Architecture Reassembled: Ros Lawless & Charles Young
This exhibition at Upright Gallery brings together Ros Lawless & Charles Young, two artists whose interest lies in the built environment - both real and imagined.
About Architecture Reassembled: Ros Lawless & Charles Young
Meet the artists
Sat 31 May, 1-3pm
All welcome
This exhibition brings together two artists whose interest lies in the built environment - both real and imagined.
Ros Lawless' practice is influenced by her immediate surroundings, in particular architecture, which she uses to organise pictorial space and form.
The detail and forms within architecture, such as lines, structures and space, along with a sense of history, are intuitively explored resulting in chance compositions, accidental mark making and fresh ways of working.
Most recently Lawless has been working with wall rubbings, focusing on public and private space; the space of maintenance and workers areas. This may be fire hydrants, electrical boxes, post boxes and re-developed sites where you find the workers mark.
Whilst on residency at the International Summer Academy, Salzburg, she explored scale; working on a 'one-one' with the everyday objects within the Hohensalzburg Fortress. Thinking beyond the aesthetic and function of the substrate allowed her to utilise conventional materials in an unfamiliar way, resisting the subjective rules. The outcome of this took the form of direct wall rubbings with graphite on paper, linen or found materials. She continues to realise and redefine her process whilst focusing on these ‘workers’ areas - looking within and giving importance to her environment by taking rubbings and recordings of an often overlooked societal area.
Charles Youngs’ work has its basis in architectural model making and draws on the forms of the built environment. He focuses on the relationship between invented structures and the built history of the existing city.
He works in paper, wood and fabric and often uses stop motion animation to introduce movement into some of his pieces.
Charles’ longest running project to date, Paperholm, was a daily project where he designed, constructed and published online a new paper building every day for a year from August 2014. The individual structures come together to form a single, dense archipelago. Recording his progress every day in an online archive allowed him to bring life to the paper models through the use of gif animations. The project ended in December 2017 with a total of 1000 daily additions.
An ongoing project, begun in 2020 ‘Colour combinations’ consists of small paper buildings, each using different colour combinations, based on Sanzo Wada’s Dictionary of Colour Combinations. The first part of the project, four-colour studies, was included in the exhibition Paper Art 2021 at the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands as well as at Edinburgh’s RSA in 2022.
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