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GATHERINGS176 Projections
SOME DRAWINGS ARE MADE e n t i r e l y o f i l l u m i n a t i o n that of the heap onto a wall. Below, composed garbage produces
floods drama into the viewers gaze. Here, garbage and chaos a calm, haloed portrait of the artists seated back to back.
are piled and exploded in r o o m s full of event. Noble and
Websters witty and often subversive drawings are also In one of Rackhams great illustrations for Lewis Carroll's
contemporary art installations. For each work, they select Alice in Wonderland, a kitchen explodes in o u r faces. Pans fly oft
and arrange familiar items of street detritus into what appears the stove, plates shatter, hearth implements crash at our feet,
to be an unpleasant pile. The immaculate drawing is only and smoke billows around the agitated jives of the Duchess, the
revealed when the beam of a projector casts the shadow C o o k , the Cat, and Alice. In both works, narrative is delivered
through the air, via the animated clutter of our material lives.

TIM NOBLE AND SUE WEBSTER Drawing with light it is important to think about what you Real Life is Rubbish
British artists who collaborate using neon, refuse, can draw with, and on, and in. Pencil on paper is timelessly
and projectors to create their anarchic punk important but only the beginning of possibility Here we see 2002
satires of modern life."Anything that...kicks the combination of three-dimensional space, junk, and a Dimensions variable
against the mundane things that close down your projector. Think about what else you could use: a laser in TIM NOBLE A N D SUE WEBSTER
mind is a refreshing and good thing." (Tim Noble) smoke, for example, or even the office photocopier.