Andrew Carnie continues his creative exploration of the human body at the West Downs Gallery this autumn in this rare solo exhibition in the UK.

 

Wall-mounted drawings, watercolours, drawing machines, and inflatables feature in this project which examines ideas around the metabolism, sunlight, sleep, and vitamin D. The work represents a journey set up by Carnie as a way of creatively thinking through making.

 

Expanding upon his continuing interest in the visual representation of the body and nature, this exhibition focuses on drawing, painting, and sculpture, instead of his usual large-scale immersive video works, engaging audiences in how we see ourselves through the world of science.

 

Process compliments ideas, through four formats:

• A series of small drawings and paintings, inserted into plastic pockets to make larger more encompassing works, anatomical drawings crisscrossing with each other and other small images, some created by staff and students at the University of Winchester

• Drawing machines that take control of the process out of Andrew’s hands, focus on the idea that we do not end at our skin, that independent organisms are at work within and at the very heart of ourselves. Made with support from Bryn LLyod from the University of Winchester.

• A set of inflatable works made with cloth-covered meteorological weather balloons and fans driven by sensors, inflating and deflating, bodies in action, the world breath.

• A set of watercolour works made in response to ideas about the metabolism as the project has developed and as Andrew navigates his own changing (failing?) body as he ages.