German artist Hanna Ten Doornkaat was born in Heidelberg and has lived and worked in the UK since 1992. Her drawing practice is based on a complex, repetitive process of mark making and erasure directly inspired by the continual thread of fleeting moments of today’s online and social media experience.
“By drawing hundreds of thin straight lines, I build up a density both in pictorial composition and through the act of layering - painting, sanding back the surface and redrawing. I perform this action multiple times. This drawing process eventually reaches a point where it becomes more about the memory of movement or a response to the visual experience. In addition, no ‘drawing on board’ is seen as a solitary work or object but always as part of a conversation in space. Drawing goes beyond the simple depiction of an object, a mark made on paper, it is as much about the process as it is about a metaphysical expression of an idea”.