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Bearing Liability & Collateral Drawing 5

Bearing Liability

*Bearing current liability represents a sum of money (or cultural currency) that the company (Artist) owes and must pay (make) within one year. It does not require interest payments.*

This exhibition is by a collective group of artists who all study, or have recently graduated, from the Royal Academy Schools in London. The artworks include two filmed performances (see links above) by artists in residence at Strange Cargo in the summer, Roland Carline and Fani Parali.

The RA Schools is 250 years old and one of the last independent art schools in the UK. The paintings, photography, print making, video, virtual reality, installation and performance in this exhibition is intended to speak at different volumes to the new audience who will see the work in Cheriton.

"Moving our work from the heart of London's Piccadilly, to an independent gallery on the Kent coast, is to a conspicuous next destination - and showing in a town that has a strong relationship with art through Strange Cargo’s long term participatory practice, is very exciting.

The artists in the exhibition value making art an intrinsic part of the social world – we aim for *Bearing Liability* to function as more than a white cube gallery experience – our intention is to build a significant and ongoing relationship with Cheriton - the viewer, the artist, and the work we are sharing, all aim to amplify the volume of the cultural conversation in the area".

Collateral Drawing 5

Collateral Drawing 5 explores the relationship between finished artworks and the accumulative elements that feed into or result from their making, in an exhibition and publication with sixteen artists.

There’s more to an artwork than its finished state, but exhibitions concentrate on that, along perhaps with preparatory studies which act as preliminary versions of that state. Yet there may be any number of by-products from the making of an artwork, and that is what Collateral Drawing explores by showing the ‘collateral’ alongside the finished work. This fifth iteration to be shown at Strange Cargo features artists who have a connection with Kent.

Images Collateral by-products, Rose Wylie and Scarlett Carlos Clarke, 2017

The collateral may take such forms as the stage setting, models or constructions which are created in order to facilitate the work itself; the redefinition of past work as collateral to a future work in which it is repurposed; various means of recycling aspects of a practice; or the marks which result serendipitously, but with a more than accidental logic, from the production itself.

Every artist has their own unique working method that habitually causes repetitive marks to be inflicted onto or alter their working surroundings. Whether dripped, scratched, taped, erased, smeared, hammered or edited: all are repetitive and typically unguarded instances of the process of drawing through any medium.

Everything in the studio, within the paintings and around them, is a physical manifestation of the paintings’ thoughts and ideas. Biggs and Collings Collateral Drawing 4, UCS, East Anglia 2016

The results hold a fascination of their own: not just as a documentation of the artist’s creative process and an indicator of the thinking which led to the finished work, but as an insight into the relationship between what is subconscious and conscious in the artist’s practice.

The Collateral Drawing Series was launched at Plymouth College of Art in February 2014. Since then it has had further editions in Athens, Berlin and East Anglia.

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