Exhibition Title: | Gravitate |
Location & Date: | Watermans, London. June-July 2017 |
Rolinson's works were shown at Watermans Gallery London in an exhibition curated by Watermans and V&A Digital Co-ordinator Irini Papadimitriou. It included the award winning installation work Flown, made from hand folded acrylic and programmed LEDs developed in collaboration with Sean Clark.
Surrounding the section of Flown were a collection of drawings and two wall mounted light works, Signal Brass and Signal Black. The drawings showed a range of techniques from large-scale spontaneous pencil works, to oil pastels and detailed rule-based drawing structures.
The show was opened with a special event at Watermans Theatre in which the artist discussed her practice with Douglas Dodds, Senior V&A curator, in front of a large audience. A catalogue with texts from Dr Linda Candy and Irini Papadimitriou was produced for the launch. The exhibition was reviewed in an article written for Studio International by international curator and writer Caroline Menezes:
“Esther Rolinson is an artist with many talents who brilliantly combines different artistic expressions in her practice. In 'Gravitate', at the Watermans Art Centre in London, an exhibition in partnership with the Computer Arts Society, Rolinson has put her drawings on display, revealing that the movement that spurred her to make art in the first place can also be observed in the pencil and graphite lines in a two-dimensional shape."