Shona Neary / Sketchy Shona
I drew these working sketches during Sketchy Shona Sessions at Klunkerkranich. They move between tattoos, paste-ups, street art and the wider collection developing across fine art, objects and fashion.
The night they came from
I made these drawings during Sketchy Shona Sessions at Klunkerkranich. A jazz jam and DJs from the Countercult network shared the event with live drawing. I was drawing from jazz, Berlin, the city, nature and night.
The event is the starting point, not the full subject. These sketches are what I carried away from that setting and kept working through after the session.
These are working sketches
The drawings are not a tattoo-only collection or a finished menu. They are my Sketchy sketches, the material I take into tattoo sessions and use for paste-ups and street art.
A sketch can change as it moves onto skin or a wall. I want to keep the connection to the starting drawing visible without pretending that every use has to look the same.
One practice, more than one form
The same sketches can give me a way into fine art, objects and fashion as I develop the wider collection. Those are not separate ideas added after the fact. They are directions the work can take as I keep drawing and testing what a mark can become.
If someone only sees the tattoo, they may miss the path the drawing took. I want the archive to show how one practice moves across forms, while giving each work its own material and context.
A record that will keep growing
I am still developing these concepts. I will add more images and process material as the collection grows, so this Journal record can show not only the finished marks but how I carry an idea from its first sketch into other forms.
Images from this journal record
The Work Changes Shape: Sketches from Klunkerkranich / anchor study Artwork: Sketchy Shona (Shona Neary).
The Work Changes Shape: Sketches from Klunkerkranich / working sketch / study 02 Artwork: Sketchy Shona (Shona Neary).
The Work Changes Shape: Sketches from Klunkerkranich / working sketch / study 03 Artwork: Sketchy Shona (Shona Neary).
The Work Changes Shape: Sketches from Klunkerkranich / working sketch / study 04 Artwork: Sketchy Shona (Shona Neary).
The Work Changes Shape: Sketches from Klunkerkranich / working sketch / study 05 Artwork: Sketchy Shona (Shona Neary).
The Work Changes Shape: Sketches from Klunkerkranich / working sketch / moving study 06 Artwork: Sketchy Shona (Shona Neary).