Drawn to Dance
glimpses of 5 Rhythms ~ 5 Elements
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 21st January – Friday 31st January 2014
Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm
Opening Event: 6pm Tuesday 21st January
Artist: Graham Price, Senior Lecturer Art Education, Faculty of Education.
Drawn to dance explores the notion of doorways left ajar by Buddhist metaphysics, Asian aesthetics, and Abstract Expressionist gesture. The panels also draw deeply upon a group meditative improvised dance practice developed by Gabrielle Roth, known as 5Rhythms.
While the works do not literally record either the seen or the felt life, they are an unfolding trace; an interplay of media and movement-memory that calls upon consciously witnessed meditative experience explored through gesture. “My inner experiences are unfailingly dynamic, not static. It is an interesting challenge to attempt to give such movement a static form and still maintain their sense of flux. Such work is for me, an exploratory alchemy.”