Every eye sees differently as the eye

Artists Charles Avery, Dirk Bell, Heiko Blankenstein, Kerstin Kartscher

04.Oct.07 - 02.Dec.07
Wed - Sun 12 - 6

Artist Talk, 27.Nov.07, 7 pm

Drawing Room
Tannery Arts, Brunswick Wharf, 55 Laburnum St
London E2 8BD
020 7729 5333
mail@drawingroom.org.uk
www.drawingroom.org.uk
Tube Old Street; Liverpool Street; Bus 55, 26, 242, 243, Shoreditch / Hoxton

William Blake, the poet, painter, engraver and infamous visionary once said ‘Every eye sees differently as the eye’*, offering his own spiritual perception of mystical experience and the power of imagination. From an early age Blakesaw ‘visions’, ‘vivid spectra’ or ‘flash images’ which psychologists believe hark back to childhood. These were not memories, daydreams or afterimages but real sensory perceptions that haunted and inspired Blake throughout his life. These beliefs isolated Blake from his contemporaries yet he became an influential talisman for future artistic generations.

To mark Blake’s 250th anniversary, The Drawing Room, in collaboration with The Great Unsigned, presents Every eye sees differently as the eye, an exhibition of contemporary visionaries. This exhibition includes five individuals who happen to be artists and create their own highly imaginative and allegorical worlds. From differing countries and backgrounds, drawing – manifested variously in the form of long scrolls, delicate drawings, intricate installations and light boxes – is the favoured medium to depict their own lyrical or narrative universes. Similarly they share Blake’s outlook and interest in Gothic medievalism, spiritual mysticism and outsider art movements including quasi-historical characters taken from fairy tales or mythologies