About Margie Hooper
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Artist statementSketchbooks are dual sites of exploration: they inhabit and create concepts. Sketchbooks are becoming-art, depicting a myriad of ideas, some of which are fertile and metamorphose into works of art, while others appear at the time of their making to be unproductive. The artist takes aspects of the world, and experiments, examines and invents until a definitive plateau is reached. This plateau might be a publicly exhibited work of art, or, if recorded in a sketchbook, an embryonic seed waiting for the artist or stranger to regenerate. My doctoral research resides in encoding and decoding the reticent objects that are first thought drawings, often found in and around sketchbooks. Making visible ones own ideas, and reading the formative ideas of others is a minoritarian activity hidden away from the public arena, yet pregnant with possibilities. Artist's CV (Word doc, 40kb) |
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