I follow a drawing as it moves from paper into tattoos, murals, objects, installations and the wider Sketchy Shona archive.
A mark is a beginning
I do not treat a drawing as a closed image. A line can become a tattoo, a mural, a textile, an installation or an object with weight and edges.
The question is what the mark needs when it meets a new surface. Skin asks for permanence, a wall asks for scale, and an object has to occupy space rather than only describe it.
The surface changes the work
Moving a mark into another material changes its pace and its responsibilities. A drawing that works on paper may need to open out across a public wall, hold together on a body, or become part of a room people move through.
These are not separate service categories to me. They are connected ways of testing whether an image has enough life to keep moving.
The archive keeps the movement visible
The Sketchy Shona archive holds past work, exhibition documentation, studies and objects, not only pieces that are currently available to buy.
A mark becomes a body of work through repetition and change. The archive is where those relationships remain visible as more paintings, forms and fragments are ready to enter it.