Daily Drawing Diary

To There & Back Again

Page 2 from the catalogue for To There & Back Again - Catching The Spaces In Between. To order your copy click here.

A dialogue between Rob Pepper and David Cleaton-Roberts April 2008.
The text running through this catalogue is based on a conversation between the artist and David Cleaton-Roberts, a director of the largest publisher and dealer of artists’ prints and editions in europe, and a board member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (iFPDa). The conversation took place at the artist’s studio in April 2008.
RP: I love america, I’ve always been fascinated by it, especially Middle America.
DCR: There seem to be a lot of comments on food. You’ve said this drawing was an observation, but looking back I wonder whether actually it became a critical judgement?
RP: Many poignant conversations I had in america were on the subjects of the environment or food. But I didn’t make a conscious decision at the time to capture stereotypes…
…This work is a construct of two different drawings. I had seen the gentleman at an american football game, and the roadhouse is where we had a burger on the way back from that game.
DCR: So by merging two drawings, actually you can’t help but cast a critical judgement.
RP: Possibly, and that’s a step away from the art that I’ve done before.