Oli will be taking part in Coastal Currents, an annual Arts Festival celebrating the art and culture across the Hastings and surrounding towns. He will be opening his studio and showing the last 18 months of my ongoing series ‘Soap Drawings’.
Come and have a look and ask questions like … ‘Why would you draw the same thing over and over 1500 times?’ or ‘Is it true you have the largest collection of soap dishes in the world?’
11am – 5pm at 37 Lower Park Road, TN34 2LA.
Everyone is welcome.
Began in 2019, ‘Soap Drawings’ is a daily drawing practice of documenting a bar of soap on a soap dish, and recording the minute day-to-day changes as it gets smaller until eventually it disappears. Once gone, the process begins again with a different soap on a different soap dish. Inspired by artists On Karawa, Peter Dreher, Hanne Darboven and Roman Opalka, this exercise is an observation into time passing and how repetition, ritual and discipline can shape a life.
