Drawing Room

Drawing Room, by Aaron Paterson, Sarosh Mulla and Marian Macken, presents an alternative kind of architectural drawing.

Architectural drawing is primarily seen as producing and documenting future buildings. These drawings picture miniature versions of as-yet-unbuilt spaces, simulations of rooms that will be inhabited in the future.

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Drawing Room, by Aaron Paterson, Sarosh Mulla and Marian Macken, presents an alternative kind of architectural drawing. It explores drawing in space, rather than of spaces, operating at both full-scale and scaleless. In doing this, the site of architectural drawing shifts from the studio workplace to the gallery. Here, bodies and drawings intersect.

 

Drawing Room explores architecture as a consequence of its media in the post-digital realm in which the novelty of digital drawing has been superseded by the creative potential found in diverse methods of drawing – spanning the analogue to the virtual. Drawing Room suggests speculative drawing practices that sit beside architectural professional practice, yet feed into it, highlighting the rapidly changing way architects draw and visualise their designs.

The Artists

  • Christian Lamont
    Christian Lamont
    Ōtautahi

     

    Christian Lamont was born in Ōtautahi Christchurch in 1998. He studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts, graduating with first class honours in 2020.  He is a film and installation artist whose practice is interested in exploring light and colour towards generating immersive sensory and temporal environments. He does this by using natural and artificial light along with artistic interventions of established architecture. Recent exhibitions include 400 Lux, Hot Lunch gallery, Christchurch (2020) and Fading to the Sky, Te Uru Gallery, Auckland (2021).

    Fading to the Sky is presented in partnership with the University of Canterbury Ilam School of Fine Arts and CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki.

  • Steve Carr
    Steve Carr
    Ōtautahi

    Steve Carr was born in Maruawai Gore in 1976, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include Chasing the Light, City Gallery Wellington (2019)/National Gallery of Victoria (2019)/Christchurch Art Gallery (2018), A Manual for Small Archives, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016), Bullet Time, Wellington City Gallery (2016), Stretching Time, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2014).

    Steve Carr currently lives and works in Ōtautahi Christchurch and is represented in New Zealand by Michael Lett, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and in Australia by STATION, Melbourne/Sydney. He has been a Senior Lecturer at Ilam School of Art since 2016.

     

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Christian Lamont
Ōtautahi

 

Christian Lamont was born in Ōtautahi Christchurch in 1998. He studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts, graduating with first class honours in 2020.  He is a film and installation artist whose practice is interested in exploring light and colour towards generating immersive sensory and temporal environments. He does this by using natural and artificial light along with artistic interventions of established architecture. Recent exhibitions include 400 Lux, Hot Lunch gallery, Christchurch (2020) and Fading to the Sky, Te Uru Gallery, Auckland (2021).

Fading to the Sky is presented in partnership with the University of Canterbury Ilam School of Fine Arts and CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki.

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Steve Carr
Ōtautahi

Steve Carr was born in Maruawai Gore in 1976, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include Chasing the Light, City Gallery Wellington (2019)/National Gallery of Victoria (2019)/Christchurch Art Gallery (2018), A Manual for Small Archives, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016), Bullet Time, Wellington City Gallery (2016), Stretching Time, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2014).

Steve Carr currently lives and works in Ōtautahi Christchurch and is represented in New Zealand by Michael Lett, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and in Australia by STATION, Melbourne/Sydney. He has been a Senior Lecturer at Ilam School of Art since 2016.

 

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Image credit: John Collie

Image credit: John Collie
Installation view of 'Fading to the Sky' at CoCA, 2021, Christian Lamont, Steve Carr
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As part of Drawing Room, the artists present a parallel online exhibition that you can visit with your friends – Edge of Shadow.

Click here to view a digital version of Drawing Room catalogue (physical versions are available for sale at CoCA reception)

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