Zing

Location

Country: Egypt
City: Cairo
Place: British Embassy

'Zing's' fluid sense of movement is created by carefully-drawn white ink lines applied in a single movement across the blue surface. Sue Arrowsmith used a ruler with an undulating edge to repeat the same line down the canvas. Despite her attention to detail, 'Zing' seems randomly formed, as if its variations were created freehand. Ink varies in thickness and smudges are left where the ruler was lifted. These human aberrations become part of the painting, giving it a more personal and less mechanical nature.

Places

Subjects

grid, abstract

Materials & Techniques

MDF, house paint, ink, painting (as object name)

Artist

Sue Arrowsmith (1968 - )

Title

Zing

Date

2000

Medium

Uni Posca ink on Dulux gloss house paint on MDF

Dimensions

height: 152.80 cm, width: 152.60 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, July 2002

Inscription

verso, tl: 'ZING' 2000 / S.Arrowsmith / White uni-posca ink on / L.Blue Dulux Gloss / on MDF.

Provenance

the artist

GAC number

17720