Selected images re. palimpsest EOI_Jonathan Dady
Do it, Samstag Museum, South Australia 2016
An untitled architectural work based on an instruction by HÖLLER, Carsten, (The Clear Fantasy 2002). Work to be destroyed at the end of the exhibition.
plywood, cardboard, aluminium step ladder.
Dimensions variable.
space habitat 01, 2017
pencil, paper
150 x 180cm
BSR drawing 2015
A drawing made in Rome that was an attempt to map, from memory, the building where my studio was housed. Paper was added as the drawing progressed. The accumulated drawing is about 7 x 2 metres.
Pencil, gesso, tea on paper.
Studio 2019
Untitled digital drawing 2022
Untitled architectural form 2022
Cardboard, paint, digital drawing
Proposititional standing works 2020
Cardboard, paint, steel wire
100 x 50 cm
Lead line 2020
Lead, steel pins
400 x 50 cm (at my eye level)
Conversations with gravity 2022
Aquarelle pencil and gesso on paper
115 x 80 cm
Maquette for Adelaide University work, 2022
Proposed size: 6 x 20 metres (actual size: 40 x 80 cm)
Wire coat hangers, baking paper, digital drawing.
This work is a 3-dimensional/ spatial drawing. Line as structure and semi-transparent planes as the inference of surface or form. The use of drawing is intended to underpin the speculative nature of the exploratory endeavour; the dynamic pursuit of the practical establishment of off-planet human habitation.
The work draws on the fragile, and yet optimal, structures of the group of insects that have adapted to land on and move on the surface tension of water (pond skaters, etc). The line-work actively describes a structural language, but avoids the fixity of a concrete form. Thus the mobility of the line avoids describing actual structures, rather it hints at the possibility of things while still embodying the active process of thinking and design.