Nick Willing
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And this is an exhibition that tells the story of her life through her drawing.
So it starts with the drawing she made.
of her grandmother when she was six years old.
And it ends with a picture of her as a grandmother, just before she dies, of her granddaughter.
And in between, we see all the various mediums, experiments, stories that she tells throughout her life.
And that's one of the best ways I think of understanding her life is through her drawings.
So we've very carefully picked drawings that express what she's going through at that moment.
That's exactly, I think, what's happening.
She also took photographs because she wanted to see what the picture looked like.
When you're making a picture, you're so involved.
I should know because she'd tell me this over and over again.
You get so sort of lost and involved in what you're doing.
that sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees.
So what she would do is take a picture of it and then she carried it in her purse and she'd take it out as if to surprise herself.
She'd go, oh no, hang on, that's wrong on the left.
Sometimes when I write a piece, I look at it, reread it, reread it, reread it on my computer and it seems okay.
But it's not until I've printed it out and look at it in a different format that I see all the mistakes.