Currently I'm working on a number of images for an exhibition in March 2008 at the Workhouse museum near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.
It's a really exciting project for me, and it is a great opportunity to work alongside the National Trust and to support their aims in preserving and conserving our national heritage. The drawings will convey subjects relating to the changing rural landscape with particular reference to industry. I'm going to document the development over the next few weeks so keep a look out.
Derby City Open 2007
My drawing titled "Heaven's Gate" 2007 one of a series of Pennine Way drawings will be on show at the Derby City Open exhibition at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery until January 27th 2008.
Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibtion 2007
You can see my shortlisted piece for the Jerwood Drawing Prize titled " Ghost -Vale of Ffestiniog, Snowdonia, currently on show at the Mackintosh Gallery at Glasgow School of Art until 12th January 2008.
From 27th January the show will continue onwards to Bristol, Royal West of England Academy until 2nd March. Bayart, Cardiff from 13th March - 5th April and the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle - Upon - Tyne, University of Newcastle.
This is a really beautiful exhibition with work also included by Stuart Parkinson, Jacob Cartwright, Irene Lees and Adam Sutherland.
Glyn Brewerton ( b.1975 Nottingham, UK ) studied illustration at Swindon College of Art and Design / Cranfield University and an MA in
Communication Design/illustration at Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design, London.
My charcoal drawings particularly reflect my own solitary
journeys through the rural landscape and aim to capture the power and unromantic beauty of nature, and its
influence on the people who live and work in these rural
environments. These works aim to explore the boundaries and tensions between drawing practice and
photographic practice and thus pose questions of the authenticity of both the photograph and the gesture. I
aim to achieve photographic qualities by building thin layers of charcoal dust applied and removed with a
brush, and by sculpting form and shapes from black areas of charcoal with a rubber. My work starts from a
memory of a place or an experience of it and the drawings develop through the application of expressive spontaneous marks to develop an impression of a landmark to embody a sense of place.