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When I was growing up on a farm in Canada, distance was measured by the trees, fields, and gravel roads that divided the land. These long straight lines determined the distances for my running routes and shaped for me how far a mile was. While running, these lines became ways to mark the territory and test my physical endurance. Through the body’s sense of time and movement, I began to measure and map my living space. It is here, where I first experienced the effort of expending energy and where my inspiration to run long distances began.

While training for marathons and ultra-marathons, running daily has become part of my practice and has directly affected the way I think about drawing. My focus is running as drawing. This notion questions the possibilities and relationships of measuring time, distance and speed, and helps form my understanding of expenditure, transmission, duration and marking process. It provides the framework for my practice.

My research has developed into a series of drawings imbued with sound and movement. I am exploring how my experience of running can develop a phenomenological method. I aim to further the concept of marking process.

Academic Research:
PhD fine art/practice-based (2007 - 2012)
MARKING PROCESS: investigating running as drawing to explore distance, speed and time
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Director of Studies: Joanna Greenhill
Supervisors: Jordan Baseman, Anne Tallentire

Links:

Performance Drawing Collective

ARC: I Draw for You, Studio International

Drawn Together : Collaborative Performance, Tracey

Central Saint Martins Research