Julian Farrar
Email: julian@julianfarrar.com
More Than MEat
In this series I want to use flesh to literally ‘embody’ a thought. I want the patterns and textures I observe in the skin to serve as a vocabulary, hinting at the idea that drives all that is seen on the surface. Each drawing stands at 2.5 meters high and is achieved using a combination of pencil and rubbers.Inspired by drawing cadavers these drawings collectively represent the captivity we suffer and the joy we experience through thinking.
On this scale the human figure transforms into something often unrecognisable. The undulating flesh become landscapes into which we are free to wander and explore without the constraints of familiarity. Like stepping outside of yourself and seeing your thoughts objectively, seeing them for what they are and choosing whether to recognise them and thus allow them to dominate or not. The fact that I use myself in each of these pieces is very important. If each drawing literally embodies the inner sanctum of my head then they stand as a mirror in which I look back at myself. I may not like what I see but their unashamed honesty can’t be ignored. They demand not to be.
It is the illusion of the permanent and the fleeting that is at the core of my work.
SOLO SHOW AT THE GALLORE GALLERY USA, PRIVATE VIEW 5TH NOVEMBER 2011
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Grand Prize Winner 'Junk or Genius' Gallore Gallery, Conneticut USA
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More Than MEat #6 has won first place in Art Scene Today's competition INSIDE OUT and Julian is the featured artist for this month.
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An article entitled 'The Body Speaks'.has been written about me and my drawings in the summer 2010 edition of American Artists, Drawing, magazine.
All the drawings in this series have won a top 15 place in this years' LICC awards. The works can be seen at www.licc.us
'No.3' is featured at www.artkudos.com as part of their year long exhibtion 2009.
' No.5' is featured at www.artkudos.com for 2010.
A film of my studio and the drawings can be seen at www.vimeo.com/6977354
No.2
1.5 x 2.5 meters
pencil on paper.
Over the course of 3-4 months, which is the average time each of these drawings takes, this process of ‘embodiment’ takes place. The process is as important as the drawing that remains at the end. It is a performance of depicting or capturing something so transient as a thought but using ridiculously small materials to do so. The piece at the end imposes itself with permanence yet embodies something so fleeting.
1.5 x 2.5 meters
pencil on paper.
Over the course of 3-4 months, which is the average time each of these drawings takes, this process of ‘embodiment’ takes place. The process is as important as the drawing that remains at the end. It is a performance of depicting or capturing something so transient as a thought but using ridiculously small materials to do so. The piece at the end imposes itself with permanence yet embodies something so fleeting.