculptural explorations, Bramwell will frame the process of sculpture as the artists experience it. Bramwell will provide what is usually a very private process for spectator pleasure and consumption, interrogating where art begins, as well as what constitutes an art product. 

Drawing for sculpture is something that exists outside of painting and drawing traditions. An artist who engages with three-dimensional space may sometimes use the two dimensional as a problem-solving tool, used to redefine but also to expand the possibilities for occupying physical space. As explorations the drawings are never completely separate from the three-dimensional work that may result, but will take parallel roads and suggest avenues that the sculptural objects do not and perhaps cannot fulfil.

Conceived and implemented by Bramwell, this exhibition is intended as a framing of the activity of 'drawing' when it occurs as part of a sculptors thinking process. Here, drawing is explored and broadly interpreted by three different sculptors as a way of thinking, a vector of possibility as part of a wider inquiry, an incidental endpoint on the way somewhere else.