Sandra Johnston
Breathing Backwards
January 14th – February 6th 2009

Private View: Tuesday 13th January 6-8pm

the third space is pleased to present an exhibition of new drawings by Sandra Johnston. These drawings are created in a variety of different ways: beginning with road drawings made directly while walking through a familiar landscape, notational and rapid, they interlock the momentum of walking with the attempt to pin down what is observed and then obscured from moment to moment. Another series of drawings were developed at Multyfarnham Monastry during a short residency in the summer of 2008. At the centre of the Monastery building, lies an enclosed garden. Johnston used this contemplative space as a source of visual stimulus which was merged with experiments in breathing and meditation.

Referring to the title of the show Johnston explains “Breathing Backwards comes from a sense of introversion which frequently invades me as I draw, when I experience evocative memories brought back sharply into the present. Breathing is a mechanism of measurement and control that I use in all aspects of my performance and drawing work, these drawings are a document of self learning, self will perhaps. Measuring out inhalation and exhalation, sometimes becomes so intense it feels suffocating”

For information and additional images please contact; Hugh Mulholland on 0044 (0) 2890 237757 or hugh@thethirdspacegallery.com
 
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