Side by Side: celebrating connections made by drawing

Much of an artist’s work and life is solitary. We are surrounded by a seemingly endless flow of information, ideas, images and influences. To do our own work, we have to find ways to filter these out and focus on our own imaginings and our individual vision. And yet …

We need and value what other artists can bring us: their way of seeing the world, their challenge to our views, their support for our continued endeavours and the sense that even when we are solitary, we are not alone.

This show brings together work by a group of HB Drawing artists and friends for whom drawing is a fundamental part of their practice. Their relationships have been created by studying, working and exhibiting together, building networks that extend across time and space.

Although we are scattered around the country, we are side by side with each other, looking out to the wider world, feeling inspired and supported by connections with others who are doing what we are doing, even when we are not together.

no format gallery has been a springboard for making some of these connections and strengthening others, so it is fitting that we have another chance to celebrate here together, before the gallery closes at the end of 2024.

Private View 3.00-6.00 pm Saturday16 November

Participating artists:

Rosalind Barker, Su Bonfanti, Camilla Brueton, Alison Carlier, Janine Hall, Aileen Harvey, Caroline Holt-Wilson, Arianna Tinulla Milesi, Sarah Praill, Ruth Richmond, Caragh Savage, Marianne Walker.