{"id":23818,"date":"2023-11-27T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=23818"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:29:00","slug":"shane-drinkwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2023\/11\/27\/shane-drinkwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Drinkwater\u2019s \u2018Cosmic Cartographies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The paintings in \u201cThe Cosmic Cartographies of Shane Drinkwater,\u201d which were at Calvin-Morris Gallery<\/a> in New York from Sept 14 to Oct. 21, 2023, read like diagrams of planets orbiting in solar systems, or radiating electrical fields. They can give the impression of someone trying to puzzle out the wonders of the universe from scratch, all on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days based in Queensland in his native Australia, Drinkwater studied at art school in the late 1970s and early \u201880s, and has found his way to a style in which things are rendered in acrylic and collage on paper out of lots and lots of dashes and dots and hatches. Which can bring to mind the patterns and mark-making, the charismatic idiosyncrasy of folk handcraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI work with a visual language of lines, dashes, dots to create works that read as mysterious coded systems,\u201d Drinkwater writes on his website<\/a>. \u201cSome works read almost as topographical or astronomical maps, while others read as keys of symbols, arranged and categorized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2022, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2022, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2021, Acrylic on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shane Drinkwater, Untitled, 2022, Acrylic and collage on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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