Tuesday 4 May – Saturday 5 June 2010

Taking inspiration from her North African heritage,  Hanane Ech-Charif’s work fuses personal elements with aspects of baroque ornamentation and strands of late 20th century pattern making. Through these meticulously crafted drawings, which often take weeks to produce, her work creates a rich collision of aesthetics and design narratives delivered within the form of multi-layered illustrative palimpsests. The pieces simultaneously make reference to the history of medieval tapestry and the lineage of wall hangings as architectural interventions within the decorative arts.

Collectively the body of work within the exhibition explores the role of drawing as a mediating tool, connecting human consciousness with the physicality of the external world, with each piece forming a bespoke act of translation between the ethereal and the tactile. Through this process the works become a map of a deeply personal internal logic fueled by experience, memory and the immediacy of artistic creation.