We’ve invited Gaz Evans to present Drawing Flowers, the inaugural residency. Gaz explains how his practice has evolved:
I first started drawing at an early age. My brother and I would set up a grid and copy from Marvel Comics. I have continued to draw throughout my life. I draw spontaneously. I make the drawings using an ink pen, so I can’t make any mistakes.
I never use a pencil first and go over the drawing in ink. I give myself one shot at producing a drawing. I used to go to galleries to get my inspiration. With the advent of computers, I started drawing from an almost limitless supply of images. All the drawings are copies of images drawn from the internet.
I worked as a producer for some well-known names like Diana Ross and Charlton Heston, and made my first music video, The Payback Mix with James Brown. I set up my own editing company and worked with John Lydon and Leftfield for Open Up, Depeche Mode for Barrel of a Gun and The Young Gods for Gasoline Man. I became known for my scratch editing techniques and MTV gave me my own show, Crash TV, with lots of refilming and jump cuts. It was the dawn of the digital age, and they were amazed by what I could do with a computer.
I took to writing poetry as a way to maintain my sanity during the heady days of the 1990s, and my new poems work in tandem with my drawings.
