Traces
Limited edition catalogue of works
2011-12
Claire Weetman is interested in how her art can be created in public
spaces, in the places where the movement that she follows takes
place. When placing herself in these locations, she creates
interventions that not only document movement, but also seek to
alter the day-to-day movement of people within that space; Lines of water painted onto the floor that people feel the need to jump over,
a pedestrian needing to alter their course to pass the artist at work
or an audience member 'playing' with the artist drawing a line to see
who is in control.
Weetman uses drawing processes combined with interventions in
public spaces, responding to, recording, measuring and altering
movement. Using bold calligraphic lines combined with video
projections, she records the motion of people on everyday journeys;
Flowing pencil drawings, charting transient and fleeting traces, noting
how movement alters according to environment; Interventions into
public spaces interact with an audience by both measuring and
interrupting natural movement.
Much of Weetman's work is created in a live context, which reflects
her wont to document the transient and temporal. This transience
translates into notions of presence and absence such as in the fading
water traces painted onto a floor in Watermark or the empty
outlines that are suggested in her earlier One Minute drawings.
Traces brings together four bodies of work created during 2011-12
and relates them to the literary definitions of the verb 'trace'. The concepts within those descriptions - following a course, marking a
position, superimposing lines over things, outlining people and objects
- have run through Weetman's entire portfolio of work since 2002
and continue in these most recent works.
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