Ruskin Prize for Drawing 2014 - Winner!
Maggie Hargreaves works with drawing, print, sculpture and installation to explore the constantly
shifting space where we interact with the natural world we inhabit. Here, built
structures encroach on natural environments but as those structures are
abandoned, no longer required, the woods reclaim what was taken, creeping back
and re-establishing territory.The level of detail and large scale of these drawings invites viewers to enter the
space depicted and spend time exploring it. Concurrently, as the drawings are
approached, the image dissolves and the materiality and process are established;
the artifice of the image construction is revealed as a piece of paper with
handmade marks, pinned to the gallery wall. Drawing and erasing with charcoal reflects the transient
shifting nature of the relationship between people and the surrounding living
environment.