Karen Loader

Contrapuntal 8

Jackson's Art Prize 2025
Pencil
Paper
51 x 55 cm

£1,250

“This drawing is part of a series called Contrapuntal. Contrapuntal is usually used to describe a musical composition in which two separate melodies are played together at the same time. It seemed a fitting title to describe the shapes in these drawings which are separate but somehow belong together, as if in conversation with one another. Inspired by architectural motifs, they occupy the same space, either facing each other, or facing away from one another. There is strong sense of movement and rhythm partly due to the directional changes of the shapes and partly due to the visual vibration caused by the different coloured lines within each shape. Rhythm starts with the body – breathing, pulsing, beating – and listening to one’s own body is how we perceive our immediate environment as our body senses near and far, up and down and side to side. The repetitive act of drawing line after line is a physical process, but it also points to questions of temporality. By repeating something you are expanding it spatially but also temporally, linking it to ideas of duplication and growth.”