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Opposite Ends of a Possible Path

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ID Number  BA78 
Title  Opposite Ends of a Possible Path 
Artist Name  Fiona Robinson 
Type of Work  Drawing 
Date  2007 
Location  University of Bath, Wessex House Restaurant, Claverton down, Bath, BA2 7AY 
Year of Unveiling  2007 
Unveiling Details  Not known 
Artist Biography  Fiona Robinson is an artist who works with paint and drawing media on canvas and paper. She studied Fine Art and History of Art at Oxford Polytechnic in the 1980s and then went on to take an MA in Fine Art at the University of Portsmouth in 1997. Line and the drawn mark are an intrinsic part of her work and she draws constantly, from observation and from memory, in her sketchbooks. She has exhibited in Open exhibitions in the UK and abroad from the early days of the Cheltenham Open Drawing Competition in 1998 (now The Jerwood Drawing Prize) through to Sketch 2005, The National Contemporary Drawing Open in 2005. In 2008 she was selected for the International Drawing Biennial in the Czech Republic. She has always written, and has had features about other artists and reviews of exhibitions published in newspapers and national magazines. Extract from Fiona Robinson's website: http://fionarobinson.info 
Artist Dates  Not known 
Artist Statement  Fiona is interested in the point at which painting and drawing meet.The ongoing series of work maps both a physical journey and the memory of an event. On canvas the flowing lines, preserved in layers of paint, have a generosity of scale which imparts a lyricism suggesting reverie. They are about remembering and forgetting. It is a process of adjusting the memory, adjusting the line, allowing the formal requirements of the piece to take over from the initial free mark making. In this way some parts of the image become more significant than others although even the faintest of marks are preserved like an unrecalled memory. It becomes a record of the journey of the drawing as much as the original walk. Extract from Fiona Robinson's page on the Axis website: www.axisweb.org 
Material  Oil & conte on canvas 
Description  Sharp and blurred lines criss-cross a light grey-green background 
Inscription or Signature  None 

Measurements

 		  
Height  122 cm 
Width  154cm 

Condition 

  
Surface Condition  Good 
History of the commission  The piece won the University of Bath Painting Prize and was purchased by the University in 2007 as part of the University of Bath Art Collection 
Style  Abstract 
Website  Fiona Robinson's website: www.fionarobinson.info 
Notes  None