Juliet MacDonald

18th - 21st August: Week 6 of The Drawing Shed
'Inverted Garden'

Juliet MacDonald will invert the image of a garden shed by drawing imagined gardens in white chalk on the shed's outside surface whilst filling the inside with living, verdant foliage. Constructed in full perspective, the exterior drawings will lead the viewer into a fanciful space of flowers, plants, trees and water features. This will be an experiment in the use of drawing as a means of projection and imagination.

Juliet MacDonald is an artist based in Leeds. Her recently completed PhD is an investigation into drawing, conducted through her own practice. The primary focus of the research is the figurative process of drawing as a means of differentiating, delineating and marking experience.

Much of her work seeks to question the opposition between notions of nature and culture. In 2006 she spent the summer creating a three dimensional, whole room drawing, investigating the Garden of Eden as a narrative of human separation from nature and as a place of forbidden knowledge.

Call a spade a pencil!
Saturday 21st August 2-4pm

Drop in on Saturday afternoon to have a go at using drawing implements created by MacDonald from various garden tools. A rake becomes a multi-pronged pencil or a hose a giant bendy holder for a stick of charcoal.

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