cinoh: Sian Bowen (Fragment No. 1, 2005)  Collage, graphite and pen and ink.  “Sian Bowen’s work has an intimacy and immediacy that is often enhanced by using papers which have a history. She has made pieces incorporating fragments cut from 19th-century Florentine letters and documents, and has drawn on wallpaper retrieved from a redundant lighthouse - one of these works has been acquired for the collection. Siân has also been influenced by her time living and working in Japan…  Drawing is a process with the potential to reveal or conceal, and Bowen makes a virtue of this contradiction, often layering past and present. During the residency she focused on drawing and its context, the intimate experience of handling the works in the V&A collections, and how the relationship between sight and touch might be translated through drawing.” 
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cinoh:

Sian Bowen (Fragment No. 1, 2005) 

Collage, graphite and pen and ink. 

“Sian Bowen’s work has an intimacy and immediacy that is often enhanced by using papers which have a history. She has made pieces incorporating fragments cut from 19th-century Florentine letters and documents, and has drawn on wallpaper retrieved from a redundant lighthouse - one of these works has been acquired for the collection. Siân has also been influenced by her time living and working in Japan… 

Drawing is a process with the potential to reveal or conceal, and Bowen makes a virtue of this contradiction, often layering past and present. During the residency she focused on drawing and its context, the intimate experience of handling the works in the V&A collections, and how the relationship between sight and touch might be translated through drawing.” 

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